Meeting The New Principal.

On Thursday, We meet our new principal. She looked so happy to start a new school.

When Mrs Vickers/old principal spoke too us she looked at us and said i have been here for over 30 years but now it is time to retire and started to cry. Then our new principal said something and we had our karakia and 3 songs. When we were singing most of us started to cry it was a sad moment to go through.It was even a sad moment for the teachers Ms Rylee even started to cry but Mr Reid was the kind person that went to go give Ms Rylee a big hug.

Paper Mache Work At Tech.

Today we did paper mache. It was so fun and I had great time doing it myself for once. I've never tried making a paper mache with card board but today was my first time with cardboard.

Paper mache is a type of art that you can do with balloons, cardboard or even paper, you can make any shape you want and even any colour you want. As my paper Mache I made a pencil we are using these paper maches for donation boxes but you can use them for anything you want.

On the weekend

In the weekend me and my two sisters, my mum and dad and my nephew watched a movie called ' Boy '.

It was so fun and we had heaps of stuff to eat while watching the movie we had popcorn, lollies, chocolate, drinks / fizzy , chips, and the one i like most was the TV we watched it on it was actually stuck into my wall it looked like we were watching it in the movie theatre but we actually weren't.

until the movie action changes and my baby nephew starts crying so we had to pause the movie and turn the light on so we could put him to sleep when he went to sleep i quickly un-paused the movie and we carried on watching our movie peace and quite.

The food we ate was a treat for us, But i don't know why i got a treat i was sick and i was bad.

Film Festival.

Today we went to a film festival in Sylvia park.

I was so embarrest because i was almost gonna fall asleep as soon as i got in their but the cold air made me stay up.

We watched heaps of schools like Pt England, Panmure bridge, Glenbrae, Tamaki, Tamaki College, Glen innes, Glen Taylor and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Puau Te Moana nui a kiwa, WOW ISN'T that heaps of schools and the last one OMG its so long when i first said it i had to take two breaths in the first four words, But i know all Maori schools have long names.

I liked Pt Englands one when they were in the car singing to the songs because it was so funny and it had heaps of songs that was like back in the olden days.

School Assembly.

On the 15th of October, we had a school assembly.

The first thing we did when we got in their was sing the new Zealand anthem followed by the karakia and the school song. We do those things first so that it can make us feel welcome. After that we had the Duffy people go up and choose a book. Lastly Mrs Vickers started to cry because she was about to say that she is retiring from all those those 27 years that she was here, And after that she said she wants this term to be the best term shes ever had here.

My Two Books I Got At Syndicate Assembly

On Monday 17th of September 2018.  We had a syndicate assembly at the assembly.

I had been chosen to go up receive a Duffy Award because I had been reading well. I chose two books and the name of the two books I choose was The Ghost Light and The New Girl. I chose those books because they looked and sounded interesting. . I was nervous because as soon as they chose me, I had numb foot and whenever you have numb feet its means you have pins and needles and that makes you kind of walk like a penguin or cricket which is really embarrassing.   I was extremely nervous and I even had to take a picture.

Daffodil Day

Today we had Daffodil Day.

Daffodil Day is to support the people who have cancer. We supported cancer by fundraising to help the people who research the disease find a cure for those people with cancer to maybe live for an extra  day or maybe even for the rest of their life.

Later we made paper daffodils and I asked Mrs Vickers how much money we made  today and she said, "$73." I was like WOW!
That is amazing that we are going to definitely give that to the people with cancer.

Our Last Day With Coach Reene.😔😔

Yesterday we had our last three session with coach Reene.

 we had to choose a game out of these four game of , boys Vs girls, elimination, a tournament or just a combination we chose to do a combination because we wanted it to be more fun and learn more stuff about when your in an competition. It was so fun but sad because she was leaving.When we finished all the games we did a photo to remember that she was the one to teach us how to play volleyball.

She taught  us how to do a over arm serve, underarm serve a dig, a spike and a two hand serve. It was so fun, I had heaps of fun with coach Reene .

I loved playing with coach Reene but we had to let her go to teach some other  people how to play.😔

At the end Katrina and Saluselo said a thank you to her in front of the whole room 12.

Volley Ball With Renee

Every Tuesday the seniors have volleyball sessions with coach Reene. She teachers us how to win a volley ball comp, and she shows us how to do skills that are very important to play in volley ball She is so flexible and she has all the skills to play volley ball.

Cross country training

From the past few weeks we have been training for the final cross country competition.

At my old school i came 1st in yr 6 and 3rd in girls. When I was running i got so scared i said i'm gonna see if Katrina wants to race me, as soon as i asked her she said yes but not today well race before we actually have the finals OK and i said yup deal, As I was running why talking to her i said i need to make a move and speed up. As i was speeding up i went by like 20 people.

The Final Cross Country

When me and Katrina had a race on the finals. The day that the finals have happened I said to Katrina '' Hey you still want to race or nah" and Katrina said yup okay ready go as I was racing her towards the practising finish line I said hey Katrina we're nearly there and me speeding past her she looked so horrified. I was like ill go a little slower and she said nah carry on and when I got to the finish line I was like that was a good practice for me.

When the competition started I was like when is our turn and we all had to wait until the year ones all the way till year six and then it was year seven and all I hear was storm storm and I was looking around Than I saw my mum and she said I have to take u doctors now get your stuff and I was like OH and said bye to my friends and teachers and said see you tomorrow.

Sausage kebab

today me and my buddy made sausage kebabs.

Ingredients -
skiwwers
purple onion
capsicum
red sausage
brown sausage

Step 1 -  slice the sausage into small pieces.
Step 2 - Slice the red pepper and red onion.
Step 3 -  Next put the red sausage, capsicum, brown sausage and purple onion on the skiwwers
Step 4 -  after that lay it flat on the baking tin and bake it for 15 minutes at 200'c.
Step 5 - Then the second to last step clean up.
The final step sit down and enjoy your meal.

Ham and pasta salad

Today i made  ham and pasta salad with my buddy Tiari, and this is how to make it.

ingredients:
pasta
tamato
ham
onion
mayo
Step 1 - boil pasta until its soft and cooked.
Step 2 -drain in cold water.
Step three - dice tomato and ham.
Step four - add all, tamato, ham,  pasta, and mayo.
Step five - serve on white bowl, take a photo before eat.
Step six - clean up.

Skipping Training

This term, my class Room 12 has been practising skipping, so we can perform our skills in front of the whole school.

In my group there are 8 of us including myself.
For the first act we are going to do Fortnite emotes, next we are going to do double-unders, third we are going to do double dutch and for the last act  we are going to do a bow and a dab. That's all we have going on for our choreography.

Kahurangi show.

On Wednesday the 1st of august Ruapotaka school had some special visitors come to our school to talk about the Maori myths and legends they even acted it out for us.

There were three people that got chosen to do a game with Taiahas it was to see if they had good memory and to see if they have they had good listening skills. Lucky was acting out the moves they had to do. The people that went up was Mr Reid, Texas and Kingston they were good at the game but the last move they had to do was kind of hard for them. They were just about to leave and lucky said a joke to us and it was so funny, he even had good hearing, and memory.

Cooking at tech. butter chicken

Today me and my buddy tiari made butter chicken. i knew how to make in the first place but its good to see how to make it from a different.

ingredients:
chicken
salt
sauce
onion
whipped cream

Steps:
step one - dice the chicken.
step two - fry the chicken with onion until brown.
step three - tip the chicken into a bowl.
step four -  fry the onion till brown
step five - put the sauce, chicken  and whipped cream into the pot until you see the butter chicken is a nice paste.
step five - lastly serve with rice.

School powhiri

On Thursday the 28th of June we had a school powhiri.

If you don't know what that is, it's like a meet and greet. It could also be used in a tangi, haka or marae. My family normally starts powhiris in tangis, its to show love to all people around you and people that have pasted own.


when this powhiri started it was so noisy  my principal Mrs Vickers had to keep yelling at us because we were so noisy. If we were in a real powhiri we will get in big trouble by the kaiakos.

Getting My first Certificate

On Monday the 2nd of July we had our last syndicate assembly of the Term. I was so thrilled to get my first ever certificate!
I've never received a certificate at Ruapotaka School since I have been here, I was so excited but at the same time I didn't want to get up because I had pins and needles in my foot and it made my whole leg go really, really numb.

We had this game called 3 felt pen quick reflexes it was fun watching my class mates play against other classes but you will get them all in one go if you have long fingers or big hands like two people in my class does.

Monday ASB get-wise

On Monday the 2 of July, we had a person Jaiden from ASB get-wise come to teach us how to save money.

He thought  us how to play a game its how to save your money with a card. The game was to see how much you could save up while planning a holiday. My group were spending there money Wisely on stuff we really need. I was helping my team out by planning how much we will have at the end of the game.

Until the end we were left with $200 and that went on shopping this game wasn't in real life it was just to see how we spend our money and we get left with no money in our hands at the end of the day.

Cooking at tech. Quiches!!

Today at tech me and my buddy made Quiches.
Ingredients
Ham
Eggs
Milk
Cheese
 Pastry
Instructions
Step Zero :  oil a 12 piece muffin tray.
Step One : Cut the pastry into 12 pieces.
Step  Two :   after that place your pastry into your oiled muffin tray.
Step Four : After that dice your ham.
Step Five :  add the ham and cheese into your muffin tray.
Step Six : whisk four eggs with half a cup of milk dip on top of ham and cheese.
Step Seven : bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

Tuesday Hip Hop Lessons

On Tuesday at 11:55 we had a good dancer Jess . Come into our school and teach us some basic moves on how to dance. She has real good moves and she is really active. We first did a stretch and then got on with our lesson.

We danced to this song up town funk u you up but i forgot the names of the people that were singing the song. We did this dance move called the shoot. That dance move is getting famous. We then played a game before we went and the game is musical statue.

When we got back my body was sore so i clicked my bones and got on  with my work.

School Assembly

On Monday we had our assembly for term two. To start off we had the NZ anthem, karakia and our school song. 

All teachers had to choose one learner  from their class to get a Duffy Award while Mrs Vickers was reading out information from her  interesting neon orange paper. As the students chose one book each we all started clapping. Room Twelve's student was Katrina, who is the head prefect. She had chosen a book called 'Logan Likes Mary Anne'. 

After that Mrs Pederson came up and gave us an impressive talk. She had told us she sang the Australian NZ anthem at the Anzac ceremony she went to. I said in my mind, ''I just studied something like that.''  

Later Mrs Vickers said her last word and said we were over our limit and it was almost time to leave school.

E-asttle testing

This week Room 12 has a lot of testing to do which is truly hard work. We just finished our e-asttle writing test. Today we wrote about Good Friends  and what it's like being a good friend. We are now moving on to maths. I love writing but not all the time, I can  use interesting facts in some of my blogs or stories. In my test today I only wrote 3 pages which was my limit. If you write more than that limit you can sometimes forget what you're writing about and now and then u get really tired.

Haere mai