Thank you latter

Dear Barbara,

Thank you for coming on our yr 7 trip to the Auckland Museum. All the teachers and kids are thankful for all your help. Without your help us teachers and kids wouldn’t be able to go on that trip.

Thank you for giving up your time to help us. My highlight was getting to go into that volcano.

Thank you very much.

Ata (Class 2)

Touch Tournament

Last week on Thursday the year 7 & 8’s got the opportunity to play touch at a tournament against the best Intermediate teams in Auckland. There were two teams going to the tournament. It was held at a park in Mangere and it was also a fun day out. We had a theme about anti bullying.

To start off the day we had to go and watch our other mixed team because they played before us. We warmed up after 5 minutes after our warm up we walked to our field we played on field 1. The ref had explained what the rules are.

Through half of the day we were winning all our games and we made it into the semi finals. It was a pretty tough game. We almost lost but then in the last minute one of our teammates did one of his magic tricks and we had won.

We had made the finals and it was a really hard game. We played Kedgley Intermediate in the finals. They had fast sets and fast people and they also had a good team. Even though we lost we still came 2nd place.

I was proud of my team even though we didn’t win, but I'm still proud of my team.

Athletics

Last week Point England School had Athletics. Athletics is an event that Point England does every year. There were different kind of events happening. The events were sprints, high jump, relay, sack races, javelin, shot put, softball throw and many more events.

We started right after morning tea because Mr Burt wanted to let the grass dry. It was raining the day before. As we started we had to get into our year groups. Mrs Moala was our sports leader for our group. We started off with softball throw.

As we started coming 1st was Allanah in 2nd place was Iron and in 3rd place was Mua. Allanah Iron and Mua’s throw were pretty far. It was my turn up next. My 1st throw wasn’t good it went out but my 2nd throw I bet all of them. Next up was Jordenne she threw pretty far but I just won buy a few centimetres.

Our next activity was a team sport so we had to be in our house colors. Our sport was relay, there were cones on the other side so what we had to do was half of our team had to go on the other side . After a while of running we all decided to just lie down and have a rest and wait for our next event.

As we reached to shot put we had been given instructions right after that we started. After quite a while it was my turn i threw the shot put and it went pretty far so I was coming 1st then Jordenne threw her’s just near mine and she was coming 2nd place after that Iron came along and threw her shot put and it just bet the third place person.

Athletics was really cool.

 

Auckland Museum

This week the Yearr 7’s had a trip to the Auckland Museum. The Year 7’s had their trip on the same day as the Yr 8 camp. We had to be put into groups of 7, and we also needed to have enough parents to go to the trip.

Students were put into groups so it would be easier to look after us. To start off our tour around the museum we had our morning tea before we went around the museum. Our leader has gave us a worksheet so that we could draw some patterns of artwork from the Maori and Pacific galleries.

All groups have been given a task to draw patterns. My group started off with the Maori patterns. I was so surprised when I saw a waka at the museum. That waka was one of the biggest waka I have ever seen in my life.

My experience at the Museum was really cool and kinda boring, but it was worth going. It was really cool seeing the waka and all the amazing art.  

My favourite part of the Museum was going into the volcano as it was really fun. We were waiting for quite a while after we went inside we watched this video about a volcano eruption suddenly the room started to shake and an volcano just erupted out of no where.

At the end of the day we got to do something like a amazing race. We had to go around the domain and take photos of the list we have been given.