Senior Cross Country

Students jogging, walking, talking and dawdling like a bunch of jungle animals.

Everyday we have cross-country and we have to run three whole laps. There were year fours running with the year eights. Some students like the year fours ran only two times around the block but the year eights and sevens had to run three compulsory laps.

When the bell rang we first had to get into our class lines. As we stood we had to wait for the teachers instructions to start running. We ran up the hill and got to the gate near the crossing where Mrs Golder was standing. Down the hill we ran very exhaustedly. Some people were jogging and sprinting to finish one lap.

Later,  when we past Mr Reid we headed towards Mrs Buchanan’s way. While we were running up the hill there were more than one person sauntering through one lap. Then we ran up towards Miss Ginders and she told us to “Keep running it’s only one or two more laps left” so we ran and walked through to the finish line. At last we came to the end of the last lap we were as tired as! I took a sip of water, the coldness of the water went dripping down my sleeves.

We practised and practised and at the end of the day we were BETTER THAN BEFORE!

Waste Performance

On Tuesday 18th of May, Ruapotaka School had a ‘Waste Performance’ in the multi purpose room. It showed which bin we put our rubbish in and showed us how not to waste food. This shows that we just put our rubbish in the wrong bin so you leave the poor hungry worms starve. The performers' names were Matt and Andy. They were as funny as. The Performance was very awesome and it was very interesting. It taught us to put the right thing in the right rubbish bin.

Asthma Show

Last week on Friday we had a special show to watch in the multipurpose room. The special show was based on Asthma. We sat down and we saw a man with a flash blue suit sitting on the chair. The man's name was Chris from the song for Crossing The Road. Chris sang to the audience and he danced to the song and he chose some people from the audience to go up and hold his puppets. We sometimes had to repeat what he said when he called in his pet fish Sailor. We had an awesome time watching the Asthma Show.

Origami

Every Friday we make origami with colored paper as part of Visual Arts. We made random things with our colored paper that we received and we only managed to make farm and zoo animals. At the moment we are trying to make different things from animals. We enjoyed making different kinds of origami.

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.

Duffy Assembly

Today we had a Duffy Assembly where a 25 year old man called Myron Simpson came to talk about reading and his career and his future. He brought some of his equipment to show that he is a champion at bicycling. He showed us his expensive bicycle, shoes, helmet that his dad painted and his skin suit that can make him speed fast through the air. Some students from the crowd got chosen to wear his stuff. After that, Sini said a huge 'thank you' to Myron for coming and sharing his career with us and how great reading is. Myron Simpson has a muesli bar named after him, but it is not out in the markets.

Daffodils

On Friday 31st of August it was Daffodil Day and each class had to make Daffodils. We made Daffodils and a beautiful red vase to put our lovely Daffodils in it. I think our class had the best daffodils in the whole school. After assembly we came back to class and took lovely photos with our handmade daffodils. We had a lovely and happy afternoon on Friday.

P.E At St Kents

It was a lovely Friday morning, Ruapotaka senior syndicate went to St Kents for P.E and some of us came early, then Mrs Golder chose Sini, Miria, Cypress and I to go in the van to St Kents. When we arrived at St Kents we hopped off the van with glee and walked as proud as we could to the sport centre. When we got there the St Kents sports teacher put us in to two groups and then we played a bit of basketball. A while later, the other classes from Ruapotaka School came and sadly we had to stop our game with the coach.

Then we were put in to our groups by Miss Ginders and I was in group two with Mrs Golder but she left us and went and took photos of the wrong group. She realized that she was taking photos of a different group so she went finding her group. She finally found her group and started taking photos. Our sports teacher was a boy and he taught us some simple and easy drills to do and to warm us up before moving on to the next step.

After that, our tutor said that we could have a touch game against the other team so he took us to the other field then we played against each other. It was hard to run as fast as a cheetah to get a try because they had more people than us but the only good thing is we got a try. ‘’Yay we tried to get a score.’’ Both team had the same score so there was no group that won or lost. 

Soon we packed up and went as a group back into the sports centre and waited for the other groups to arrive so we can head back to school.

While we were waiting, we watched and laughed at a boy run and dunk the ball into the basketball hoop. It was awesome. We all had joyful time there. We all stood up and went out the St Kents door and back on the bus. The others went except for the people who got chosen to go in the van. While we were on our way to school we were listening to some music.