Silver Ferns For The Win!

New Zealand now holds the title of 2019 Netball World Champions when they defeated Australia in the Netball World Cup. It was a very close game, the final score was 52-51.

The Silver Ferns led 28-25 by the end of the second quarter but by the third they led by 4. Australia fought back in the last quarter and managed to get ahead, luckily the Silver Ferns fought hard and won by 1. I'm so proud of the Silver Ferns, after all, they were the role models that inspired me to play netball! 

Our Trip To The Tamaki Estuary

On Monday 1st July my school and I went and cleaned up the Tamaki Estuary. We split off into groups and cleaned the Estuary. Sadly, we didn't get to pick up all the rubbish we saw but we managed to clean up most of it. All the trash that we found were put into green buckets. When we finished we tipped all the rubbish into bags. We managed to collect three big bags full of rubbish. We then washed and sanitised our hands, had lunch, and as a reward, played on the playground!

Don't Fall Out!

On Friday 21 June my class and I went to the Wero Whitewater Park.

After watching the safety video we got changed into our togs and put our gear on. We had to wear a wet suit, a life jacket, a helmet and wet boots.
Before getting into our rafts, we learnt about how to cross a river. First we went individually, then in pairs and finally in a triangle formation.

Then we got into our rafts! There were six of us in one raft. It was thrilling and got my heart racing! When we finished whitewater rafting we had the opportunity to jump in the water and have a swim! There were two separate groups, one for the big jump, one for the little jump.

Overall I really enjoyed it. It was an amazing experience.

Tech Was Exciting

Today my group and I had to design games with our own twist. For my first design I drew a game of checkers where the checkers would look like Deku and Todoroki (two anime characters). I also drew a few other designs. When we select our final design we will use the 3D printer to create it!

Whitewater Rafting 😊

On Friday 21st June my class and I have been given the opportunity to go whitewater rafting at the Vector Wero Whitewater Rafting Park. We have waited for 3 weeks, and we can't wait to get on the water and have some fun! But of course, we will have to go through the safety lessons first. We have to pack togs, a towel and a few other things. Although we are getting into wet-suits we still have to wear our own togs for hygiene reasons. We will be leaving at 11:00 am and arriving back at school around 2:30 - 2:45 pm.

Graphics

A few weeks ago our Tech groups moved, my group went to graphics with Ms Ferguson. Last week we worked on this cool site called tinkercad.com, it's a site where we can work with 3 dimensional objects and create different things. In a couple of weeks Ms Fergison said that we may be able to use her 3D printer and print out out creations. So far I'm loving graphics, I can't wait to see what we are going to do in the future!

Goodbye Coach Corey!

Yesterday, my class and I had our last Rippa Rugby session with Coach Corey. It was super fun because we played a warm up game of cat and mouse. Then we played a game called Over the River. We were divided into two teams, the aim of the game was to either throw the ball or kick it over the river. If the other team caught it your out, if the other team didn't catch it and it lands on the ground, the person closest to the ball is out. After that we played a few games of rippa rugby and to end the session we played bullrush. I really enjoyed our 6 sessions of Rippa Rugby!