Swimming sports

The start of the year we always have swimming sports and this year it was in week three on Friday. 
We had a form to fill out what type of swim we wanted to do, it was compulsory to have to do two we also got to chose how much meters to swim. For the first one I chose freestyle 25 m, second was backstroke 25 m.

We were swimming at jelly park, and we had to wait along time to do our races. Finally when my race came around I had butterfly's in my tummy. We could either dive in to the pool, or hop in to the pool. I hopped in to the pool and waited for the whistle. When I herd it I was off, swimming as fast as I could. When I reached the end I stood up seeing that I was third.



I waited for my next race, when we got into the pool I waited for the sound of the whistle. I went but I hesitated for a couple of seconds and went, the water went into my moth a couple of times and up my nose, but I made it, not sure what place I came.



I really enjoyed going swimming.

Do you like to swim ?

School in 2019

This year I am really excited to be a year 8 student at St Francis Assisi school.

The year 8 have leadership groups and we have to do writing in our book why we want to be in this leadership group and why we would be good at it. The teachers check, our letters and see what group they think we should be in, we have three choices what we really want. All of the leadership group are.

1. PALS.
PALS stand for Physical, Activity,Leaders. They run the sports games, and help organised sports days.














 2. STEM
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. They help out in the school by, getting people in evolved in it a getting them to learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.






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3. The Arts
The Arts focus on visual art, dancing and dram singing. There trying to get all of the school to do theses things.








4. Goggles
Goggles help out at school with devices, they teach others about Tech and how to yous them as well.

5. Media Team
Media Team is a group of people that do the new for SFOA. They can write in the newsletter. Also they have there own you tube channel, they post one video every term about what is going on in St Francis.










6. Environment
Environment is in charge of the gardens and growing food, they also have to control the no littering policy in our school.







Lucky I got my first choice, which was PALS. I am in a group with 11 other people.

what leadership group would you like to be in?

Pool day

For the end of term treat at our school we get to have a day out at the pool, which is really fun.
The good thing was that is was an average day temperature. The teacher made sure that we had sun cream on and put some more on every two hours.

One of my friends Samantha, brought her to small water guns and it was fun to play with we even got a raft for about 5 mins before some one else took it. Soon the hydro slide was opend me and my fiends went down it. I was really slow on it Tamera liked to go after me so she could bash in to me. We both had a good laugh.

Do you like swimming ?

Memoir

Hello, at school we had to write a memoir about the most specialist moment at school. Hope you enjoy. 

Today I was excited to go on to the bus that was awaiting for the next three days of fun and tiredness. I walked on to the bus all excited. My Hub have been waiting a long to to go to the Koru games. The PALS have been doing sausage sizzle to raise up money to go to the Kour games. The Bus was a caterpillar bus, it is very big, it is the bus people travel on to far places. I was sitting next to my friend as we all were getting ready to play soccer together. They were all excited because they had never played soccer before. I was the only one in the team that had. The team I was in, was a girls team, there was two other teams that were boy team.

When we arrived to the opening of the Koru games, we sat down on a netball court with all the other schools that where there. The people that run the Koru games introduced themselves and welcomed everyone to the games. They had some people there that were athletes and one was from Australia, they all did a little speech about how they became athletes. Then they announced that the Koru games will begin. We went back on to the bus and we went to where the games where being held.

When we arrived to where we are playing we went to are field where we would be playing in an half an hour time. Our helper was a girl named Maddie, she helped us get around and find our fields to play on and do drills with us.

Our first game we were versing Cashmere. I was playing in defence and are goal keeper was Samantha. We did a good job at defence and we had a few close calls. On attack we got the ball up sometimes. The end of that game we tied nile all. We were all pretty tired and we had two more games to go for that day.

On the next day we arrived and we played well we lost all of these games then we vs Cashmere again and we still tied nil all but they were really close to getting a goal. It was getting hotter each day and we all were getting really tired.

Then on the last day of the games, we came close to winning some of our games.

But then we had to vs Cashmere for the third time to get ninth place, we all played hard and our goalkeeper was Roza and she did some good saves and was brilliant.

No one could score so it went down to penalties. I did rock paper scissors with there captain I won so we decided to take the first shot. I was up first, I was nervous that I would miss. I took my chances and I swung my foot, I thought I had missed, but the goalkeeper failed to save it. Then it was Cashmere they shot but Roza deflected it.

Cashmere couldn’t score against our goalkeeper, Roza.

Later on it was two goals to us and they had none. So if Samantha scores we win the game. Samantha shot and it almost hit the top post and went in. We were all happy that we had won our first game and our last.

Those three day at Koru games was a lot of fun I hope my school can do it again.

Music at school

For part of this term my hub have been doing music. The first thing that I did in music was playing the ukulele, we had to go in to a group of two and practise together. Then we put all the keys we lent in to a song.

On the second week we did rad rhythm. Rad rhythm  is when you have trash cans and drumstick and use the trash cans as drums and you watch a video and tell you what you can do, you practise with the whole class and you can do cool rhythms.

For the last one we did body percussion. First of we did clapping in rhythm, then we went in to groups of four and made and a rhythm and show it to the whole class, in my group, one person was clapping with there hands and the rest of us where on are ankles.

I really enjoyed doing all of these different type of music.

What is your favourite music ?