My first football game of the season

This season for football ( or soccer )  I am playing for Parklands and my dad is coaching my team. The grade I am in this year is 14th. This is a big step up for me because last year I was supposed to be in 12th grade but they didn't have a 12th so I stayed in 11th. We have been doing a lot of training before the seasons starts. 

Our first game was last week and we played on our home ground. ( So that would be at Parklands) The game would start at 9.00am, but we had to be there by 8.30am so we could have a warm up before the game would start. It was supper cold in the morning so I was wearing my gloves,hat and my parklands hoodie and a thermal underneath. 

When the game started Dad put me in left back. The team we were versing was Ferry meed. They attacked fast on as. We had to fall back a lot, there was one girl that was super fast, when she ran up the line with the ball I trialled behind. Sadly they had got a goal ( Well for them they were so happy ) but that was okay it wasn't even the end of the first half so we could make up for it, sure enough before the half ended we got one. We were all so happy that now it was like we were starting all over again but we had a chance of winning. They started fighting harder to get a goal but finally it was half time.  

I was subbed of first for second half, I watched the game from the side line. seeing the ball go up and down the filed. I saw Ferry meed take a corner and one of my teammates got a blow to the stomach from the ball and she had to come of. I took her place as mid defence, there was a lot of running around and I got tired very quickly. Soon I was back in defence, which I was thankfully for I kind of liked it but if I want to play there I need to train more. Soon our team scored another goal. Ferry meed was not happy they pushed forwarder trying really hard to score. Unfortunately for them they didn't and the whistle blew as time. We were all so happy that we had won our first game. This is a good start for this season. 

What sport do you play ?  

A teaser of what we are doing for PBL this term

Hello and today I will tell you a little bit about what we have been doing for PBL this term.

First off, our PBL this term has been based on greatness and how to be a great person, leader and listener. The teacher said that we had to make something digital about how we could show greatness. They let us pick our groups, we could go single, double or triple. I chose to go in a three. I am with Roza and Monique. We have created a stop motion out of lego and play dough. On April the 9th we are having a competition to see what digitalis project is the best out of our hub, we have special judges that are cumming to judge, and anyone of us could win out of our category and the whole competition.

Here's a sneak peek of what ours looks like,
  

What do you think greatness looks like to you ?

SFOA school values.

At St Francis we have been learning about our school values and what they mean to us and our school. Our school values are Respect, Compassion, Integrity and Service.

Respect means to respect others the school and other people belonging and the earth, also to respect your self. We respect other races and beliefs.

Compassion means that we are loving people ready to help others in need. We open our hearts to them and try to understand what they are going through, we try help them as much as we can and comfort them.

Service means to help others over your own will as much as it is your job. You are happy to help them if they ask. We try to do our best in our work and actions.

SFOA's vision is. Choosing to be an innovative catholic learning community that inspires and empowers learners to succeed.

What is your virtue that you are inspired to live by?

Kindness T-shirt

Today I will tell you about what our school is doing at the moment. Every one at school is making a design of a t-shirt about kindness we were inspired my the movie wonder. They will pick out the one they like the most and make it in to an actual t-shirt that people can win. How do you get a chance to win it.  At play time if a teacher sees being kind they will hand you a raffle card that has your name on it, then they draw and if your name gets called out well you WIN. This is my design I hope you like it. 






Do you like my t-shirt? would you always choose kindness? What is your favourite virtue? 

PALS day out

Hello

Today I will tell you about what Pals did for their day out. (Pals is my leadership group. Also Pals stands for Physical Activity Leaders) Why are we having a day out? Because we get to learn how to be great leaders in our school and how to run games also how to make them fun for other to enjoy. In our school PALS is the biggest leadership group out of all of them, we have 12 people in our group.

We are going to a place where we get to do all of these activities to get us ready to be a PALS. When we got to our destination, we went inside and learnt how to be great leaders and what makes one. Then we went outside to know how to run games and how to put a twist on it to make it more fun. Then we got to make up our own games, which I found really hard to make on the spot. The game that my friends and I  made up was called lihoop. What you do in this game is, you have lily pads on the ground and some people are standing on them and they are holding a hoop and they can only touch the lily pads, on the outside there are people with beanbags and try to throw them in the hoops, when they get them in they switch out with the person with the hoop.

Have you ever made up your own games before? 

Swimming lessons

In term 1, week 5&6 we are doing swimming lessons! I am really excited to do it, because we usually have to wait to Term 4. When I go swimming I'm usually in the lowest group but this year I was in the middle group, which I am so happy about. Our school is swimming at Qell ( Which stands for Queen Elizabeth the 2nd) I used to think that is was called "Kiwi 2." Qell is a new pool that re-opend, because the old Qell got destroyed in the big 2011 earthquake. Senior students at my school (which is me) need to have a buddy to look after. The year 7&8's buddy up with the year 1&2's.

In my swimming group our teachers name is Becky. I really enjoyed being in this swimming group because it was a challenge. One time Becky made as swim 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke and 100m breaststroke non stop. When she told us to do it I was shocked at first, because I had never done this before, but I was up for a challenge. I waited for the faster people to go, so I could go after them. I was fine doing freestyle for 50m, but after that I was very tired. I was wondering on how I would go on the next. But after that backstroke and breast stroke was relaxing. I was so happy that I did it, but Becky said we had to do it all over again tomorrow and that's what we did. ( Becky was fun I really enjoyed having her as my swimming instructor! )

Swimming was fun some times, but Becky made us swim with no googles, which was hard because I kept banging into the lane rope. But I kind of liked it. ( Not banging in to the lane rope though.) For the last three days it was fun because we did water safety. On the first day of water safety, we had life jackets on and we had to look after are buddies in the water, we had to make all kinds of huddles in the water to keep warm. ( We were not allowed to wear our googles during the three days of swimming safety)

The second day of water safety day, we also had life jackets on, but this time we went on a blow up boat with our buddies. They manged to get every one on the boat (sitting on each side of it. It was a small boat too) Then we had to fall off the boat backwards into the water. When it was me and my buddies turn to did it she was scared so the swimming instructor helped her off. When it was my turn I fell backwards into the water, then we all made a huddle.

For the third and finale day of swimming/water safety. We came in our pj's. ( We had to wear our winter ones ) If was fun to swim in our Pj's. For the past two weeks swimming has been really fun!


Do you like swimming?

Where I got pic from

Banqer

This year we are doing Banqer at school. Banqer is an online bank, say if we were doing good things at school and the teachers saw it they would put money in there bank. ( No this is not real money) Banqer gives a life experiences of what it will be like when you get older and you have to pay for your things like car food house tax. They also introduced, high risk, low risk and medium risk. So first of say you make some money from your job you put four present three present or eight present of that money into high risk, low risk or medium risk, which then it goes in to into a business.

Why is it called high risk, well you can make a lot of money from it, but there is a higher chance that the business will fail. Well you do not know where they are doing well or not but luckily you can change to medium risk or low risk. 

Medium risk is when you don't make that much money as high risk, but it is a fifty fifty present chance that it will fail.

As for low risk, you don't even make that much at all like 80 c all through this business will not fail . The business it sports is like hospitals and that so they can't give you much back.

I chose medium risk and eight present.

What would you chose ?