Prizegiving 2013

It was the year 8’s last prize giving and I was hoping I receive a award. Waiting anxiously After watching the year 6’s prize giving item dance, it was time for the Intermediate awards. First was the class awards, but I didn't win anything.

After a while, it was time for the sports awards! I felt really excited for who was going to win. “And the winner is…..Samuela!” Mr Burt called out. Everyone clapped and cheered as he won the Player of the year award for Rugby Union. He is a really talented guy that is really good a rugby. He also played in a Auckland rep team called Roller mills.

The next subject of sport was Rugby league and that was my favourite sport. My friend Kingston P won team spirit because he had good sportsmanship. Then Mr Burt called out Player of the  year and my name was called out. I was very happy of my achievements that night because I won sportsman of the year!

Sooner later, we had finished our year 8 Item dance and Mr Burts finished the night off with a prayer and everyone took photos and went home.

Starford & Crusader Podcast

This is one of my Podcast from early this year. Hope you enjoy!
Starford and Crusader podcast from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

I Heard A Voice

Walking through the majestic dark forest, Chris and his sister Tarsha were on a hunt trying to find food for their family. “Did you hear that?” Tarhsa whispered. While silently stepping on all the bark and dirt, they spotted a deer all on its own in the forest. Chris and Tarsha creeped upon the animal. Hiding behind the green lush bushes, Chris pulled out his bow and arrow, held his breath and was ready to slay the deer.

Focusing on the attack, Chris was seconds away from launching his arrow. “Come with me…”  Someone whispered. Chris lost focus and missed his target. The deer used his long legs and ran as fast as it could to try escape.

“What was that!?” Tarsha yelled.

“I don’t know, but lets follow it” Chris felt confident.

Jumping over tree stumps and a few rocks, Chris and Tarsha sprinted their way through the forest trying to find the one who whispered. “I heard a whisper but no-one was there” Tarsha was confused.

Chris and Tarsha were curious of the whisper. Sitting down,  Chris was thinking of who or what whispered. “Come with me….Come with me”  They quickly stood up and started running towards the whisper and it lead them to an old house in the forest. “I wonder who lives here?” Tarsha questioned. They headed into the house wondering why the whisper would bring them here.

“Hello” Chris yelled out. They creeped up stairs and saw colourful smoke coming from one of the rooms. “Muahaha” An unusual voice laughed. Lurking through the shadows, they saw a woman with a pointy hat on stirring something in a pot. “ITS A WITCH!” They both screamed as they were trying to escape the house, the Witch grabbed her broom and chased them around the house, “Get back here! I’m going to cook you in my pot” The Witch demanded “NEVER!” Chris and Tarsha Keeped running. But they never escaped that house.

The Bushwalk

“ Hurry up lets GO!” Chris’s Mum shouted as him and his family were going down to the forest for a bush walk. They were going to the majestic rainforest of Queensland. The whole family wanted to get there before it started pouring down with rain. One of Chris’s brothers Jarryd, was still playing game and needed to hurry up!

Arriving at the rainforest, the sun was still shining on their faces, hoping that it would never go away. Almost quarter of the way, Chris’s sister Tarsha yelled out “ Look a baby Kangaroo!” The little joey hopped away scared to it’s mother. Everyone started getting sore legs and wanted a rest. As Chris’s family sat down, he wanted to keep going, so he did.

As Chris was walking he felt little drops of water falling straight on his face, he knew it would start raining so he went back to his family. Looking around the area they were at, they already left. After a while rain starting crashing down to the ground, Chris was running for his life looking for his family but it was too hard to see in a terrible weather. His family was at shelter waiting for the rain to stop. Chris’s Mum started getting worried and wanted to go look for him. HE WAS LOST!

Eastern Zone BasketBall

“Shoot!” Mr Barks shouted at me as I took my shot at the hoop. The School basketball team was practising for our Eastern Zone tournament at the ASB Stadium. Everyone got changed and we were sharp and ready to play some basketball.

Arriving at the ASB Stadium, our team went and sat in our seats. Looking down at the courts, I saw some good competitors and thought there were going to be some hard games. We headed to the courts to start practising our shooting and blocking.

‘Errrrrr’The siren went for the game to start. It was Pt England vs St Thomas. They had some tall players  and we did too. Raenan started dribbling the ball towards the hoop, “Yoo, yoo, yoo!” I called for the ball, he passed it and  I shot a goal. We started off with a good start and we need to keep it up.

9/11 D.L.O Reflection

911 James Crusader Starford from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

In the past few weeks, My group and I (James and Crusader) have been working on a D.L.O (Digital Learning Object) about an event in history. We choose to do  the 9/11 attack that occurred in  New York City, September 9th, 2001. The reason why we choose that event in history is because we thought it was going to be interesting and  I don’t really know what happened in the Terrorist attack.

Positive:

The positive thing was that we finished our D.L.O, our animations and our movies. I thought we did good was that we tried to show many different perspectives about Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The Interviews were detailed. I also thought it had a bit humor added into it.

Minus:

There was a few things we could've worked on to make it more effective. We  didn’t show how it affected the actual people in New York. The Information that we found out could've been shown with more detail. I reckon we could've made the animations more detailed as well because we had a lot of time.

Interesting:

I thought that the interview with Osama Bin Laden was really interesting and so did people that watched it. Another thing that also interested the audience and I, was how two people played the part of two or three characters.

Cross Country!!

“Are you ready for Cross Country?” My friend Samuela asked me, “Ohhh no!!” I said with anxiousness. Today was the day of our school’s Cross Country. I was really nervous. I haven’t  been running lately and I thought I was gonna be unfit.

Getting ready, everyone starting dressing up in their house colours. I’m in Mataatua which is the green house. There are four house colours, Takitimu(Yellow), Te Arawa(Red), Tainui(Blue) and Mataatua(green) My group and I from Mataatua came together and had to create a chant . It took awhile to finish but we managed to pull it off.  

It was time, the whole school gathered together in their house colours. Everyone was excited and so was I. Mrs Va'afusuaga (School sports co-ordinator) said it was time for the house colour chants, and we were first…

“MATAATUA  ARE YOU READY READY?...YES WE ARE READY!... MATAATUA ARE YOU REALLY READY?... YES WE ARE REALLY READY! MATAATUA WHAT, MATAATUA WHO?  MATAATUA YOU KNOW CHICK CHICK BOOM!!”

We tried to help motivate our runners to try hard and do their best, and hopefully they do.

In 1 hour, it was time for the yr 8’s to run. Everyone was really excited and some were really anxious. Our Principal Mr Burt said the call “On your marks...get set...GO!!” And we were off like lightning. I paced myself so i didn’t puff out while running. After a while I finally reached the finish line and I came 10th.

Nelson Mandela

This is a presentation of Nelson Mandela as you can see. I've been working on this with my mates Crusader & Samuela. Hope you enjoy

Rock Climbing

Should Homework be compulsory in school?

Do you think Homework should be compulsory in school? Well, if you think it should,  I think it shouldn’t be. Kids work five days a week at school and should be able to have a rest at home.

I definitely believe that homework should not be compulsory. When students already study a lots of  topics at school, why bother doing at home as well? People might have something on their schedule or a bit of spare time, to relax and enjoy his hobbies.

This is what I think of homework in schools, what do you think? Comment your answer.

Little Blue Swagging Hood!

“Hey yo Durant go get me something to eat” said our gang leader LeBron. I got straight up out of my seat and rushed outside of the Wolf Gang crib. “I got no money on me man” I thought to myself. What was I going to do? As I was walking down the streets of San Andreas, something caught my eye. It was a little girl with a picnic basket. It seemed as if she was on a picnic.

I knew I had to take that from her. What else was I going to do because I would be dead meat if I didn't get food for LeBron.  I approached her and I talked to her. “Hello girl, what is your name” I said politely “My name is Little Blue Swagging Hood”. “That basket of yours looks pretty good, what’s in it?” As she was explaining to me what it was, I snatched the basket off her and ran away. I was off. “Give it back!” She yelled as she was chasing me.

I eventually lost her and I needed to find somewhere to hide. I arrived at a rich house and I heard someone in there. “I wonder if anyones home?” I thought to myself. I looked in the window to check if anyone was there. I sneaked inside her house as quiet as a ninja. Walking through all the rooms, I saw an old lady resting in her bed. I found a roll of duct tape sitting on the bench and grabbed it. I sneaked around her couch, and taped her mouth. “Yes” I said as I found some rope. I tied her hands and threw her in the cupboard.

Looking through her clothes , I spotted some of her pj’s. I quickly slipped them on and jumped in her bed. A few minutes later, Little Blue Swagging Hood knocked on the door. “Are you home grandma?” She cried. I was speechless. She went through the house looking for her grandma.

“Is that you grandma?” Little Blue Swagging Hood said.

“Yes darling, why you crying?” I said.

“This guy came and took my basket of food...Wait, why you so brown grandma?”

“Ummm, I was in the sun for too long”

“Ohhh, Ok, why you so tall?”

“I’ve been sleeping alot”

“Why have you got such big muscles grandma?”

“I’ve been going to the gym lately”

“Wait....you’re not my grandma!” said Little Blue. “What’s that shaking in the closet?” Little Blue walked over suspiciously towards the closet. At that moment, Durant jumped out of the bed and pulled out a gun. But just as quickly, the closet flew open and grandma jumped out with an even bigger gun.

to be continued....

My Journey...

“Finally, my time has come for me to prove myself” I thought positively. “I can get into this professional prestigious karate school” I said to myself. I prayed for God to give me strength for the task ahead of me. Leaping from rock to rock, with a  tenuous grip, I eventually reached the tip of the mountain. Dangling dangerously at the top of the cliff, my exhausted body managed to heave myself onto the flat rocky ledge.

Looking straight ahead, I could see a path heading to the karate school. Each step I took   towards the palace, I got more and more excited. Looking up, I saw a huge door before me. ’Knock, knock, knock..’ The master sensei opened the door. I bowed before him, but he pointed away. I sighed as I walked away sadly.

To Be Continued......

Protein song!

Today, My friends and I created a song. about protein. We sang it to a song called #beautiful by Miguel and Mariah Carey. They are viral celebrity that get million's of hits on their songs. Hope you like it!

You  know.... you need protein,

Many foods contain protein...

but the best sources are... beef and dairy products.

ohhh ohhh.

Protein builds,and replaces the tissues in your body.

With Muscles like that

Oh, you’re killing me.

Oh you’re Healthy...And you know you are, yeahh

You’re healthy.

6 hats

6 Hats:

Blue Hat:

Starford:focus more on what we need to do

Kingston: I need to stop mucking around and get some work done.

Red Hat:

Starford: I felt really motivated this week while making our video

Kingston: I felt like we needed to do more work.

Black Hat:

Starford: I didn't enjoy planning the movie

Kingston: I didn’t enjoy editing

Yellow Hat:

Starford: I enjoyed  doing the funny parts in our video

Kingston: I enjoyed working with my mates.

Green Hat:

Kingston: An interesting thing that happen this week was that we actually finished our movie.

Starford: A interesting fact that happened this week

White Hat:

Starford: I learnt that we need to stop mucking around.    

Kingston: I learnt how to hold an Ipad.

My Sister's Big Wedding!

“I’m so proud of you” my mum said to my eldest sister Denisha, the day before her wedding. I couldn’t stop thinking about how old she’s gotten since she was a kid. Everyone was really excited for her big day, and so was I! My sister was really happy and anxious for her big day.

The person that was getting married to my sister was this Tongan guy called Nela (Daniel Havili). He’s been together with my sister for three years and they decided that they wanted to be together forever. He’s funny, cool, tall, good looking and a fob.

Waking up, I quickly jumped out of bed. It was the day of the wedding. All the boys dressed up into their suits that they were wearing to the wedding, I was really excited because it was the first time I had ever worn a suit. After my hair was done, we were just on time for the limo to come pick us up.  

Sitting in the limo, we waited to get to the place we were going which was Waipuna.  Arriving there, we hopped out and went to the reception. My brother(Lepa) and I walked my sister down the aisle, hugged her, then handed her to her dad. He walked her to the front, where they were getting married. As my sister Denesha and Daniel were doing their thing, they both said ‘I do’ and everyone started clapping. They walked out happily together.

After celebrating their wedding, the boys did a fijian dance and it was really cool!  everyone had a big feed and a good time.

State Of Origin!

Finally, the time has come for the Nrl teams NSW (New South Wales) and QLD (Queensland) to come together to battle for the State Of Origin shield! The last seven years that Origins been played, Queensland has won all of them.

State of Origin is a best of three series of National Rugby League matches between the Nsw Blues and the Qld Maroons, who represents parts of Australia. Some reason’s why I like State Of Origin is because all the lethal fights and big hits!

My team is Queensland! They’ve won the last 7 Origin’s and hopefully this year they can make it 8.  I like Qld because they have some of my favorite players like Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Darius Boyd and Johnathan Thurston. My best player from back in the days were Mal meninga and Darren Lockyer.

My prediction for the first person to score in Qld is Darius Boyd, he plays fullback for the Newcastle Knights. If you're wondering why i choose him, it's because he’s a good high flyer, he’s fast and he’s a good runner.

GO QUEENSLAND!!!!

Energy Drinks Report

Energy drinks are really popular nowadays, more than 1,000 energy drinks are been sold each day. Energy drinks are beverages like Red Bull, RockStar and Monster. There used for different reasons like recovery or a energy boost before sports.

I like energy drinks because they are nice and it gives me energy. They not just increase your level of enthusiasm but they also puts your confidence up. The reason why drinks like Powerade, Loaded and gatorade provide us with energy is because it has lots of sugar and caffeine. Carbohydrates are need for our body, and  energy drinks have that.

One reason why I worry about drinking too much energy drinks is because of the drugs in it, It’s also addicted.  I found out that a 18 yr old Irish athlete teen died after drinking a few Red Bull cans.

Caffeine is the most common ingredient that is used in a energy drink. It’s also the chemical that provides the energy boost.

Obesity

America is one of the most biggest countries in  the world. They have a population of 313.9 million people,  less than a quarter of them are obese (one third). Obese citizens  are really overweight because they have a sedentary lifestyle and a bad diet.  They also  have an  eating disorder.

Obese people get huge and overweight because they eat way  too much food like burgers, fish and chips, pizza and many more  that are more than. Some people  lose their limbs because of their obesity.  Obese people have lack of exercise, they have short breath and knee pain.

The cause of a  obese citizens is junk food and not exercising enough. There are too many people eating more than their stomach can hold.  The one restaurant  every obese would like to goto is heart attack grill, they have  burgers 3x bigger than Carl’s Jr burgers.

Over  500  obese  people die every year from eating too much junk food and drinking fizzy drinks that are very high in sugar. People are dying younger from obesity. obesity causes major health problems like  heart attacks, heart disease and diabetes. Some Obesity’s weight  around  765 pounds / over 50 stones.  The caskets  have to be larger for obesity people to fit inside it.

Eggs Report

New zealanders eat 2 and a half million eggs a day and 920,000,000 are eaten per year. Most of the eggs that are composed are caged hens.

There are 4 ways that eggs are produced, barn eggs, caged eggs, free range eggs and organic eggs. The 3 different styles people eat eggs are poached, fried and scrambled. My favorite style is scrambled. The most eggs that are eaten the most are caged eggs.

Eggs are high in protein, they are easy for our bodies to digest. Eggs protein offers vitamins and minerals  Cooked egg protein are better than raw egg . Protein is mostly in the yolk of the egg because it has just about all the nutrients.

Caged hens live in an area with lack space to lay their eggs. Their cages are on an angle for the eggs to roll down and get collected by a conveyor belt. There are 6 hens per cage, unfortunately hens can’t exercise.

Free range and organic hens are not like caged hens, they eat grass and chicken feeds, have more space to  run around and can flap their wings.  

Healthy Sandwiches

These are some sandwiches that I think are healthy....

Sandwich 1

• Lettuce
• Tomato
• brown bread
• Ham
• Cucumber
• margeren

Sandwich 2

• French Bread
• Egg
• Chicken
• Tomato
• Mayo

Sandwich 3

• White bread
• Cheese
• Butter
• Ham
• Tomato