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....