My Reflection On This Year

I have had many highlights here at this school, some bad, most good! I have had the opportunity of being apart of many things this year. Which I will forever remember. 

I will cherish everything my teachers and friends have taught throughout my journey here at Saint Pius X. 
Thank you.

Year 8 Movie 2015

Cultural Festival 2015

Kiwisport - Touch

Today we had a session of Touch. I was so looking forward for this week. I learnt alot of skills that I need more practise.  Next week's session we will be having a game of touch. I can't wait for next session of Touch!! 

PAT - Maths Test

This morning Room 7 had another test which was the PAT Maths. I wasn't looking forward to this test. I was so nervous because I hadn't practised that much on my maths which I was disappointed about. But I tried my best to complete the test. Next time I need more practice on my maths and I'll make sure I'll do it.

Holiday Recount

I had a awesome holiday.

To start off my day, I had to clean up the house and wash the dishes which I found boring. After cleaning up, I decided to take my Dog Stella for a walk around the block. Once I got back with her, we played in the back yard. Afterwards I left Stella to have a rest. So I decided to go into my cousin’s room and play games with them. I kept on looking out of the window to see if she was asleep and she wasn't. I could see her eyes open but lying down. Then all of a sudden I could hear Stella barking, I jumped up, went and have a look to see why was she barking and 3 other dogs were there. They started to play.  I found it cute when they were playing together.

I had a feeling that they would be friends. I cuddled the smallest dog out of 3 of them because it looked so cute and fluffy. Next I went and fed them with Dog Biscuits. It was starting to get dark. So I went and took the 3 dogs back to their home which was at the other side of the road. Lastly I went to kiss Stella to say good night before I went for a shower.

I really had a great day spending time with my Dog Stella.

I feel that she is my best friend and I can’t wait for the next holidays to come so that I can spend more time with her.

Welcome To My Learning Journey For Term 4

Grandparents Mass

Today the whole SPX School attended to the grandparents mass first thing in the morning. It was lovely to see some grandparents attending the mass, but unfortunately my grandpa and grandma couldn't make it. It was good to see some students reading their prayer together with their grandparents. Seeing the grandparents singing along with us students was amazing. To ended of with our lovely Mass, all the grandparents got blessed from Father.  I had such a great day.  For me today was one of my favourite day at school so far.

Sean Shark Week

I think that Sean is a brave kid to be interest in Sharks when he was 3 years old. Now he’s 10 years old he wants to stop people cutting the Shark's fin.   When he grows up he want’s to be Shark Biologist. Sean is a great kid to strive for his dreams and future. What he likes about Shark is that they are magnificent creatures. Sean explains what Shark finning is. Shark finning is when you cut the fin and throw the leftover body back to the sea so that it could sink toward the bottom where it is eaten by other fish. He was confident at speaking of what he was saying.

Hockey Session

On a Wednesday morning, we had our first kiwi sport for Term 3, Hockey. Room 7 was the first class to begin with the Hockey Session. We head into the hall because it was raining outside. The Instructor split us into 3 groups.  First we started with warm ups before we began our lessons. Running to the end of the hall was the first warm up we did. Following on, we did monkey crawls. Afterwards we begin to start with the skills, first was the Marble. We started to do competitions as well, to see who would get the most score of doing the balancing the ball on the stick. One student got 101. From then we got into 2 groups because we were going to play a game of Hockey. He calls a number and that amount of people have to run and try get the ball into the goal net. At the end he calls everyone to come in, my group was trying to get the ball into the other goal net because we haven’t had a score yet. Our Session had ended, we all said “Thank you” to the instructor.

A Visit To Taiwan

It was a lovely day that we went to visit one of our classmate in Starship Hospital. I and 4 other students went with our teacher.

When school finished we had to do extra work while our teacher had a meeting. Once she finished her meeting,  we loaded in the car and off we went. I was lucky to sit in the front seat while the other four squashed at the back.  

After short while we arrived at the hospital.  We rushed to the main build to buy Taiwan a flower and an air balloon that says “Get well soon.”

It took us a while to look for  the ward where Taiwan is. . Mrs Tui (our teacher) ask the reception for help.   We realised we were in the wrong ward and we have to go back to the lower floor.  He was in 24, Room 9.  We were excited to see him.

Taiwan was surprised that we came and visit him. We all started to talk to him, asking  how he feels.   Chris said a prayer. We chat for a little while.  Mrs Tui was taking some pictures of us with Taiwan.  Sadly we had to goodbye as it was getting late.

On our way Mrs Tui gave us a treat.  She stopped at East Ridge shopping centre and bought us drinks, chips and lollies.  We were very thankful.

She dropped  us home,  first  was Folauhola, then Chris and then myself.  Misiotei was the last.  

I enjoyed  visiting our  classmate and friend at hospital and hope he will get better soon.

My Holiday - Going To Hamilton

During my holidays I went to Hamilton with my family to support my brother who got picked to play for Blues under 18. They versed Chiefs under 18.

Waking up in the morning was freezing cold and I was glad that it is the holidays.

“Wake up Rachel” whispered my Dad.  We are going to somewhere far.  I was out off bed in a blink.  We got ready and off we went to dropped  my brother to Unitec to meet his teammates because they were going on a bus to Hamilton to where they were playing.  My parents and I took the car. We drove for quite sometimes.   I asked my parents if we’re nearly there.

“No”,they said, “Another half an hour, maybe.

  I sat quietly at the back enjoying the drive and the view.   

I noticed this long river.  

“ What is this river mum,”  I said curiously from the back.

“ It is Waikato River,” said mum.

I was surprise because it was my first time there.  I watched the river as we kept driving on.

My Mum pointed out the Maori Cemetery on the top of a mountain across  Waikato River where the Maori King and Queen got buried.  I was amazed.

We finally got to the Hamilton but were lost.  Dad wasn’t sure how to get to St Paul’s Collegiate.   We had to stop and ask for help.  Some kind person in the shop directed us the way.  It’s always lovely to know there are kind and helpful people out there

We arrived at the place quite early.  The game kicked off time was 12.30.  A little while later, my brother and his team arrived.  They went straight to the changing room to get change to have warm up before they play.

While we were waiting my mum decided to go buy something to eat  before the game start  as we haven’t had breakfast.

Soon the game began.  We watched with excitement.  It was a tough game for both team. There were many supporters for both team.  My brother played really well.  His team won.  I did not take note of the final score.   I was proud of him and his team.  I know mum and dad were very happy too.

We had head off  to Auckland after the game.   On the way I had nap.  I was so tired as we woke up early.  I woke up and we were  close to Pukekohe.  

Once when we got home I had good shower before dinner. I really enjoyed my day at Hamilton. It was a great family day out.

First Swimming Lesson~

* Wow it was our first swimming lesson for this Term and for the Year, 2 years ago we had the swimming pool and now we have it again.

* Our swimming lesson started at 12:00 - 12:30. When we got there, there were classes there. We waited for them to finish. There were 3 instructors which was Pam, but Emma and Joseph were inside the pool. We were split into 2 groups, one group was confident swimmers and the other was for the others who ain’t sure if they could swim. I was in Joseph’s group. My group started with floating on our backs and then from there we did other things like the dolphin crawl. The dolphin crawl was awesome because it looked like we were mermaids swimming.

* We had 3 minutes left until we get out of the pool so that the next class comes in. Straight from there we got changed back into our uniforms. We had so much fun swimming in the pool. Can’t wait for the next swimming lesson.

Thank You Letter!

Dear Halamehi,
I like to say a massive thank you to you for what you have done for our school and families. I hope that you have enjoyed spending time with our school. We will miss you alot. May God bless you through this journey with your family. We all wish you a safely Flight.

Pt England Beach ~ Hokulea

In this picture we are all standing up waiting for the Vaka to arrive and then we would sing our Maori song E oho. While the schools are singing the songs, the leaders start doing their action and I was one of them.

Acrostic Poem :

Acrostic Poem

R - R is for Relying on  each other, When Relating we need to rely on one another ( Seauti )

E - E is for Excellent when we do our work, we need to have excellent, in our work. ( Hola)

L - L is for Love, we show Love by helping other when they struggle in their work. (Joshua)

A -  A is for Affection, We need to use affection when we relate to others ( Rachel)

T - T for Trust. Trust is a big part of relating to others that you believe in someone. (Paul)

I - I is for Integrity, Integrity is being honest with your classmates and doing the right thing.  (Catherine)

N - N is for Nobility, When we relating to others, we need to have nobility .(Hola)

G - G is for Glue, we need to glue together to be able to relate  ( Sonya)

Welcome To My Learning Journey for 2015:

Biscuit Decorating!!

Today Te Rangatera had been lovely inviting us to the hall to have some biscuit. Actually we had to decorate our biscuit that we have made. We were working together with our Soul Friends creating our Biscuits. Afterwards we have ate our Biscuits. It was delicious.  

PIHA CAMP 2014

Camp 2014  

We had fun at camp, we enjoyed having fun participating the activities that we have worked in groups. Enjoy ^^

Artwork: Spiral

Today we had an amazing time because we made our own artwork which is Spiral. We had to be in pairs so that we could put our artwork inside a bottle which is amazing and after that we had to get 2 other pairs so that we could join there bottles with ours. My partner was Siniva and I think we did well.