Athletics Day!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, recently our school held a very big event. It was Athletics Day! If you didn't know, Athletics is a range of events covering track and field. We had the choice to compete competitively or socially. If we compete socially our times don't get recorded, however, in the competitive you get your times recorded.  In every event, each person gains points towards our house.

For social, as I said, our times don't get recorded but each time we participate in a game we either get 5-4 points. For example, my house is Mōhua and I have participated in 3 events, that means that I have contributed points towards my house. We also have to participate in 5 events.

My first event was discus. I liked discus because it was easier than shot put. From my memory, I threw it pretty far around 10 metres. The last time I threw it only reached 9 metres so I was delighted to see that I have improved a bit.

My second event was sprints. Sprints is my favourite event because I like to think that I'm quite fast and it feels good to run around. For this one, we had to go in groups of 4. Since this wasn't a competitive event some people skipped to the end.

My last event was shot put. I think shot put is a great sport but for small people like me, it is quite hard to throw a ball that weighs around 3kg. I still think I did pretty well in this event, my throw went out pretty far.

For the last two events which are long jump and high jump, we missed out on it because we weren't called in. But I'm sure it would've been really fun to do both of them.

After finishing our events we had the relays. The relays are based on years groups, there were three houses and overall I think Riroriro (Blue) won most of the relays. It was really exciting to see people run, they were really fast and I felt really refreshed. I wished I could've run in the relays, but I don't think my speed would be up to par with the other competitors. 

The Fosbury Flop

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. In P.E we learned about the high jump and how to do the Fosbury Flop. We had to copy down the steps to do the Fosbury Flop, hope you learn something!

•Fosbury Flop•

1. Land with your arms and feet up, on your back.
2. When you take off it should be on 1 foot.
3. When you leave the ground you must spin around (use the knee to run).

Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 1 • Day 4 - Activity 3

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, I am again doing another post for the Summer Learning Journey. Tho week 1 has already finished I actually wanted to do this after I have finished my holiday overseas

Activity 3: WORTH HER WEIGHT IN GOLD

Dame Valerie Adams (half-sister of basketballer, Steven Adams) is a shot put champion from New Zealand (NZ). She had won the World Championships four-time sad well as both gold and silver medals at the Olympics. Here, in New Zealand, she has won the Halberg Award for New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year seven consecutive time (2006-2012)! She is a bit of a legend both in NZ and her homeland of Tonga.

Valerie Adams is a proud Tongan New Zealander. You can see her wearing a ta'ovala in the photo. There are many Tongans living in New Zealand - you may be one of them! The Kingdom of Tonga is a group of 169 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Fiji, Samoa and Niue. Here are some travel tips about tonga.

For this activity, we have to imagine that we were asked to create a travel brochure for Tonga or a country that is important to us. On that brochure, we have to include lots of great tips on what to do and see in the country.

I have chosen Taiwan because I have recently been to Taiwan and I visited great places there.

RUN ALL THE WAY!

Hello people! Welcome again to another post. Today, well actually not today but on the 7th of March, we had an athletics day! (Which was on a Thursday) Though this was probably meant to be posted that week, I have to admit I was really tired and lazy. Anyways I just want to share what we had done. Let's get started!

(I am sorry that there are no photos)

Athletics this year was a fun and bright experience. This year again we had to pick either competitive or Social. So in competive, you compete with other people within your age. In social you get to participate in all of the events meaning the 5 main events, like sprints (60m), high jump, long jump, shot put and discuss.

Competitive events started at 9:00am,  and my first event was at 9:35am, which means I had an I lot of time to warm up and stretch. But my friend was unlucky and her first even was at 9:10am, which was shot put. After the shot put was finished we went to our second event, she and I had the same even at this time so we both went together we only got to jump once since we had to go to our next event which was again the same.

Our next event was at 9:45am, and it was 200m run/sprints (?), we had it with my other friend which was a bit older than us. We had to wait like 4 minutes before it was our turn. I was in the first race with two other people, one was my friend and the other was another friend. Our teacher (P.E teacher), got us ready told us what we needed to do. So just like that, we fired off those things that start a race (?), I don't really know what it is called. But we took off after that, after a few seconds I had already arrived at the finish line as first place.

Now onto the next event which was at 10:50am, it was high jump, I wasn't with my friend this time because she didn't think she could do it. So I jumped the first 2 well, but at the third, I failed 3 times, I think it was over 1m high. I personally think I did a good job because people tell I am quite short.

Onto the next event which was discus. I have to be honest I am very bad at discus though I still tried it out it was actually very fun on the first throw I got it out of the line which I was pretty disappointed about. But the next one I think I did a good job. Overall I think I did quite good but I think I could do better than that.

Onto my last event which I had to wait 2 hours for, it was the 1500m run/ Long distance. Just to tell you guys this is very hard, it was also very windy which made it very hard to run. This was at 1:30pm. So I think it took about 10/5 minutes for us to finish. At the first 3 laps, I was doing very well and I was in the lead. But on the 4th lap, the wind was really strong and it pushed me like pushed me out of the line, I may have gotten weaker due to that. But overall I have to say I did a great job.

To say the day was terrible would be a lie since it was a fun and bright day, people did have a lot of fun and I am pretty sure everyone enjoyed it.

1st Place!

On November the 28th we had our Athletics day, the events I participated in was long jump, high jump, sprints, discuss, shot put and long distance.   The little kids were doing  Athletics first, then after morning tea, we did the sprints.  I was getting nervous, and it was also really hot, there wasn't a cloud in the sky.  We also had to line up in our age lines, so I would be against some really fast people.  After waiting for so long it was finally our turn.

1.Sprints

As I said it was finally our turn, the first row of girl lined up, I was on the second row, with 2 of my friends.  Then the starting blocks clapped the first row of girls went, my heartbeat was starting to raise. But then some boys had come and lined up, it was a good things because I needed to calm down a bit.  

I lined up and got ready, as soon I heard the loud clap, I sprinted as hard I can.  When I got to the finish line, i had just realized that I had come 2nd, a teacher had given me a block, and also told me to go to the table, where they were taking places.

I was getting excited because I was doing the finals, so we walked back to the starting line and got started on the finals.  When I got to the finish line a friend told me that I came 3rd place, of course I was very happy.  

2.High jump 

After sprints, we had some lunch and played for a bit, then it was time for Athletics to start, so again we lines up in our group lines.  We were on high jump first, I was lucky, that is because I was pretty good at doing high jump.  So we get started and after a few minutes, we had almost finished, Evelyn and I were trying to jump but we couldn't so it was a tie between Evelyn and I.  

3.Long jump 

Next was long jump, Evelyn and me lined up and got ready on our first try we got 2.70 meters, which was awesome.  So then we had a jump off, I was first I got 2.60 meters and Evelyn got 2.65.  So I got 2nd place.  After long jump we had rest.  

4.Shot put 

After we rested we had shot put, which wasn't my specialty but I tried my best.  

5.Long Distance

Next was long distance, we had to do 4 laps of the field.  It was time to get started, I jogged from the start but slowly come to the front, eventually after that I came first.  

6.Discuss

Lastly which is discuss, I was getting nervous, but I tried my best and had went to the finals.  So in the finals I had the number 6.  So when the teacher called the numbers out my number had called out.  I was so happy, I actually came 3rd place which was good. 

I had a fun and cool day.