Ashlee and Lizaras Netball project

The sport Netball was first invented in 1895. If you wondered why the sport is so similar to Basketball? The answer would have to be before the first game of netball was played, a few people were playing the sport basketball when they accidentally created a new game called “Netball”.

There is no explanation for why this game was created. It was just like a few other popular sports that was created by accident. Did you know the first game of netball was played at Madame Ostenburg's College, England.

Apparently a variety of boys and girls created the sport one lunch time when playing Basketball and then it turned into Netball. Through to inclusion the game is one of the must have sports in the commonwealth games.

If you have never played the game netball then don’t fear because we are hear to tell you. You must have 2 teams with at least 7 players on each side. You play on a rectangular court with raised hoops on each side.

The objective of the game is to see which team has the most goals at the end of the game. They do this by passing the ball down the court to their team members without breaking the rules. To see the rules of netball then keep tuned for a movie explainging the rules of Netball.

Lifeguards Perspective

Here is my paragraph from a life guards perspective from a boy going for a last swim and getting into trouble with the water.


The Last Swim

The end of the day had come and the last few surfers were carving up the little ripples in the water. Spotting a blue rash shirt and yellow shorts on a little figure I watched the boy walk in to the ocean with a positive attitude. I turned away to check on the rest of the beach and a few seconds had passed. When I turned to my right the boy was getting beaten up by the water and sooner than later he got spat out on the cold sand.

Acrostic Poem about Lesieli

Lesieli is one of my Best Friends this year. She is a Year 7 that attends Point England school the same as me. She is very Jumpy, Hypo, Beautiful, Positive and can be a little annoying sometimes but she is still a cool and trustworthy person and I cherish her as if we were related.  That's why I have chosen to write an acrostic poem about her to let you know her and her characteristics.

Laughter. One of the things about Lesieli is that she is always fulled with Laughter

Energy. Every time I see her whether it's in the morning or after she just finished playing a netball game she always has energy.

Sympathy. One of the many reasons she is one of my Best friends is because she shows sympathy for anybody she sees or knows

Independent she can be very Independent with her work but outside of work she likes to spend it with her friends.

Eligible. She has the potential to be a great future pupil and could be the next Female Prime Minister 

Lifesaver. Lesieli has many cool things about her but the one particular thing about her is she will save peoples whether it a saying or it's real

Intelligent. Lesieli is very bright and smart.

Algebra- Cup capers

Here is my solving of the problems above.

Valerie Adams Flag bearer ( Delayed )

The New Zealander who holds the women's shot put world record Valerie Adams was selected to represent New Zealand at the commonwealth games. How she did this was not only did she participate in the games she was the flag bearer. If you don't know what the flag bearer is it's the person who waves the flag when their country's name is called out.

She did a phenomenons job even though its quite a simple job but a huge privilege. " It was pretty scary I didn't know what I was doing I just tried to do what the others did" she had said after the opening ceremony. " Hopefully I did new Zealand proud" She quoted before she left to go and practice for her games.

At the end of the games her practice had payed of when she won the last gold medal for New Zealand. Also she won the 600th gold medal for New Zealand over the years. Here is a video of her waving the flag.

Completing the game Astria Countdown to Impact

Today me and my partner has completed and saved the world astria. It feels so good as the when we started we thought we wouldn't save the planet in time.

The most hardest section of today would be presenting our research and findings to the council to help find a solution. The key areas that my partner and I completed would have to be saving the planet. We already have saved the planet and are just celebrating.

Kahurangi Maori Dance Group

Ring Ring Ring…. the morning tea bell had rang and it was time for us to return to our classes and line up. But it seemed when we got to our classes we didn’t enter. Some of us were puzzled because we didn’t know what was going on. Finally the teachers announced “ Face the other way and walk the other way”. Turning we realised we had a special performance from the Kahurangi dance group.

If you don’t know what the Kahurangi Dance group is they are a Big Kapahaka group who travel around the world sharing the stories and ancestry actions and songs. Quick Fact: Did you know that they have a base in the U.S how cool is that?

Anyway entering the hall we didn’t see the group instead we saw the blank stage. We sat down waiting for the performances. Soon they came out and did their performances it was very touching and amazing because of their timing with the actions.

Finishing their 1st performance they introduced themselves. Then they wowed us with one of their performances. They did a song together with both poi and mau rakau. Did I mention there was only 2 females and 3 males.

More performances from the boys were mostly showing their mau rakau skills. Then the girls were the different poi actions that they could do. To get a break they got three warriors from the crowd. Their job was to try and copy one of the males from the three with the mau rakkaus they borrowed.

Closing the show they sang two songs that were well harmonised and wasn’t flat. Adding Poi’s and Mau rakau it was spectacular.

By the way they don’t just perform in front of schools they also do big performances across the world. So check them about Kahurangi Dance Group