Mr Bell told us to write something based of a picture sooo this is what I wrote.

” Hey guys have you ever heard the story  of the tree with a door?”

“Oh yeah, my mom read it to me when I was younger”

“No I haven’t read it yet”.

“You wanna hear it?”

“Sure why not.”

“Okay, so long ago in the land of Mesopotamia ( Iraq ), Syria and Turkey there was a river. The river went through those 3 countries. In the part of the river where Iraq goes theres a tree. The tree with the door or more known as the Yugoslavia tree. Once you got through that door you get sent to Yugoslavia ( Serbia ) 1990 and you stay there until 2001.”

“Why do you get sent there?”

“To either prevent the Yugoslav war or to help Slovenia and Croatia get indpendence. Legend has it that 1 person is destined to do that job and that once that person does it everything changes and not just small minor changes. Changes like countries that were colonized by Spain would still be colonized or eritea, Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia would still be colonized by Italy even if the countries won independence long before the Yugoslav war.”

“How would you know if you were chosen?”

“You would get teleported outside of the door with a paper and that paper would tell you everything you will need to know.”

Time skip – 17 august

” Uhhmm where am I ” I look at my surroundings and see a tree , the Yugoslavia tree , The one that cami read to us.I look at the paper that’s in my hands.It tells me to go through the door. Sooo I go through the door and everything goes black…………………………………………”

Yesterday on the 6th of september rm 6 and rm 7 had cycling lessons. We had to be changed in our PE clothes to go cycling.When the bell rang we had prayers and then went down to the bottom court to meet the instructors.The instructors were named Lucy and Stephanie and they were the one who were going to be helping us.Stephanie explained some things like how to check the bike and helmet and see if its safe to use.

After we got our helmets and had to line up so Lucy could check if our helmets were good.We then got into groups which were team carrot and team broccoli, i got in team carrot and the instructor helping team carrot was Lucy.In Lucy’s team we had to first line up so she could get our names and write them down.After she wrote the name we had to get into height order so we could get our bikes.The people in the front got the smaller bikes and the kids in the back got the bigger bikes.After we got our bikes Team carrot when down the the bottom court and team broccoli went to the top court.

First Lucy told us to start doing the bike test and to fix the seat so it could fit us properly.After we did she asked us to test and ride the bikes to the other side of the court.The kids who weren’t really confident in riding had to go to the beginners area.After they left we played red light green light which basically is exactly like it but we had to follow the person in front of us and we weren’t able to overtake them and Lucy would say Red light and we would have to stop and green light to continue.After we did that she explained to us what the gears are and while she was talking team broccoli went to the bottom court to work with us since the beginner people went to the top court and there wasn’t enough space for both of them.She had to explain what gears are to them while team carrot had to find where the gears are.After she explained we all played red light green light again but we would have to change the gears while cycling.After we did that she set up some cones and we would have to do the obstacle course she made.She each gave us a number and that was going to be the order of whos going when.I was number 4 so after the first 3 numbers did it and it was my number so i had to first weave through the first cones and then we had to ride the bike in the middle of these 2 cones and brake in the box before having to line up again.We did that game like 2 or 3 times before doing something else.We did a few more games and a few other things before it was time for morning team.Since it was morning tea we had give the bikes to lucy and she would put it in a corner of the court before we could leave.

After morning tea we went back to the bottom court and did a few things that i kinda forgot but then she told us 3 signs and we had to get into even groups on each side the the basketball poll so we could play another game.We played that game a few times before doing a race game but the last person that made the finish line is the winner which i failed like every single round.Anyways she gave us some free riding time to just go around the court before we all had to pack up.After the free riding Lucy said we had to pack up all the bikes and helmets.Anyways the cycling lessons were finished and i really enjoyed doing it and it was really fun and i hope to do it again. 

Last week on the 28th of August, Rm 6,Rm7 and Rm 8 went to this Rippa Rugby Tournament at Dunkirk park. At around 8:30 am everyone had to meet under the canopy in their teams so we could have karakia, get our belts and for Mr Bell to explain some things before we could leave. We left at around 8:45 to start walking to Dunkirk. We got there around 9:15 and set up our mat and most of us took their shoes off and started warming up. At 10:20 St Patricks yr 7&8 team 1 first game started and since no other St Patrick teams started, we all went to watch that one game.a few minutes before our first game my friend and I were going to the toilets and these 2 boys from another school screamed out “GYAT DAMN” to us and like we both turned around and now I’m traumatized. Anyways after that happens we had to rush back since our first game against Panama Rd school was going to start soon. Once we got to field 4 which was the field we were going to play on we got our tags and my team started playing.  The first person in my team that scored a try was Graziel.After we played we did this cheer thing that we usually do for Panama Rd school.

Since we had like 20 minutes till our next game, a few of us went to our bags and got some snacks and and drink of water before going back to watch a few other games. At 11:40 our next game against Panmure bridge school was coming up so we made our way to field 1.We started Playing against them and it was pretty fun to play against them not gonna lie. After we played against Panmure bridge we played  against StanHope school. When we played against them I actually scored a try which I was really happy for.

We had a long time till our next game so we just spent some time watching a few other games till we had to go back to field 1 to play against Point England school. While waiting tamaki schools tent flew away and all the students had to run back and save their tent. Anyways I was kinda nervous to play against them but it was really fun. When playing against Pt England, Graziel scored like 3 trys against them and we actually won. Sadly Pt England was our last game so we pretty much went back to watching other people till it was St Patricks.

Once our last game finished we packed everything and took one last photo of everyone who played before leaving around 2;00 pm.once we got back back to school I went straight home because I was like really tired and wanted to sleep.                                                                                                                                                                                                                Anyways the games were really fun and I would do that again.I was like really happy when I scored a try.

Why is mission day important to us

Every year we have a mission day to raise money for Holy Angels Orphanage in Kalyanpur, India.

Each class does tests and you would have this paper thingy where you can get sponsors who will give donations to the school which goes to the orphanage.Every year we used to make stalls and sell things, we had to stop doing it for a few years because of covid but this year were bringing it back.For rooms 7s stalls were doing a craft store and there’s four different groups that is selling different craft made things.My stall is selling loom band bracelets,another stall is doing crochet keychains,one stall is making things out of polymer clay and the last group is selling keychains. 

Mission day is important to us and to holy angels orphanage because we raise money for them.Last year we raised around $5000 that went to the orphanage.This year My class is doing Te Reo Maori test and last year when I was in room 6 we did a times tables test. On mission day we wear mufti/non uniform to school but we do have to give a gold coin to be able to wear it that also goes to Holy Angels orphanage. Our Mission day is going to be on 13th of September and family can come.If you would wanna see photos of what we did and how much money we raised, come back to my blog.

For RE this term our task was to find out what the mission of the church is.while making this I had a picture of what I should do and how I should I design it.

On term 2 week 2 my class started our road to Paris for the olympic games.We had to run every single day on the top court and count our laps that we did.After we did the laps we had to times the number of laps we did to 92 and then tell Mr Bell the amount and then he would put it on this chart thing.Then he would add the rest of the classes amount together..Today My class finished it and reached to check point.