Reuben's Blog

Hello, Last week the year 5 - 8 students at St Francis went to on buses to Waltham pool. When we got there we got changed and sat on the grass with our gear. Then the life guards explained to us the rules and then our teachers told us made us but sunscreen on. Then finally they let us go in one year group at a time. When we got in all our friend group went to the deep part of the pool and started jumping off the edge and doing massive bombs. One of our friends brought a water polo ball and we played for ages and we also had a go on the hydro slide and then got out. After the pool we came back to school and played some games. Then we went home, overall I had a great time. Have you been to Waltham pool before?

Hello, This week we have been trying the summer leaning journey program. This is a program where instead of your learning going down in the summer holidays it goes up. For this to happen you have to sign up to the program and other people that get payed comment on your blog. Once you have signed up you have to write 3+ blogs a week or 2 blogs for your learning to stay at the same level. Today I did the first summer learning journey decided to do active 2. This is where you had to create your own Mihi. Here is my Mihi:

Hello, This week we are writing poems about our culture or something we enjoy my poem was on rugby the type poem I was doing was a Haiku. The goal was inferring so that is called show not tell so that is when you not telling them what your poem is on your showing it. Have you done a poem before?

Hello, Last week on Friday, Sport Canterbury came to our school to run some actives they called this Top Team. This is a series of teamwork. Some of the actives involved water and other sport equipment. Ar each active you earned points and at the end you would total them all up. Their were about 12 groups with and about 6 to 8 in each group. Overall I had I great time taking part in Top Team and would love to do it again. Have you ever done Top Team before?   

Hello, On Wednesday this week we did Tough Kids. This is a obstacle course run by Sport Canterbury. We had the year 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8's running this race from our school. There were some actives that involved inflatables, water and lot's more. Overall this was really fun and hope we do this again. Have you done Tough Kids before?     

Hello, For the past couple weeks we have been doing sport rotations. We have been playing Cricket, Korfball, Lawn bowls and softball. My first rotation was Lawn bowls, someone from Lawn bowls Canterbury came in and taught us how to play we also did a lot of fun actives with her. For softball someone from our class dad came in and taught us how to hit the ball and catch. For Korfball there was a person from Korfball New Zealand and taught us how to play and all the different rules you have to follow. For Cricket we already knew how to play so we just played a big game. Overall I really enjoyed learning and playing these sports and hope we do more. Have you done any of these sports?   

Hello, This week for our create task we learnt about the sea and under water footage. Our question was Why do authors take a stance in an article? Here is my create task. What do you know about the sea life?

Hello, About two weeks ago Rory from attitude came to our school and talked to the Kaupeka hub about puberty and what changers we will have, he called himself the puberty man. We talked about things that would happen to us in the future. The next day Rory came again and the boys and the girls split us up. We talked about our emotions and how these will change. Has the puberty man came to your school?  

Hello, This week we were allowed to write a free choice blog, so I chose to write about my link Ed comment on the Six C's and how we used them on camp. The Six C's are Collaboration, Creativity, Citizenship, Character, Communication and Critical Thinking. Here is my comment hope you like it. In term 4 week 3 the kaupeka hub went on camp to Wainui. During camp I think I showed creativity at search and rescue because we learnt how to fix a broken leg or an arm with a stick. It was pretty easy because all we had to do was find a stick that was thicker than your pinky and longer than your forearm. Then rap some bandages around you the stick and make sure the patient can’t move their arm. I also showed collaboration at search and rescue as well. Because we all worked together to find one person that was hiding with walkie talkies. My favorite part of camp was when we went Coasteering because we got to jump off rocks and look sea-lifes. Have you ever used one of these

Hello, Over the past couple of weeks the kaupeka hub have been writing recipes based on different counties. On the first day of term 4, we got given the chance to pick a country out of a hat. Then we had to make some food the was from that country and we had to share it on Friday. But first we had to make a recipe I chose Palacinke it is a Croatian food. Here is my recipe. How to make Palacinke? This is a croatian dessert that is a very tasty and it takes approximately 20 minutes to make. This recipe should make 6 large palacinke. Ingredients: 3 eggs  1 cup of milk ⅓ cup of soda water ( has to be bubble ) 1 cup of all purpose flour  3 tablespoons of sugar essence Generous sprinkle of salt  1 teaspoon of vanilla  Butter or cooking oil for frying Materials:  A mixing bowl  Spoon/whisk Large frying pan A plate to put the Palacinke on Spatula  First grab your mixing bowl and lightly beat 3 eggs with 1 cup of milk. Nex

Hello, This Term we went to on camp at Wainui for 3 nights and 4 days. We had to write a reflection which included what we found challenging, what was our favorite part at camp, something we learnt, something we were grateful for. Here is my reflection. Camp Highlights   What I found challenging ?  I found the high ropes really hard and not many people could get past the first stage. But lucky I made it, I also found this really fun. I was a bit scare when I was climbing because you had to trust the person on the ground because he was holding you up.  What did I learnt?  I learnt how to find someone then fix there broken leg and then build a stretcher for them it was really fun. I also learnt how to belay, feed the rope to the rope tier and be the rope tier in high ropes.  What was my favorite part? My favorite part was when we went coasteering because I loved jumping off the big rock that was about 5 meters high. I also loved kayaking because I love the water and

Hello, In this blog post I will be sharing my create task for this week. Hope you enjoy. There was 3 goals this week in our reading workshops. They were: Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. Make connection between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Here is a link to my goggle drawing .  Whats your reading follow up?

Hello, For this terms PBL, our driving question is how can I celebrate who I am? A big part of this is culture, we have already been talking about this and the teachers said that we have to perform a piece of music therefore we are learning how to play different instruments. Many people assume culture with race this is not the only thing that makes your culture. Culture is made out of who you are as a person and what you belief in. So this term we got given two topics one around music and another around who you are as a person. I will post new updates soon. Whats your PBL topic? 

Hello, Have you ever played soccer before if not these are some instructions on how to play and on how to score a goal. If you didn't know Croatia's national sport is Soccer ( Football ) and this week we had to pick a country out of a hat and I picked Croatia. Here are some instructions on how to play and how to score a goal.   Equipment Needed: Soccer Ball 6 cones 2 soccer goals You need 11 players on each team Soccer boots Shin Guards Different uniforms to the other team Rules on how to play: Each team can have a minimum of 11 players ( including 1 goalkeeper who is the only player allowed to handle the ball within the 18 yard box) and a minimum of 7 players are needed to constitute a match. To be on side you have to be behind the opposite team to be on side. The whole ball must cross the goal line for it to constitute as a goal. In soccer there is something called a foul which means a person has done some foal play during the game. If the player has done

Hello, As you may know this week we are presenting our PBL to our school and to do this we had to make a main artefact. Me, Nasili and Flynn looked into climate change and how we can create an environment safely to live in? We decided to make a dome on Minecaft to show different climates in each dome, we had Sunny, Snow, Raining and Water. We mainly focus on the domes and how we could survive in them. Our main artefact was three domes and one mini dome with a different climate in each one. Overall I think our project was really good and think this terms PBL was a big success. What do you think the future will ask from us?

Hello, For PBL everyone in Kaupeka had to make a main artefact and at least two sub artefacts. Some examples of a sub artefact is a website, poster, display, board and etc. As you may know my PBL question is "How Can We Create An Envoutement To Live Safely In The Future?" One of our sub artefacts are is a business card, we also created a poster. Here is our business card I hope you like it. Have you made a sub artefact before?

Hello, As you may know this is the last week of school and this Wednesday is our PBL day. Because of this everyone in Kaupeka had to make an invitation. In our invitation we needed to have the dates and times of the event and where it is. Here is my invitation I hope you like it. What do you think about the future?

Hello, This week for math we are doing a science investigation, we got the choice to work in a peer or by yourself but last Tuesday I wasn't here because I had my St Bede's interview and had to go with Joey which is all good. The next day Joey and I ended up doing our science project and it worked pretty good. Overall I had a really fun time and hope we do something like this next term. Have you done a science experiment before?    Link to science method

Hello, Last week we have been doing our PBL planning for this term. As you probably know this term I am doing PBL with Nasili and Flynn and our question is "How can we create an environment to live safely in the future?" We were sent a planning template and were ask to fill it out so we can get on with our PBL project. Here is Flynn, Nasili and my planning template I hope you like what were going to do. Do you have a big project coming up? Link to Planning Template   

Hello, For the past couple of weeks we have been going to each home base teacher to learn what the 7 sacraments are. After we went to each teacher we then got into groups of 3 if you wanted to do a video or if you were just doing a poster you had to go by yourself. I choice to go in a group with Nasili and Flynn we wanted to do marriage. Here is a link to my planning script. Do you know the 7 sacraments?  Link to planning script  

Hello, Last week everyone in Kaupeka hub has to do a morning or an afternoon of service. The different task we could do was Graffiti Removal, Making packages for the food bank, organizing curtains for the curtain bank. The task I was set with was the curtain bank it was really fun knowing that you were doing this for a good cause. The curtain bank is about making curtain and selling them for a low price so family's can have curtains in there house that will protect them from the cold. We were put in buddy's and my buddy was Charlie. We work at 9:00 to 11:30 and we had a lunch break at 10:00, there was about 3 or 4 people there and there were all woman. They were really nice and helped you if you needed help, they were also masters at measuring curtains. Have you ever been to the curtain bank before?

Hello, For the past couple of weeks we have been working on our narratives. The topic for our writing is the future, we had to think of a ethical issue that we thought might happen in the future and include it into our story. In my story I thought I could have a massive fight between humans and robots. Here it is I hope you like it. Have you ever done a narrative before? Link to Narrative Writing

Hello, This week for our reading task we had to do a novel slide. The slide had things to do with our novel, my book is called Outlanders. The slide has an orientation of a paragraph then you have to do a google drawing about a paragraph in the book. Then you have a do a Y graph about one of the main characters in the book. You have to explain what the main character looks like, there characteristics and there actions. Here is my orientation: Have you ever done an orientation before ? 

Hello, Last week we went to Centrals for rugby. I was very exited and couldn't wait to play when we got they we were all looking around at the other teams and they were huge. But we stopped looking at them and just focused on our game. First we had a bye so we could watch some other teams play. It was finally our turn to play and we were playing Te Waka Unua, they were some big boys but we new that if we just went around the legs we'd have a chance. We then ended up winning by one try. Our next game was against Ashgrove and also ended up winning that too. Our next game was against Lincoln and sadly we lost, they were a really good team and I think deserved to win. Our next game was against St Martins, this team is the team that we beat in the final of winter sport, so we new how they played and ended up beating them again. Miss Hansen told us after the game that we were in the quarter final against the Kaiapo North Stags. Like Te Waka Unua these guys were much bigger than us,

Hello, For the next couple of weeks we are writing a narrative and to write a narrative you have to have a plan. Everyone in Kaupeka are doing a narrative about problems in the future. The problem I chose was about world war three and about how if we build robots that the might want to turn on us. Everyone had to make a plan last week and this week we are writing the narrative. Here is my plan I hope you like it. Have you ever written a narrative before?

Hello, Last Thursday we had our rugby finals for school, against St Martins I was so nervous because they bet the team that we kept losing too ( Hillview ). When we got they, we just did our same routine, same process and when it was time to play we were ready. It was a tight game but we were ahead. Suddenly Miss Hansen said last play and we new that we had won, we didn't stop fighting until that final whistle went. Finally Miss Hansen called a knock on and that was the end of the game. We had won everyone was staying humble by not cheering until we got on the bus. When we got back to school Miss Hansen said that we where the first ever year 7/8 rugby champions. Have you ever played rugby before ?   

Hello, This week for reading, we were given novel and for the next 3 or 4 weeks we will be basing our reading tasks on our novels. My novel is Outlanders. This weeks follow up was to create a chart that had some sentences of the text and convent it in to some questions. Have you ever read Outlanders before ?

Hello, This week for reading we read a book called After the spill, it was about a boat that crashed on a reef and spilled heaps of oil killing lot's and lot's of animals. Then we had to a answer some questions about the story. Here is my answer sheet I hope you like it. Have you ever read this book before ?

Hello, This term, every Tuesday we split into our homebase's to do science experiments. We have alone done 3 and so far it has been great. But my favorite one so far is with Miss Powick. It is all about building bridges and who can build the strongest bridge. I did it with Oliver and Connor. Our bridge was not very good, because we run out of time to finish. Have you done this challenge before ?

Hello, This week for our reading follow up we had to read a story on Epic books. We read Hubots, we then had to look for five complex words. After that we had to make a google drawing with pictures of the complex words.

Hello, For the past term we have been doing the Stanford University Online Course. Everyone in Kaupeka signed up to a math's course. This math course has 6 different lessons, each lessons had a certain amount of videos and questions. I will explain each lesson, I will start with lesson 1.      Lesson 1: We were introduced to the program and started to talk about how people felt about maths. We also start with a survey about where do you think you are with math. Their were videos discussing myths and showing people what maths really is.  Lesson 2: In this lesson, their were videos explaining how important it is to have a growth mindset and what the benefits are of having a growth mindset. Lesson 3: In this lesson, was all about making mistakes was good. It was showing when you make a mistake it is good because you are learning. It is also showing in maths that it isn't about speed it's about doing your best and that lot's of big mathematicians were the slowest

Hello, This term we had to make our own fitness circuit. We had to make it in our PBL groups and in my PBL group I have Nasili and Flynn. Me Flynn and Nasili did ours on basketball. I hope you like it. Have you ever made a fitness circuit?

Hello, Today we found out our PBL driving question for term 3. Our driving question is What will the future ask of us? We have been doing some talking and reaching. We had to get into a group of four with two girls and two boys I went with Finn, Beccy and Joanna we talked about what are some of the biggest problems in our world. We thought that these where some of the biggest problems that our world is facing today, climate change, over popularity, terrorism, metal heath and discrimination. We also looked at the skill set that we need in the future. The skills that we thought you would need were creativity, uniqueness, reliability, adaptability and a strong work ethic. I am not sure what our final project will look like but I can't wait to find out. I will try to keep you updated.  What do you think the world biggest problem is? Picture by Lil Dicky Earth ( Official Music Video )  

Hello, For this Term our PBL driving question is How can we speak up to discrimination in a Podcast, Ted talk, Poetry slam or Drama and on the 3rd of July we will be going live to all the schools in New Zealand. I am doing a podcast on racism with my friend Logan Hammond and we will be talking to Max Martin ( My cousin ) and what he thinks about racism. Here is m y invitation:  I will be going live first at 10:00am - 10:15am.

Hello, About 3 weeks ago we went to Diana Issac to play volley ball balloon sports. Diana Issac is a retirement village. The reason we went is to be visual in the community. When we got there we got pair up with someone, it was really fun and I got paired up with this lady called Shirley and she was a children's athletics record holder. Once we got to know them we got into balloon volley ball. It was very fun and I hope we do it again before I go to high school. Have you ever been to a retirement village before ?

Hello, This week we had to experiment with google drawings. Today we got set the task of creating a self - portrait on google drawings. This is so hard so please don't judge. Here it is: Have you ever done a self portrait before ? 

Hello, For winter sport this year I am doing rugby. We had to play rapid rugby for the first couple of weeks and now we play proper rugby with scrums and line outs. Our team are really good and we have only lost 2 games. I play half back and I really enjoy playing rugby. Have you played rugby before ? Image by Otago Sport Depot

Hi guys, Welcome to another blog post. Today I will be sharing my reading task. We have been leaning how can we use questions to challenge the text, question the author, establish the authenticity of the text and state opinions?  This week we got to pick what article we got to read, we got three  choices the  Australian Ball Tampering , the Climate Change Protes t and the No Rep Sport I chose the No Rep Sport article. We had to create a Venn Diagram with the authors opinion and my opinion. Here is the slide: Do you have a reading task you have to do ? If so what was it ?

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I am going to be telling you about my maths video. As you may know our school do their reports digitally. So for this to work we have to our maths video digitally. Part of our report is evidence of our work and this term for our maths evidence we had to do our video on screencastify. Here is my video, Hope you like it. Have you done a maths video before ?

Hello, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be telling you about my reading task for this week. This week we had to write two paragraphs based around a story. The story we did was Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka and it was about how the soldiers wanted to take the land of the Ngā Tātarakihi o Parihaka. Here is my reading task, I hope you like it. What book have you read lately ? 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be telling you about breakout EDU this is just a fun game the googles did to help our team work ability's. Breakout EDU is a game where you get give clues around a room and 2 or 3 locks you have to crack open. The theme for the game was based on the movie Wonder. My group was really good at finding the stuff but working it out needs a bit of work on. I am not sure how much time we got. But overall it was really fun and I hope we do another one  later on in the year.  Have you done a breakout EDU before ? Image from Vector illustration of Cartoon Padlock. 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. Today I am going to talk you about my bingo card. This week we had to present their speech in home bases which means our timetable for week 5 had to change. We did speeches until morning tea and after morning tea we worked on or bingo cards. Our bingo card was a doc shared with everyone with 9 tasks. We had to complete 4 tasks. We had to do the middle maths problem solving, one of the literacy tasks, one of the maths task and one of your choice. I did the middle problem sol ving, the Carmen  Sandiego task, the book track task and the basic facts task.  What task would you do ? 

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post. On Wednesday all of the teachers in New Zealand didn't work because they were going on strike because they thought that they were not getting payed enough money for the hours that they worked. I think that the teachers should get more money because then we are allowed to get more sports equipment and more trips to see the world. On Wednesday me and my friends went to QE2 pool. We had lot's of fun flipping the rafts on the slide, tackling people of the inflatables and chilling out in the lazy river. What did you do on the teachers strike ? Image from Clipart Library

Hi guys, Welcome back to another blog post I hope you are having a good day. Today I am going to share with you one of our reading task that we have to do every week. My goal for this week was to Identify several ideas, discuss the author's stance or purpose, and understand relationships in the text. The teacher made us read a book online called Global Perspective: Racism. Then we had to Identify three main ideas from the text. Then explain why the author has purpose of putting it in. What do you do for reading ?

Hello, Today I will be sharing with you my first main point for my speech and as you know if you have seen my Speech Topic blog I have put my introduction and now I have done my first main point. It is about Hitler and what he did that was so terrible. Intro  Picture this you get woken up by the sound of loud sirens, two men smash down the door and are carrying huge guns they tell you to get your pyjamas on and step into this massive chamber. Suddenly this weird white kind of fog comes in under the door and through the two small vents, its gas, you struggle to hold your breath, you wonder why is this happening to you? should it happen to you? What do you think ? What would you do ? Hi my name is Reuben and today I would like to share with you my thoughts about racism. First point:  Hitler, Hitler is a perfect example of racism. He came up with a crazy idea to breed a society that he believed was ‘superior’ and was of pure blood. He believed that the race had to have pale ski

Hello, This weeks blog is about technology and what we are doing. I am doing food and it is great because you get to make healthy and delicious food. This week we made burgers. First we had to make the burger patty. After that we picked out what we wanted in our burger I picked cheese, tomato sauce and lettuce and finally it was time to get the patty and the burger bun. It tasted really good. Have you made a burger before ?

Hello, In this blog I am going to talk about my goals for Term 2. We had to come up with 3 goals for this Term. We had to have one about winter sport, a learning goal and a goal of my own choice. Here are my Goals: Winter Sport Goal: To try be a good sport and not a sore loser. Learning Goal:  To get my follow up done. Own Goal: To help my mum and dad at home. Do you have any goals this Term ?

Hello, As you know if you read my last blog post, this Term our focus is on Discrimination. So for this week we have been doing some art and we could chose either to put a story of our own or use a quote. We also had to include a logo of our own with a slogan. The last thing we had to include was a photo of ourselves. Here is my art: I chose to use a really cool quote on racism and draw my logo that I also found on the internet and my slogan. We had to use a app on our computers to edit out our background and then to make the photo look cooler we used another app called Lunapic. I hope you enjoyed this blog and my art. check back for more later. Have you experienced discrimination ?

Hello, In Kaupeka hub our PBL is about how we can speak up against discrimination. I learnt that there was different types of discrimination like Racism, Sexism, Ableism and Religious discrimination. We had to pick a topic either Racism, Sexism, Ableism and Religious discrimination, then to pick if you were going to show it in a Ted talk, Drama, Podcast or a Poetry Slam. Then you can chose a peer or just go solo and I chose a peer. Logan and I chose to do a Racism podcast. I think this is a good PBL question because discrimination is just getting worse and worse. Have you ever been discriminated against ?

Hello, Last week we had our school cross country. I didn't do it because I fractured my shoulder and it hurts when I run. But in my age group they did really well. My cousin Flynn came first, Ethan Beater  ( link to Ethan's blog ) and Ben got third. But I got to be a marshal which was fun. Have you had your Cross Country ?

Hello, For the past two weeks we have been learning about speeches and writing them. This is my introduction and my topic, I hope you like it. My Speech Picture this you get woken up by the sounds of loud sirens then two men smash down your door with massive guns telling you to get your pyjamas on and get in this massive chamber. Suddenly this weird white kind of fog comes in under the door and through the grills, its gas, you struggle to hold your breath, you wonder why is this happening to you, should it happen to you. What do you think? What would you do? This is just one extreme example of racism that happened against the Jewish community in Germany many years ago. This is totally disgusting behaviour and it was lead by an extreme leader called Hitler. He wanted to breed a society that he believed was ‘superior’ including how you looked. He only wanted blonde hair and blue eyed people discrimination happening in our world today. Now I guess you are wondering why I have b

Hello, On Thursday the 4th of April I had the Canterbury Primary Sports Swimming competition. I competed in the 50m Freestyle. This was held at the at the Sewlyn Aquatic Centre. My race started at 12:29 but it didn't start till later. The freestyle race was called and I was felling pumped, when we got there I could see my friend Tom from Rawhiti school. I was in the second heat lane 8 I had a pretty bad race but I am not sure what place I got. Overall I really enjoyed it and I hope I get the chance to do it again. Do you like to swim ?

Hello, This week we created our invitations to our parents for the Digi Awards. We created them on Canva. This years Digi Awards are all about Greatness. We have to explain "What is Greatness?". I am in a group with Max, Luca and me and we decided to make a news report using the schools green screen. What do you think Greatness is ? Here is my invitation:

Hello, This Term our school has been focusing all about choosing kind. At the start of the year our hub watched a movie called Wonder which is all about choosing kind. I won't say anything about the movie in case you haven't watched it all I will say is that it is a great movie and that it has heaps of cool quotes in it like this ones: When given the choice between being right or being kind, chose kind. You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. Strong people don't put people down. They lift them up. About five weeks later we got to design a T-shirt which was all about choosing kind. I thought it would be really cool to do it as a google drawing. I hope from reading this you have learned heaps about choosing kind. What have you done today to be kind to others ?

Hello, Yesterday we had our north school zones at Jellie park. I was a bit nerves and so was my friend Sam Tippen, I was racing in the 50m Freestyle and the 50m relay and Sam was racing in the 50m breast stroke, 50m back stroke and the 50m relay with me. My first event was the 50m freestyle and there was a about 5 kids their so it was a straight final which was good. They blow the whistle to let everyone know that a race was going to start, "take you marks" bang!! we dove in I swam my heart out but with about 15m to go I got caught in a rope so I pop my head up and realise that is was a false start from someone and they did the race again I needed up coming 2nd. At the end of the race my friends said that I was wining the first time they did it. It was then time for our relay with Sam, Rosa and Casey, I went 1st Casey went 2nd, Rosa went 3rd and Sam went lucky last we ended up coming 2nd again. So that means I am going to Canterbury's for Freestyle. Have you been to Z

Hello, Yesterday the people that qualified for zones in swimming went for a practice at QE11. As you know I love swimming and the first thing we did was just a warm up it was 6 lengths of what ever stroke you were doing for zones and in that case it was freestyle for me. I started to get pretty tiring at the last length but I knew I just needed to push harder. The next thing we did was practice what ever we think we need to work on and for me it was my tumble turns and my dives. I started on my tumble turns and our coach/teacher Maree Scott said that they were really good and my dives were perfect. Have you been to zones for swimming ?

Hello, For the past week our hub have been doing swimming lessons at QE11. Before we went we had to have a buddy an my buddy's name was Edu he is Spanish so it was a bit hard to talk to him, but other then that he was great. On our first lesson they said if you can swim 50 come over in the last lane or if you can only swim 25 come in the second lane or can't swim at all wait hear. I went in the last lane because I am a pretty good swimmer, they told us to then swim 50 freestyle, 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke. After swimming we picked up our buddy's from the little pool and got changed, after that we hopped on the bus to go back to school and yesterday we swam 500m non - stop in 10 minutes. This is great practice for zones in 2 weeks. I love swimming and can't wait for swimming zones. Have you been to QE11 ?     

Last Friday our hub got a task to do and that task was to create a biography about someone that has greatness. I hope you enjoy it and get a lot of facts about my biography. LeBron James Biography LeBron Raymone James ( also known as King James ). LeBron was born on the 30th of December 1984 in USA, Akron, Ohio the same place that another star was born Stephen Curry. But this isn’t a biography of Stephen this is about LeBron James.  Where did LeBron grow up and go to school ? LeBron grew up in Akron where he had a difficult childhood his dad ( Anthony McClellan ) had been to prison so he wasn’t around when LeBron grew up. His mums name was Gloria James. His family were also poor and this meant that he had tough time and struggled a lot. But his basketball coach, Frankie Walker, took LeBron under his wing and let him stay with his family where he could  then focus on his basketball and school grades. LeBron went to high school at St Vincent - St Mary high school in Akron, Ohio.

Hello again, Last week on Friday the 15th of February 2019 the Kaupeka hub our school did our swimming sports at Jellie park. Everyone has to compete in at least two or more advents. I did the 50m Freestyle which I came 2nd in. It was then the 50m backstroke that I got 4th in. It was then my favourite advent 50m breaststroke and I got 3rd but I might go to zones and finally the house relay. My house colour is red and our house got 3rd. Overall I am really happy with what I got because this will be my 4th year going to zones. Have you done swimming sports before if so did you enjoy it ?

Last week the Kaupeka hub had to use a flip grid. Flip grid is when you make a video and other people can see it. This is my speech that I said on the flip grid What Is Greatness Greatness I think Greatness is in everyone but this one man caught my eye and if you are interested in basketball or in sport well I have got the person for you And that person name is Lebron James he has Three NBA Championships. Four Most Valuable Player Awards. Three Finals MVP Awards and finally two Olympic Gold Medals and if you think that's not amazing I don’t know what is. How does he achieve this ? Well firstly he does a lot of hard work like going to the gym or just simply shooting some hoops or just practising his ball skills. Lebron knows he can’t win a game by himself. Teams need great  leaders and he is one of those, he can inspire and motivate his team mates to play their best game. What every team Lebron plays for he always leads from the front scoring the highest number of points. The