Reuben's Blog

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 Akr...

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...

Last term I was selected to play for Touch Canterbury in two tournaments one was in Nelson and one was in Christchurch, and last week we went to Nelson it was such a long trip and when I got there me and my dad were an 5 hours early so we went down to the bar and played some pool and I won. After the bar we went back to the camp and by that time I was allowed to get in my cabin. I had Saul, Tyrone and Harrison, after everyone arrived we went to the park that we were playing on and made Touch Canterbury with our body, it look really cool. When we got back we had dinner, that night it was burgers. But after dinner we had to go to bed our cabin was up till 10:30 at night. In the morning we had breakfast and then set off to have a quick warm up at the grounds. There was a lot of teams there some from the West Coast and Nelson. Our first game was again's Marlborough I scored 2 tries and our team won 8 - 2. After Marlborough it was Nelson and we lose 8 - 0 which was sad. But even more sa...