Reuben's Blog

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 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 ?