Mission Day

On Friday the 23rd of September was Mission Day.  This is a day where we as a whole school fund raise for an orphanage in India called Holy Angels.

In the morning at 9:00am our school and teachers had a morning Liturgy. After finishing our morning Liturgy all the classes got ready for their morning test, this test helps us to learn more about the subject and also get sponsored by our parents or family members to help fund raise for Holy Angels Orphanage. Four students from Rm 8 helped out to sell some raffle tickets for those students who wanted to buy some.

 

Reflection on my learning of the Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games 

Every four years 56 countries come together and compete in a sports competition at the Commonwealth games, but this year was different because only 54 countries had competed in the Commonwealth games 2022. These countries help each other to become successful athletes. The Commonwealth games this year was held in Birmingham, England. 

What is the Commonwealth ?

Most of the countries in the Commonwealth were once governed by Britain as part of the British Empire. After they became independent many became part of a family where they could work together and help each other.

What happened on “ The Road to Birmingham”

Everyday we would run or walk around the court to do as many laps as we could, some people would do over 20 laps a day or 10. After doing our laps Mr Bell our teacher would put in how many kilometers we did as a class and add them together in total as well as the laps. We had 100 days to achieve our goal to make it to 1653.2km to Birmingham. The first landmark we started at was Stonehenge and we also did a DLO about it explaining interesting facts about. We had traveled on the map to 10 places around England.

Which athlete did you choose ?

The athlete that I chose that had competed in the Commonwealth games this year was Erika Fairweather. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand 2003. This is her first time competing in the Commonwealth games but she has also competed in the Olympics for 3 years now. Erika was head girl for her school Kavanagh college in 2021. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres freestyle at the World Swimming Championships.

How did we follow NZ during the games ?

Mr Bell, our teacher, had given our class a link to watch and follow the athletes that were competing in the games. We had to find websites or TV shows where we can follow these athletes, we could follow them by TV on Demand, Sky TV, Stuff.co.nz or YouTube.

Summaries

Our class had traveled the map virtually in England because we didn’t have enough money to fly over for the whole class and also because of Covid 19. We had made DLO’s explaining facts about it, making posters to show our understanding and adding detail to it. During this experience and journey has been fun for me because I got to learn many new facts and things about it.

” Swimming Lessons With Swim Magic”

On June the 27th our school got an opportunity to go swimming at Swim Magic. All the classes in the school went at different times after 12:00. When it was time to get changed into our swim suits Mr Bell our teacher had separated the girls and boys to go into other class rooms to get changed in. Some teachers had to go supervised other classes while swimming.

When it was time to go we  hopped onto a bus and went.  Our first instructor was Seb,  she taught us how to float on our backs, do back strokes and some other skills.  We only had swimming for 10 days.  We had learned so many new skills during our time there and had lots of fun. On the last day of swimming we had a fun day. An instructor named Carlos was sitting on the side of the boat and was helping us to get in. Before we got on the boat we had to wear life jackets.  After that an instructor named Paris separated us into 3 teams and got us to lie on our backs and kick with our feet. When we had finished our lesson at the end we had thanked our instructors for everything they had taught us and done for us.

We had an enjoyable and fun time there.