Duffy Role Model

On Tuesday we had a visitor called Michel Mulipola who came to our school. His jobs were wrestling and Illustrating. As a young kid he noticed that he was a good drawer so he became an illustrator for books and comics. He is currently a wrestler at Impact Pro Wrestling Auckland. He showed us some of his art work and books he was wrote. Lastly he proudly presented some books to children.

Cross Country Practise

Today for fitness we did some circuits for a warm up before we went running in the streets. After we finished doing our circuits the seniors headed to the streets, the year 4's joined us because on cross country day they were going to run on the streets to, the year 4, 5, and 6 had to do 2 laps and the year 7 and 8's 2 or 3 laps if finished 2 laps quickly. While running my ribs starting hurting and I had sweat dropping down my face but i still kept going when i finished 2 laps I decide I wanted to do another lap so I did I enjoyed street running. 

Tech

Today we went to Tamaki College for technicraft. When we arrived we had to wait outside the buildings for the teachers so we could find out our classes, The year 8's went to Mr Grundy's workshop and the year 7's went to graphics with Mr Pineda.

 In Mr Grundy's class we discovered that we were doing stain glass. First, we watched a video on what we were doing and how to do it, Later we went back to our desk and we all got a piece of paper for a brainstorming it was then time to go so we went on the bus and went back to school. 

Duffy Assembly

Today we had two students from Tamaki College who where head leaders and used to come to our school. They talked about reading and shared about why reading is good and how it could affect our life in college. After they finished talking Mrs Pedersen glady gave to special books to thank them for coming today. We lastly finished off with a song Duffy song.
 

Orienteering

On Tuesday the Year 7 & 8's had Orienteering. First we lined up and started heading to the park. We then were given our map courses and a clip card to make sure we already mark the places. While doing the activity I was confused and things were mixed up I was feeling stressed but later on I managed to finish all of the courses.  

Winter Learning Journey

Today we had a visitor who came to present some awards to the students who contribute in the Winter Learning Journey. This year only 6 people made blogs during the holidays, the prizes that were handed out were New Zealand themed first place was Pupuke, second was Kotipi and 3 place was Riiana the other competitors were Dakbai, Robati and Azahar. 

Movie making

Yesterday the year 8's went into room 11 to discuss some ideas for our Manaiakalani movie. Our movie has to be related to New Zealand history. First we had to research some information on New Zealand. After 10 mins we gathered together and discussed our ideas on what we wanted to do for our movie the most votes were for Rugby World Cup hopefully our movie is good.