Hockey🏑

 Kia Ora Readers!

This term in p.e with Miss Bancroft we have learnt skills of different types of sports. One sport we learn't is hockey, it is played with a stick with a bottom curve and a hockey ball.  The equipment used in hockey to protect yourself is: shin guards and a mouth guard. I learnt how to score a goal, how to take control of the ball and how to pass to others without making the ball go the other direction and dribbling . . The rules of hockey are : you cannot use any other parts of your body to control the ball apart from your hands to control the stick, you cannot put the stick over your head and push don't hit. The potions of hockey are goal keeper, left and right defence, attackers and middle attack. 

Have you ever played Hockey before?

Living Springs camp

Salam ( Hello) Readers!

 last week for  three days  I went to living springs camp with my class Punui-o-toka. When I arrived to school I had to put my luggage in the hall. After the bell rang we got into the bus and started looking for things we had in our camp booklets. Once we arrived at the farm we had lunch. We got to feed animals and milk a cow, next  we ate lunch. Once we made it to Living springs camp from a big walk we got to settle into our bunk rooms. After that we  started activites,the first activity my group started with was zypline and some other activites. My favorite part of the activites was zyplining it was scary at first but then it was fun. After, after noon tea my group went swimming I jumped in alot I it was very enjoyable. The most scarest one was the monorail I couldn't even scream that's how scary it truly is. At night we wen't to camp fire we got to roast marshmellows they were really sticky and delicous. After that we came back had showers and played spotlight, I got to be in my group of taggers got mostly everyone.  Now it is finally  the next day for the second day we had swimming, ecosystems, rifles and archery, intiatives and ecosystems. My group started with orrientering, it was very boring my group basically gave up.  After morning tea (which was really good)   my group did was riffles and archery, the girls did riffles first it was very nerve racking but fun at the same time. Archery was just easy and really fun I hit th e middle on my second try which was really good, but I have done archery before so I have learn't how to do it.   Next we did intiatives it was team building things we had to do things as a team. Going over the barrell was very fun and challenging at the same time. Now after, after noon tea  I got to do animal ecosystems it was very fun my favorite part was learning the cycle of what animals do in the wild. We all had dinner and desert and it was finally time to do some night actvities. My group got to do burma trail which is when you need to trust yourself and follow a rope blindfolded, I knocked into lots of trees and bushes. The most challenging part was figuring out where the rope was when I lost it. We have supper and now have a auction my group didn't want anything and didn't get anything it was very tiring waiting for it to end. Day three! I woke up in the morning and had to shower I got into some fresh clean clothes, we have breakfast and brush our teeth. Now we pack our bags clean up and vacuum our bunk houses. After that we put our bags at the entrance and go eat morning tea. After morning tea we play animal survival some of the teachers even joined in so it was really fun.  We then eat lunch and get ready to head back to school. We also went on this big water slide at one point but I don't remeber when, it was really fun. I rolled of the hills most of the times I went on.