The marvelous athletics sports

 On Thursday I had school athletics. I had lot's of fun here is a picture of athletics I made of the Discus flying through the air.

I got third in the 80m and the 50m sprints, 2nd in the high jump, 2nd in the long jump, 1st in the shotput with 7.20m and 1st in the discus with 17m. I also made it to districts witch I am very excited about because last year I was a yr 4 and I couldn't go. What's your favourite event in athletics?

The exciting districts

 

Renny taught me how to turn of my back to my tummy for backstroke to breaststroke. Here is a picture of the districts swimming sports.

When I was about to do the race Maya from swimming club told me to do a backstroke turn but twist on to your front so Renny's advice didn’t really matter. This was very helpful because I did not get disqualified. I just found out that I am going to West coast at Westport I will have to vs Greymouth and Westport School swimmers. Are you a good swimmer?

My amazing athletic awards

I learn’t how to do the shuffle in shot put this year. You have to try your best because everyone is coming for you and you need to step up your game.

I caught on to the main part of the shuffle very quickly. but every once and a while I got corrected for one reason or another. Here are what I got my awards for the Colgate games I have four finalist ribbons and I competitor ribbon, 3rd in discus out of the whole South Island. These are for West Coast Champs 3rd for 60m 10.88s , 3rd in 100m 18.63s , 3rd in 200m 42.51s , 1st in Shot put 6.86m , 1st in Discus 17.70m. I also got 3rd overall for the compitition I just told you about. Overall this year I got most improved girl trophy in the 9 yr old age division. Have you ever received awards for your sports achievements?

Here is my Hapu's amazing Kaitiakitanga animation.

 My Hapu is Rimu (Orange) our school has school values Manakitanga  (Respect) Rangatiratanga (Leadership) Whanaungatanga (Relationships) and Kaitiakitanga (Respect our Environment). The people who were in Rimu in my class made an animation about Kaitiakitanga. Here is a summary of the animation so there was a man walking on the beach and he saw rubbish and he picked it up and saw a turtle was beached so he called for help and the vet came to use shovels and put the turtle back in the ocean where it belongs.

First we found rubbish and made up about how the turtle got beached and thought of stuff along the way. I am proud because we made the boring school poster into an animation. Do you think this was a good explanation on what Kaitiakitanga is?

Kereru Clued up kids adventure

 So clued up kids was when yr 5&6 went to a location where different stations were set up. This year it was at the Boys Brigade hall in Hokitika. We went to do all different sorts of safety drills. My favourite was the horse safety stuff and what not to do around a horse. There were 8 different safety drills, they were Motorbike ,four wheeler safety, what to do when there is an earthquake. There were kitchen and bathroom hazards, Kiwi rail was about how you have to give way and stay off the tracks, St Johns, a Fire crawl tunnel to practise if there is a fire, animal safety around a horse , and police search and rescue. My favourite was the horse safety stuff and what not to do around them . I liked it because you got to pat and feed the horse.

The St Johns was about what to do if someone is bleeding uncontrollably. The Kiwi rail was about how the trains can't stop but you can. At the police search and rescue they told a story about a boy who did not want to get changed in front of some other kids so he hid behind a hut and while he was getting changed the other boys left and the boy got confused and wandered off and ended up getting lost. If he had stayed where he was and did not leave his spot he would have been found. There were helicopters and people searching for him and they ended up finding him 6 weeks later. Sadly he had died. At the police search and rescue they also showed us what they used and what they had in the packs of equipment. They were talking about how good a search and rescue team in Westport were and how they can go on for a couple of days and then another search and rescue team would go on for another couple of days and so on. Did you learn anything new from this post?