Swimming Sports

Rimu House swimming sports was held on Friday 22nd March.
We walked down to Memorial Park in the morning ready to have some fun in the sun. Everyone was so excited so get in the water and compete in the races.
I swam in all the races which were 25m freestyle, 25m breaststroke, doggie paddle, dolphin dive, backstroke, underwater and the class realay.

The highlight of the day for me was coming 1st in 25 freestyle, 1st in underwater, 2nd in 50 freestyle, 3rd in doggie paddle, 3rd in dolphin dive and to put the icing on the cake we came first in the class relay. I really enjoyed in the doggie paddle Sharnae, Jahna and I were talking to each other while we were doing the length.
A memory I would keep of swimming sports would be the adrenaline rush when we won the class relay.

Excellence In Arts

E4. Perform (at a Rimu Hui) a dance that you have learnt

On Thursday the 21st of March I preformed a cheerleading dance at house hui with Brooke, Caitlin, lauren, Jahna and Sattori. Our cheerleading dance involved the song 'what the hell' by Avril Lavigne.
There was lots of strong movements and difficult acrobatics. Lauren, Jahna and I all did front handsprings. Also Brooke and I lifted Caitlin up in they air.

Excellence In Arts

E5: Improve your confidence and skills: prepare and present a speech on a topic of your choice at a Rimu house hui :

2013 House leader speech:

                                              

Good Afternoon the red army. I hope like me you  have been having a great day but you can make all of ours day even better .If you vote for me as one of your house leaders. 

Ok to get started let me tell you about myself, I’m Milly and I am in room 42 Rimu house of corse and   I play hockey. I have been in three hockey rep teams and the school A Team last year. I play goalie because my team know I got there back.

I believe being one of your House leaders is more than just a title, it means being a good leader and a good representative of  Rimu house. If I am chosen for house leader I will make sure everyone feels safe and is doing the right thing.

I will go to infinity and beyond to help our house. If Im house leader I would hope that you all feel comfortable to come to me with ideas  for me to put forward to student council no matter how crazy they are.

 Those great ideas will make our house better than the others, not that we aren’t already. 

I would love to be house leader as I am a team player and I like to participate in everything.

Some of you may know that I was chosen to do the leaving speech at the end of year assembly at Tauranga primary school so if there is any presentations I need to do don't worry I got it covered.

I hope you can see I would be a great house leader. So remember  don't be silly vote for Milly

Water Cycle

 3- What I Learned
I have learned what evaporation and condensation means.
I have learned how to make a animated keynote.
I have learned about the water cycle.

 2- Benefits of working with your partner
My benefits of working with Ellie is that she was really good at researching our questions.
Another benefit of working with Ellie is that she new about the water cycle.

 1- A difficulty that I overcame
A difficulty that I had was trying to find how to prevent condensation.

My Ten Chosen Homework Activities

My Ten Chosen Homework Activities are...

G4. Give of your time: Visit an elderly person at least eight times over two terms

G8: Walk dogs for  two times a week for four weeks

P1. Improve your fitness: Over a 12 week period run or walk at least 60km or cycle 120km

P5. Compete in a sport for an entire season

E2. Create an original artwork using recycled materials

E9. Learn a haka, poi or stick game and perform it a Rimu Hui.

A1. Improve your maths ability: Complete a random 10 x 10 grid in under 2 min

A3. Decide on one or more ways to save energy or recycle at home: Show an action plan for at least 5 weeks over 2 terms

S1. Improve your leadership skills: Act as a class leader or school counsellor all year

S4. Care for younger children: Organise a series of games or activities for younger siblings or neighbors or teach them a dance or an instrument

My First Month

My first month at T.I.S has been great. I have auditioned for the production and have got in for acting a minor part and I also have a dance init, so I am excited for that. Being a year eight is very different, but a good different. I am going to try lots of new things this year like indoor bowls, aerobics and also being in the hockey B team. I have made a lot of new friends in my new class. My teacher is Miss Campbell and she has taught me a lot of new things especially in maths. She has taught me how to do BEDMAS (brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction.) I feel a lot smarter now.I am also class leader and also sports monitor with Felila and Jessica.