Santa Letter.

Dear Santa.

I know you are really busy and all but I would be very appreciative if you read through my letter.
This is 3 suggestions that I would like for Christmas. I know this sounds greedy but I would be VERY HAPPY!

First of all I would like a new Iphone 5c, as I like the colours and I really want a nice updated phone. My phone right now is a year old but at the time I was getting it I had no idea what I was doing. I thought it had a front camera but obviously I was wrong. So that would be much appreciated. :)

Second, I have started up surfing at my school. I have been doing well as I stood up on the second practice I ever did. I want to start some competitions but I don't have a board. So I am asking in this one to buy me a Surf Board, preferably a long and fat one (hahaha). :)

Thirdly, I have been away from my culture for a while. In Samoa heaps of my long lost family are there. I have only seen them once in my life and really want to spend quality time with them and of corse get a tan. The water is seriously the bomb over there. I would like to have a swim with my family and swim with the big turtles. A ticket would help me get there <3 <3.

Thankyou
From Felila Simanu <3 :)

Third World Country

Third World Countries are developing countries, for example Africa, Asia and Latin America. The un-developed nations around the world are named Third World countries. We are very lucky in New Zealand as we are one of the First World Countries. We have T.V, real houses, food and fresh water, as Third World countries have, NO T.V, NO house, (some of them live on the streets) food is low and NO fresh water.
One Third World country is Afghanistan it is classified as a third world country because 40% of the country live in poverty with 2/3 of them have 2 US a day which is 2.42 New Zealand dollars. 

45min Inquiry

Athletics

On Friday myself and 49 athletes went down to the Tauranga Domain in town. We were there for B.O.P athletics day. Schools from Gisborne, Whakatane and more schools came to compete for the Athletics Cup that Tauranga Intermediate has.

My first event was 300 heat which I came first in. It was a hard race but I did really well.

Second event was my 200 heat which I came second in by a little.

Third event was my discus. I had my family watching so I thought I needed to impress. I went up for my first throw and it was something like 24 meters but that wasn't very far at all. The person who was taking the discus told me that I could beat the record. Then the next throw was 28.78!!!! So I won that and beat a record. 

Forth event shot put. I did pretty bad in that as I got no placing Im pretty sure. 

Its come to the FINALS and in 200 I came 2nd and in the 300 I came 4th. I was so close to getting a placing in the 300.

In The last event I my relay team came 1st.

45min Inquiry.

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Athletics Records

TAURANGA INTERMEDIATE RECORDS (year 8's)

Boys

Discus:  Kyle Hamilton  38.64m  2012

Shotput:  Rikihana Borell  13.32  2009
100m:  Hamish Symes  11.52 sec  2009

200m:  Hamish Symes  25.05 sec  2009

1500m:  Justin Mitchell  4.52:28 mins  2011

Long jump:  Darcy Slattery  5.67m  1998
High jump:  Burton McAdam  1.65m  2009

Girls 

Discus:  Fiona Bennett  25.95  2008

Shotput:  Khan Elisia  11.21  2007
100m:  Mariah Ririnui  12.41 sec  2005  

200m:  Samantha Bitcheno  27.80 sec  2011

1500m:  Alice Wilson  5.21:7 sec  1998

Long jump:  Petra Ririnui  4.77m 2011
High jump:  Nicole Young  1.47  2009

Dialogue

An elderly couple on a walk...

"Honey, what would you want at your funeral when you die?" said Mary-Jo.
"To be honest I would like to have a small one not a big one, just the people who are close to me. What about you?" said Treva.
"I would like you by my side, dead or alive sitting there with only our close family, and I want to be buried next to you 6 feet under ground."

12 Hour Relay Disaster

The look on Mr Scholes's face spelled T for trouble. He was looking out onto 18th ave. I look straight away with my hair flinging in my eyes. A group of men were standing there in black clothes staring at us. A white van comes down super fast and comes to a fast stop. The men walk to the car slowly. Reaching into the van I couldn't see them anymore and I thought RUN! One black hooded man came out of the back of the van with a lager black thing under his arm. Mr Scholes runs to the school office. "LOCK DOWN MODE LOCK DOWN MODE!!" he yelled. All the black hooded men have lined up and aimed for there targets.
"BANG," We head to Matai like a stampede. While I run I see people dropping down and wounded. I see my best friend she's down, I couldn't let her lie there and get more bullets in her body. I grab her and start running. I get inside with lots and lots of other people. I go into the toilets and grab a person to help me. They run to get a first aid kit. I hold onto my best friends hoping she will stay with me.
She is still with us she is just lying therewith blood surrounding her but I realize I have a bullet wound in my arm and I faint. I only wake up and I'm in a white room. Don't worry I was not in heaven, I was in the hospital lying on the most compatible bed I look to my right and see my parents sitting there. Now I know I'm okay and safe.

This term we have been having our life education sessions. One of the topics we are learning about is drugs. Everyone in our class has made a presentation about one individual drug so that we can extend our knowledge. I made my presentation to as class member and they have given me feedback about my presentation.
Success Criteria
- confidence when they are deliver their presentation
- their knowledge is genuine
- information is in their own words
- no reading off the page, not too much text
- images match content
- visually appealing
- not too long or short

Homework Maths

1.)    6x + 2 = 68

(-2) 6x = 66 (-2)

(/6) x = 11 (/6)

x = 11

2.)    3x + 9 = 9

(-9) 3x = 9 (-9)

(/3) x = 3 (/3)

x = 3

3.)    5x + 4 = 14

(-4) 5x = 10 (-4)

(/5) x = 2 (/5)

x = 2

4.)    6x + 10 = 10

(-10) 6x = 0 (-10)

(/6) x = 0 (/6)

x = 0

5.)    7x + 4 = 32

(-4) 7x = 28 (-4)

(/7) x = 4 (/7)

x = 4

6.)    7 + 7x = 49

(-7) 7x = 42 (-7)

(/7) x = 6 (/7)

x = 6

7.)    6x + 6 = 78

(-6) 7x = 72 (-6)

(/6) x = 12 (/6)

x = 12

8.)    2x + 9 = 17

(-9) 2x = 8 (-9)
(/2) x = 4 (/2)
x = 4

9.)    2 + 5x = 7

(-2) 5x = 5 (-2)

(/5) x = 1 (/5)

x = 1

10.)    1 + 7x = 85

(-1) 7x = 84 (-1)

(/7) x = 12 (/7)

x = 12

I found out my two friends smoke. I'm 13. I don't know what to do. I am really confused. Please help.

Dear ...

Tell someone that is close to you and can tell anything to but it must be a adult. The one thing is not to tell your friends as you know they can spread it around the whole school. If I was you I would tell a teacher or mum and dad.
Teachers will know what to do because they might of had a student just like your friends before you went to school. Plus the teachers can go to the principle and ask if you could have a counselor from this school.
I would recommend tell your Mum and Dad. Your Mum might be very close to your friends Mum and Dad, they can have a chat over the phone so your friends won't have to here.
If it is really serious, like they can't stop you should just tell them to go to a website like Teen Line (http://teenlineonline.org/) or call up Quit Line (http://www.quit.org.nz/)

From ...

Social

Yesterday night we had social dance. Unfortunately I had to come half an hour late because I had a Girls Collage basketball game. But the dances that I got to do were the snow ball walze, the walze, the bunny hop and the cha-cha slide. The one I enjoyed the most was the cha-cha slide.

Wedding

Before the wedding all the flower girls the bride and the brides mades. I was a flower girl at the wedding so I had to wear a dress that was bright white. It was frizzy and light. It had a patten at the top, it looked like flax but it wasn't. I had a flower head band on my head it was white just like my dress. My hair was straight but had a french plait near my forehead so I didn't have any hair in my face.

Argument Dialogue.

4 Year old and a parent. 
"Benji come here at once," yelled his mother while she was cleaning up dinner.
"Did you forget to eat something when we were eating dinner?"
"Um, Maybe why?" Benji said in a quite voice.
"There are green things in my washing water and they are floating around. Now because right now your the only child in this house I would think they are yours."
"I... I... I..."
"I what. I am going to cook you some more and you need to eat them then you can go to bed," she said with a grumpy but giggly voice.

2 insects.
"HEY HEY Damian lets go and sting this human being." Yelled to Nathan when they were flying around the house.
"Yeah I'll go in first."

SPCA

"AWSOME!" yelled Norm Hewit. Today some of your school hung out with an ex all black and the 2005 winner of dancing with the stars. He had a photo of his family that included adog named Rusty Bean. Plus there was a lady cooled Shelly and she had about 3 dogs and 1 cat. It was a really fun hour and a half with him and his helpers. He was very amusing and gave us lots of treats like beanies, (that I really wanted) caps, t-shirts, thingies e.g.

Homework Wk 7

Homework Wk 6

This is a 1km walk:

We went from my house that is on 16th avenue up to Devonport road. Took a right walking all the way to boys collage fields. Went right up to the cameron road lights then took a left at the lights. Walked to 16th avenue, turned left and went down to Devonport road again. The took us 11.24.27 seconds.

Proof:

Today I measured a tree that is out side my grandparents house.
This is it:

The mesurment for this tree was 440. this is how I worked it out.
-Step one: Stand far away from the tree so you can see the tree from top to bottom.
-Step two: Hold out a pencil in one hand and stretch your arm out so that the pencil is at arm’s length in front of you (between you and the tree).

-Step three: Close one eye and adjust the pencil up or down so that you can sight the very top of the tree at the top of the pencil. As shown:  (sorry for the bad drawing)

-Step four: Rotate your arm so that the pencil is horizontal.
-Step five: Have your friend move so that you can sight his or her feet “through” the point of your pencil.
-Step six: Measure the distance between your friend and the tree.

Homework Wk 5

Description Of A Person.

This person is a funny joker. He speaks like a baby and has a childish humour. He talks to his computer when ever it isn't working. Plays with his cheeks when he's bored, plus he's addicted to flicking his nice  thin hair. Day dreaming is what he normally does when he is bored. Addicted to a sport that gets me far plus someone of the girls think he's cute. He is very competitive while playing my sport, he normally yells at the ref.

Homework Wk 4

Homework Wk 4

Funny Story

Dear Matt and Kodi.

Well done for your bravery and your smartness. I wouldn't of been able to do that at all. Looking at there prints on the grass and the concert. Even though you didn't go up the for that at least you had fun plus had a big as adventure. You must gotten fitter by the minute while you were running.

The bad thing for Connor is that he has to pay $60 for the cookie pad that you guys lost. But it it wasn't for that you guys wouldn't of had the adventure and funny moments.

From Felila

Homework Wk 4

Maths:

Self defense

All the year eight girls in Rimu have been up to the gym doing Self Defense over a day and a-half. We have learned lots of stuff it has over flowing my mind. Our Self Defense teacher was called Ali, she was very nice and calm not like most teachers that teach us. She taught us how to kick, punch, block, plus taught us how to defend ourselves when you are getting raped or in a uncomfortable situation.
She also told us a lot about people that have been raped or been in uncomfortable situations and have been able to get out of it. There was these three ladies that had been captive in a mans basement for over 10 years. When they were there they got raped multiple times over the 10 years. One lady had a kid when she was captive and when her kid turned 6. They saw a chance to sneak out, they both got out by pushing and shoving their way out a door. They ran over to a house across the road and told them.
So what they did was never gave up and that's what you should do never give up if you are in that situation. 

Homework Wk 3

Inferencing.

1. Felila was exhausted.
Cherry red checks, heart pumping up and down. Head dripping with sweat, I lied looking at the top of the sky.

2. Russell was hungry.
"Grrrrrr, whoops sorry that was my stomach."

3. Tory was lying. (not telling the truth)
"Aliens are coming," said Julian with a grin.

Inferring.

1. Matthew was lonely.
His eyes were drooping he had a hunched back, his tummy was hang out of his top. The singlet that he was wearing was way to small as he walk like a zombie past a couple. Standing were no one is.

Savant.

Savant is a special ability that only 52 (or more) people have. It is when you have excellents in a curtain thing, like maths, writing e.g.
Gorge Finn is one of these 52 people that have it. But he also has an autistic condition. He has a child like voice while he is answer his questions. He is amazing at calendar and weather questions. Someone will tell him a date for example 19/08/1988 and then he will tell you the day of the week on that curtain date.

Poem

Weekend ahead is going to be fun,
But first I have to eat a bun,
Driving in a car going broom broom,
We zoom zoom over to mount.
Warming up ready to play,
Our aim is to slay,
The whistle goes we run over the line,
Making sure we don't fly.

Reliever Teacher

On Monday and Tuesday our teacher hurt her back while playing computer games. So over the 2 days we had a reliever called Mrs Verster. She was a South Africa lady so I couldn't really under stand her. I got told off in the first minute of the day. I don't know why, I think it was because I was laughing at Steffanie.

Bullying.

Bullying is a real struggle for teenagers and kids. Teenagers get bullied everyday. They get bullied about there weight, how they look, there relationships e.g.

For and against

FOR AND AGAINST                      Lollies are better than Chocolate.

FOR
• Lollies are sweet and sour.
• Children crave for them every time they walk into a shop.
• There are more lolly stores than chocolate stores.

AGAINST
• Chocolate has been more popular over the years because it has been here for longer than lollies.

What annoys me.

WHAT ANNOYS ME:

My brother Davis, he shouldn't be annoying because he is meant to be mature.
To annoy me at the dinner table he stars at me while i'm eating. Then when I look up he looks away, it annoys me because he does a really ugly face.
When I am trying to read he comes over to were I am sitting and pokes my book. I'm like you would you do that, then we have a big as fight, but I always win.
When we are doing the dishes he always to to wipe me. He wets the top of the cloth twirls it the SWIP-BANG I get hit then there is a red mark on there for 20 minutes.

Homework Wk 1

ICT: create a video of instructions with a voice record.

Basketball Is Better Than Netball

BASKETBALL IS BETTER THAN NETBALL

FOR
• Its more fun than netball for boys because in my opinion they like to get rough and like to bowl people over.
• In my opinion girls like basketball more than netball because in netball you can't be physical nor can you dribble the ball.
• In netball you

AGAINST
• In netball you can have better chance of getting in a New Zealand team and get noticed. But in basketball it isn't a very popular sport for girls.
•

Arguement

Computer gaming is good for people,

          For                                     
       • Its enjoyable and entertaining for any age when you are bored, it could

          Against 
       • You will gain weight if you game too much.
       • It damages your eye sight because you are looking at the screen for a while and not moving                    anything else
     

Where am I?

WHERE AM I?
I am a city were everyone wants to go. I have expensive flats and houses but they look gorgeous. I am sitting right on the beach were the hot sand lives. Girls walk in bikinis and boys walk with no tops on, on the walk way.
I start with a M and I'm located in america. I am visited for my beaches and my hot weather.

Hoildays

WELLINGTON

When I first got there I was so excited because I have never been there before. I was looking forward to the earthquakes going off in the night and the morning. I looked up and the sky was all clear that mean't it was going to be nice all week.

DAY 1
We got to our hotel all sleepy and confused because we had no clue were we were sleeping or were our rooms were. Mainly all that day we sat in our rooms and did nothing... I want to go and see Wellington but know one else wanted to. We had to go to sleep early so we were all fresh in the morning for our games.

DAY 2
We woke up early because we had to eat something half an hour before we left. They were all excited because it was our first game of the tournament. Devon, Alissa and I were every nervous because it was our first time playing with the Thames Valley team, because we are originally from Tauranga. We got there and it was packed, heaps of people on the side lines and lots of people playing. I was wearing my new boots so I was nervous that they wouldn't be comfy. We were versing Palmerston North and we won! We headed back to the motel to rest up for our next game.

Term 2 overview.

I had a wicked start to term 2. It started off with CAMP! I had a great time there but it rained a lot so didn't get to do much. I think the highlight for me was the sleep because I lied it how all the girls in room 42 got to hang out and talk at night, but we did sleep.

About in the middle of the term we had cross-country and rimu did really well. As a house we came 2nd and as a individual I came 10th, not as good as last year but I trained last year so there is a difference.

My highlight for this term was doing wheel chair rugby. It was really hard because I was not use to the steering so I went every where.

Production.

Funny Moments From Production.

1. All of the kids in the green room had lots and lots of card. They were doing magic tricks and playing card games. I was in a group of people that were doing magic tricks. Neitana was doing the trick to me. He shuffled very carefully and he told me to put my hand on the card that was on the top. "Think of it think of the card very hardly!" he murmured. He told me to pick up the card and Once I started pulling it he automatically guessed the card, "5 of hearts!" I flicked it up and was the card it was... the 5 of HEARTS! How did you do that, that was crazy, that ain't true that is a LIA!!!!

Cross Country

Tauranga Intermediate Cross Country has always been a highlight for me. Last year I did really well coming 6th out of 250 and did well this year to. This year I came 10th, not as well as last year but I gave it my all.

So I was at the front of the line standing there freezing cold wait for the gun to go. "On your marks... get set... GO!" I started running, but not sprinting I was get pushed and pulled while trying to get into the front of the crowd. Unfortunately to get to the front I had to go all the way round, I figured that would be easy but it was quite hard. I finally got near the front going down the hill near Fraser Cove but it was so cold that I could see down the hill. My eyes had tears in them, then they flowed down my cheeks. I wiped them up and run up the two big hills, they are like my worst enemies when I do this track.

Idioms

You can lead your horse to water but you can't make it drink. 

Meaning: You can give someone the opportunity to do something, but you cannot force them to do it if they don't want to do it.

Example: When someone is forcing someone to do something.
You can give her lollies you can give her numbing cream you can hold her hand, but at the end of the day you can't force her.

Convocation in the playground.

"DUDE!" said Travis, "why you push me over ae!"
"I thought we were playing dodgems." said Benji.
Travis yelled "DOGDEM FIGHT!" Everyone joined in while hurting one another.
Benji jumps into Jahnas space and bowls her over.
"You just got BASHED!" laughed Benji.
Jahna got straight back up and jumped on Benji's back while laughing so hard she couldn't get off.
"Hahahaha I can't get off!" Jahna yelled with laughter. Benji shoves her off like she was a pillow.

Chargers At School.

What are the negatives of Rimu students charging there laptop at school?
1. People will be taking up lots of room in the class just for chargers.
2. It will be costing quite a lot over the year.
3. People will be tripping over cords and losing there chargers easily.

What are 2 of the suggestions for solving the problem?
1. We can take points off the group that the person is in.
2. You will only be able to charge in lunch and morning tea.

How I felt about the weekend...

Saturday 8 - Sunday 9
In the weekend I had two netball games. One against Mount and one against the Hamilton reps team. I was surprised that we were versing a rep team because we aren't a rep team our selves. I was really excited to play them though, it will give us some idea to what kind of teams there will be at Aims this year. 

Questions...

Questions that I want to know the answer to...
1. I wonder how poo turn brown?
2. I wonder how pee turn yellow?
3. I wonder what happens when you die?
4. I wonder how many people get bullied via internet?
5. I wonder how do clouds appear?
6. I wonder how people make shoes?
7.

Daily Roteen In The Morning.

What I do in the morning...

The first thing you do in the morning is wait in bed till mum wakes you up at 6:50, but you should just ignore her till 10 past 7. Once you wake up you go straight to the toilet because everyone is busting right after they wake up. You walk into the cold bathroom and turn on the hot water. You wait for about 5 minutes till it gets all steamy. You stand in there for about 15 minutes till you think you can be bothered getting out in the coldness surrounding the bathroom floors. Grab a towel and run into your bedroom and quickly get changed into your uniform. Now it is about 7:40 Brush your hair and make it smooth and silky, or just shove it up if you have no time. If you are running late like I usually do grab a bar and eat it really fast.

Picture Story

The chest in the middle of no where.

There was a chest called Gmumg. He was as black as the black whole, and as hard as a boxers punching bag. He was very lonered, no one ever came to see him or even went 1km near him. Gmumg was very sad like always. Right in front of him all the time there was car tracks. that is when he was  little. He fell off the car and hit his back on the hard ground. They abandoned him, but he is all grown up now, but only and move one center meter a year.

Weekend.

Saturday 25 May - Sunday 29 May

You'll find it hard to believe, but I had a very busy weekend. On Saturday I had a game of netball (the normal Saturday game) and after that straight away I had to rush to the ASB Arena to play 2 basketball games for interzones. On Sunday I had another busy day because I had a netball competition, I played 5 games through out the day. I had to play all of them because the girl that played my position was sick. Unfortunately we didn't win it but I think we came around about 2nd. Straight after that I had to go to basketball practice for reps because regionals are coming up and we need to improve a lot!

To tell the truth I actually liked basketball better than netball. It is because when you play basketball you can get ruff and you can put the ballto the ground in stead of just passing and passing.

Homework Post 5

P6. Walk or run around the Waikareao Estuary (or another negotiated walkway on this site:) four times with a family member

Waikareao Estuary

In the holidays I went around the Waikareao Estuary. It took us 2 hour because we had to drag the whole family along. It was a really hot day had to take some stops but we finally got around. There were lots of roots in the way so I kept on falling on my face. While we were on our walk I had to walk with my brother. So annoying but at leasted I had a walking buddy. I have a short video of me walking around it: (brother videoing)

Homework Post 4

G8: Design your own challenge: Helping children with basketball camp over holiday.

Basketball Holiday Camp

In the holidays I was helping my coach with a basketbal camp. I did it for 4 days in the holidays. I had a small group for the first 3 days but then the fourth day it got huge !!! I had 3 other older kids with me, they helped me get confident around the kids and we were friends straight away. At the camp we did ball handling skills, passing, shooting, relays and did some dancing in the middle of it. (head, shoulders, knees, and toes) I have a photo of some of the people that came and some of the other helpers:

Teenagers Problems

1. Teenagers drinking- over 40% of teenagers drink
2. Teenagers being pregnant- over 26% of teenagers get pregnant.
3. Teenagers drugs- over 2.9 of teenagers have drugs
4. Teenagers with depression- have no clue.
5. Teenagers bullying one another- 30% of teenagers get bullied.

Science Discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming

On 6th August 1881 a man was born. It was discovered in 1928. He made a very special medicine called penicillin. Penicillin is a certain collection of antibiotics. It came from a type of fungi called penicillin fungi. It is used to prevent bacteria infections. Penicillin was one of the first type of antibiotics used for major infections and diseases. Any medication with cillin at the end of it has some kind of penicillin in it, for example phenoxymethylpenicillin and ampicillin. Unfortunately he died in 11 March 1955. 

CAMP!!!

On Monday 6 May 2013 I went to Ngamuwhine Camp up in Kiamias. Unfortunately in the middle of the week I had a accident on the new tramp. I had to race to hospital in a ambulance and had a great time on there with the laughing gas in my mouth. I came back in the middle of the night to have a sleep in my own bed.

-I'm proud that I came back to camp after the night in hospital. I was tired and sleepy but tried to do all the activities.

-Believe it or not I got up the vertical play pen. I didn't get up on the first go but I was determined to get up to break the record of how many people in a group could get up there. Dylan and I worked together going up it.

-It made me laugh when I had my laughing gas in the ambulance. It felt really good but my teeth were hurt when I had to suck on it.

-The biggest challenge for me was the paint ball because I hate getting hit by the paint balls. I was hiding with Grace in the corner. When I shot the paint ball I screamed even though I wasn't getting hit. While I was doing that all the people behind the safety net where laughing at me!

-The tastiest food was the ice cream! I love ice cream, Benji and I had a eating contest and unfortunately I didn't win but I had the biggest brain freeze ever!

-The most rewarding thing was getting in the water while in was FREEZING!

Homework Post 3

Design your own challenge: Improve fitness over 12 weeks. I am going to recored all my fitness over the 12 weeks.

Week 1                      Monday 1st April 2013
Day 1: Reps Basketball Easter Tournament: For Tauranga City Basketball under 15 girls there is a
competition in Auckland called the Easter Tournament. That is when the Wiakato region and
Auckland region come together for some games of basketball. It goes from Friday till Monday. I
played 7 games over the 4 days and won 4 out of 7, to our team that is quite good.
Day 2: Went out for a run with my mum with grandmas dog.
Day 3: Went out for a walk with dog.
Day 4: Reps Basketball training. Did lots of running up and down the court, and did lots of shooting.
Day 5: Future Champions: When it was school time some people from school went to Future                                    
Champions. Future Champions is when some coaches from around B.O.P come and teach kids  
some skill for the future, plus they had a chat about wat foods we should eat and what we shouldn't.
Volleyball Friday nights 40 mins.
Day 6: Nothing.
Day 7: Reps Basketball training. Again lots and lots of running up and down   the court plus focusing on offense sets.
Days that I have done fitness: 6/7

Week 2                      Monday 8 April 2013
Day 8: Nothing.
Day 9: Tauranga Intermediate basketball trials for school team: Did warm up and went straight into games.
Day 10: Nothing.
Day 11: Reps Basketball training. Working on offense and defense but also doing lots of little games. (2 on 2, 3 on 3, 2 on 3 and 5 on 5)
Netball training at school all through lunch.
Day 12: Fitness with Rimu house doing running etc...
Volleyball Friday nights 40 mins
Day 13: Nothing.
Day 14: Reps Basketball Training: training went for hour and a-half. Mainly working on offense and     shooting plus did lots of running up and down the court.
Days that I have done fitness: 4/7

Week 3                      Monday 15 April 2013
Day 15: Nothing.
Day 16: Went to mount hot pool with sports academy and did some swimming plus on the way back we ran to the water hole and back.
Day 17: Nothing.
Day 18: Reps Basketball Training. Focusing on getting stronger plus the under 17's helped us to do that. Also did lots of running up and down the court.
Day 19: Went out for a run.
Day 20: Nothing. (because it was raining all day)
Day 21: Reps Basketball Training. Mainly focused on shooting and sets, also contacting other players to try and get the ball.
Days that I have done fitness: 4/7

Week 4                      Monday 22 April 2013
Day 22: Nothing.
Day 23: Went to the pools and did some laps but not much.
Day 24: Nothing.
Day 25: Reps Basketball training: Practicing shooting.
Day 26: Nothing.
Day 27: I walk around the Daisy Hardwick with my family and took about 2 hours because had the pull the family along.
Day 28: Reps Basketball Training: focusing on shooting and did 2 on 2.
Days that I have done fitness: 4/7

Week 5                      Monday 29 April 2013
Day 29: Help coach a holiday camp for basketball. 6 hours of running shooting and passing ect.
Day 30: Help coach a holiday camp for basketball. 6 hours of running shooting and passing ect.
Day 1 (May): Help coach a holiday camp for basketball. 6 hours of running shooting and passing ect.
Day 2: Reps Basketball Training: shooting and 1on1.
Day 3: Help coach a holiday camp for basketball. 6 hours of running shooting and passing ect.
Day 4: Nothing.
Day 5: Reps Basketball practice: 3 on 3 working on intersepting. Also getting in there faces and distracting them.
Days that I have done fitness: 6/7

Week 6                        Monday 6 May 2013
Day 6:  CAMP
Netball Training in the morning working on boxing and getting rebounds.
4 hour tramp.
Day 7: CAMP
Day 8: Nothing because went to hospital. I hurt my back and neck while doing a backward flip.
Day 9: CAMP
Day 10: CAMP
Day 11: Netball game in the morning (hour)
Reps Basketball Inter zones. One game about hour. Tauranga vs Waikato A & Tauranga vs Waikato B.
Day 12: Reps Basketball Training: Did lots and lots of running up and down the court and did 5 on 5.
Days that I have done fitness: 6/7

Week 7                        Monday 13 May 2013
Day 13: Netball training in the morning for hour and a half. Working on the second phrase.
Tauranga Girls Collage basketball training hour and a half. Did lots of running up and down, plus did some ball handling skills.
Tauranga Intermediate basketball game. TIS vs TKKM.
Day 14: Yoyo test with sports academy. It is like a beep test but you get 10 second walk after 2 runs.
Day 15: Tauranga Girls Collage basketball game.
Day 16: Reps Basketball practice: shooting and running.
Day 17: Nothing
Day 18: Nothing (no netball because raining)
Day 19: Reps Basketball training: Running and little games.
Days that I have done fitness: 5/7

Week 8                        Monday 20 May
Day 20: Netball practice morning.
Day 21: Nothing.
Day 22: Tauranga Girls Collage basketball game. AQU vs TGC
Tauranga Intermediate basketball training.
Day 23:  Reps Basketball training: Running and shooting.
Day 24: Tauranga Intermediate basketball training in the morning.
Day 25: Netball game in the morning (hour)
Reps Basketball tournament with reps. One game about hour. (inter zones) Tauranga vs Thames.
Day 26: Netball tournament: 5 games and 9am - 2pm.
Reps Basketball training: hard out work out, practicing new things plus LOTS and LOTS of running.
Days that I have done fitness: 6/7

Week 9                        Monday 27 May
Day 27: Netball practice in the morning.
Basketball Girls Collage practice.
Tauranga Intermediate basketball game. T.I.S vs Mnt.
Day 28: Nothing.
Day 29: Tauranga Intermediate basketball practice.
Day 30: Reps basketball practice lots and lots of running and getting yelled at because that was the last practice till Regionals on Saturday and Monday.
Day 31: Nothing.
Day 1 (June): Reps Basketball Regionals: Game 1: Tauranga vs Thames. 61/47 to them unfortunately but we had a great game but I think we were just a bit sleepy because it was early in the morning.
Straight after that I went to netball for the ordinary game of netball. TIS vs Katikati. 22/32, won by ten. I wasn't sleepy then, I was wide awake.
Waited for a while after that for Netball Reps trials. Unfortunately didn't make it in but made it to top 22, couldn't stay for the last trailing bit because had to go right to basketball reps.
Reps Basketball: Game 2: Tauranga vs Rotorua. Didn't win that to because they were way better than us and had way better players, plus organized.
Day 2: Nothing stayed at home recovering.

Day 3: Reps basketball. Game 3: Tauranga vs Waikato A. Oh don't really want to talk about this one but at least we got more than 2 points in this game.
Reps Basketball: Tauranga vs Waikato A. We had a really good game we won and we bet them by 20 points.
Days that I have done fitness: 4/7

Week 10                        Monday 
Week 11                        Monday 24 June (Missing out a couple of weeks.)
Day 24: Netball practice in the morning.
Basketball Girls Collage practice
Day 25: Nothing
Day 26: Tauranga Intermediate basketball practice. 
Girls Collage game AQ vs TGC
Day 27: Reps Basketball Practice. 

News Post 3: Justin Bieber

On Justin Biebers twitter account it says that he has 37.3 million followers, but about 17.8 million of them are fake. Last year he took over Lady Gaga's spot for the most followers on twitter. Only 17.8 of his followers are real but the rest are fake. Only 47% of his followers are real fans. People reakon that he should drop back to second place and Lady Gaga should rise to the top again. 

My opinoin - I reakon he should drop back and let Lady Gaga take her spot. 

News Post 2: Tauranga Intermediate Fire

Tauranga Intermediate School Fire.

Tauranga Intermediate was burnt down on Sunday 14th at 5:15. It started by electrical fault in one class room and then spread through two other classes. Luckily there was no people in the classroom but there was computers and other electrical equipment. It was close to the school hall but it didn't spread that much. The fire men came to help straight away. Firefighters from Greeton, Mount Maunganui and Tauranga came at right time at the right place.

My opinoin- It was horrible what happen exspeaily if you are going to this school. People from sunlive have been going around our school taking photos and I think it is cool :)

News Post 1: World Pillow Day

There was a World Pillow Day on the 6th of April. It is good because people can mix and mingle.  People in London, New York, Amsterdam, Zurich, Chicago, Hong Kong, Barclenoa, Sao Paulo and Toronto have celibrated this year. Unfortunately there are some rules the first one is no hitting people with glasses on and no hitting people incredibly hard.

Homework Post 2

Service in School and Community 6: Design your own challenge: Helping the Tauranga Primary Students with there duatalon. I went there with the Sports Academy for the day. This is the letter that I got from Taurnaga Primary School.

Homework post 1

Excellence in the Arts 5: Improve your confidence and skill: Prepare and present a speech on a topic of your choice at a Rimu Hui

Kia ora Rimu House

To all our new year 7 students, my name is Felila Simanu I am in room 42 with Miss Campbell. 

Last year in 2012 Rimu house worked together by taking part in school work, sports and inter house competitions. The high light for me was working together as a team at the 12 hour relay.  

I want to lead Rimu this year because I believe we are the best house at Tauranga Intermediate. 

We have strong sports people , people who are beautiful singers and dancers and we are the computer brains at this school. 

I believe that we can win the Spirit Trophy this year.

I can help Rimu by being a good role model for our house members. 

I will work hard supporting our team efforts and would like to lead us to success, by using the S.T.A.R.S. 

I will promote safe competition, 

I will encourage team work, 

I will help us achieve in all our activities, 

I will respect all the talent in our house and our school environment, 

and laugh along the way with a good sense of humour 

Individually we may look small like marching fire ants but as a team I believe that we can crush anything in our path to success, because 

WE ARE THE BEST !!

BOP Swimming Sports

On the 22nd of March I traveled over to Rotarua and competed in the BOP Swimming sports. I warmed up by running to the playground and back that was like ten metres away. My first race was 50 Free and I came 2nd in that by .06 of a second. Secondly I did 50 Back and didn't do to well. I think I came about 8th or 7th, around about there. Next it was 100 Free and it was very hard because I hadn't done much training that week. Fourthly it was 100 Back and I didn't do that well in that either. But my favourite part was The relay. The first relay was a medly realy. We came 3rd in that. The second relay we came 3rd aswell but it was freestyle.

Water Cycle

I have learned that working with a buddy in another class is hard to comunicate, that a rap is like a poem and how to upload it to youtube.


I liked that I worked with a partner because she helped me a lot and we worked well together and communicate well.

The one thing that i thought was difficult was trying to talk to people in another location.

Chosen Homework Activities

Chosen Homework Activities

Giving 1: Give to children in need: Participate in the 20 Hour famine. Raise a

minimum of $40.00
Giving 2: Design your own challenge: Adopt a egg for 2 weeks making sure that I take care of it and take it everywere that I go. 


Physical Activity and the Outdoors 2: Improve your swimming skills: Swim a total of 1000m non-stop
Physical Activity and the Outdoors 1: Improve your fitness: Over a 12 week period run or walk at least 60km or cycle 120km


Excellence in the Arts 5: Improve your confidence and skill: Prepare and present a speech on a topic of your choice at a Rimu Hui
Excellence in the Arts 7: Design your own challenge: Go to sing lessons at school

Academic Excellence 1: Improve your maths ability: Complete a random 10 x 10 grid in
Academic Excellence 8: Design your own challenge: Read a book every week and report about it


Service in School and Community 6: Design your own challenge: Help my old school with coaching for netball
Service in School and Community 6: Design your own challenge:

My First Month Back At School

My First Month Back At School

I have had a great first month as a year 8 at school this year. I have competed in swimming sports and did every well in it even though I pulled my hamstring. I came 1st in 50 Free bet a record, the time was 30.36, 1st in 50 Back and 1st in 100 Free. I have been trialled for the Sports Academy and I think I am going well in that. Maths: we have looked at BEDMAS (brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction) and now we are looking at squared numbers. We have done a Probe test and I have got up to 12.5. I have done some writing about my history. You will find it on my online learning journal. So overal I am having a great time this month and looking forward to camp and Poverty Bay for swimming !!