Swimming in the deep blue pool

For the past two weeks my school has been participating in swimming lessons. I really enjoyed practicing my swimming and learning more about how to swim and what swim you should use in different situations. 

My group practiced our diving and our roly poly's in the water. It was really cool to learn more about swimming and to get better if I'm ever in an difficult situation.

In the last three days we all did swim safety, I really enjoyed doing this because we were able to use a boat and life jackets. It was really cool to have the simulation in the pool. " Our boat had sunken, we were there in the ocean with no life jackets. We had to tread water for about 3 minutes while the instructors were throwing us life jackets. Then we had to get everyone onto the boat, but there wasn't enough room and life jackets. So the people who didn't fit had to hold onto the people on the boat." I really got into this simulation and I had a lot of fun participating in it.

Swimming lessons were very tiring and I am glad but sad that it is over. By the end of the two weeks I was exhausted, I am thankful for the instructors who taught us.

Have you done swimming lessons before?? 

Joy of dancing in front of a crowd

For the past few weeks my dance group have been working very hard to get our dance ready for our production. We have been struggling with choreography but now I am proud to say that my group /iframe> have worked through it and have finished! Getting ready for this production has been a roller coaster, my group has been hit by deadlines but we have pulled through and finished them. 

Over the Term the teachers has been teaching us about elements in dance, from these session we have been given groups to create dances. My group at the start were fighting and weren't really working together. By now we have brought our heads together and thought a plan out to help us work well with each other. I am very proud of my group and I can't wait to see what we look like next week. 

Although the production is next week I am very excited to see the all the dances as one, all groups have been working very hard to get finished. The teachers are now just tweaking a few of the dances to make them better and easier to transition off them. 

Have you ever been pressured as a group to get something done??

Term 3

I started Term 3 excited and ready to learn. Over the holiday's I had been chilling out at home and doing pretty much nothing. So when I started school I was ready for it, there was a few new subjects that we were doing throughout the Term. This Term we are going to be doing speeches which I'm not too excited for it but it happens every year so I'm pretty used to it by now. We are also doing a production, but I don't know too many details about it. A dance that we are doing in groups, I'm pretty interested in the results and outcomes we have from this dance because we are given groups with people we don't usually work with. At the moment in my group it is pretty much chaos.

It is now week 4 and it has gone very quickly, I didn't want it to go too fast because I have speeches just round the corner and I am very worried because I am practicing at the moment and honestly it's not going too great. Some of my friends are still writing theirs speeches and we only have about 4 days till be present them, I really feel for them so I'm giving them a few pointers to help with their stress.

This Term my school has decided to do the Koru games, I mean I'm not the greatest at sport but I gotta try something new. I signed up for volleyball but after I reviewed all the games of volleyball I have played, it's a really bad idea to play (i'll be a big mess, I really feel for the people in my team.)  This Term so far is pretty fun, can't wait for all the other exciting activities we will be doing throughout the Term though!!

What have you doing this Term at your school?

Holidays

Finally time for a Holiday....My family and I had a pretty relaxed holiday because we were all tired of having activities on in the school Term. But when it came I thought hmm what should I do. Most of my Holidays were at home but that didn't mind me, I was chilling and no one was bothering me.

In the first week the younger kids in my family decided to go to the new pool QE2. I enjoyed this because we went at night time when most people have either gone home to bed or just having tea. So there wasn't any line for me to wait in, Yay !!!. On top of that at the end of the week my sister had her Birthday party, so in between the day's we were going around organising and buying food for her party. 

So far in the holidays I was challenged with my sister party although I was trying to relax. The day came for my sister party, I felt pretty relaxed because all we needed to do was clean the house. People started arriving earlier than we expected so I started freaking out because I hadn't finished cleaning or having lunch. So the first they saw as they walked through the door was me eating ( What a great first impression.) I found that this party was pretty cruisey because we just went through the games slowly and  they watched a movie at the end, Easy right. I had a bit of food but after that I was stuffed.

The next was not very enjoyable because I was sick, I found it pretty hard to do anything because I felt useless. From my annoying sickness I had to cancel most of my plans with my friends that week. Although on Friday I did hang out with my friends and watched a movie, I really enjoyed getting out of the house. 

The next day it was my sister's birthday, she ended up waking me up at 6:50 in the morning. "This annoyed me because it's the holidays and I'm waking up earlier than a school day!" Through the day I think that my sister enjoyed herself and I had a lot of fun too. 

What did you do in your holidays? 

Start of Term 3

When I got to school on Monday the 24th of July I was really nervous about the changes that would've been made in the hub. One of the changes that had been made was the eating times of the school. The eating times had been changed because we eat in our break and then burn off all the energy by running around. So the teachers had an idea of changing it that we play outside first and then we come in and eat. I like the way they have changed it because we have longer to play and eating inside is still the same. The change to the school is a good idea and I think that it will be beneficial for the students.

Have you ever had a change in your school before?