Tamaki College Sports Day

Yesterday all Year 8's from Ruapotaka, Point England, Glen Innes Primary, Glen Taylor and Glen Brae schools went to Tamaki College for a sports day. The day was only for the Year 8's because they are going to Tamaki College next year as a student. Each student had a photo taken with their name and also with a sticker on their shirt. On the sticker there was another one that was a colour, my colour was blue. Mr Stevenson called out all of the colours so everyone could go in their teams. The first activity we did was Volleyball, the teacher split us up in 4 teams. In my team I had Tevita Smith (Who use to come Ruapotaka) and Hemi (A boy who goes Glen Brae. The teacher was encouraging the other teams because we were the King of the court. We won all of our matches because we were just to good. The Other activity's were Netball, Touch, Basketball, ABV activity's, Softball including Volleyball. We all were exhausted and tired.

Mega Tsunami: Would Auckland Survive?

Following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, equal in power to the one that destroyed Napier in 1931, Civil Defence initially issude no Tsunami warning but 55 minutes afterwards did so, claiming a tsunami was possible. A 2m high tsunami had already hit the Kaikoura coast by then. Some people in Kaikoura and Wellington had already left for higher ground, but others haven't.

Adidas Pull Sponsorship Of Athletics

The sportswear company Adidas has announced that it will stop the sponsorship for athletics equipment.

Apparently the move is because of the allegations of athletes doping. Adidas have been sponsoring athletics ever since 2008 it was a deal that was suppose to last 12 years. When it was signed the deal was worth about NZ money 51 million dollars. 

Adidas thinks there is too much risk for their brand reputation to continue with the IAAF.
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Duffy

On Thursday the 16th of February, we had a duffy theatre show at the multi purpose room and the main characters were Duffy, Ruby and Phil. Duffy liked to read a book about doctor who. The way he told us the name of the book, was Knock Knock!/ Who’s There/ Doctor/ Doctor Who?, And that’s and he told us the name of that book while he was in his bed that was standing up. It was a bit funny at the beginning when duffy’s neighbour Ruby, was an old lady and walking like her back was really soar. The when duffy went over to Ruby’s house and had a boogie with her, at the back of her caravan. Then duffy got to look at Ruby’s photo album with all her photo’s in it and her dad as well. When Ruby went back to when she was 4 years old, a plane flew by and Ruby’s dad got called to war out in Crete/Greece. When he went ruby was all sad and duffy was feeling sorry for her. Then Duffy saved Ruby's dad in Greece. 

Going To Technicraft

Yesterday I was suppose to be going to softball but I forgot my notice at home. So instead of going to softball I stayed at school in Room 12. When we were in Room 12 we had to do work and other stuff, Until the bell rang when it was the best bit because we were going to technicraft. At Technicraft we make berry smoothies.

When we were at Tamaki College our teacher Ms Tuipolutu took us inside and we sat at random tables. Then we had to get our bowl's of mixed berry's at 2 frozen bananas and put them together, and after we put it together we had to go to Ms Tuipolutu. When we went to Ms Tuipolutu and we got some milk to put in our bowl and let it rest. Then we got yogurt in our bowl. The we mixed it a bit and then put it in a blender.

When it was done we drank it all and sat on 2 tables and talked about our smoothies.
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Cutest Hedgehog Ever

Do you think this is the cutest hedgehog ever?

This hedgehog is going to be called Huff, his full name is Sir Hodge Huffington. The three year old African Pygym is making headlines about his cute fangs. Huff's owner, Carolyn Parker said that he is a rescue hedgehog. The Utah student started taking pictures of Huff and then started sharing them out on Instagram. 

Muhammad Ali Dies

Worlds most famous boxing legend Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74. He is one of the most famous sportspeople in history. He won many awards for boxing including three Heavyweight Champion of the World titles. Ali was diagnosed with a disease called Parkinson’s which is a condition that affects the brain. Parts of the brain become damaged over many years causing problems including shaking and slow movement.