5th Win On Home Soil

Brrrrrrrrrr went the whistle! The moment of truth was about to decide whether NZ will retain the cup or will Fiji try to some how make a major upset. With Fiji leading the sets 4-3 (the sets is how many times Fiji has challenged NZ and won against NZ), NZ were sure to avenge themselves after losing to Fiji in the Semi-finals in 2007.

Confidence ran through the NZ team as they managed to uphold the Fijian attack. After awarding a penalty to NZ, they were quick to strike as Tomasi Cama, set up DJ Forbes after a lovely crossfield kick. NZ were already on the board leading by 5-0.

Again NZ were on attack. Frank Halai went bursting down the field with power as he fended off one, and then another, and in just a blink of an eye he found himself over the try line. That put NZ from 5 points to 10. After Tomasi Cama missed the opening try conversion, he put immense pressure on himself by helping NZ lead by a 12-0 advantage.

Try after try, Fiji were weak and soon found themselves trailing by 24-0. The last minute came and finally Fiji made up for their mistake by eventually scoring under the post. Even though they scored, it wasn’t enough losing to NZ 24-7.

As NZ were given their medals, DJ Forbes held the cup up. A definite highlight of the game was Frank Halai grabbing a double for NZ. It was a great night for the NZ team and to show how happy they were, the team performed a traditional haka. What a great 7’s weekend in the capital, Wellington. This week the competetion will be held in Las Vegas, in the USA. Let’s see if NZ can do it again. After all they are the CHAMPS!

And thank-you for this link http://www.google.co.nz/imgres?q=NZ+7%27s+winners&um=1&hl=en&safe=strict&client=ubuntu&sa=N&channel=cs&biw=1024&bih=514&tbm=isch&tbnid=i_q6mgTeE-MnXM:&imgrefurl=http://peter-petterson.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html&docid=cz41ve7dI76K4M&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQxpHrK3BTIM5S0Ea3DzPITN13SwXGnVxdoQ8Uy4AgdeaREVxTKSsEcp_p11jal5ZMLq2Ku-JR2RjdxvPJe_rd8FJrG0xe60lLodLcpic0TBLuoHZ7KyfDwt_2mUPWjDscb2Pdfv8MVY/s1600/F5225BE8-C0B3-AD74-5780143701C8C336%252B%252Bnz%252Bwins%252Bsevens.jpg&w=502&h=268&ei=ltsyT_vxLMSgiQforPTtBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=290&sig=115082903934689044367&page=12&tbnh=107&tbnw=201&start=139&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:139&tx=100&ty=45for letting me use their picture.

An Awesome Day At Bucklands Beach

In the holidays you might have guessed that I went to the beach, and you’re right. I leapt out of the car leaving my family behind and dashed down into the sand. As my feet begun to sink slowly into the surface, I let out a big ”OUCH!”. The refreshing feel of the sea cooled my feet down after the hot sand caused my feet to burn. Anyway as the tide started to wash into shore, everyone dived into the water for a swim in this hot weather.

As I watched the waves grew higher and higher, a sudden bump caused my surfing board to halt in it’s position. I went to see what it was, and I was surprised to see that I was heading into a rock of oysters. I moved away and I was surfing faster than the waves trying to catch me in their tubes of water.

As the time ticked along, the sea became calm and still. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day at Bucklands Beach. My highlight was definitely surfing. Hmmmm, maybe sometime I will come back another day.

To The Manaiakalani Trust-Thank You!

This year the Manaiakalani trust has helped us with things such as affording new multimedia machines for us, and also supporting us in getting our new learning device, Netbooks. With out their help this very exciting event wouldn't of happened. So to the Manaiakalani Trust, I would like to give you a ver big THANK-YOU for your support and for you hospitality to Pt England School. Thank-you because it means a lot.

The Big Bang

This term, we have been learning about our universe and how it was formed. The paragraph below is what we did today for reading.

Many scientists believed that the Earth it's self was formed by a Big Bang. The theory that has been going on was that the explosion caused everything to go away from where the eplosion occurred. The Earth was hot and 4500 million years after, the Earth cooled and the water surrounding the atmosphere turned into rain and formed Lakes,rivers and the oceans which scientists called the "HYDROSPHERE". The Earth was soon forming into it's form.

My Vision Of Becoming A Yr 8

My plan is to become a good prefect, even when things are tough. To become a prefect my focus will have to be set on being a good role model, sticking and upholding the rules of the school. My vision of me being a technician is very high. But yet again, I will have to concentrate on being responsible, being reliable and making sure I finish a job off properly.

The Year Of The Netbooks

This year I have really loved having a Netbook to work on because it is more practical to work on netbooks than to use pen and paper.

As much as I have loved having a Netbook there are some things that I haven’t liked about netbooks. Sometimes there can be a long amount of time to wait for my netbook to be repaired. Another thing that I dislike about netbooks is because the internet sometimes loads slow and takes a long time to connect.

The advantages about having a netbook are that we can search things online and can work faster with our netbooks because we can go on our Wireless WI-FI (Wairehe and TLN) and work on our google docs. We never have to wait for any multi-media machines to be available because we have our netbooks.

The hardest thing to do on my netbook is actually nothing.
The greatest challenge for me is to keep my netbook safe for atleast 3 years.
From time to time I always try to finish my Term Tasks and being focused.
Most of the time I try finish my work so I dont have to stay in at lunch time.

If the netbook scheme failed and we had to go back on pen and paper, our work would be difficult because we have to write but with our netbooks, we don’t have to put our hands in pain because we can type.

Wondering Question

This term our school theme is OUTTA THIS WORLD. So far our amazing teacher Mrs Nua gave us a task which was to make an animation about space. The movie that you are about to watch is my wondering question. Can you guess what it is? Hope you enjoy:)