Top of the Team

Hey all

Last Friday , we had what's called Top Team. Top Team is an at-school event put on by Sport Canterbury
that includes a whole heap of team building activities .

Some of these activities included : Trying to get water to a bucket by pouring the water from your bucket
into the person behind yous bucket by pouring it over your head in an attempt to get it into the next bucket
(my personal favourite) and one where you had to get a ball into a bucket by rolling it down pipes and
running to the end of the line to catch it with your pipe before the ball falls.

Have you ever done Top team

Tough

On Wednesday the 20th of November, we participated in the Tough kids run.

It was like an obstacle course; as you ran, there where obstacles you had to do before you could get to the end. The first obstacle was running over an inflatable square and jumping off of it. One of the obstacles involved running in the sea as well.

Another obstacle was in the mud and sand near the sea.We had to crawl underneath a rope, and we got very muddy. My favourite obstacle would probably have to have been one of the first ones where we had to crawl through a bouncy castle.

At the end we were very wet and muddy, but on the plus side we got to get changed afterwards. We also got to eat an apple as well. Overall I had a really fun time doing tough kids.

Have you ever participated in tough kids?

Thursday Sports: Chapter 2

And I thought doing sports at the end of the day on Thursday was over
Oh silly me we had even more fun!
We played many sports such as, Lawn bowl, Korfball, Cricket, and Softball
I think we all know the rundown on Softball and Cricket so I'm gonna talk about Lawn bowl and Korfball. First Lawn ball, Lawn bowl (Or at least the version we played) is where there is a circle around 5 smaller circles inside, I think the outside ones are 10-20 points and the middle one is 50 but I can't remember. There are two teams that will have different coloured balls, we played with a green and purple pallet, the first team to 'Bowl' has to try and get their balls into the circles and the second team to 'Bowl' has to try and hit the enemies balls out of the hoops, pretty simple.

Korfball, Korfball was my favourite of the lot just because of how different it is, first talking about it it sounds like netball with the border-less hoops and no movement with the ball but the rules are something I had never heard of before such as there are 2 sides with 2 different teams on each side with only four players with two boys and two girls, girls can only mark girls and boys can only mark boys. You also cannot shoot when the person marking of is blocking you, not in a literal sense its a RULE and when you intercept a pass you go back to the end of the court and restart

So there is a basic rundown of the sports you probably hadn't heard of!
What sport would you wanna play out of these four?

Cinquain

For writing this week we had to create a poem I chose to do a Cinquain poem and here it is!

Poem:

“Netherlands.”

“European Country.”

“Biking, Skating, Canaling.”

“Walking down tulip row.”

“The Kingdom.”

A Cinquain poem requires..

Line 1 - One vague subject

Line 2 - Two descirbing words about it

Line 3 - Three interesting action verbs that fit the topic

Line 4 - A four word phrase that captures the feeling of it

Line 5 - A term for line 1

Maintain that positive Attitude!

Last week for a part of our PBL on how to accept and celebrate ourselves, Someone called Rory
came into our school and he had all of Kaupeka go into the hall to learn about the basics of puberty
and on the second session we split into boys and girls, boys went into the hall and girls stayed in the
class I believe to get more information about our genders during puberty

Overall I enjoyed having him in to teach us more about puberty. Would you want him to come to your school?

Recipe

For PBL this term  we had to create a food from a country we had pulled out of a hat, I got greece and decided to make Souvlaki a traditional greek food it was fun making it and in the end they tasted great! and since I really don't wanna have to deal with the weird CRTL C+ CTRL V glitch thingy with blogger here is a screenshot of my recipe!

Overwatch: The legend of the 6K

6k's (Getting 6 kills) are very hard to achieve its not many times that you get to say "I killed the whole enemy team" Its a special achievement that me myself in my 4,000 + Hours of playing have only gotten 3 times!

Part one: How to get the skill to achieve a 6k
You can't just go into Overwatch with 30 Minutes on Genji and expect to get nano'd and team wipe, no no no, you need to achieve the skill to be able to even think about it I recommend  at least 50+ Hours on your selected hero, gather a few friends along the way get them to play Ana and Zarya (If they want to of course) Ana's nano boost is invaluable and Zarya's gravitation is incredibly good

Part two: Best times to preform a 6k
You cant really do one mid-team fight because either 1-2 of the enemy are dead and you want all 6 don't you? the best times to do it are, In a sneak attack, and a co-ordinate attack with your team these are very good times to do this as it will allow you to get the most value out of your Ultimate ability

Part three: SIX TUPLE KILL!
Your Zarya pulls the whole enemy together then your Ana nano boosts you, you activate your ultimate and BOOM you here the commentator yell out "SIX TUPLE KILL!" you've done it you have just gotten the legendary

Six Kills

Have you ever gotten 6k in Overwatch?

Instructions on how to play Koukla

Koúkla

Koukla is one of the most popular sports in the Balkan country of Greece

What you needs is..

1) One Football/Rubber Ball.

2) 3-4 Bases or cones.

3) A Large open space.

4) At least 5-10 players on each team.

5) Goalkeeping/Grip Gloves for enhanced fielding (Optional)

Steps

1) First, you will need to set down the ball on the ground or on a cone

2)Next you’ll need to make sure that all the fielders are on the outside of the bases/cones

3)Take 4 steps backwards and take a run-up towards the ball and kick it.

Rules

A player is out if the enemy.. 

1) Catch the ball, get the ball to the base before you do tag with the ball.
2) When the fielding team gets 3 players out then the teams switch over.
3) If the "Batting" team all kick the ball and make it home they win.
4) If the fielders catch you out its three points to them if they get the ball to the base before
you they get two points, if they tag you they get 1 point
5) If the "Batting" team make it to base one you get 0 points if you make it to base two you get 1
point if you make it to base 3 you get 3 points and if you make a home run its 4 points.

Then rinse and repeat this process until you have run out of time or call it a day.

Reading

This week we had to read a book and come up with our prior knowledge, new things we learnt and something we have taken away from it, the book I did was all about showing how plastic is in almost everything we use from pool balls to car windows the create task was fun especially learning about how much plastic is in these everyday things that I would not have expected.

Do you use plastic alot?
Here it is

Padlet Reading

For reading this week we had to challenge the text by questioning it. We also had to tell what makes a fake article fake and what makes a real article real.

Four days of fun

From Tuesday until Friday we were out camping at YMCA Wainui. I was in bunk room 7 which consisted of.. Josh O, George, Josh S, Ethan & Xavier M, Tremaine, Glen and Joe. We would have Jude in our bunk room but he got sick the day we where leaving so that's a bummer.

Here is a photo of the bunk rooms!

Here is my reflection of my time at camp!

Something I found challenging 
One thing that I found challenging was switching from activity to activity due to them being so diverse and unique from each other, for example, one thing I had was Coasteering and High ropes only about 30 minutes apart because one was getting into water getting cut three times (I'm still salty) and avoiding barnacle, sharp rocks and falling into water off rocks into water and the other was Climbing and trusting people with your life.

Something I learnt
One thing was that I couldn't do everything that I wanted to and that I had to do the things that weren't as fun (For me at least) because I feel that learning new things and maybe finding a new interest was what most of activities where about. Personally I found out that I really and I mean it, really enjoy climbing I don't know what it is other than it is just super fun. But of course it can all be sunshine and rainbows, can it now?

Something I enjoyed
Thinking about it now, this sounds really generic but my point being that these activities are tiring and my favourite part was having a nice rest or sleeping honestly, like, after running around the place for a whole day, who wouldn't just want to collapse into a sleeping bag under a blanket making it extra comfy?! but getting back on track I dunno sleep is just the best.
I also enjoyed archery not something I would rave about every day begging my parents to do, but I still very much enjoyed it from the shots that got sent to Sweden or the ones the hit dead centre.

Something that I'm grateful for
If I had to pinpoint one thing it would be being able to go, because I understand that most schools can't even think about doing these types of things in the first place, but my school can I find that amazing that we can do all of these things most of the things that this school wants to do does it! (Except for the skiing trip that we couldn't do which I'm sad about)

So, that was my reflection on Kaupeka's camping trip I hope we can do more things like this in the future but for now, adios!