New Phone Number For The Police!

There is now a new official phone number for the new zealand police.

The new number is for non-emergencies. If you have a non-emergency you should call 105 now. Police minister Stuart Nash hoping that kind of repetition will make the number as memorable as 111. The police have put a two million dollar marketing budget behind the phone number to ensure every New Zealander knows it and when to call it.

The new number does not replace 111, it is still the number for emergencies. If you need to report a crime which has already happened, like a burglary or property damage and there is no threat dial 105.

Now people can feel a lot safer with a new number.

Cooking Sweet & Sour Pork!!

Cooking at tech!

On Thursday Leanah and I made sweet and sour pork served with rice!

The ingredients consist of:
A 1/2 onion
A chunk of pork
1/2 of a carrot
1/3 broccoli
1/4 green and red capsicum

Teaspoon of garlic and ginger
Flour, pepper, chilli and salt (sauce)
Rice

I really liked Tech this week, it was really intriguing to cook one of my favorite meals. It was pleasant.

Start of work 2019!

2019 has begun and I am really excited be a year 8. Adjusting to our new classmates will be quite difficult, but i'm still gonna try my best. Ruapotaka had their first school assembly with the new principal, Mrs Hamilton. She's a great principal and has a positive attitude for 2019. This year now that I'm a year 8 I will be having more responsibilities, like cleaning the staffroom and ringing the bell. I am really looking forward to 2019, It's going to be a great year.

Swimming At Otahuhu Pools 🌊

This weekend me and my friends went to the pools in Otahuhu, because it was really hot.We all got changed into our togs that felt really damp, which made me feel colder. I jumped in the pool and I felt a nice relief of water, till my friends splashed me...

That was a beginning of a water fight, or should I call it water war! My friends splitted into teams and started splashing water like we were Goku. If I was gonna get splashed again I would've went ballistic on them.(Tbh)

Sadly our water war had to come to an end, the pools were closing. We got changed and walked out the pools dramatically, hoping to come back again.

LAST DAY COOKING AT TECH !!! 😢

Wednesday was our last day cooking with Mrs Tuipulotu. Our tech group made sausages with cheese and chips, my partner was Liza. She's an amazing cook!

Step 1 - The first thing we had to do was slice the 4 sausages in half.

Step 2 - After that we put cheese and tomatoes on the sliced sausages. If it wasn't enough we had to top up the cheese and tomatoes.

Step 3 - Bake for ten minutes with the chips in the oven as well.

Step 4 - Serve with tomato sauce and enjoy.

Too Much Rubbish !!

Our inquiry group made this presentation about littering in the environment. It contains topics about whos helping out and recycling. We tried our best with decorating, and adding enough info. I hope you try out our survey, hope you like it.

Culture Groups ❤

Term 4 has finally come which means culture groups is NEAR!

Everybody has been working hard to learn there performances, So they will be prepared for Prize Giving Day.

There is four more weeks till prize giving and I am so nervous.

I haven't learned the whole dance yet, plus I can't figure out to go left or right! Even if it's really stressful I'll try to do my best, but for these four weeks I will be trying to learn our dance till perfection. Hopefully we do good.

The Duffy Show

Duffy Show!!!

The Duffy Show came to our school on Tuesday, after the long weekends. They had a show for our school in the multi purpose room. Firstly the show was really amazing! They were teaching us how to sing the duffy song in New Zealand Sign Language, Which was a learning experience.

The show was about how people take bullying as a joke. Duffy meets a girl named Ashley crying in the bathroom. Duffy asks Ashley why she was crying, Ashley says she's hungry and continues to sob. Duffy asks what happened to her lunch, and she explains about the bully.

She said that it all started when her grandma died, She started worrying about her dad dying or her mum. She started having nightmares and couldn't get any sleep, that was A BIG PROBLEM! She went to school late and, VERY EXHAUSTED! Ashleys teacher always had a problem with her coming late. She was really sleepy in class, she accidently fell asleep.

That's when the bullying started. She started mocking ashley and stole her lunch. Ashley never did anything because she was intimidated by the bully. Duffy felt sorry and gave her a book to relieve her stress, because that always helps him.

Ashley read that book that night, It actually helped her get to sleep. She had a nice sleep that night, and got early to school. The bully was trying to intimidate Ashley, but the book gave her the courage to stand up to the bully. The bully left furiously, Ashley Gave her the book to calm her down.

The bully read the book and finally understood that she was bullying Ashley. The bully thought of it as some jokes. Now she finally understood what she has been doing. She apologized and asked Ashley if she wanted to play soccer with her and Duffy.

Armistice Day

Sunday the 11th of November is also known as Armistice Day. Auckland Museum had put ten thousand crosses on the fields outside it in remembrance. They symbolised the NZ soldiers that died in WW1. 

Volleyball With Coach Rene

This was our last volleyball session with coach rene, we were so sad to see her leave, but we hope to see her in the near future.