Another World War

 17 September 1939 The Soviet Invasion Of Poland - This is about the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that did a secret protocol, and in result Soviet union ended up getting a big surprise.



16 October 1939 First German Air Raid On UK - This about the time in the UK where a air raid first ever happend. 

Cheesecake

Beat the cream cheese with the Sugar, add to jelly, stirring until well combined and creamy smooth. In a separate bowl, whip chilled milk until thick and fold into mixture. Add vanilla essence. Pour into crumb base and put in fridge for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.

Making a Fashion Statement

VE Day

We would probably go down to the beach and go for a swim then have a little something to eat, then have a little jam and sing our national anthem and just talk about why we celebrate this day and a have a couple laughs.

The Big Surprise

I drop down onto my knees and a I take a breath and look to see if anyone is near me, there was no one around me so I entered the room, I looked and I nearly fainted, I saw my patients that needed to be treated all laying on the ground lifeless with their eyes wide open, I had just entered a huge shock, my hands could not move, I was stiff as a tree, and it was like I was in a nightmare. I ran out of the room and tried to look for help, but just of the corner of my eye i saw a tall figure running towards me,when I went to go look it was Captain James, when he had come he told me that we had just been attacked by two droops sent from our  opponent Commander Le Shang, we must take action immediately. The captain then goes and gets his gun, he takes me with him to where the gun shots are happening, and then..... to be continued

Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott was a wairarapa farmer that was rewarded a VC medal when he had an big impact of having to help with Ruweisat Ridge July the 15 1942.

Today Is Your Special Day

If I was that person then I would bring clothing and foot wear for the adults, many chocolates, candy and nice healthy snacks, and little toys for the little ones.

I'm Here To Help

1. I would start a fundraiser for all the people that are going over seas and the people that are not. So they have enough money to get food for their children, and buy the things they need.


2. Next I would start a food bank, so I can help to survive and help save money.



3. Lastly I would donate Gallons and Gallons of water because they keep having droughts.

My Three Tips For De-stressing Stress

1. My first tip is taking five, this activity is what I learned at school when my class was doing Mindfulness, all you do is take out your left or right hand and hold it out in front of you, and with the index finger in the other hand and run it up starting from the bottom of the hand near the thumb and going up then back down all threw the hand, while you are doing that breath in and out. Here's a picture of how you are suppose to do it.

2. This one is just a simple de-stress activity, I just get a balloon and fill it with tooth paste, and this turns it into a stress ball.






3. This one is just a easy breathing exercise, breath in and keep it in for 5 seconds, then breath out for 5 seconds, repeat and the results will show.

My Sensory Poem

The smell of the fresh wind as it goes up my nose, the cool breeze as it flushes threw my hair. I see over the ocean, I can here as the planes goes of, the engine is working, I can here everyone cheering, the birds are chirping.

Art Deco

        Self portrait By Tamara de Lempicka

I give this painting a 4 out of 5, the reason why I gave it a four was because I think the bland of colour goes really together, and it just has a nice flow to it.

Gold Rush

I would  not like watching this movie, but others might like silent movies such as this, but this I do not like due to the poor action that is put into tis film. I'm not quite sure what the actors are doing but I think they're going skiing, I'm not sure

ANZAC

This poem makes me feel very lucky, sad and all these other mixed feelings. Just reading that nearly made me tear up, it just reminded me of all the people that went and  fought for our country and risked their entire future, and some lives ended and some families hearts crushed.

Womens Rights

I think it is not fair, because women should have a right to do things that men do so everyone can be treated equaly and treated fairly. back then women didn't get the opportunity to show people that they are more then pretty looks, when they know they could do big thing in life.

Archbasilica of St. John Lateran

Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
You can find this amazing construction at Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy.
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran was built I think sometime in the nineties. (the information I could not find)
To make this very fine work took many hours, day, week, months and years. (the information I could not find)

Ready For The Race

I would have to do with a yes and no.

Firstly I would participate so I can make New Zealand proud and looks like a lot of hard work put into it, and would like to call myself a hard working kind of person.

But my other reason for no, is because I will  definitely not be able to reach that strength in the arms and I think legs, yes, sure I am a hard worker, but not that hard working physically.

I'm Letting You Know I'm Okay

Dear my be loved family and friends back home

It is me Kupe  just here to tell you how I have been doing, and what I have been up to lately. sailing here was the hardest thing to do, leaving everyone I love was devastating, when I arrived I wasn't really sure what to do then, I was to tired and had no energy to build or start harvesting, so I went straight to sleep, trying to sleep was very hard, homesick, ruff ground, it was really hard to put up with, but these couple few weeks I have settled quite nicely. I have a nice roof over my head, plenty of food and I was able to make a very cosy place for me to sleep on.
From your one and only, Kupe

P.S I miss all of you so very much.

Maui the Demigod

#1 Maui had older brothers.
#2 In some way he felt left out because every time his older brothers went fishing. when they had come back Maui said if he could go fishing with next time.
#3 Maui would do everything in his power to prove and show them that is manly and strong enough to be one of them.

End of The Year

We are very close to the end of the year, I am excited but sad at the same time. I am happy and excited for the new year 7 to come in next year, but sad to see all the years 8 go of to college. Us year 7s and 8s have been practicing and preparing for our prize giving and cultural performance day. Room 12 have been looking forward to this day, and are thrilled for the holidays, during the holidays the schools in the Manaiakalani cluster and others can do a holiday blogging program, called The Summer Learning Journey.

Our Cultural Practice

Through out the weeks Room 12 has been preparing for our annual Ruapotaka Cultural Performances. Each year on the last term Ruapotaka School gathers at Tamaki College to  display our dances to our family, friends and our teachers. Many people come to watch every, this year id going to be a little bit different kinda like last year, we are going to have our performances the same time as our prize giving.
I am very excited for this years cultural dances, and I hope to see many people there as well.

Our School Athletics

Tuesday 21st 2017
On that day my heart was pumping, my body was sweating and the sun was shining its brightest. On Tuesday Ruapotaka School had their annual school athletics, where everyone races and tries their best. The first race was the 400m race with the year 7 and 8 boys and girls, the next races was on the tracks. It was the junior rooms 1 to 7, after that is was time for the year five and sixes to race the 100m track, not long after the year 7 and 8s, me and Saluselo came to a tie in first place.

Daily Fitness

For fitness each morning Mr Ried has been making the year 7 and 8 boys and girls to run 100 meters and he is try to push us to 200 meters. It has been up to us for which two year seven and eights two fastest boys and girls to race in our relays.

Ruapotaka School

Ruapotaka School is such a fun school, over there we, (the students) can work hard, cooperate and achieve more. Ruapotaka School is a not just a school that works hard, we also have fun doing it. We are just settling into term 4, and so much has happend already, and this is only week 4, so far whats happend is we've had film festival, which was great to see lots of different movie, all unique in there own type of way, and the year 7 and 8 boys have just begun swimming, and we have athletics coming up shortly.

Go The Distance

  

This Is Room 12's movie for the 2017 Manaiakalani film festival, this is the tenth annual Film Festival. Meafou and Viomoana were our presenters, and I was so proud of them. There were so many schools and so many movies, my favorite one was helping hands, which was by Room 1 of Ruapotaka School. This movie is about how you can be a rugby champion player. 

Swimming

For the year 7 and 8 boys we are very close to going to the Swim Magic Pools. I am very excited to go and get one hour swimming lessons and learn more about how to swim and learn how to breathe longer under water. Next week Friday we start swimming, all we have to bring is our towel and a extra pear of underpants.

Testing

Today was our first day of testing for the end of the year reports, the teachers are checking if we have improved throughout the year and gained any knowledge. All of Room 12 was tested at the same time, we all had separated our desk to make sure we're not cheating of others. We did two test today one was on spelling and the other on Maths, for our Maths tests we had to do multiplication, division, subtraction, addition and lastly a combined test with all four, all of us had to complete each coulomb  on the sheet in less then two minutes. For the spelling test Mr Reid had called out a word two times, and some of the words he used in sentences because they were Homophones. All this week for us, is going to be testing, the teachers are going to be working very hard on our end of the year reports.

Colour Changing

Room 12 had done a science experiment about changing colors. The changing of the color involved a disc, three different colours which is red, blue and green. The first thing was use a circle based to help you guide and draw the circles, you have to draw three so two can be glued together and one can be on its own. Once your circles have been drawn we had to colour them in, after that we had to measure the dots that the piece of wool is meant to go threw, and it had to be two centimeters away from each other.
We had to do our dots then cut out the circles and thread the wool threw the two holes. We either had to spin it clock wise or anti clock wise.

What We Did At Tech

At tech the year sevens went to graphics. At graphics some people carried on with there art that they didn't finish last week, the people that had finished and some others were starting on the new art project, making a box, but before we did that we had to create a new drawing and type down our thoughts on what we think graphics is about. After we had finished that we had to do a Analysis Of How To Make A 3D Box. Me, Mary and Vika were working together and we all finished our thoughts on what we think graphics means.

What I did At Tech

At tech today we had graphics, all it was  today was a caring on from last week. I had finished my work and so had Izabella and Saluselo. I was working with Vika and Mary, we all had something to do and we were all busy. Last week I had finished my out line for my art work and this week I had finished my coloring. Mr Pineda our graphics teacher called out our names to see if we were here. Mr Pineda was going round complementing on peoples work, he added points if you were working hard, succeeding and others.

Cross Country

Today was the forth day of spring and we started to do our cross country. Cross country is what we were doing for fitness so we can build up our speed and our long distances running. We have to do this every day for the whole week for our fitness, we have to go round two times. The teachers are standing round the corners and they are watching us run. Before we were running throw the streets we were practicing around the inside of the school. The teachers say breath threw our nose and out from our mouths.

Mindfulness Lesson

Thursday 31st of August
Today Room 12 had a mindfulness lesson about how the brain works. We did some mindfulness meditation and some simply activities. One of my favourite activities was life is good, also for our meditation we had to lay down on the ground with our legs bent and a clear mind. The other meditation was looking straight ahead of you an listening to bell. For the life is good activity one of mindfulness tutors had a basketball and we all had to form a circle. This time one of the teachers (Mr Reid) had to start us of, to start of you had to hold the ball in both hands and say anything then say but life is good. For the meditation we had to lay on the ground then one of the mindfulness teachers had put a meditation video on and the first instruction was to lay down and take deep deep breaths. Then we had to listen and focus on our breathing.

At Tech

At tech today this was our first time at graphics. We all had to line up an wait for the teacher to come an tell us were to go, the year 8s had wood works with Mr Grundy, and we had graphics. The first time at graphics I was a bit nervous because I didn't know what to do. But when we were given our instructions I got the hang of it. For our first lesson we had to write our name in different fonts, each letter in our name had to be different. In the first letter in my name I had done a hand claw and an eye, which looked like the letter P. There were lots of different color and lots of  different felts. At my table I was sitting next to Mary and she kept on asking for help.

Orienteering

This was our third week of orienteering and I was very very excited. When it was our turn for orienteering Mr Leon walked us up to the top filed and he told us what to do. When we were outside it looked like it was going to rain because it was kind of cloudy. Outside was very cold and windy, but we were running so it didn't matter that much. Mr Leon said this week for orienteering was all about accuracy it was not about who was the fastest all the slowest as long as we were accurate. So he gave us our clip cards and our map. I was very nervous and scared because I though that I was going to come last again. The fist map I had I was kind of confused but latter on in the session I had got the hang of it. There were four course and we had to complete the whole thing. When I had finished there were a few people that were lined up on the park and I was so reveled that I had not came last like last week, but this week I had a lot of fun.

Making Nachos

At tech last week we thought that it was our last week at cooking, but we had to do cooking one last time. On our last time at cooking we made Nachos and they were so nice. First thing we had to do was get our pan out and our wooden spoon, next we had to go to the teacher and get some garlic and peal of the skin then we had to break the garlic into peaces with a rolling pin. After that we put the crushed garlic in the pan and put the pan on the oven. Once the garlic was brown we added all other sauces and ingredients. We had to make our creation nice so Mrs Tuipotu could take a picture. Our Nachos that we had made smelt kind of chilly with a hint of garlic. The sauce and the mince made the whole thing come together.

Time For Ball!!!

Today was my cousin's every first school ball. Tonight me and my family went to my cousin's house and we took lots and lots of photos. My brother and my uncle had dressed up for her ball because they are escorting her. My cousin was wearing a very beautiful maroon dress, which had straps at the back. Her hair and makeup had been done and here nails were very shinny. My nana had bought here some very nice rings, bracelet and necklaces. Most of the jewellery was pearl.

Making Chocolate Cake

At tech for cooking this was our last day in cooking class. We made chocolate cake  with wiped cream and coco sauce. The fist thing we had to do was get out our measuring cups and teaspoons, the next thing we had to get out was two silver bowls and the next thing we had to do was go to the front table and put half a cup of plan flour then one teaspoon of baking powder and one quarter cup of coco powder. That was the dry ingredient and the wet ones were two teaspoons of yogurt and one cup of sugar then half a cup of milk and one third of a cup of oil. We had to add in two eggs and mix all together. Then when it was combined altogether me my partner got some baking paper and put it on the bottom of our tray and cut of the extras. We slowly poured the mixture into the tray and set the oven to 180c. When it was time to take it out of the oven we had to take it out of the tray and put on our cooling tray so our cake can cool of. When it was cooled enough we could put on the wipe cream and coco sauce.

Winter Learning Journey

At Ruapotaka School only six people participated in the winter learning journey. Rachael came today the boss of the whole program. Three people came place and the other three participated in the program. The three people that came place was Riiana in third, Kotipi in 2nd and Pupuke in 1st. We all got some kind of prize and we all got a badge on our blogs. The three people that participated was Dakbai, Robati and Azahar.

Making Banana Muffins

At Tech today we made banana muffins. The first thing we had to do was put our chromebooks away and put our aprons on. After that Mrs Tuilpulotu told us to get our muffin tray out and get our big silver bowel to. She told us to get out our measuring cup and spoons. With the cup and the spoon we had to get half a cup of S.R.F and a three quarter cup of milk. Mrs Tuipulotu had a teaspoon at the table so we could put one teaspoon of flour. We had to mash the bananas with a fork and put all the dry ingredients inside the bowel. When the dry ingredients were in the bowel then we had to put the wet ones in, so we added the butter and one egg into the bowel and then mix. Mrs Tuipulotu told us to come to her so she could put three table spoon of sugar into our mixture. We had pour our battar into the muffin cups and set the oven to 180.c and put in the oven.

Our Big Day

On Friday Room 12 has to perform in a big assembly. Room 12 has to sing in front of the whole school and hoping for some parents to. Our song is How Far I'll Go from the movie moana. We have been practicing and Mrs Golder has been telling us to sing with enthusiasm and expression. At the assembly the other classes will do a performance or a dance. All the classes have been working hard and have been looking forward to Friday. Room 12 has to stand in four lines tallest to shortest. We have to try to remember the lyrics to the song.

Pasifika Study Assembly

Friday 28 of July we have just come back from the assembly room which we had our pasifika study performance. Each class had to perform and show there item to the whole school. First was Room one which they performed a Samoan dance called the Sasa. The next performance was Room 5 and there Samoan singing. After Room 5 was Room 6 and there Samoan and Tongan clothing and accessories.
After Room 6 Room seven had to perform there item. Room 7 had put together a combined dance. Next was Room 9 and they had performed a Samoan song called Little Biddy On A Tree. Room ten was next and they had sung a Samoan song called  E Otua. Lastly was Room 12, we had to go and line up in our places that we were given. The song that Room 12 chose was How Far I'll Go from the movie Moana.

What I Did At Tech

At tech today we made chicken curry. We brought our chromebooks but we did not use them. The fist thing we had to do was get our biggest pot and one pan. The our teacher told us to bring out our pan to her table and she will  put some Indian curry sauce in the pan. She added some other ingredients then we had to stir for about 20 minutes. Then we had to put our chicken in our pot and  then we had to put the pot on the stove and when it was boiling then the teacher will come and check and if it is ready then we put the chicken into the pan and we mix it with the source.  Then put on the stove and wait till it is boiling. Then we were done and she got the rice out and we had to put the chicken on top and make it look nice. We had to take a picture and send it to our mail and then we can make a blog post and send it to her.

Back To School

The holidays are over and Term three has started. I am so excited to be back at school and keen to learn. First day back and we have started to look back on our learning back in term two to refresh our memory. This term there are lots of things to look forward to like netball, rugby, athletics and cross country. After skipping back in term two we went on a two week holiday. In the holidays I had nothing to do so I registered on the winter learning journey. A blogging program with schools in the Manaiakalani cluster.

My Big Journey

On my amazing journey I've learned a lot of new things like places I didn't know that are in Auckland, and new things I learned about the Maori culture. The things I mostly liked on My Kiwi Road Trip was all the different places we went to go and visit. What I liked was the native bird I got to adopt which is called a Morepork, it looked so cute and it was so fluffy.

Relaxing

                                      Listing to music.

Keeping NZ Clean

#1 Pick up rubbish of the side way.
#2 Water the plants.
#3 Looking after our environment.
#4 Don't waste water.
#5 Don't waste food.
#6 Always recycle.

Rugby Haka's

1#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmszJ00aMM
2#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z60PGuxnHmw
3#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiKFYTFJ_kw

All the haka's were great but some better than others.

Matariki

Matariki is a Maori new year and celebration of the seven stars of Matariki. One of the many celebrations is lots of lights and the them changes every year. It happens here in Auckland each year at the reserve.

Arrived At New Zealand

Feeling nervous, excited don't know what to expect. Worried happy kinda upset. Scared afraid of whats gonna happen. Thoughts come together, memories fade away.

Otago Rail Trail

I would love to go on a Otago rail trail because it souds like lots of fun and it might be a great time for me to go outside in the outdoors and strt to bike again. I use to but not as much now for some reason. On day I wish I get to join the Otago rail tril.

Mt Everist

Sir Edmund Hillary- July 20th 1919- January 11th 2008- He was the first man to climb Mount evirts - He was born in NZ - He was rasid in NZ- He put the American flag on the mountain.
     

Tenzing Norgayn- 29th May 1914- 9 May 1986 - He helped Sir Edmund Hillary up The mountain - He was born in Napl- He was Rasid in Napl - The air was very thin when they got higher.

Bush Walk

I just looked at the tree for 5 seconds then looked back and my hole group was gone. I don't know what was worse I was by my self or not knowing what happened to my group. I haad to do something more then just stand there in shock. Things were looking very down for me but lukly I pulled myself togetther. I went to go find someone to help me find my way to the base. I found myself in quit a knot looking for help. It was getting dark and things were stating to get realy weird I could start to here strang things. I juts stept it of, the next moenning I was determined to find help and try get to the base. Frist thing I was going to do was going to go and find help...

Hector's Dolpin's

Hector's Dolpin's are very rare dolpins and sadly there are not that many living in the sea. I thnk fisherman should bannd because safty for the dolpins.

Whale Rider

About a girl  that comes from a long line of Maori chiefs and wants to tarin to be a warrior but is stoped because her gender. But that dose not stop her from growing.

Beached Whales

There were 4 beached whales and the locals tried everything in there power to help. They kept on getting water to keep the whales from getting dry. It was not enough to keep the whales alive. The locals were not qwick enough so the whales juts dryed up.

New zealand In Danger

New Zealnad should be predetor free because it can dangerous for lots of people and kids. It can be very un healthy for us. They can thrive and they can start a coliney. New Zealand is a very green land so we have to tey to keep it very clean.

My Pet

I just finish adopting a Morepork. A Morepork looks like an owle but is diffrent in some kind of way. The Morepork is a native bird to New Zealand and eats mostly worm and old grubs of the groud. You can normanly find these amazing birds in hight trees in the woods or in bird centers.

Mary Grace

Today we have Mary grace my youghest sister. Mary what is your favourite things to do in the outdoors.

1.Hid and go seek
2.Skipping
3.Tag
4.Swimming
5.Ball Tiggy

Laura An Her Adventures

Today I'm here with Laura Dekker and I've perpared some qustions for her...


Laura what got you into sailing?
What got you motivate to do this in your life?
How do you feel when your sailing?
Do you like doing anything ealse then sailing?
Did you start at a yough age?

One Of My Favourites

My favourite place I most enjoyed was karekare beach. I loved visiting this very beautiful beach that had the most beautiful black sand. I loved this beach so so much because you have so much to look forwarde too.

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My Five Favourite Things

My tour to Auckland was a great exprence and I did lots of great things. But my five favourite was things were that water was not that far away,  The beatful spaced out playgrouds, All the sea life at Kelltowtinns, Deven port makes the best sea food and Auckland has beataful beachies. I went to the zoo which was great, I went to go see some maori culture. I went to rainbowends, and look down at the city from the Sky Tower.

The People Of New Zealand

The people are very great kind and native people, now here are some facts...

1.The population of people in New Zealand is Four Milion.
2. In 1840 the Teraty Of Waitangi was sginged.
3. Abel tasman was the first noon New Zealander to see our country.

What I Did At Tech

At tech Room 12 all went to there classes where we had to do there activities. At cooking Mrs Tuipulotu wasn't here instead there was and replacement teacher. We didn't do any cooking but we had to do a test. The test was about cooking and the equipment we had to use for cooking. We had to put our had up if we had any questions and lots of people were asking personal questions. She answered lots of the question and she told us about what school she went to and what collage. She went to Tamaki Collage and she use to go to Pt England School instead. She had lived closer to Ruapotaka School but she went Pt England. She let us take the test home so we can finish, but we had to bring the test back on Wednesday.

Samoan Singing

On Friday Room 12 did Samoan singing with Mrs Folu. The first thing we did was refresh our memory by singing some Samoan songs from last year. We all sang the songs and then we got split into two groups. One group had to sing then the other side had to follow on. Room 10 and 9 were there to and some people had to start the song or give us a tun. Some people got chosen to go up and sing. Most of them were Samoan. 

What I Did At Tech

At tech today we made Coco muffins with chocolate chips. My partner was Tyron and he did the dry  ingredients. I had to do the wet ingredients, the ingredients I used was half a cup of sugar, half a cup of oil and on egg. Once we were finished with all the ingredients and put them in the bowel then we had to whisk the wet ingredients. When Tyron was finishing whisking the dry ingredients we had to combined both bowels. Tyron did the dry ingredients and his ingredients were half a cup of S.R.F and a 4 cup of coco. When Tyron was was finished with the ingredients then we slowly pored the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Once the dry ingredients were in there we had to mix carefully. Then we had to pore the chocolate chips in side the bowel with mixture and start mixing. Then we had to get out the cupcake tray and put the muffin cups in side the muffin tray. Then we had to get a table spoon and put a spoon full of batter and put in the oven. Set your oven to 180d then start to tidy up why'll we were waiting. When your muffins are brown on top and are starting to rise then poke a stick in the middle and if there is nothing on the stick  then it is finished.

What I Made At Tech

At tech I was in Mr Grundy's class. We all sat at a table and we all got handed a piece of paper. Mr Grundy told us that if you make a wood work of your own design then you will get points. If you draw lots of ideas then you get points.
Once we had chosen the design that we were going to be working on. Once we had finished our design, we wrote our names on the broad.
Once he had signed it he gave us a piece of wood so that we could measure our drawing. He then came and checked it. Once he had checked it he came and gave us a piece of wood. The we lined it up with a ruler and made sure that it was perfect. Once he has checked it with a ruler then he will give us the equipment that we need. Then we will saw the lines that you have lined up. Then he will come and check it. He will give you the equipment that you need to finish your work. Once you have finished all of your sawing then he will glue it all together.

Skipping

At skipping before we start we always do a warm up. The warm up is skip forwards ten times and then backwards. The other warm up is to do side to side forwards and then backwards ten times. At Skipping Room 12 has been put into groups. Each group has to come up with their own routeing to show at the skipping finals. Each room is doing one and all are different. Once we have done some practices on our routeing then we go and line up and see who can skip the longest. The three or four people that can skip the longest will go throw to the finals.

National Milk Day

Today 1/6/17 is National milk day. Milk comes from the cows udders so they can feed their young. Brown cows make thicker milk which is used for butter, cream, youngsters and other thick dairy products. Milk helps us get stronger bones and a working brain. Milk helps lots of people grow and helps them get more out of their day. Milk helps maintain healthy blood pressure. Milk comes from the very successful company called Fonterra. Link

Flooding In South Island

Flooding has hit the south island of New Zealand. The top of the south island has been flooding with water caused by very heavy rain. Several people have been reduced from the heavy rain and they had to be rescued by a boat. Large amounts of water have just rushed in to State Highway. In the early morning of Thursday a bus home was stuck in the middle of a river. A man was stuck in the bus and he was in there for less then and hour. Police told Newshub that the man was frightened but he was fine. 

Stolen Van

A van has been stolen outside the Auckland's Royal Oka. Police said there were three men that came up to the van and brook the window. Guards were around at 1:50pm on Thursday. The guards stooped a white car and they are speaking to the people that were in the car. They are still working on finding the people that stole the van.

Bad weather

Get ready for some bad weather. There have been lots reports that Cyclone Donna is heading towards New Zealand. Weather reports have issued that there is going to be heavy rain is going to rain on parts of New Zealand. They say it is up to 200mm of rain heading to us. Lately New Zealand has been getting bad weather but what is coming now is worse then all the others. Further north has been expected for up to 160mm of rain heading to them. They are prepared for floods.