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.