Sunday 1 December 2013

EPIC Thought Provoking Video




This is a thought provoking video about water that Bradley and I found on Youtube. It is very thought provoking because you have to think about how there is only a limited amount of water in the world.

Monday 11 November 2013

Battle of the Bands

Today our school band performed in  'The Music Warehouse 2013 Intermediate Schools Battle of the Bands'. Our school band was called Sacred Heart Prestige 2.0. The members of our band
were: James (Piano); Patrick (Drums); Jack (Base); Max (Vocalist); Matthew (Guitar); Wyatt (Vocalist); Justine (Keyboard); Caitlin  (Guitar); Carlita (Vocalist) and Cassidy (Vocalist). Our techies were Dylan and Tuakana. The songs we were playing were 'I Choose You' ( by Stan Walker) and 'Getting Stronger' (by Adeaze and Aaradhna). I practiced lots but I still stuffed up my solo at the start (I didn't even have stage fright). I was very ashamed of myself but you couldn't really notice my mistake because my inner beast kicked in and I kept on playing. I think our band did quite  well though. The judges didn't say where our band placed but I can't imagine that we would have gotten in the top 5.       

2013 School Production

In week 7 of Term 4 we will be having our school production. The production is called
'Cinderella and Rockerfella'. In the production my role is acting as a talking dog named Teaser. I like my role because it is quite large but I don't have to sing any solos. I don't think I have to sing at all actually. The bits that I dislike in my role as Teaser are that I have to do an awkward howl and Cinderella has to part my head when I do tricks. I think the production is pretty weird but I suppose it's alright.


 "AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
 (My awkward howl) 


My Holiday

In the first week of the holidays I played in the 'Southern North Island Primary Schools Rugby Tournament'. I was representing the Hutt Valley. My friend Dom Bell was also in the team. We won the tournament and Dom and I got into the tournament team which is a team of all the best players in the tournament.

After the tournament I went up to Mt Ruapehu to go skiing. I skied with Dom on Turoa. I skied lots of tracks including Snowbird, Little Bowl, Vertigo and Big Bowl. There wasn't much snow so I skied at the top of the mountain the whole time. I skied for two days then went back home.

When I got back from skiing I invited my friend Bradley Pritchard to my house for a sleepover. We played a Lord of the Rings game on my XBOX 360. We made it quite far in the game but we couldn't defeat Tharzog - the orc chieftain of the west. We also went to EVENT Cinemas to see 'Percy Jackson, Sea of Monsters'. A few days later I went to Bradley's house for a sleepover. We went to
H2O Xtreme and watched a few movies. We also played some one on one basketball at Wilford School as well as playing it on NBA 2K 13 on Brad's iPod. Overall my holiday was pretty BEAST!!!  

Sunday 1 September 2013

100 Word Challenge

Here is a story I wrote for the 100 Word Challenge. We had to use the words "Suddenly I heard a crack". Enjoy!

I was walking through the woods with my friend Johnny, holding a rifle. We were on our monthly hunting trip, looking for big game. As night descended we decided to walk back to the hut. On our way back we heard a weird noise coming from behind some trees. Johnny went to investigate. Johnny disappeared behind the trees and I suddenly heard a crack followed by a scream. I rushed to the trees and found Johnny dead with a cracked skull lying on the ground. Towering over him was an EPIC beast. It lunged at me and everything went black.

THE END

 

Wednesday 28 August 2013

My Speech



This is a video of my "Forces of Nature" speech. I did my speech on the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake.

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Cloud Info graphic



This is an info graphic about clouds that Wyatt and I made. Here are some instructions on how to use some tools to make an info graphic. 
 
On the side of the webpage there are a few different tools that you can choose to use. One of them is "Download Graphics". To




Sunday 4 August 2013

Term 3 Tech

At the start of each term the year 7 and 8's go to Hutt Intermediate for tech. There are 4 different types of tech which are soft tech, hard tech, ICT and food tech. This term we started soft tech. Soft tech is all about sewing. Mrs Sheat teaches us. This term we are making boxer shorts. First we had to choose the colours of our shorts and the material we were using for them. I was decided to use maroon and red satin. My sewing looks pretty good so far and I can't wait to finish my EPIC shorts.

Sunday 23 June 2013

The Epic Storm and the Stuff I Did During The Epic Storm

We were away from school last Friday due to a severe storm that that forced people in doors and cut power to lots of homes. The following is a piece of writing created from motivation...

It was a pretty normal Thursday. I had just come back from school and was watching TV with my younger brother and sister. After that I did some Hunter work. Outside I could hear the wind swirling around and when I looked out the window one of our really big trees was bending in ways I never knew were possible. Another unusual thing was that some of the lights were flickering. I was Hoping that the power wouldn't go out because I wan't to watch Man vs Wild at 7:30pm.

 Luckily the power didn't go out before 7:30pm but sadly it went out about 10 minutes later. I was really annoyed because it was an episode I hadn't seen and Bear Grylls was in New Zealand. Since we had to do Hunter up to chapter 15 the next day I had to light a candle and finish my work. It was extremely cold because our heaters had obviously gone off with the power. After I had finished all of Hunter I decided to go to bed.

I slept till about 7:30am. When I flicked the light switch I hoped that the light would turn on. It didn't. I went downstairs and played on my PSP till the battery died. I couldn't charge it so I had to do something else for a while. I could still hear the wind and the rain roaring outside. I hoped that school would be cancelled because I was meant to be on patrol and it would be torture standing outside for half an hour. In the end I decided to go to school because I hand't heard that it was cancelled on the radio and there would be no point sitting inside all day waiting for the power to come back on.

When I got to school Miss Heatley told me that we weren't having patrol. The only other kids at school were Cassidy and Solomon. I only stayed there for a little while because hardly anyone was there and there was no point staying at school. I went home again to get changed out of my school uniform and went to my Grandma's house because she now had power. We went to the bakery to get a pie and for lunch and then went into my grandma's house. I got a mince and cheese pie.

When we got back home the power was on so I played  XBOX 360 for a while. Then I went to bed. In the morning I played on my PSP. The game I played was NBA 2K 13. I also watched TV. The storm wasn't so bad now. The wind wasn't so strong but there was still heavy rain. Dom invited me to go to the movies to go see the epic movie called After Earth. I went with Dom, Bradley, Luke, Xav, Robbie and Tom. It was a really good movie. It was a bit strange though because it was set 1 thousand years in the future and they didn't even have guns.

After that I went back home and played XBOX 360. The storm was pretty EPIC. It was a good weekend apart from the power going out when I was watching Man vs Wild.

Monday 17 June 2013

Running Squad

This is a video of the running squad for 2013. Sadly I have not been included in this video due to my left ulna breaking 2 weeks into the running squad. I don't mean to brag but I was one of the best runners in the 'Elite' running squad. It was a shame I was not there for the 2 weeks that Mr T was videoing us. Anyway, here's the video.


Wednesday 5 June 2013

Daring to Stand Up to Daring

This video was made to help kids stop daring at our school. I am Tane Wiremu's brother and the recorder of Tane Wiremu's and Jhono's parts.

Tuesday 4 June 2013

All Blacks vs France

This Saturday the All Blacks are going to be playing France. The All Blacks are probably going to win all 3 tests but you never know with France. I will be watching the games at home. I hope NZ can pull off a win.

Thursday 16 May 2013

Maths

This term for maths we have been doing some stuff about area, volume and perimeter. I think that perimeter is the easiest and volume is the hardest. Yesterday we did the Otago Maths Test. It was relatively easy and I got 5/5. Maths homework has also been pretty easy and I have got it on time every day.



Wednesday 15 May 2013

Tuesday 14 May 2013

After School


 

Today after school I had to wait around at school for an hour because my sister Rachel had netball practice. At first I was playing held with Patrick, Sean and Andre. Sean got injured. When Patrick and Sean left Andre and I went to play ball tag with Tom, Josh and Semisi. We played for a while and Semisi found a dead bird. When we got bored me and Andre went to the basketball hoop to do shots. We played that till netball training was finished. After that I should have gone to rugby training but since my arm is broken I didn't. It was a pretty fun.








Sunday 12 May 2013

My Broken Arm

On Saturday my arm was crushed by a massive boy when I was playing rugby. I smashed him over in the tackle but then he fell on my arm and broke it. I am annoyed because now I have an itchy cast. I can't play rugby for 6 weeks. I hope my arm heals soon. For now I'm gonna be lazy and stay at home playing XBOX 360 and MINECRAFT. Broken arms are annoying.






                                                                      



Thursday 9 May 2013

Running Squad @ Belmont Regional Park

In the holidays I went to running squad at Belmont Regional Park. It was a really hot day and I was wearing compression gear so I was sweltering. I am the pro guy in the red shirt in the pictures below.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday 18 April 2013

My Debate - Caritas

This is my debate about the best charity. I chose Caritas to be my charity. I researched lots about Caritas and used lots of good language features for my debate. I think it's pretty good. I hope you like it.

Rugby Training

Today I have rugby training. I am in Tim Mannix's team. All my friends from school are in my team except Jack. Our first game of the season is this Saturday so we'll need to have a good training. I think that our team is going to pretty good but lots of other people think that two teams are unfair. I am looking forward to the first game and I think it is going to be fun.

Tuesday 9 April 2013

Learning Time With Noah

A few weeks ago Kakapo class had to teach a Tui buddy some skills for twenty minutes. My buddy was Noah. He's pretty funny. I taught Noah some maths and I think that he learned a lot. After that I read Noah a story. Then Noah was telling me some 'funny' jokes. I told him a few too. I enjoyed teaching Noah and he listened to what I told him to do.



Tuesday 2 April 2013

My Boots





 
These are my awesome, epic, amazing, great new rugby boots. They are really comfy. 

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Rugby

My favourite thing to do is to play rugby union. I am really proffesional at it and I play for Petone. I like to play touch rugby aswell. Here is a picture of me playing touch. My favourite super rugby team is the Hurricanes and my favourite rugby team overall is the All blacks.

 
 
 

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Sunday 17 March 2013

My Learning Goals

 

Maths

 My maths learning goal for this year is to be able to convert decimals, percentages and fractions that are more than one eg: 9/8, 112% and 1.12.


Reading

My reading goal is to recognize structural features or characteristics  of text.

Writing

My writing goal is to use more complicated words in my writing and to use similies and metaphors.

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Buddy Time

My buddy is Luca from Kereru. He is seven years old. His favorite book is Geronimo Stilton and his favourite food is pizza. He lives in Wainui and he is Tokelaun.  He plays rugby for Petone and he plays X Box when he is at home. His favourite subject at school is art and he likes the colour green. His favourite TV show is Teeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Wednesday 30 January 2013

First post

Hi, My name is James this is my awesome blog that I made. I like sports (especially rugby) and I also like art. Here is a really awesome picture of me. I hope you like my blog.