End of Year

2018 has been an exciting year with lots of opportunities and memories that I will cherish forever. There has been roller coasters of emotions. There has been happy times like when my friends and I are laughing too hard that we end up on the floor with tears in our eyes but there also have been some sad times. My last year of primary school has been challenging but my friends made it easier and have encouraged me to thrive my best. My highlight at St Francis would have to be the Caritas Challenge as it made me have sympathy towards people living in poverty and overall made me become a better person. 

Next year what I want to take every opportunity I get because you never know, I might like it. I also want to be friendly towards others and not fall behind in my work.

In the future when I finish university, I want to achieve my dream of becoming an Interior designer or Architect. I'd also want to do a bit of acting in my spare time and would love to experience becoming an actress in a movie.

I made so many new friends this year and I cant wait what 2019 will bring me. 

Memoir

This Term, Kaupeka has been working on our own memoirs. Memoir is a writing piece about something that is special to you. I did my Memoir about the Caritas Challenge we did back in Term 2.
I chose this topic because it changed the way I see the world and made me become a better person. I also had great time with my friends. Click the link below to see my Memoir.


Caritas Challenge Memoir




What is your favourite memory from your school?

Dance

Every Tuesday and Wednesday after school I do dance. I go to 2 different dance studios.
On Tuesdays, I go to Pitter Patter dance studio and I do contemporary and Jazz. We are currently doing a contemporary group dance about a widow and her husband died in world war. The song is called "To build a home" This is one of my favourite dance routines and I want to do more like this one. I go from 4:20 pm - 5:30 pm and I've been going here since I was 6.

On Wednesdays, I go to Silhouette dance studios. The lessons I take are acrobatic dance and a fitness session. For Acrobatics, we are doing a dance to the song "This is me" but it's a remix so it goes from a slow contemporary dance to a fast Jazz dance. We learn and practise all kinds of acrobatic tricks like walkovers, aerials, handsprings, flips, etc. This lesson goes from 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm.
The next lesson I take is all about improving your strength, balance, stamina and flexibility. We do all sorts of workouts like push ups, sit ups, jumping using skipping ropes for 3 minutes straight and so much more. After we have done the fitness part, we then move onto stretching. This helps with our balance and flexibility. Some of the stuff we have to do are holding the split position for 3 minutes on each leg, stretching our backs and also just basic stretching. This session goes from 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm. I joined Silhouette dance studios this year and I'm really enjoying it.

What activities do you do after school?

Story starter

A while ago this term, Kaupeka got to do a story starter writing sample. We got given this story starter about magical empty boots that moved. I love this type of genre and this is one of my best writing pieces because I showed my writing skills. Here is my writing piece.

Link to my writing piece

What is your favourite genre for writing?

Production Overview!

I know this overview is a bit late but I'm going to do it anyway.
On Thursday 27th of September, Kaupeka did a dance production all about the Maori myth. This myth is about 2 Gods and their 6 children. The children felt trapped so the second oldest child, Tane, came up with an idea. Tane is the God of forest and nature. The plan was to become a small seed and slip in between the parents. It took years to grow the tree and it finally pushed the parents apart. The parents became really sad and Tane created the first woman. Tane and the woman got married and they had a child.

I was the main dancer in my group called Tawhiri so I had many parts in this production.
My costume was a plain white shirt with black leggings and purple hula skirts and a black bandanna.
All the groups choreographed their own dances except the final dance which the teachers choreographed.
My favourite part about the production was practising with the people in my group and getting to know them a bit better.
Before we were going to perform in front of everyone, I was a bit nervous that I was going to forget some dance moves but when it was over, I felt proud and was also sad that it was over because it was such a fun experience. I would love to do another production like this again.

Have you ever been apart of a production?

Athletics!

On Thursday 25th October, St Francis of Assisi had Athletics day 2018. The events that was held were sprints, long distance, shot put, discuss, long jump and high jump. For shot put, I threw the ball 5.94 metres. It was my personal best but sadly it wasn't far enough to get into zones.

My favourite event for Athletics is shot put because it is the one that I'm best at and it is also always very interesting to see how far you threw the ball. For discuss, I purposely threw the discuss terribly and I got 3 metres and I couldn't stop laughing.
For high jump, I didn't try and I ran up to the pole and slowly put my leg over it. My friend also didn't want to try so she ran up to it and crawled underneath the pole. The teacher wasn't even looking so she had to ask if my friend got over the pole and it was very funny. Athletics day was really enjoyable and I'm sad that it was my last Athletics.

What is your favourite event for Athletics?

Kids in town!

On the 1st of November, the year 7/8 singing group went to the art gallery in the city centre. We went to an event called Kids in Town. We went with the ukulele group and the Jump Jam group. The first item was the ukulele group. They played a Japanese traditional song. Then the ukulele group and the singing group did 2 items together. First one was a song called "The Smell of Sunscreen" and the second one was "Take it Easy" by Stan Walker. This next item was the main one for the singing group. We had been practising this mashup for maybe 2 months. This mashup is a mix of Don't stop me now, Castle on the hill, Better now, I want it that way, Middle, 2002 and Bye Bye Bye.
Overall, this day was super fun and I really enjoyed it.

Do you do singing?