Year 8 Swag

Next year I am going to be a Year 8 and I am going to talk about what I want to achieve and do next year.

Next year when I am a year 8 I want to get a Merit and Excellence badge for academic. I would also like to get another Science Badge and I might do forensics. Next year I want to get a key role in the Production because it will be my last year at St Ben's and my last St Ben's production for me to act in. Another thing I want to do is try to get into Northern Zone athletics and Swimming. It would also be cool if there was another sports fest because I found it really fun this year when I did dodge-ball.

Some of the things I am looking forward to is the production and the task system because I'll have a bit more knowledge about it than the Year 7's next year. Also I am looking forward to dodge-ball every Friday because the  Year 8's will wreck the Year 7's next year. Some things I might find challenging is trying to get tasks done when the production is on and when we are building up to it.

Book Week!!!

Last week was Book Week. We all had to do really fun activities like find golden tickets with clues to find them. Also there was a book Character Parade and Kate de Goldi came in and that is what I will be talking about.

On Wednesday Kate de Goldi came into talk about her life and what it is like being an Author. Kate went to a small school when she was young In the South island. She said she always loved writing books and plays. When Kate was young she loved writing plays for Her class mates to play out.

The book Quiz was another highlight because since I am a House Captain I organised it and ran the Year 1-2 quiz with James. It was great fun to organise the questions and choose the teams.

The book parade was my favourite event in book week. It was my favourite because I got to see everybody dress up in their Book Characters and I got to judge the costumes and hand out some certificates. I also enjoyed it because I got to dress up as a soldier and the uniform I wore was my Grandfathers which he used when he was in the army.

Favourite book when I was young!!!

My favourite book when I was young was The Adventures of Tintin "The Calculus Affair" By Herge.

The reason why I like this book is that there is lots of action and they are trying to escape from a Tank. It isn't really a story it is more of a comic but still qualifies for a book. This comic is based in Germany and  is about Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy chasing after two gang members who have Kidnapped Professor Calculus.

When I read the comic I was 6 years old and this was the second Tintin comics I read so this one interested me to read the rest of the comics.                                    

AFL (Aussie Rules) (Australian Football League) We should be talking a bout Rugby!!!

Last week room 12 and Room 11 went down to the courts in the morning  on Thursday to learn some skills about AFL. On of the men who was an instructor use to go to St. bens when he was a kid and his last year was in 2001. We will be going down to the courts on Thursday for another 5 weeks.

Some catch phrases they taught us to help with skills was 'laces away from faces' and 'point your toes where you want the ball to go' and 'arms like an arrow' when holding the ball. last week we learned how to pass by kicking it. The certain type of kick is called a drop punt which is where the cross on the ball face up and down and you kick it with your toes pointing to where you want to kick. The ball travels through the air with it spinning backwards and upright. Another thing when passing is to try and not make it bounce otherwise it could just bounce anywhere. But if you kick a clean kick right into the chest there is less chance of dropping it. Some new things I learnt about AFL was that The field is 180metres long and 270metres wide. I didn't learn much because I knew some stuff already.

That's was my blog post for this week about skills about AFL come back next week for another blog post.