TPS Athletics 2018 - Reflection by Aumau

On the 16th of November 2018 we had School Athletics. Our school athletics was placed on the Tamaki Primary School field. The events that happened on the field was Long Jump, Standing Jump, Running, Shot Put and Discuss. My favourite event that happened on the school field was Shot Put because it was fun being competitive with the other houses and being able to try throw it as far as I can. We had different types of races, there were 50m, 75m, 100m and 400m. There were also team relays.

A school value I showed at the athletics day was Whanaungatanga because I was building relationships with everyone in our house team, I got to meet people I haven't talked to. Another person I have captured showing the school values was a member from the community. He saw that there were lots of people waiting to buy the sausage sizzles and Ice blocks so he decided to pay for the whole stock of food so that it is free for everyone. To me that was a really good thing to do and to give back to the community, I hope 1 day people can do the same and pay it forward.

Something that I learnt about myself is that I am able to complete tasks when I put my mind into it and give it my best. another thing that I learnt about myself is that I am able to communicate with others well throughout the day.

TPS Athletics 2018 by Hevani

WALT: blog a reflection about Atheltics

(Tripoli house chant)
Tripoli were number one!!
(Repeat)
Defeating your teams one by one!!
(Repeat) 
We're gonna finish number one!!
(Repeat)
Go back home we've already won!!
(Repeat)

Friday the 16th of November was the day were all houses came together to compete in different activites/events. Every year T.P.S always has an event that happens in November on the second week, it's called Atheltics. Atheltics is were we have our different house groups come together and compete with each other. 

Each student gets put into different houses and Triopli is my house group, our colour is blue and did you know that each house is named after a street/road around our area?
This event took place at T.P.S on the school field, before we started the event each house group had to shout their house chants while walking around the bike track, the Tripoli house group was the first to lead the rest around the bike track followed by Benghazi, Alamein and lastly Tobruk. 

The first block we had the field events happening. There were different feild events such as: Shot put, Discuss, Long jump, High jump and Standing jump. Only the senior classes took part in these 5 field events. 

Classes from room 6 to the Kia manawanui syndicate went to a field event, because the Kia manawanui syndicate is such a BIG CLASS we got split into two groups so I was put into group 2 and we had Discuss first. Here is a list of what class went to which field event:

Kia manawanui/Group 1 - High jump 
Kia manawanui/Group 2 - Discuss
Room 8 - Shot put
Room 7 - Standing jump
Room 6 - Long jump

We had a chance at every field event and was very competitive. I think that I did well with Shot put, Standing jump and long jump but may need some practice with Discuss and High jump.
After having the field events we had morning tea, luckly we had an early morning tea so it was a bit longer than our ususal morning tea. 

Later on after having our first break we got straight into the races, we all raced by age and not but year. Here is yet another list about who was racing in what race:

5 yr old girls - 50m run
5 yr old boys - 50m run

6 yr old girls - 50m run
6 yr old boys - 50m run

7 yr old girls - 50m run
7 yr old boys - 50m run

8 yr old girls - 75m run
8 yr old boys - 75m run

9 yr old girls - 75m run
9 yr old boys - 75m run

10 yr old girls - 75m run
10 yr old boys - 75m run 

11 yr old girls - 100m run
11 yr old boys - 100m run

12 yr old girls - 100m run
12 yr old boys - 100m run

13 yr old girls - 100m run
13 yr old boys  - 100m run

I ran with the 12 yr old girls for the 100m race and places 2nd in my first race and placed 1st in my second race. After having our races we then moved into the 400m run which is basically around our bike track and straight to the finish line. I was soo tired from my races that I didn't have enough energy to run the 400m run, but I did anyways. Although I didn't come first I am still proud of Grace who placed 1st in the 400m run (GO TRIPOLI!!).

I become exhausted after the event and almost fainted, I am proud of my house group and I think that every house group did an amazing job!! Congrats to BENGHAZI who won this year. 
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Questions:

Do you have Atheltics day at your school?If so, then what did you place?
Would you prefer Long jump or Standing jump?
Would you prefer Discuss or Shot put?
What house group are you in? What is you house group's name? 
What colour is your house group?
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Hey guys just want to say me and my Rugby team had a good game last week on Saturday against Pt Chev but yeah we won big time and I just want to thank the boys and my coach because that whole 10 week of training was payed off so yeah good game. So now I think you guys are like whats the score man, But yeah the score was 72-12 to PAKURANGA!!!! and I got 2 point so I went to praize giving at 5:00 pm on Saturday night and got my gift then after that I went with my team to the Pakuranga night market which was across the road and thats all I wanted to say Thank You. 

P.S I scored one try YEAHH!

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