Year 9 at St Pats

So today I found my self with time to waste so I decided to make a post for my old blog. At St Pats I am in the Watters house (the green one). Joseph, Frankie and Calvin also got put into Watters and the other people being divided into the remaining 3 houses, Redwood, Chanel and Kennedy. Last year during my entrance exams I did really well and I made it into the steam class (yay!). Thomas, Ethan and Ruben (He used to go to St Ben's if you still remember him) also got into the stream class. My favourite subject so far is science because I've heard all the fun things we get to do in it. Some of the things we get to do in science is to dissect a rat (Tylers class has already done this) and dissect a cow's eye. Our science teacher, Mr Walker, is apparently the best because he does lots of experiments. A fun fact that I have learnt about Mr Walker is that he was once in the top 300 players of Rainbow Six (Its a fps game) in the world. He also owns a drone which is pretty cool. When you are a year 9 at the very start of the year you go to a 3 day camp with your house. Mine is only next week which is really soon! Anyways there is still tons of stuff to tell you about St Pats but I'll save it for a later post probably after my camp if I get time. 

Bye!!

The best moments of 2015!

Probably my favourite (and also everybody other year 8's) favourite moment of this year was camp. We did so much fun stuff at camp and my favourite activities was probably caving and the overnight camp.

Big day out

My favourite big day out was probably last years when we went to that indoor sports place. For this year I think that we might be going to one of these places

• Zealandia 
• Zoo
• A bird place
• Pool
• Some sports place

It's always hard every year to find a place where over 250 children can go to so I hope that the teachers have found a fun place to go to for our last year at this school.

 

College

College is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to it. My older brother James has said many good things about St Pat's and I can't wait to get there. Some of the things that I want to achieve in year 9 is to meet new people and probably get into a basketball team. Some of challenges in year 9 that I might find is the homework. James always says that he gets so much homework but I am a bit doubtful. On the first week of being a year 7 James told me that there were so many tasks and that I wouldn't finish them all. I was so scared I wouldn't finish them so I took all of my task home on Monday and I got them all done by Wednesday morning. (That my record of finishing my tasks)
Anyway the other thing that I might find challenging at St Pat's is learning where everything is. Even though St Pat's isn't the biggest school ever I think it will be hard for me to remember where everything is for the first few weeks. All in all I am very excited for college and I can't wait to see where it takes me.

Book Week

Last week was book week and we did a lot of fun activities to do with books and these are 3 favourites.

The Book Character parade

As we usually do each year on the Friday of book week everybody dressed up in different costumes and we do a parade on the courts. My "costume" wasn't the best and all I had that related to books was a batman t-shirt. This year since I was a house captain I got to judge all the costumes which was really hard because there were so many good ones.

Kate De Goldi

On Tuesday we had a author called Kate De Goldi come in to talk to us. She talked about how she got into writing and all the books we had read. I found it very interesting that her writing when she was at school was just like mine and just because she had become an author didn't mean she had always been great at writing.

Golden ticket

My favourite activity that we did for book week was the golden ticket. It was based  of the golden ticket in Charlie and the chocolate factory. All the intermediate classes did this and the teachers would hide the golden tickets somewhere around the school and post clues on the blog. Whoever found the golden ticket could take it to there teacher in exchange of a prize.



Thanks for reading!

Hairy Maclary

When I was young I used to read a series of books called Hairy Maclary. The stories are based of a dog called Hairy Maclary and his friends who are also dogs. The book was written by Lynley Dodd who is a New Zealand author. The first Hairy Maclary was writen in 1983 and the most recent in 2012. I used to like these books because of the great illustrations and all the rhymes. I'm not to sure when I read these books but I think I was about 5 or 6.

AFL

 

Last week we started doing AFL. We had some people who played AFL to come to our school and teach us the basics of playing AFL. We learnt how to kick the ball to pass and to shoot. We also learnt some of the rules or AFL and the techniques to holding and kicking the ball. Some of thing that I learnt about AFL are:

• The fields used for AFL are much larger than a rugby field
• AFL is one of the highest attended sports in the world
• To pass to your teammates you have to kick or punch the ball

Favourite Game!

My favourite game is a game called football heads. There are many different variants of the game for the different football leagues like the Bundesliga and the BPL. Thomas found the game a few weeks ago on accident and we have played it ever since. The game is a bit like Soccer Physics but you get more control over your players and in my opinion. I like this game because you can choose what player and all in all its very fun.

This a picture of the game