Sportsfest!

(Before)

This week on Wednesday some of the schools in Wellington will be competing in a sportsfest. There a few sports that your can play including basketball, dodgeball, football, netball, table tennis, and badminton. I chose to play dodgeball and I got put in the dodgeball boys team. I think that if we play fairly and play well then we will all enjoy ourselves and have lots of fun.

(After)

Yesterday we had our dodge ball Sportsfest tournament. The rules were a bit different than the one that we use at school but we quickly adapted and we played very well. Both of our teams came 3rd which was pretty good considering that we had such good competition. There were many teams from schools all over Wellington such as Raroa, Postgate, Kahurangi, Newlands, Holy Cross and more.

If there was anything I would like to be changed about the dodgeball is probably having more courts to play on because we had to wait a long time between games. I would also like to have some more balls on the court.

New Flag!

For the past few months the Government has been deciding what flag we should have to replace our current one. Personally I think the entire thing is a big waste of money and that our current flag is good enough but out of the 40 designs that have been selected I think that some of them are really good and these are my three favourites.




This flag is called the Black Jack and was created by Mike Davidson. I like this design because has the Union Jack but it still incorporates a Maori design.




This flag is called the silver fern and was created by Kyle Lockwood like this design because it still has the southern cross from our current flag and I also includes the fern, a proud symbol of  New Zealand.




This flag is called the Unity Fern and was created by Paul Jackways. I like this flag because it got all the colours from our old flag and it also includes a fern one of the most commonly known New Zealand symbol, the fern




This flag is called the Unity Koru and was created by Paul Densem. I like this flag because it includes the colours from our old flag and it also includes a koru in the middle which is one of New Zealand's native plants


All in all my favourite flag out of the all the 4 that I have written about would have to be the Black Jack because it incorporates a Maori design while still having our old flag's appearance.

Why we should change the flag

• Changing the flag would symbolize our independence from Britain
• The new flag would incorporate strong Maori influence
• Our current flag is often confused by flags of other countries especially Australia's.
• The new flag could symbolize a change for the better for New Zealand

Why we should not change the flag

• It cost taxpayers 27 million dollars even if we decide to keep our old flag
• Our soldiers in fought and died under our current flag
• Our current flag is a New Zealand artefact
• I like the old flag and so do 99.9999999% of people

Anyway thanks for reading and comment down below what is your favourite flag!

Art !!!

What I'm good at

I think that the best things I'm good at in art are drawing and sketching. We have just finished sketching our astronauts and I think that my one is quite good.

What I would like to work on

I think I would like to work on painting and using pastels because I usually make a mess of my art work.

Art ideas

For the art exhibition I think that we should make model sci fi space ships and maybe some people could make models of famous space ships from movies or books e.g. Star Wars/Star Trek.

Dinner!

Stan Lee

For this weeks post we were told to write about 2 people that we would invite to dinner and what questions we would ask them. Since I am a massive Marvel fan my first choice would be the one and only Stan Lee. Some of the questions I would ask Stan Lee what was his favourite Marvel comic character he created and I would also ask him were he got all of his ideas for all the characters he created.

Anthony Horowitz 

For my second person I would invite Anthony Horowitz because he is my favourite author. Anthony Horowitz wrote the Alex Rider series and the power of 5 series. I would ask Anthony Horowitz how he got the ideas for his book and I would also ask him what was his favourite book to write.