Ki-O-Rahi

Ki o Rahi is a ball game traditionally played & was made by the Maori People. The ball is called the “Ki”. The fast sport is compatible to Australian rules, Rugby, Netball & also touch. There are 7 “pou” around the circular bases, The game is played either on a field or a netball court. On the court it has to be tag, or if you're on a field you can tackle.

All round skills between netball, rugby and Aussie rules are really needed. The key skills you need if you are playing tackle is the ability to sidestep, Pass, and really have a powerful arm & good vision. You also have to have good grip onto the ball & you have to be very fit, to be running around the circular base.

When played, to be able to score you have to attempt to throw the ball and hit the rubbish bin or the Te Tupu in the middle.

Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a contact sport which is originally based on wrestling, which formerly came from India. The game had its first international world cup in 2010 which was held in Punjab, India. This game came from the attack and defence from the youth of pakistan.




The skills needed for this game are: Agility, Aggression, Speed, Defence, and most importantly strength. The game is played by two teams, the raiders(One who enters into the court of the opponent with the cant is known as a ‘RAIDER’. The raider must begin his cant before he touches the opponent’s court.) and the catchers (the people from the opposite team who will attempt to tackle or bring down the opponent, if tug by the raider).




Each team will have a maximum of 10-12 players, but with 7 remaining on the playing surface. The playing time will be split into 10min halves. If the catcher gets tug then the raider has to try and run away in order to not get ground impounded on the ground or they may be put into a submission maneuver.

Dj Forbes

Amanda Billing.

Amanda Billing (Sarah Potts) one of the main actors and one of the main nurses has sadly died in her main T.v program Shortland Street. In the program she never cured herself, but cured others who had been suffering the sickness as well. Around New Zealand she is well known for being the actor off Shortland Street. The most recent episode the program she sadly passed away.S



She was first introduced to the cast in 2004 and was first diagnosed. Sarah was really sick behind the scenes of the t.v program so she had to find a way to leave shortland street. Sarah sadly died on shortland street with an dieses she caught. Sarah has won and recently been nominated for multiple acting awards including the nomination in New Zealand Television Awards for the best actress.

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt is a Jamaican athlete who has competed in the 4x100  & the 100m sprints & is the fastest man in the world and sets the 100m record & got 9.63 seconds. He races in the Jamaican team with Yohan Blake is soon to try and beat him in a race.

Bolt has a nickname it is Lightning Bolt. He sometimes spends time playing cricket and football with his brother. Bolt is also in the Racers Track Club. Bolt has kept on training to become the fastest man, and I think that everyone will achieve something if you keep trying/training. Bolt is an icon to most people.

My bigger Fish & Sticks

a. How many sticks were needed to build the 17 fish patterns?

b. How many sticks would you n  eed to build 20 fish patterns? (See if you can work out how many without making the pattern)

c. Explain how you worked this out.

d. In a spreadsheet create a table that shows how many sticks are needed for up to 20 fish.

e. From this table create a graph to show your findings.

f. How many sticks would there be in 42 fish?

Robin Williams Artical

Recently Robin Williams, was on the news because he had died from a possible suicide, he was a stand up comedian & was a actor. He was born on the 21st of July 1951. He played the role as Mrs.Doubtfire, he was really funny in that movie. He was cloned into the animated cartoon called "Up" and received a few awards for best supportive actor. 

His wife stated that "He had been battling the early stages of Parkinson's & also everyone knew that he was battling depression as everyone knows that, depression might have been the reason and the cause to suicide death. It is very sad that he has passed away and many respects from everyone. 

Peta. The slug

 As you can see, after three minuets he moves up 6cm. 

How much cm would the slug have reached by 30 minuets?

 

Ki o Rahi

Ki o Rahi is a ball game traditionally played & was made by the Maori People. The ball is called the “Ki”. The fast sport is comparable to Australian rules, Rugby, Netball & also touch. There are 7 “pou” around the circular bases, The game is played either on a field or a netball court. On the court it has to be tag, or if you're on a field you can tackle.

All round skills between netball, rugby and Aussie rules are really needed. The key skills you need if you are playing tackle is the ability to sidestep, Pass, and really have a powerful arm & good vision. You also have to have good grip onto the ball & you have to be very fit, to be running around the circular base.

When played, to be able to score you have to attempt to throw  the ball and hit the rubbish bin or the Te Tupu in the middle. The aim is to throw the ball and aim right at the Te Tupu & if you hit it then you get a point.

There are two teams Taniwha & Kioma. Taniwha runs around the circle trying to touch the Pous (the sticks in a circle around the area where you playing). & Kioma is trying to deny Taniwha from touching the pous and going into the circle where the Te Tupu is, from scoring a try. If you want to score a try you have to touch the pou then run into the middle, but if you pass the person that is receiving the ball behind the circle.

Black Ops 2

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 is a video first person shooting game created by Treyarch & published by Activition. There are 3 game modes you can choose from like, Multiplayer (Online gaming) Campaign (The story of the black ops and how they journey through the battles of the american military) and Zombies.

David Mason the son of Alex Mason  is one of the main characters in to Campaign, Alex travels around the world in the year 2025 looking for the person who had shot his father so bad, he got put in the wheelchair  .The story is told from the two perspectives, with one plot arc following the antics of original Black Ops characters Alex Mason and Sgt Frank Woods during the War and the second Mason's son in 2025 missions.


Multiplayer you can choose from a range of battles, either against bots or real life enemy's or friendly custom games. All the game modes on multiplayer on line and offline are;  Team Deathmatch, Multi-TeamDeathmatch, Free For All & if you buy the game, many more! The reason I like this game like this game because  the trickshots, and quickscopes, click on the link below, and if you have a youtube channel subscribe, like, subscribe.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuesroYbsqE
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Rugby Writing.

Last week on Wednesday on the 23rd of july,  2 Open Weight Boyz  (me & my friend lorenzo) along with the under 65kg boys had a rugby game against Sacred Heart College. Our team was stacked and the pressure was on us, because our previous game we had beaten them by one try and we had to win this so it would be 2-0 wins to us.

Getting ready in the hall Lorenzo & I were worried if we were allowed to be playing because it was a under 68/70 ish kilogram game, but they didn't have enough players so we were going to be fill ins or water boys. I really wanted to play. All the boys were called out through the intercom to bring their gear & come to the hall.They looked surprised to see us.

Arriving at the fields our coach and manager asked the coach if Lorenzo & I could play for this game, and he said yes, we were happy as. Warming up we just did dynamic stretches, and slow jogs up to our coach Marzel. Then he named the starting line up and I was coming off the bench.

“Brrrrr” the ref blew the whistle and it was time to kick off...... Once I got on field, some of the Sacred Heart players our team knew where staring at me. They said “Isn't he overweight”, And I said “So what”. Again the ref blew the whistle and pointed to the spot because we had scored the opening try, it went to Jabez one of the fastest on the field. We were all happy to score the first try. The first half we were leading 10-5.

2nd half had begun and I was slowly getting tired so I started to get angrier and angrier.Gasping my breath I moved out towards the backline and the ball had come towards me and the spotted a big gap between their center and winger because we had a overlap, the goose stepped and bursted through the gap. I made about 20m and then I eventually got tackled, They scored consecutively and kept us scoreless then we scored, but all our goal kicks had not gone in.

By the end of the game we had scored five tries and they had scored 4, but had got the kicks in. and we lost bye 2 points, to have 1 a piece.