For the last few Mondays and Tuesdays the Year 8 girls have been learning self defence with our teacher Linda. She has taught us how to keep ourselves safe in dangerous situations. We learnt lots of real stories from other kids that Linda has taught. We were taught what to do if anything happens to us like if we were grabbed from the back or someone is trying to pull us in a car. She told us to be loud and make a scene so we get people addition or to scary the attacker off . My favourite was the behind strangle where someone tries to strangle you from the back and you pull their arm down and stomp on their foot then run away. Overall I REALLY enjoyed self defence and I really do recommend it to younger kids going into high school.

Week 9 term 1. This week I have had a pretty good week. On Wednesday I wrote letters to the council about why I do not like the school lunches and what’s bad about them I found that fun because I’m not a fan of the school lunches and I would like them to be changed. A challenge I faced was in maths when I didn’t understand the question and was struggling but then I asked my friend for some help then I got. Overall I have enjoyed this week and am excited to see what week 10 brings me and my goal for next week is to work hard on my maths.

For the last few weeks of this term every Friday we do something called action stations I picked theatre Sports. What we do is play theatre Sports games and me and some of my friends made a little play about animals doing a swimming race I was in a group with Daisy Zita Malaya and Paige I found it fun and I would do it again.

This week has been really great, here is how it went. This morning I did a test for maths I got 58/60 on 7 times tables and division and I’m very proud of myself for that. On Thursday I went to tech. For tech I’m doing digital technology With our teacher Ms Gorman. I coded a timer on this parkour game to see how fast I can play it I fished it and played it it was hard but I found it also fun. I wonder what week 7 will bring me.

My fitness goal is to do the whole confidence course nonstop. The only thing that is stopping me from doing the whole confidence course is the blue climbing frame part.I  find it scary because of how high it is and I feel like I will fall but one day I will get courage to do it and achieve my goal.

This week has been the 2nd week of school this year and this is how my week went.

This week I have enjoyed going to year 8 tech. I am doing digital technology with miss Gorman I really like her because she lets me and my friends help each other and work together. I enjoyed  what we did we were coding and making a game. To me it wasn’t too hard and I like that.

What I found challenging was being in a new maths group with Mr Redmond. My old maths group was with talei and that was last year. So far I have been enjoying Mr Redmond’s maths group its giving me a challenge in maths and I like that and I feel like that is getting me ready for high school maths.

This week was the first week of 2025 school year I am a year 8 now and it feels a bit weird that I am a year 8 and the oldest year group of the school but is does feels good to see my friends after the 6 week holiday but I do like the new routine this year.

One of my biggest positives this week is that I have talked to some new people and reconnected with some of my old friends. And I have also really enjoyed my new Kaiawhina group and I have 5 good friends in that group.

A few of my challenges I’ve faced is I keep going to the wrong shelf for my bag and shoes because I am on the year 8 shelf now and not being around some of my friends that are now year 9’s in high school.

I am excited to see what week 2 has for me.

This afternoon I did action station. Action station is something that the year 4,5,6,7 and 8’s do on a Friday afternoon. This term I picked a quiz night with Sharon I found it very fun. My favourite part was writing our team name, our team name was Supercalafrajaliscticxbeladoshes and it took Only a few seconds to write it but I think I spelt it a big wrong. But I was on a team with Eliza and pagie and we came first.

These last few weeks I have been learning about how to be safe online and what to do if you are getting cyber bullied. Me Stella and kelsi made a video of how to be safe on the internet. she asked us seniors and what we would do in those sensors and we had to say what we would do in the saturation.