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I am a year eight student at Ngatea Primary School. I like to play netball, swim and do art. My teachers are Mrs Hull, Miss Boberg, Miss Coles and Miss Williams. Feel free to leave comments. I hope that you enjoy my blog!

Sunday, 30 August 2015

Princess Diana

Image result for princess DianaMost kids have never heard of Princess Diana that's because she died in a car crash in Paris. She had two children, Prince Harry and Prince William. Diana was born July first 1961. Princess Diana got married to Prince Charles, the son of Queen Elizabeth, they were married for 18 years. While married, Diana bore the titles Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay and Countess of Chester. Diana remained the object of worldwide media study during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media attention and public grief was very large after her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, her funeral was televised. Princess Diana loved to help others around the world she did a lot of charity work. Diana grew up in Park House which is on the Queen's Sandringham Estate,n 1968, Diana was sent to Riddlesworth Hall School, an all-girls boarding school. While she was young, she attended a local public school. She did not shine academically, and was moved to West Heath Girls School she was later reorganised to The New School at West Heath in Sevenoaks, Kent, where she was regarded as a poor student, having attempted and failed all of her O-levels twice. However, she showed a particular talent for music as an accomplished pianist. Her outstanding community spirit was recognised with an award from West Heath In 1977, she left West Heath and briefly attended Institut Alpin Videmanette, a finishing school in Rougemont, Switzerland. At about that time, she was united with her future husband, who was in a romantic relationship with her older sister, Sarah. Diana also excelled in swimming and diving, and longed to be a professional ballerina with the Royal Ballet. She studied ballet and tap dance throughout her childhood and teenage years, but felt she grew too tall for the profession. After leaving Institut Alpin Videmanette she moved to London. She began working with children, eventually becoming a nursery assistant at the Young England School. In 1975 she became Lady Diana Spencer after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer. Her wedding to the Prince of Wales was on 29 of July 1981. It was held at St Pauls Cathedral and it reached a world wide viewing that was more than 750 million people. Throughout Diana's life she was classified as a rebel.  Her work with victims of AIDS could in some ways be seen in this regard. She was one of the first very high profile people to be pictured touching those afflicted with AIDS this had a significant impact in changing people’s opinions and attitudes to the disease it was certainly a charity not following the protocol and tradition of the Royal family. As Princess of Wales, Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions overseas. She was celebrated for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. From 1989, she was president of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in addition to dozens of other charities. In my opinion Diana was a life saver with all the charity work that she did, to me I really like it how she put others before her and never gave up.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

J-Rock Performance

On Tuesday 16th of June Ngatea Primary School participated in J-Rock at Claudelands Arena. I was one out of fifty four children that did it I was one of Julie's friends.I chose to do J-Rock because I thought I would try something new and see how it would go. Well I guess I chose right because I have enjoyed the whole thing so much and really just the whole experience of it was amazing. Just before we went on stage we had to let all of the nervousness go and  just enjoy the moment and try your best. We got awarded four awards I'm not sure what they were but it doesn't really matter because we all enjoyed it. J-Rock is a on stage dance performance that tells you a story without talking. Our performance was about the gaming world. The main character is Julie (the one wearing the red dress) For her bithday she gets a console for her birthday, although she has to make a choice between her friends or the console. But she starts getting confused of what is real and what is not.

Here is a link so you can see our rehearsal that we did for the school and parents. Hope you enjoy this exciting performance. Also check out our prep video and the real one underneath!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSjl0Ap7-Ck
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYOo3JPtnWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTnksiph73c


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Tuesday, 9 June 2015

What I Would Do With One Million Dollars


This week I am doing my blog post about what I would do with one million dollars. There is a list of what I would buy down the right side of the page. If I was able to buy all of this I think that I would be living a dream probably living a life of a millionaire. There are a few pictures one of my house, the cutest puppy ever and my customised converse. When I was doing this post I had to think quite a bit about what I would do with the leftover money I was thinking and I finally decided that I would give it to a charity I searched up some charities and I found the Cancer Foundation I'm not sure how much money I would have left because it was too hard to take that much away from on million but it is more than 50,00 dollars.







Monday, 1 June 2015

Queen's Birthday Weekend, Is her birthday really in June?

The Queen's real birthday is actually April 21, 1926 so her age is 89. The Queen’s Birthday is celebrated in New Zealand on the first Monday of June each year. In other parts of the world, however, it’s celebrated at different times. In the UK, for instance it can fall variously on the first, second or third Saturday of June and it’s not even a public holiday. In Canada it’s rolled in with Victoria Day and is celebrated on Queen Victoria’s birth date of 24th May. And the Aussies take their Queen’s Birthday day off on the second Monday in June. How can one woman have so many different birthdays? Well, the holidays celebrated in Commonwealth countries to mark the Sovereign’s birthday mark the Queen’s official birthday, not her real one of 21st April 1926.The fact that holidays for the Queen’s official birthday fall on different dates in different countries is a result of historical tradition.


Monday, 25 May 2015

Inspirational Quote

I chose the quote " Today you are you that is truer than true there is no-one alive that is youer than you " because it makes you feel like you are the only you and no-one can take that away from you, no-one can copy you, you are one in a million. I also like the way that Doctor Suess said the quote it like he is saying you are the only you so be nice to others because you only have one life so use it wisely.


Tuesday, 21 April 2015

ANZAC Day

In World War One over 37 million people were sent to fight, 20 million were wounded and around 16 million people were killed. On Christmas Day France, Britain, Germany and Russia all stopped fighting to show respect. Nurses were also sent over to help the soldiers that were wounded. The soldiers loved ones send them mail but lots of it got sent back into the sack. In New Zealand we celebrate WWI and WWII with ANZAC Day, it is on the 25 of April it is on that day because that's when the NZ soldiers landed in Gallipoli. Anzac day is to show that we care and respect about the people who fought for us back then. This year is 100 years since they landed in Gallipoli. We celebrate it by having a dawn parade. The war was directly blamed by the victors Kaiser's Germany,  it was Germany that started the war.

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Sunday, 19 April 2015

Whetu Camp

This Year for camp Whetu went to Totara Springs there were lots of different activities like flying fox, crate stacking, water-slide, eeling and lots lots more. The thing that I really enjoyed most was probably having the experience of going on camp at Totara Springs. I had never been there before so it was a great place for me to have fun and explore. One night we went on the Burma Trail and I was the first one to go on it and all we had to do was hold on to the rope and walk By the time I was at the 5th tree something had already grabbed my foot flung something in my face and made really creepy noises. I had a blast there and I just enjoyed it so much by doing it with my teachers, my friends and class.

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

J-Rock

Last week I found out I got into J-Rock. J-Rock is a on stage performance that  Primary and High Schools can enter. It is a competitive competition. It is in Hamilton at the Claudelands Arena. I am one of the friends of the main character. I am really enjoying rehearsing and learning the new dance moves. This is the 2013 group:



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