Netball Prize Giving

We had netball prize giving last night. A lot of parents gathered around in the hall and they brought along some food. It started at 6:00. We had to eat first before the award ceremony. There was heaps of food, more then I was expecting. I was lucky to grab the last sushi on the plate. There were also drinks and the only thing I didn't like about it was that it wasn't sweet.

After everyone ate we went and sat back down for the award ceremony. Each team had to make a chant or just do their cheer they always do on the court. Miss Va'afusuanga started from the Yr 1 teams all the way to the Yr 8 teams. Miss V would say everyone in the team and they would get a certificate and then there are three special certificates for best sportsmanship, most valuable player and most improved player.

As soon as Miss V got to the Yr 7&8's the crowd went louder. I was suprised when Miss said Sela got the best sportsmanship for this year in their team. When the year 7 team one did their chant everyone started laughing because Sela kinda mucked up. For our team Anamei got most improved player, Taamai got best sportsmanship and Sisilia got most valuable player. Our whole team got a chocolate and a certificate.

Playing netball has been a pleasure and I've enjoyed playing this year. I'm really going to miss playing for Point England. Thanks to Miss Paget and Valerie (Anamei's mum) for coaching us and feeding us after every game. You's made us a great team and also thanks for your guys support. I'll always remember our team Yr 8 Soul.

Plastic Bags Should Be Banned!

To: Prime Minister - John Key

Plastic bags should be banned. I am writing this letter to tell you that you need to do something about it. A lot of people have been chucking plastic bags around and its so light that the wind blows it away and sometimes ends up in the sea. Sea creatures can eat it and heaps of them die.

Plastic bags should have stricter rules. The price should go up and make people realize that its a waste of money buying plastic bags. Plastic bags nowadays are really dangerous.

When the plastic bags fly away and end up in the ocean, the sea creatures thinks it’s food so they end up eating it. The best thing to do is to ban these plastic bags. We can have more healthy living sea creatures in this world.

Plastic bags have caused a lot of damage to our sea animals and birds also. It’s also bad for our environment. As a concerned student, I think that our supermarkets should be banned from giving out too many free plastic bags.

This world would be really better without plastic bags! Plastic bags need to be banned immediately.

Yours Sincerely

Asena

Pt England School

Why Kids Should Exercise Everyday

My argument is based on why exercising everyday is good.

One of the reasons why exercising is good is because it helps with your sports. For example athletes practice and work hard everyday to get a placing in the Olympics. Practice, practice, practice, makes perfect.

Another reason why exercising is good is because it helps you get fit. When you get fit it helps you better in sports and events at school like cross country and athletics. It also gives you good result like a placing or you can also achieve a medal or something.

Exercising everyday can help make your bones stronger too. When your bones are strong you can do mainly anything you want to do or wished to do. Milk can also help your bones!

When your fit you feel a lot more better and your confidence builds. Your happy about yourself and sometimes even make into everything you try at school. Exercising sometimes fix problems, if your not happy about yourself then maybe try exercising.

These are some of the reasons why exercising everyday is good. It can do a lot of things. Your more confident when your around people.

Commonwealth Games Canada

Canada is one of the countries competing in the commonwealth games.

Canada is located in the continent North America. The population is 35 million. They speak more than one language, English and French. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa.

The most popular sport known in Canada is hockey, soccer and baseball. The color of their flag is red and white. They have a leaf on their flag which is known as the maple leaf.

Canada has teams competing in field hockey, boxing, table tennis, badminton, swimming and many more. I reckon Canada is going to be really good and win in hockey because that’s their main sport. They always play it back in their country.

Holidays

These holidays were boring to be honest. I spent the whole holidays in Mangere with a few of my first cousins.

My uncle asked us on the first week if we wanted to go watch movies and we all said yes, but then he said he was lying! We were all really angry because he played a trick on us.

All we did was stay home, clean the whole house and just watch t.v! Boring right? We would always get in trouble every single morning for waking up late. Like what? Its the holidays, we can wake up anytime or sleep anytime.

The second week of holidays was way better than the first week. We had more food and more fun movies came on t.v! On Friday night (2nd week of holidays) we went to Sylvia Park to watch movie. All the movies were too late so we just went to the food court and had butter chicken. We then went to ice skating but we didn't go in because the queue was too long. So we went to countdown and bought junk and went home.

I am really expecting a more fun and way better holidays next time!

Commonwealth Games Facts

5 Facts that I already know about the Commonwealth Games:

1	Commonwealth games is like olympics
2	Theres 71 countries in it
3	Commonwealth game started in 1930 and goes on every four years
4	A lot of sports included
5	Soccer/Football, Gymnastics, Netball are included in the commonwealth games

Useful links:

http://www.glasgow2014.com/sites/default/files/attached-files/Glasgow%202014%20Factsheet.pdf

http://www.gameonscotland.org/glasgow2014/

http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/2014/100-facts-about-the-games.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2290636/Commonwealth-Games-2014--Facts-Figures.html

10 new facts that I found out about the Commonwealth Games: (include a link to the site where you found your information. Your information needs to be in your own words)

1	Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales have attended every game
2	The first Commonwealth Games was held in Hamilton, Canada in 1930.
3	Scotland hosted the games in 1970 and 1986
4	50% of people in the Commonwealth are under 25 years old
5	Four hundred athletes from eleven countries competed over 6 sports and 59 events in 1930.
6	Willie Wood, a lawn bowler from Scotland, was the first competitor to compete in seven Commonwealth Games, from 1974 to 2002
7	Greg Yelavich, a sports shooter from New Zealand, won twelve medals in seven games from 1986 to 2010
8	Four nations have won just one Commonwealth medal. Gambia and the Norfolk Islands is at the bottom with a single bronze
9	Thirty one of the commonwealth members have a population size of 1.5 million people or less
10	At the 2014 games there will be 6,500 athletes 71 nations competing in 17 sports over 11 days

Boxing at the Olmpics!!!

This is a picture I created on Pixlr about me competing at the 2012 London Olympic Games. There are also a lot of pictures we took on flickr. If you want to have a look at some of the pictures here is a link ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehsasnz/ )!!! I hope you liked my picture!!