THE LONG LOST ISLAND

Once upon a time
there were 4 girls named Dannielle, Jaysha, Autumn and Tasha were going on a fabulous trip out to sea. we all agreed on going and we were packing to go this weekend but there was one problem we didn't have a boat so our trip had gotten postponed until next week. we were all trying to get a boat. about two days latter Tasha rang Jaysha and Autumn and myself (Dannielle) to meet at the near by park. while we were making our way there we had realized that we never meet unless it was major. She had wonderful news she was able to borrow her cousins boat so we would have been able to go. wow we were all able to go so we all rushed home and delivered our awesome news to our parents and other family. so a couple of days later we all packed our bags and went on our fab trip. at 9.00 on a Saturday we all set off and started our new journey. we were all ready and started the boat it went like nothing. As we were in the middle of the sea we had noticed this really big amazing island it looked exotic and all of the above so we went to check it out but Jaysha said that it was further than we thought and it will take a lot longer than planned! suddenly the boat putted out and we felt it sinking because there as a hole in the bottom so we all quickly jumped out a started to swim we all had to stick together we all said! So as we were swimming it was really far and each of us were getting tired. Jaysha and i had stopped for a rest as we were tired. Shortly Autumn had stopped. Not long after Tasha started to stop we all huddled to try keep together but the sun was out so it wasn't to bad. later we arrived to the gorgeous island we all wanted to have a sleep because we had been swimming for about 15 minutes non stop. once we were back up and ready to check it out we were starting to explore this long lost island. when suddenly we had saw this person and Autumn asked "if he could help us" then an immediate answer he said" sure how can i help you" well Dannielle had said we kind of were wondering where we were? can we get out of here? and many more! and who are you? this man was named his name was Eron! "well hi Eron we all said" "so how long have you been here" said Tasha "well a few weeks " he replied "can we get off" Jaysha said "were is your boat" he asked well we all laughed "well it kind of sunk" said Dannielle. should we try and find another boat we all said well i have only been here a couple of weeks and there other boats on this island. we had to find food because we were all hungry and we left our food on the boat to save our self. we spent two days looking for another boat and was unsuccessful. But positive was we found food like coconuts off the trees and a couple of bananas and Mangoes. Days had passed we still were unable to get off so we decided to try build a boat as we found woods and other bits and pieces a week later we had a boat for five to fit on our island made boat so we all got home safely
The End!

Noho marae!

Hello my name is Dannielle
and I'm going to tell you about the year 8 Noho Marae well it was in term 1 and it was the most favourite Noho i had ever been because it was all of the things you could wish to have and really relate and learn to our Maori people living in our area. also it was one of the best experiences i have ever attended. well if you read down i will be able to explain what we did and how we did all of the awesome things we did and why we did it where we did who went and when.

well first of all who went: The year 8s of the Challenge Academy
what did we do when we were there: well we done a lot of fun games and activity's including Waka Ama some sports rotations while the boys done Ti Aha also we had a mini tour and we went to the museum lastly we went to the Aquatic center and then traveled back to school and went home from there!
why: because it was a school wide thing and it was meant to learn about the history of the area and it related to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi
When: we went on the 23rd of March in term 1!
where: our Noho Marae was at Tunohopu Marae
How: we all arrived with our own rides but we had it all organized by all the teachers in Challenge Academy and all the other teachers who helped thank you!

Training for Sport Camp!

Training for Sports Camp!
well training for sports camp is so much fun because we get to try all these different sports that well we have not played or maybe not even herd of before so whilst training i will tell you why, where, when, what, who and how we train for sports camp so keep reading and i will tell you more.

Why do we train for sports camp well simply because we want to be prepared to compete in sports. We will be going to Totara Springs in term 3 for a week to compete in 28 -30 sports. Also why is because its a great experience for all the students from Kaitao Challenge Academy to learn more things and sports that you may compete other schools in.

Where well the camp is placed in Mata Mata its called Totara springs its a big camp which it really fun to be at.

When: the sports camp is in week 5 of term 3 which is coming up really soon so we need to start training hard and as much as possible so we can go to sports camp and give them competition. also we only have 8 more weeks of training left.

What are we going for and training for?
We are going to play sports and have the time of our life (well not really) we really want to win some trophies once again like last year we took the whole camp out with the best overall students. we also won 6 other trophies and 7 runners up. we are training to go prepared and ready to give them a run for there money!

Who are going: there is 38 people all up and 20 of them are girls and 18 boys are going to be attending this awesome camp the best part about it is that its going to be all challenge students to represent Kaitao at Sports Camp.

How do we train: well all 38 students from challenge train every Friday as were getting closer and closer to our goal of getting to the best ability to participate in all the different sports at the camp. so that's how we train a tiny bit about our success of wining last year but not to mention why were and what we do at sports camp.

Saturday Netball.

Every Wednesday and Thursday after noon at about 3.15 pm the Kahurangi team meets at Kaitao to train for Saturday netball on our school AstroTurf. The AstroTurf is lined and measured out for a netball court. We start of with a nice easy warm up which is 3 laps of the netball court , then we move onto the shuttles we do that 3 times, then we move onto ball skills which brings us to half of our training, After we go onto working with one part of the court last week it was mid court. Strait after we go to half court to finish up our trainings.


Saturday morning! at the netball courts our Netball team should arrive at about 10.20am but our game is not until 11.00am the reason being is because we have to warm up before our game but we arrive at 10.20am because we all need to group before we start to warm up. For our warm up, simply we run around all the courts at the Westbrook Netball Courts later we go to stretches then go onto ball skills like passing and jumping along whilst keeping on our toes and other drills like that. After our warm up its time to take our positions on the court and wait for the bell to signal our time to start playing!

ME MYSELF AND I !

...Me Myself and I...
name:Dannielle!
age:12
siblings: 1 brother 1 sister
My Animals:1 dog 1 cat 1 bird 3 fish
M Favourite Animals: kittens/cats
Favourite colour: aqua hot pink
Favourite Food: Hangi
Favourite Sports: Netball, volley ball, soccer, badminton
Favourite car: Ford
movies:TWILIGHT, comedy, freaky
Books: Duster, TWILIGHT
My Songs:LET ME SIGN Robbert Pattinson (twilight actor) All my life, first time
Favourite chocolate: picnic
Favourite years of school life:My 2 years at Kaitao
Favourite teachers: AppleZ and Matua Daryl
Favourite fruits: Grapes and Strawberries, pineapple
favourite number: 27, 16,
lucky numbers 1, 7
Best Friends: Taylor, Sommer, Jaysha