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Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Hayden Wilde

( This is not my writing it is from the Olympic site, but the question are mine )

New Zealand's Hayden Wilde (R) in action during the race. Photo: ReutersHayden Wilde, the Whakatane athlete who now calls Tauranga home, has won New Zealand's first medal of Tokyo 2020, winning bronze in the Men's triathlon.

A stunning run leg from the 23-year-old saw him continue New Zealand's fine tradition in the sport, becoming the third New Zealander to win an Olympic medal behind Hamish Carter (gold in Athens) and Bevan Docherty (silver in Athens, bronze in Beijing).

After finding himself in the third group in the bike and in a potentially vulnerable position, Wilde's group caught the lead bunch on lap five of the eight-lap bike and he was never outside the lead group in the run that was whittled to three by the final of four laps.

For all money it appeared the medals were decided; it would just be a matter of how Wilde, Great Britain's Alex Yee and Norway's Kristian Blummenfelt would divvy them up.

 

 

 

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Thursday, 8 July 2021

Word Art

 


Facts about Matariki

 Let's celebrate Matariki | National Library of New Zealand

Did you know that Matariki is a Maori new year, yea you should know by now. Most people think that Matariki is a constellation but Matariki is a cluster and Matariki is one of the star clusters near earth. Believe it or not but there's actually 500 stars but 6 or 7 are visible without the telescope. Next year on the 24th of June will be the first Matariki public holiday. Matariki is traditionally a time to get together to share kai harvested from past seasons. Cook a mid-winter feast for friends and whānau using traditional Māori vegetables such as kumara, kamo kamo, taro, puha and uwhi. There are many other delicious foods you could cook as well.


Thursday, 3 June 2021

Lost in the Woods


 On a Beautiful day 4 students were selected to participate in a camp. There was a teacher and her name was Mary, the children were excited for the camping trip. Their names were  Nixon, Teagen, Jordan and Ryan. Their trip was on the next day so they packed a lot of things because the trip was a week and the trip was somewhere in the woods. The next day they arrived at school then hopped in Mary’s white van. The 4 students noticed something in Mary’s car. They heard weird things at the back but they were too scared to go see. When they arrived there it was late, at 9.00pm. After that they came across a sign that said no trespassing, and the interesting thing was that we found an abandoned house not far from their camping site. 



At around 5am they heard a creepy sound so they peaked through the window. They couldn’t believe what they saw, they saw Mary taking out people from her car, “ wait a minute is that why we heard creepy sounds in Mary’s car” said Nixon. “ “Maybe that's it, this all makes sense now that's why she came with a white van”. “I don’t feel safe here, I think we should leave,” said Teagen. They weren’t safe but lucky they had a phone. The first thing they did was to call the police. They couldn’t believe what happened so they had to rush because it was so dangerous. When the police arrived they saw people full of blood on the floor, but they reached there on time because this man named Justin had a knife and stabbed Mary on the back straight away. All the children were shocked and shouted so loud for help and the police keeped the children safe while the other policemen did their job. After they did their investigation they took the students back to their houses and arrested Justin for stabbing Mary but Justin explained about what happened and the police let him go. All the kids were devastated at what they saw. When they arrived at their houses the policeman said they can’t go camping in the woods ever again because of the incident that recently happened. So Nixon, Teagen, Jordan and Ryan listened to the policemen and never went camping in the woods again but they still went camping somewhere else. 10 years later, Nixon, Teagan, Jordan and Ryan grew up and they all worked at mai fm and they all lived a happy life. They all were happy with what they did as grown ups because they all are successful.