Silver for Valerie Adams

Valerie Adams won silver in the London Olympics women's shot put, beaten by a stunning series of throws by her great rival Nadzeya.
Adam’s silver medal throw was 20.70m, while the gold medal throw was 21.36m. Adam could only manage 20.70. Adam was looking the first person to successfully to defend the women's shot put title since Tamara Press in 1964. Adams was really upset,her goal was to get gold.

All About Me!!

Hi my name is Elizabeth Cecil
I am 11 years old, turning 12 next year.
I'm a year 7.
I go to Pt england school.
My teacher is Ms Squires.
My favourite sports is rugby league and netball.
my favourite instrument is the guitar
My Birthday is 28th of february 2001
I was born in Auckland, New Zealand.
My favourite colour is yellow
I am the third oldest.
My brothers and sisters are Grace,Gerico,Me,
Wakatere,Charles,Charlese and Toks.
In the weekends I go to my nans to go and see my
sister Grace cause she lives my nan.
My brother toks he is the youngest he is 3 he has Cancer,
sometimes he goes to the hospital to go for a check up to make sure
he’s allright.
So thats all about me.

Precious Mckenzie.

South Africa has a hero who remains unsung in his country of birth. Precious Mckenzie had to overcome numerous trials during his lifetime to become the sportsman who some herald as one of the all-time greats. Despite enduring incredible hardships, he is known by all who cross his path as an endearing person, for his humble dignity and lack of bitterness. The diminutive weightlifter continues to be an inspiring role-model, years after his retirement.

Precious Mckenzie was born in the Red Cross Hospital, Durban, in 1936. At the age of three he was hospitalised with complications due to fever, and his remaining chest condition was pronounced incurable. His mother Christina celebrated his survival by baptizing him Precious One. The same year another tragedy traumatized the McKenzie family when father and breadwinner Joseph was killed by a crocodile in the Limpopo river. As a result his mother started to drink heavily, soon having to give up her children for foster care. Precious and his sister then became victims of witch-like foster mothers and suffered such injuries and malnutrition as to stunt their physical growth - both grew no taller than 4ft10”. Of his mother Precious says:
“She was a woman who treated us so badly, she was the real devil…but my sister and I have forgiven her. No matter who it is, you have to forgive eventually.”

Precious’s athletic ability was first recognised at age 11 in Pofadder, at a Catholic mission where a Father Franklin encouraged and trained him in gymnastics. He returned to his mother in Pietermaritzburg at age 17 and worked in a local shoe factory, soon proving to be a stand-out employee and popular co-worker. But Precious’ ambition was to work in a circus. He laboured at this dream in Steve’s Gym, working out at 5:30 every morning, but the dream was thwarted when he had to hear from the travelling circus that his skin colour was wrong. Fortunately Kevin Stent,

trainer and coach at Steve’s Gym, encouraged him to try weightlifting and he took to the sport with a natural flair that rapidly brought him accolades – in 1958 he won the Natal Bantamweight weightlifting-title.
So thats how he is a very fomouse New Zealand bantamweight lifter.

Art Alive

Henri Matisse & pablo Picasso

Matisse Picasso

Mattise and Picasso were both living in the same era. They are two of the world’s most famous artists. Picasso is a very unusual artist who has tried painting many different styles. Henri Matisse’s are more realistic.They both have a painting that includes the same subject, a potrait of a women. PIcaso’s painting is called, ‘The Weeping Women’.  Henry matises is called The Women with a hat. It shows a lady sufferring from the spanish of the other famouse artis.civil war.  

The theme is about the weeping woman witch Pablo Picasso drew.
And the other theme is about the woman with the hat witch Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis In northern france. his parents owns a genaral store where they sold household goods and seeds. Henri matisse was their first son. When Henri Matisse was a young man, he traveled to paris to study law. When he was 21 yrs old his mother gave him a paint box. In 1891 Matisse traveled to paris to study art academie julian. His first teacher told him that he would never learn to draw. In 1954, at the age of 84, Matisse died a recognized leader in modern art. He was later praised as a supporter of the classical tradition in french painting. In the 1840’s Matisse began creating paper collages.


Palbo PIcaso was born in Malaga, Spain on 25 October 1887. In 1900 Picasso made his first trip to paris. At the time Paris was considered to be the art capital of Europe.  While in Paris Picasso's work began to attract the attention of art collectors. It was through when he meet an french artist Henri Matisse. The two became life longing Friends. He also became a printer a painter and drawer.

Kiwi Kick!!!

As we were walking to the courts I could she trees moving and the leaves falling. My teeth was chatering and I shirvered my fingers felt numb so I rubbed them together briskly. “ I hope kiwi kick is going to be fun”. I said to my friend hopefully. Every Thursday Rm 20 has Sam and Anita here to teach us some kiwi kick skills.

Sam teached us how to do the pirate arm, Hand pass, chest pass, specky, and the drop punt. We learned alot from Sam. The other one was Anita she was the one that let us play games with her. We played octapus, and the one that you need to hand pass the ball and try and hit it on the teachers, and if you are in you have to hand pass to the kids that get pass its like octapus.

When Anita blew the whisel we came to sam and sat down, he showed us a litlle tip for handpass, he told us to pretend that you have a plate in your hand, only on one hand, and the other hand you pretend that you have a Ice-cream. Then you swing the hand that has a ice cream in it. You will hit the plate and that will go to the other person. After that we all standed up then we had to choose a person, i coose Sesalina both of us tryed very well.

My Mihimihi

Ko Maungarei te maunga

Ko Tamaki te awa

Kei Glenn Innes toku kainga noho

No Cook Island no Aotearoa ahau

Ko Pt England toku kura

Ko Motutapu Cecil oku koro

Ko Pikiteora Cecil raua ko Elizabeth Benioni oku kuia

Ko Wakatere Cecil toku matua

Ko Elizabeth Tomokino toku whaea
Tekau ma tahi oku tau

Ko Elizabeth  toku ingoa
No rei ra tena koutou tena koutou  tena ra koutou katoa