For the last three weeks on Monday and and Tuesday the year eight girls at Rawhiti School have been learning Self-Defence with Linda our Self-Defence teacher. We had five lessons over the three weeks, two Tuesdays and three Mondays. We learnt different kicks and punches and several techniques to defend ourselves during any situations that make us uncomfortable. We learnt how to use our voices when being grabbed or touched or get an uneasy feeling about a man near you.

Linda had told us stories about young girls defending themselves to dangerous men, she acted out scenarios with us as volunteers. At the last session she gave us a wristband, a poster and a certificate. I really enjoyed my time at Self-Defence class, Linda was really nice and I would like to do it again sometime in the future.

Sharons group did a task about finding schools with the RISE values (including respect), here is mine and Bella’s  graph:

This week was cool, in tech we did product design and made coasters online on an app named ‘Tinkercad’. This week we also did PAT tests, maths and reading. I only did the reading one because I was not here the day we did the maths. It was really easy and I enjoyed it. I wonder what next week will bring. I really liked tech, I did writing I did hoola hooping with Sharon for the contest thing at third break it was really really fun.

this is my safe river scene that I made with Shanara and Amelia. It’s gorgeous.

This week was my 3rd week at tech and this is a reflection of how it went.

The bus ride there was a bit noisy but I dealt with it. For tech I’m in group 8A and we do Product Design. I finished doing my key tab and now I’m on my coaster and it’s going really well. I think I will try to finish all six coasters next time.

I did 30 minutes on Duolingo for mahi a tahi! I learnt French, I learnt how to say hello (bonjour) I learnt how to say goodbye (adios) I learnt many things and I think I’m gonna do Duolingo each week!!

four unsafe things in the picture:

Falling off the canoe – they could drown and get stuck underneath the water by the canoe on top of them.

Jumping into water – not safe at all because they don’t know how deep the water is and there is no jumping sign.

Pushing a person into the water – they are wearing clothes that could get really heavy when they are wet so they could cause him to drown.

Jumping off rope when a person under you – you will land on top of them and both of them could drown and hurt themselves.

My fitness goal is run around the whole bike track with only stopping once. I will do this and once I have I will set another goal.

This week was our third week back at school, and it’s coming to an end.  This week I went to tech for the first time in 2025.  I got put in the product design group for tech. I forgot my teachers name because he never told us 🙁 that’s really all that happened this week, pretty boring. Next week I’m looking forward to seeing my friends again.