Hiwi the kiwi

Mark de Lacy aka (The Minstrel) and his wife Tanya de Lacy (Chrissy) came to Pt England school for a Hiwi the kiwi fishing project. On 25th of august Hiwi the kiwi came and performed the important of fishing like: Why wearing a life jackets is important, he taught us about the SOS, SOS stands for save our seagulls that's one important thing to save. One thing I want to do is yell this out: Family's out there that go fishing 5 important things that you need to take: 1 is a fishing ruler, 2 a wet towel to pick the fish up with and 3 take water mixed with salt. 3 things that your supposed to know about catching or fishing is that when you catch a fish you HAVE to hold it with a wet towel so that you don't hurt any of it's skin. When taking a fish ruler you have to measure the fish so that you don't take a really small one or even a huge one. if you take a bucket of water you have to put salt in it so that you don't kill the fish when you put it straight in. 1 thing I learnt from Hiwi the Kiwi is that when you go fishing you have to take every single fishing types. One thing about Mark is that he is a really good man that goes fishing and is smart to know what to take. His wife Tanya is a good cook and a good dancer. They are a happy and perfect married couple! Here are some videos for you to check out: CLICK HERE

Peter Burling Rio Olympics

Peter Burling is a sailor for 2016's Rio Olympics. Peter was born on Tuesday 1st of January 1991, Peter then turned 21 and was the younger 49er sailor at the 2012 London Olympics, Tauranga is his hometown and he use to be in the Tauranga Yacht and powerboat club. Burling was the skipper of the winning boat in the 2013 Red Bull Youth Americas Cup. Peter started sailing in 2006 in the 420 world champions. He came 1st in 9 competitions and came 2nd others then went far from 1st and 2nd to 3rd in 3 competitions, he went really far from 1st, 2nd and 3rd to 11th in only 1 competition.

Meeting some companies from Tamaki Collage.

Saia and Gabe are Tamaki collage students, they also went with Andrew Patterson and Jason Sharma. They were chosen to go to a lot of companies they went: Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, Apple, Twitter, Ideo, Xero, Alcatraz, Google, America, Stanford University. When they came back they told us about what there favourite places were and about the ALCATRAZ prison, they talked about the three prisoners the escaped from the Alcatraz prison, the prison was shut down in June 1962 the local FBI did not find any clue for where they were gone, they never found there body. If you want to watch the movie or video then this is the title: Escape From Alcatraz. 

Elizabeth Lizzie Cui

Elizabeth Lizzie Cui will be New Zealand’s first Olympic diver in 2016. Cui will compete in the women’s 3m individual springboard diving, Cui’s hard work finally paid off. Eighteen-year-old Lizzie began springboard diving at the age of nine years and she will be celebrating her 19th birthday at the Games during the diving preliminary round stage. She was born in 1997 and she is 1.59cm tall, lizzie is thrilled to fulfill her dream and make it her family and New Zealand PROUD!

 

T.O.P.S The River

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