Athletics - Athena

This years athletics was way better than last year, in my opinion. Again I was in the house Puriri, our chant was alright I only liked on of them. But it was still better than last year. I watched most of the events but my favourite was watching the high jump. In the end Puriri ended up coming 3rd or last idkm8.

Athletics - Kayde

For me my athletics experience was fun! This was my second year at high school and my second, not to mention best athletics yet at Tamaki College. Our chant for Puriri was AWESOME to set a good vibe for the athletics day. Although we didn't end up as the eventual winners, I still had fun. I competed in many sports, but didn't win any, and again I had fun! That was the main idea of the day, so yeah I HAD FUN!

Athletics - Matthew

Athletics wasn't as cool as last year. But it was still a fun experience. The costumes were amazing. I had fun and I like to watch people run. It was hot the whole day. It was stink how we couldn't wear paint and bandanas. Athletics was fun

Athletics - Joseph

Well the chant sucked half of it didn't make sense and the other half was just annoying and the walk out there we kept stopping for no reason its weird, Mr Harris was going to deduct points off us we were so slow. What next? The weather rain, sun, cloud, rain, sun, cloud and the grass was all pointy and hurt my bum. I slept most of the day and got my face burnt but apart from allllllll of that it was a good day.

Athletics - Caroline

Last minute chant practises . Strictly screaming at us all , expecting perfection . 10 Pfn remains in the same house Puriri . Rata begins with a big bang. As each house stands up and perform their chants it gets more interesting . Difficult to seek for students to participate in most activities . 

Athletics - Tatiana

ATHLETICS DAY! WHAT CAN I SAY? HIDING BEHIND MINO AND SINOLA WERE NO HELP AT ALL!  I HAD TO RUN LIKE 3 TIMES. THE WEATHER WAS LIKE NOT COOL AT ALL BECAUSE I GOT SUNBURNT. OUR CHANT WAS AN ULTRA FAIL  BUT I STILL LIKED IT. I THINK PURIRI CAME 3RD OR LAST BUT WE'RE STILL THE BEST. IT WAS ALSO MS FERGUSONS BIRTHDAY! 

Athletics - Angelica

After a whole period practising the day before, today was the day. A day of chanting, teamwork, representing your house, running, activities and overall fun. It was Tamaki College's Athletics Day for 2014. I had a sore throat and had already lost my voice from practising, however I was excited to represent my house, Puriri for another year. 

After all houses beginning with Puriri, then Rata, followed by Totara and lastly Kowhai made our way to our areas on the field, we started off with the chant battle. 

Totara went up, followed by Rata. Now it was Puriri's turn. We begun with "Blue steady, Puriri are ready". 

After one race, another one came. I competed in the first race, which was the race we had to run around the field 3 times and which gave me 5th place. I also competed in another race which was one whole lap around the field, and came 2nd. The second to last race I competed in was the 100 meter race, and I came 3rd. Lastly I joined the relay race, with a mixture of year 9's and 10's. 

My highlight for Athletics Day 2014 was competing to be very honest. Although we placed third, it was better then coming last. Also even though I didn't come first, competing and participating is what counted. I was proud of Puriri and proud walking around dressed in Blue. 

What a good way to start off this year, and to get closer with everyone. :)

Athletics - Alayzah

I hate Athletics day. Everything about it idek. The chants were better than last year, just a little bit. I didn’t like the chant practice either, the leaders were too bossy. We only got to take two period… ONLY TWO! I like the other teams chants because they were swag. Out march on sucked too. I didn’t participate in any activities because im sweg. Jkidding. Even though we’re the only year ten Puriri class, we did pretty good tbvh. But yeah, shot pfn.

Athletics - Sylvia

Hence the fact that I didn’t participate in anything, I still enjoyed myself supporting from behind the ropes on the field in front of the events taking place. Chant practice before the actual thing started went pretty well, no actually, it looked like the real deal from my persepctive. The performance didn’t go as well as we expected compared to the practice we had but it still reached a good expectation. Oh yeah, I hate Athletics because anything to do with running is stupid. Puriri is cool.

Athletics - Chelsea

It was Athletics day. Puriri, my house color only had the chance to practice our chant for 50 minutes. Were we confident to go out on the field and perform what our house captains had come up with? 

Rata, Kowhai, Totara and Puriri all performed their chant to start the day. There were so many students dressed up as charectors from movies. Everyone looked amazing including the teachers.

I participated in the 200 meter sprint for the year 10 girls. At the end of our race I came 4th place. Overall, I think this years athletics is a day to remember!

Athletics - Tynisha

Personally i hate atheltics, Well not so much atlhletics! just running. the weather wasnt helpful either maaaaaan. 2hot. But this year was alot better. Being the only year ten class sucked though, had to participate in alot more activities then we thought we would. ugh. To be honest,I think of athletics day as a day off school or in this case, no work;'D. The new year nines are fit and little. lel. As athletics come to an end, where we took place didnt really matter as long as our leaders had a good day then so did we. ✌ 

Athletics - Nathaniel

Athletics Day was not that great for me because the weather didn’t want to stay still, changing from rain to sun about 5 times the chants were a fail as many people lost their voices from practicing the day before and finally my team lost and I partook in no challenges.

Athletics - Jarna

Athletics day was awesome! I watch our amazing house Puriri win a few activities. The most thing I enjoyed watching was the races. The reason I enjoyed it was because it looked like the Olympics. People in lanes, running, catching up each other, over taking each other. I really enjoyed it even though I didn't compete. 

Athletics - Mino

Athletics. Puriri (Blue). Joy. 

Commontion roared within the gates of Tamaki College. Tis be the of Athletics. 

I wouldn't call Athletics my fondest day in which I cherish, but a day where I play hide n go seek from the Puriri House Captions. 

They searched within the sea of blue to find contenders for tug of war. As 'invisible' as I was the Puriri house captions notice me. 

So I had to go join the Junior tug of war contest. The loud speaker shouted "PULL!", Puriri was off and in a blink of an eye we lost. 

Round 2. Heave I thought in my mind. We had this in the bag but in the time it takes your heart to beat, victory was swiped away from Totara. 

Overall it was a hot,boiling,scorching,enjoyable day I spent with my tutor class 10PFn. 

Athletics - Hainite

Athletics was a blast, seeing different colours and smiles. Better
chants and better leaders. This year I felt confident with
participating one sport such as discuss. I hope next year will be
better, that way it will be extreme.

Athletics - Alyson

BLUE STEADY, PURIRI IS READY, well that was the first part of the Puriri chant. Well when we were learning the chant it was pretty cool. The chant was not that long not that short but just right. The day came, and it was time for us to do our chant. I reckon that we were quite compared to the other houses. The day was good. I participated in discuss and shot put. Overall the house of Puriri came 3rd. :)

Athletics - Havea

The day before Athletics day was the day we praticed our chant's and my tutor class and I are in the house colour Puriri. For about fifty minutes, we had to pratice at least three chant's and the second one was the longest. To be honest it was boring as, but fun at the same time aye because my ding-dong of a friends and I were mucking around and we were just playing shadow-boxing. 

Then it came to the day of truth, yes it was Athletics days but before the events we had to practice for a little while then we have the performance's. As we practiced, my ding-dong of a friends and I did what we normally do, be idiots and muck around playing shadow boxing, but we already knew the chants so we were all sweet.

As we practiced it came to the moment of truth, and so Puriri marched onto the field like a blue gang of fierce rebels, but really, we're just a bunch of kids. Then we were seated into our area's where we had to stay seated for the remainder of the day but I reckon that was pretty smart organising that, because imagine four different house colours sitting in one group, there'd be colours every where. For the performances, Totara was first, then Rata, then it was us. As we were chanting, the boys and I were still mucking around and then Matthew (one of my ding-dong friends) and I threw Kayde ( the other ding-dong) onto my shoulder and we happily chanted, but MAN was that little guy heavy. After our performance then Kowhai was last but I got to admit, they've probably had the best house performance that I've seen so far.

After all houses performed, we started our athletics days and my friend Saia started Puriri off in the 1500m, and as minutes went by, I followed by going to shot-put, coming in third place and judging by the hugeness of the other boys that were doing shotput, I thought I was going to come last, but no I came third! After shotput I went and had a rest, meaning I went back and mucked around with the boys, for like five minutes.

Then 200m event was going. I wouldn't say I was fast but I came first by a huge gap and I was pretty impressed with myself because as I stood at the starting point, and heard the gun go off, there was this one kid named JD who was in-front of me for the first few meters, until I was in clutch mode, meaning I boosted it. After 200m I felt tired so I went and scabbed some watermelon off Mrs Tuipolotu and I personally thank her for that but anyways, I felt tired so I rested with the boys.

Later on was high jump for year ten boys and I aced that, coming in second place. For my height, I reckon I can jump pretty high. I think there were about fifteen of us and in the third round, there were only 5 of us and I manage to hold on but I couldn't much longer because 100m were on and I had to choose between 100m or High Jump, so I stuck with high jump. As High Jump went on, later was the relay that was the final event and I got to admit that was the best day of the week. I bet if we had changed one of our runners for relay, then we would've at least came third or fourth but what happened already happened.

As I look back now, I regret not going to 100m because everyone was telling I should've ran 100m but that's their problem aye, Lol. There is one person that I want to be trained by and that's one of the boys, Saia because he's so dedicated to his fitness and sports, so yeah I just wanna say Peace to the boys and Kia Ora to who ever is reading this..!!

Athletics - Sinola

Athletics day!

Blue,green,yellow and red were the four significant colours on athletics day.Although the word ‘’athletics’’ appeared in my mind as ‘fun’, I didn’t enjoy athletics that much.However, it was cool to see a bit of Tamaki College’s sporty students,along with some insane costumes I never thought I’d see.The chant practise was very, well.. boring if i had to be very honest,I didn’t enjoy it one bit.Then there was our march which  was more like walking to our destination,but it was alright,because it was cool to see the ninjas to whatever they were tryna do. Lastly our chant was pretty hectic,but I have to say green defeated us with their amazing chant.Although I did not participate in any activities I had a good time hiding under the lavalava from the leaders so I wouldn’t get chosen to participate, and also acting like I could play the guitar so no-one would ask me to run.

Athletics - Ilisapeci

On Thursday 21st of February Tamaki College held a very special event called athletics. In athletics there are 4 houses. Puriri,Kowhai,Rata and Totara. Unfortunately this year my class was in puriri, the house we were in last year. The puriri chant was good, to be true it was better than last year. It was probably hard for us seniors to get to learn the words because it only took us one day and a half to learn the chant all properly and off by heart.

Firstly we each show cased the chant we had been practicing. We all did good, my team was loud and proud. In athletics day we had nine events which were discus, high jump, tug of war, 200m, 1500m, 400m, 100m, shot put, ziggy marley. It was good to see most of our team participate and try but for me I wanted to do high jump but I missed the chance, only because my and via was lost.

Through it all it was cool seeing the year nine participating more than us (lols). The athletics this year has made the new bees to blend in more and feel comfortable more. Overall it was good we came last (i think), Personally I thank our leaders who have taught us our chant  in one and a half day, participated, encouraged us all to go up.(soz I have forgotten their names) lols. ohh and It was HOT!! str8 up. But all was good :):)

Athletics - Saia

ATHLETICS DAY

PURIRI

Excitement, Joy and Hard Work. Puriri the best house of all. Blue steady, Yep, Puriri is Ready. As we made our way down to the wharekai for our second day of chant practice which was right before the Athletics actually started. So we learnt our last chant and got the rest into our heads and memorised.

As we got up to march into our house spots, we see Rata Ninja’s running down and slicing their way through thick pure GI air. Then as the M.C (Mr Harris) invited us to come and sit down and take our place we see Totara making their way down to the field. Then after around 2-3 minutes we see Kowhai marching down to the track like they were special to the world.

As the first event came our leaders Daniel and Joe were asking for volunteers to run the first event which was 1500m, equivalent to three and a half laps. For that event I came around fourth place, but at the start of the race I was leading the pack for the first two laps then ran out of gas, then blessing came from second place and took it out.

Then the next event came up and it was the 200 metre sprints. Our Puriri runners were really nervous, but me in particular was very tired and worn out but I also thought about what our leaders had told us, this is their last year so make it a good one. So as the girls took off, it was time for the next set of girls to run so, as we were sitting Havea and I were still discussing who was running with the first pack so we both agreed that Havea would take the first and I would run the second heat. As my race came up, I had the urge to go toilet and as I was still thinking the shot was made. We all took off like rampaging bulls. One of the runners were taking the lead, but as I thought while I was running I should also use skill so I did and took the lead and created a humongous gap between us so I decided not to waste my energy, so I slowed my pace and tried saving energy for the next race I was looking forward to which was 100 metres.

But, as I was waiting our M.C called out for runners to run the next event which was 400m so I took the opportunity and went ahead to the area we had to be seated at. Then as we got called up, we all agreed to jog the whole thing but I also told the boys that I would sprint the last 100m, so they all agreed. As the shot was made a guy from Rata came running in and was leading us, but as it came to the last one hundred metres, he got too cocky and I took my chances while he wasn’t running at full pace and sprinted past him like the wind.

As I was waiting for the 100m event to be called out, Harris then announced that the Junior Runners were to make their way down to the starting line. As we waited all the boys made a promise to run together, but as we came to the starting line the shot was made and one of the boys just took off and left us in the dust, but I never gave up I chased him down and was about 2 to 3 metres away from him. I was disappointed with myself I gave my trust to one who wasn’t trustworthy himself.

At the end of the day our house came 3rd or 4th. But didn’t really matter because all I wanted to do was to put Puriri up there and make our leaders proud of being in charge of Puriri as it was their last year attending Tamaki college.

First Week Back - Tynisha

New year, New start. New class, catch my drift? lol. 

First week back at school was hectic, yet intriguing. Tbh, felt exactly same as last year repeating a pattern of subjects we had done the year before. I was afraid of making new friends this year, good thing is we ended up in the same tutor with the same tutor teacher. Alongside all this, overall first week back was alrighttttttttttt. (-:

First Week Back - Tatiana

FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL WAS BORING AS. MOSTLY BECAUSE I AM STILL IN THE SAME CLASS, WITH THE SAME TEACHER, AND THE SAME STUDENTS, IN THE SAME HOUSE. WE HAVE OPTIONS THIS YEAR AND I CHOSE P.E. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I CHOSE IT. WE HAD TO MOVE ALL THE WAY TO MS FERGUSON'S GRAPHICS ROOM WHICH IS TIRING. OUR NEW YEAR N9NES ARE COOL AND LITTLE. BASICALLY EVERYTHING IS THE SAME EXCEPT WE ARE YEAR TENS NOW AND WE'RE LEARNING DIFFERENT THINGS. 

First Week Back - Sinola

Starting year 10 at tamaki was very scary for me,this was because i was a new student and i had to learn how  to adapt to a whole lot of new things such as the teachers,people and the school all over again.I was shivering on my first day as the nervs seemed to get the best of me,I didn’t know anyone except for Caroline.I was scared of making new friends,scared of the fact that i would never feel the same way about school the way i did in aorere, nor have friends like the ones i have back  at my other school.But despite the fact that i am not yet liking school so far,i have met so many great people in my class and have also met some pretty amazing teachers too.Other than that i actually like my class, it’s honestly filled with a whole heap of weird students which is pretty cool.This year i have chosen business as my option and i am desperately hoping that it will help me in future for law.Futhuremore,i look forward for what the future has installed for me (:

First Week Back - Mino

The first day back to school was a bit awkward at first yet exciting. I am still in the same tutor class, (10PuririFerguson) 10Pfn with the same people and I am year 10(no longer at the bottom of the food chain), yet I feel like I'm year 9. This year is probably going to be a repeat of year 9, but with more academic requirements and fun? 

First Week Back - Cruz

First day back at school was really boring, same things we normally do just now I'm year 10. Not at the bottom at the school any more, still with the same class, same friends and even same tutor teacher. But I reckon school will hopefully get better as it goes through the year. The End(: