The Fishing Boat. - Greg

The Fishing Boat.

By Gregory

"How's your swimmin'?" My Uncle asks me, his loud, firm voice echoes in my ear. "If I fall in the water, I won't drown!" I yell back, I swiftly slide myself down the towering ladder. We were at the fishing dock, I was lowering myself carefully into my Uncle's boat. If there was no boat there, I would be soaking, wet and swimming with the fishes in the seemingly infinite waters.

Safely on the boat, my uncle opened his boating log and wrote down something. (I wasn't looking… Or caring.) Once done he placed the log down, walked out onto the deck and told me a fact about the "pesky little" seagulls. It felt awkward… Very awkward. Jokes were and still are, my Uncles great talent. "I will now make a container MAGICALLY appear," he announces. Yet magic wasn't his great talent, I had an eccentric look on my face…

He then proceeded to pull a container out from under a trapdoor on the boat. I clapped sarcastically and said "WHOA, WHAT!" My uncle opened the container, and I nearly puked. It was full of literal… FISH MUCUS! No gloves on, he started filling a transparent bag full of said mucus to use as bait. That's why he said the fact about seagulls, the fact was that "the (pesky little) seagulls swoop in and steal fish bait thrown into the water."

Seagulls were squeaking and squealing around our boat, this could mean only one thing. They had smelt the fish bait! I was about to take cover until my Uncle scared them away. Hizzah! I have now embarrassed myself... AGAIN. I groaned in despair, 'till suddenly he asked me if I had wanted to see over 20 oysters caught in one cage. He then states, "I will now pull this magic rope..." I sighed. It was going to be a long… day.

Tennis Stars at Sockburn School - By Cameron and Greg

14/10/15

On the 14/10/15 we headed off to the court to take part in some unbelievably fun activities based on tennis.

Here are some photos of our amazing adventure!

Here is us playing a game named "Hamburger." Here is how you play: The first person is going to walk around a cone with a tennis ball on the wiring of a racket then he/she comes back to the start so the second person puts their racket on the first persons racket and so on until all the people in your group have gone.

We had a lot of fun learning these Tennis skills and we cannot wait until next week!

By Cameron and Greg

Swimming with Sockburn School

The energetic, enthusiastic kids in Kahikatea and Matai have been doing  swimming lessons at the King Swim School. They have been learning swimming skills like breaststroke, swiftly sculling hands, speedy freestyle, breathtaking backstroke and diving! There are 2 groups, which are the handsome Mr Barrow's group and the kind Mrs Boswell's group. "This is so much more exciting than what the we thought, remarked Kahikatea pupils. "I don't want to stop!"