Month: June 2022

Matariki morning

Last thursday we had an awesome celebration at school we had to be there by 6:45am. First we had to sing te pu and then whaea kaiya did a speech saying all the stars of matariki and there meaning. Then we sang homai to poho and purea nei after that we went into the class room and then mrs bates thanked  all the perants for coming then we sang he hono rei. By then we were all very hungry so we walked to the hall and had breakfast it was so nice and yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (especaily the bacon).

 

Me and Amirias wharenui

Over the past few weeks me and my friend Amiria have been working on our whare nui, And today we finally finshed it by labbeling everything. In our wharenui we had to include whakairo (carvings), Kowhaiwhai (paintings) and Tukutuku (weaving).We were also the first ones to finish. It was long but amazing and interesting. Here is our finished product.

 

 

 

Speech

Imagine if you lost a leg or had a crash and you were left paralysed, How would you feel? Hello my name is Pia, today I am going to tell you about famous disabled women of New Zealand.  I am going to tell you about this topic because they are inspiring and amazing. The three people I am going to focus on are Sophie Pascoe (a paralympic swimmer), Jess Quinn (a model) and Neroli Fairhall (a paralympic archer).

 

Sophie Pascoe is inspiring because she has no leg and she has been to four paralympics. She went to her first paralympics when she was fifteen. She lost her leg in a lawnmower accident when she was two, her dad was using the Ride-on lawnmower she ran after it and he didn’t see her there was a terrible accident where she lost her leg. Her family told her to do things like a normal kid.

 

When she was five she won a children’s race and won out of all the kids who had two whole legs! When she was nine her grandfather asked her to make her a promise: “when you’re older compete in the paralympics and win a gold medal”.  Since then she has won 11 gold medals at the paralympics during her career. Her swimming strokes include freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. How many of you could swim freestyle with one leg?

 

Moving on to Jess Quinn, she is inspiring because she also has no leg and she has become a social media star and she helps people feel comfortable with different and unique bodies. She lost her leg when she was nine. How did she lose her leg you ask? Well when she was nine she got bone cancer also known as o–stee–ow–saa–kow–muhand had to get it amputated below the right leg. In 2018 she went on tv show dancing with the stars and came third place! In 2021 Jess wrote a book called ‘still standing’.it tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she’s come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others.

 

Finally I want to talk about Neroli Fairhall, She is inspiring because she was in a wheelchair from a  motorbike accident. when she failed to take a bend on the top of the Port Hills in Christchurch. She lay critically injured for 21 hours before being discovered by a passing motorist. She went to four paralympics 1972, 1980, 1988, and 2000. She died when she was 61years old  on 11 june 2006.

 

I chose this topic because now I think anything is possible and I hope this inspires other people to do what they want to do just like these women have. Having goals is important. I think these women have and had goals and achieved them.  So next time you think you can’t do something just remember about Sophie, Jess and Neroli and hopefully you will achieve your goal.