Individual Description

Hi my name is Destiny Jacqueline Rererangi Rupene and I am 11 years old. I am Maori, Fijian.  I come from Rotuma on the Fijian side and I come from a iwi (tribe) called Ngati-Porou on the Maori side. I am the middle child, I have dark brown curly hair and brown lovely eyes with brown olive skin.

I come from a family of six, I am the Daughter of Amoi Rupene and Dwain Ngaro.  I have 2 sisters named Teina Noble who is 15 and Nature Rupene who is 8. I have 2 brothers named Alex Harrison who is 12 and one other brother that I have never made contact with, named Linken who is 17 years old.

I come from Panmure/Glen Innes.Panmure is a kind and generous township where you can go shopping for clothes and stuff you might need inside the house. On the other hand, Glen Innes is a way more fun and an exciting place you can go to grab really yum food that makes your mouth water like bakery pies, chicken nibbles and lots of other treats that are way too delicious to describe.

My hobbies are hanging out with my two best friends Bella and Ngatokurua -  they are twins, together we watch movies with the family, eat ice-cream and bake  a lot.  For my cultural interests I like to sing Maori songs and do the poi to waiata.

The one thing that I am most definitely dreaming about is being an Architect or a Flight Attendant. My biggest fear at TPS is face planting down the stairs.

Team Building

Team Building

Today we had a activity that Whaea Annette had brought to our class, I had the job of watching the boys untangle their hands as a team without disconnecting their hands, it was really fun watching the boys untangled themselves as a group the person who I thought had stepped up to the challenge was Arapeta because he wouldn’t give and was guiding all the boys into the right direction.The other thing that I think the boys stood out for was their body language just by watching I could notice that I wasn't the only person having fun but all the boys were too.

Today was a really awesome day.

My Recount

As I had firmly begun  packing my warm clothes into my light blue gym bag with my grape-smelling conditioner and shampoo to go to my cousin Lethaniel's grandfather’s house, I could hear my mother's voice shouting “HURRY UP DESTINY, IT’S TIME TO GO!”I had then swiftly picked up my bag and slowly walked down our brown, hard, wooden staircase.I then escorted my bag to the boot of my mum’s Subaru.

When my mum and I reached my destination where I had been dropped off she had then gave me a huge hug and a big kiss.Once my mum had left , my cousin Lethaniel flew out of his grandfather’s house and like Flash he ran around me like he was about to round up a cattle I  then laughed.  When he had finally stopped, he said to me in a deep voice “Are you coming inside or what?”

I carried on laughing and then walked inside of the house my two uncles were there too.  Junior, Graham and Norman, well my cousin’s grandfather Senior Graham was outside.  I was really happy that my uncles were there because they’re both my favourite uncles.
Then after me talking to my uncle’s, we had dinner.  Roast potatoes and roast pork it was so divine.  A little while after that I felt really tired so I then hobbled my way down to the guest room and went to sleep.

Sunday morning, I woke up to the cosy sun beaming down on me in the room. I
was so relaxed and comfy, until... my cousin ran in, in a blast and told me “GET UP! GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!” In a marching voice, when I had gotten out of my bed all I could hear was “We’re going to Mt Ruapehu!”. It was so annoying he had repeated it and repeated it. When I had gotten change, I walked outside. All I could see was the warm sun and Graham’s mitsubishi packed for our holiday, it was a beautiful sight especially on Graham’s deck .

When we had all jumped in the car we waited for the cats to jump in the car too so we waited and waited and waited, until... , half an hour later... ,they had finally got in the car.  When the cats had found their way to the car, we were off into the sunset heading faraway where snow is and you’d like to play.


As we were passing through all the different areas there was one area that made me the most sad, it was close to Lake Rotoaira Forest, there were graves. When we had stopped for something to eat  I had asked Graham “Why were those graves back there?”
In a calm voice, he had then replied  “There  lay the bodies of the five sisters they were all still young and very pretty.   One day the oldest sister was driving, the rest of the sisters were in the back. She had started to get frustrated and panicked the next thing you know they all died.” “How?” I had asked. He then said, “In a car crash silly what did you think?”  When he had asked me that I started laughing.


When we had reached our destination, Lake Rotoaira, I unpacked and then ran around a bit.
When the sun was slowly going down I had to go back to the caravan, when I got there I saw my aunt and my cousin Lethaniel playing last card. Once I had gotten inside I went straight to bed because of how tired I was.

The next day we went Skiing I had to do a lesson in happy valley it was so much fun . After that we went back to the caravan and packed our bags and off we went once again into the sunset towards home, Auckland.

The Grand High Witch Description

As the Grand High Witch sneakingly slithered down the long dim dusty hall with her big black talons clinging to her hideous fat fingers as if they were dark black bats hanging from a tall brown brunch sleeping.She had an ugly saggy wrinkly face that had hundreds of moles and warts that had piled over each other like people shoving through a crowd screaming and fighting for their lives.

 Her voice had the sound of a big chested german man she had a squeak in that voice the sound of a mouse.Her voice was a commanding voice if she told you to do something you had better do it.

She had always repeated in here big german like voice “Listen you fat hideous vitches you need to understand the concept of vhat I am saying! You know vhat I am capable of!” and... “Those revolting little rats will all die!”

Room 8's Possible Speech Ideas

We are going to start writing speeches. Here is our brainstorm of possible topics.We used Lucid Charts

to create this brainstorm.Can you think of any more ideas?

John Walsh Presintation

My Beautiful Place

Far beyond the horizon is my beautiful place Surfers Paradise...

I could see the sea water as it was smashing together and washed up on the shore. I could also see a huge lego man. He was flat on his big back. It was so amazing, I couldn’t believe my eyes. People were jumping off of the wharves around the beach and even jumping off the enormous lego man - they were going wild. It was one of the greatest and best things I had ever seen in my hole entire life. I was shocked.

I could hear people shouting and people splashing in the water. I could also hear the sound of little children crying as if someone had scared them.

I could feel the cool breeze as it ran up my spine like a cheetah. I could feel the cold sand running through my finger tips. It felt so nice. The shells they were so wrinkly and so warm as well. I could also feel blobs of sand stuck in between the corners of my toes.

I could smell the beautiful flowers that were in the pot plants next to me. I could smell the nice and yummy food coming from the cafes around me.

Last but not least, I could taste taste the sea water as if the sea was spitting at me. I could taste my delicious juice box that I was holding in my velvet hand.

This beautiful place isn’t just only a beautiful place it’s MY beautiful place.

By Destiny.

My Ireland Information Report

Did you know that Ireland has a Pancake Festival? And they also make Potato Pancakes.

Did you know that Ireland is famous for their POTATO Pancakes and love Corned Beef and pasta.

Richard St John Harris born on the 1st of October 1930. He was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, film director and writer.

Irish tap-dancing is a very fun activity to do during the holidays, and also Irish dancing. It is a very fun thing to do but still very difficult.

Did you also know that the most longest name in Ireland is Mucknaghederdauhaulia.

Describing Piri Weepu.

When I felt the wind run up my back I couldn't wait for the action of the game to start. When I sat down on my comfortable seat, I could feel the excitement tinkling in my stomach.

Then finally the Haka started. I could see Piri Weepu slapping his hands against his chest like a true Maori warrior.I could see his Maori patterned tattoos on his arm. I heard his strong and loud manly voice shouting out the starting of the haka . He was so frightening it was like I was being threatened to live or die by a warrior.It was so frightening.

But then when he got the blue rugby ball he ran through everyone as if their was no one there on the field. His black hair brushed back, then when he was that close to the try line then he dived down as if he was flying and scored a try. I was so amazed. After that, he ran back to all his team mates when he was running I could see his white rugby boots getting pushed up against the lushes grass. His team mates came towards him and patted his back in joy.

And that night I will never forget.

What Makes A Good Speech?

Buddy Writing

Today we did some buddy writing with room7.We helped them to re-craft their writing samples.This is me and my buddy Niko I hope we get to do this again,it was fun!

Tsunami Description

I
was standing behind the camera.  I could see all the waves crashing up
against the buildings and houses.  I could see all the destruction
happening.  It was chaos.  I couldn’t believe my eyes...It was terrible
and horrible...

I
could hear the wind pushing the waves and making them powerful.  I
could hear the people screaming and crying.  I could hear alarms going
off like dogs.

The tsunami was so frightening, it was making buildings bust and fall with its big powerful waves.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the big waves submerging into much more bigger waves.  It was very catastrophic!

But
I would always glare at the most biggest wave.  It was big and round.
 While I would glare, I could see people running.  It was very
destructive.  When I would see the people get washed away by the waves
and sea water.

my term 2 goals

My learning goal for Reading this term is:

To go to the library to read an entire chapter book with all the spare time I have.

To achieve this goal, I will need to:

Remember to go to the library every day.

My whanau can help me achieve this by:

Getting my mum and dad to remind me to go to the library. They can also take me to the library and they can pick out a good book for me to read.

My learning goal for Writing this term is:

To use more interesting vocabulary in my writing to describe my characters.

To achieve this goal, I will need to:

Find more places I can put describing words in my writing and using a dictionary or thesaurus to help me find new words.

My whanau can help me achieve this by:

Teaching me more interesting words and showing me why I need a large vocabulary. By talking to me and reading to me, I will hear and see new words.

My learning goal for Maths this term is:

To move past stage 6 and to past 3b.

To achieve this goal, I will need to:

Think of more creative answers in my maths and use all my maths knowledge.

My whanau can help me achieve this by:

Showing me more then + and x but - and / as well.

My personal goal this term is:

To get my little sister ready for school.

To achieve this goal, I will need to:

Wake her up early and get her in the shower.

My whanau can help me achieve this by:

Waking me up to wake my sister up.

My Marae recount

My Marae Recount


I tingled with excitement as we marched into the cold office with our school bags and our delicious lunch. We sat down in the hall so Ms Hansel could go over the rules. After that we set off on our journey. We all got welcomed into the marae. When I stepped into the marae my heart leaped...


I couldn't believe my eyes. I bowled my head down to show respect to some of the ancestors that had died. I knew each pattern and carving told a story. When my cold hands touched the ground, my stomach had the butterflies. Then kaumatua said a karakia and introduced himself. Then he said a speech about the patterns and the carvings. Then Arapeta stood up and said his Whikorero. After that, the whole senior syndicate sang a song to kaumatua William and the kids that went to the school there. After that it was time for our interval. I ate my lunch next to Ngatokurua. After that they separated the boys and the girls. Us girls had to go to the marae and the boys went down to the bottom of the hill.


The girls split up into three groups. The the first group was using the poi, the second line did the actions and the last line used the rakau. Whaea Celeste taught us. We each supported each other and didn’t laugh if someone done something wrong. After that it was time for lunch, we all finished our lunch and then went into the marae to show the boys what we had practised.
We showed the boys what we had learnt. I liked the boys haka. When we finished we sang some songs to the people and the kids.


After that we all left and went back to school.


That day I learnt that the most important thing to the Maori people is their knowledge. I also learnt that there are 5 parts in a Marae; the heart,spine,arms,ribs and the head.