What a disaster!!!

The Rena is a big ship owned by a country called Greece. The Rena was on a beach near Mount Maunganui and Motiti Island. There was a terrible disaster where the captain took a shortcut and the Rena ran over a bunch of rocks and the rocks made a hole in the Rena. The Rena was carrying loads of containers and when the Rena got a hole almost 1700 tonnes of oil started dripping out and 1300 containers were falling off the Rena.

When the oil spilled out of The Rena the oil went all the way back to the surface and sand and thousands of birds died, that was very sad.

The Rena oil spill happened on October 5th 2011. It was a big disaster for Tauranga.  The captain of the Rena took a shortcut instead of going the way they were supposed to go. After the clean up the cleaners announced that there was still some oil left in the water. The Captain of the Rena went to jail with another men. The Rena was a bad disaster.

St Pius X Feast Day

In Religious Education this week we are learning about St Pius. St Pius original feast day is on Wednesday 21st of August but at my school we celebrate it on Friday. St Pius wasn’t a rich person when he was a kid his family was a big family he had  brother + sisters. St Pius became a Pope when he was 33 years old. St Pius was the Tenth Pope to pick St Pius as his Pope name. Pope Pius grew up in Italy. Pope Pius wanted all the poor people to be looked after. Pope Pius announced that he wanted for the children and the adults to make their First Holy Communion.Pope Pius parents knew him as Joseph Sarto and was called Joseph Sarto by his parents. St Pius died on 20 August 1914.

The Liturgical Calendar

Celebrity Writing

Ben Barba was born on June 13 1989. He is 24 years of age and was born in Darwin, Northern, Territory, Australia.

Ben Barba is an Aboriginal  and he also plays league for the Indigenous All Stars (Aborigeni Rugby League Team). He has played 3 games for Indigenous All Stars.

Ben Barba doesn’t normally plays Five- eighth  which is number 6 or Halfback number 7.  He was named as the Bulldogs fullback  in 2011 and he was in the Bulldogs under 20’s side from 2007-2010. Ben Barba had a  awesome season in 2011 when he scored 23 tries in 24 games, that is incredible.

Ben Barba said that he will be signing for the Bulldogs until the end of the 2015 season. In his Under 20’s career he scored 130 points in 11 games.  In  2011 he was picked in the Queensland 25 man squad. In his Bulldogs career he scored 73 tries , 292 points and 94 games.

This year the Broncos wanted him to play for the club. Just about 2 weeks ago Ben Barba got injured after he scored a try. He got injured because someones boot hit his knee. Earlier this year he was suspended because of drinking alcohol but now he has come back and been a very good player and person.

Ben Barba debut for the Indigenous All Stars in 2011 and he has been awesome for them.

Ben Barba’s kids are called  Bronte Barba and Bodhi Barba. His little brother Marmin is going to sign with the Titans for the fullback role.

Cross Country Recount

The Day had arrived, it’s Cross Country time and we are ready to go. Before JT’s race I said “Good Luck JT”

On a lovely Tuesday afternoon on the 13th in August after big Lunch my school St Pius X Catholic School had our School Cross Country. I was very excited because I like running long distances because it helps with my fitness and health.

It was a little bit of a change this year, we had the 13 and 12 year olds running first and the seniors had to run around the whole block and the juniors had to run around the whole field. There were heaps of parents to come and support the students. The Top 5 in our age groups go to the Tamaki Cluster Cross Country.

When it was my turn I was nervous and excited. Me and Ezra were the only boy’s so me and Ezra had to race the girls that were 9 years old. When Miss G said “Get your marks, get set, go”. All the girls sprinted ahead and me and Ezra stayed back because we didn’t want to waste our energy. When we were near the red gate near the field I was in the lead already but the race wasn’t over yet...The hardest thing about the race was running the steep hill because it was tiring. During the race I past some 11 year olds and a few 10 year olds. I past Albert and I was jogging with Asipeli. When we were nearly at the end of the race me and Asipeli were jogging but... suddenly I sprinted away from Asipeli and I was so happy when I got there because I came 1st out of the 9 year olds. When I got to the courts I had to go to Mrs Williams to check that I had finished the race and to write down the results.

After my race I was a little bit tired. I was the only one that was 9 sitting in the courts. When I was in the courts I was watching the others coming to the finish line. When everyone finished their race we went to go watch the juniors race.

Tuitui Shampoo

The Assumption of Mary

The Assumption of Mary is us Catholic people celebrating Mary’s Heavenly Birthday. When Mary was in Jerusalem she fall asleep and she went up to heaven, her whole body went up to heaven, it was known as a miracle.

Mary is known as the mother of Jesus and God also she is known as the Queen of Heaven, in heaven Mary is in the middle of Jesus and God.

The Assumption of Mary happened on the 15th of August but it happened a long, long, long time ago. Pope Pius told the people that Mary definitely died but no one found Mary’s body.