Fancy Dress

Fancy Dress💃

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS MAMBO NO.5”. Yesterday morning I woke up so excited for our Waitohu School Fancy Dress! It was being held at Nga Purapura 6:30 till 8:00. 

After school I asked my mum if I could get ready in my Daisy Duck costume but she said it was way too early. You know when ever you get really excited about something but it takes so long for the time to go by. I was waiting and waiting and then the clock ticked to 5:45 , I started to get ready and get in my Daisy Duck costume. It included a: bow, yellow tights, purple t-shirt, mermaid shoes, white shorts and a white tutu! When I got there all my friends were there in their awesome costumes. Giorgio was Donald Duck, Nevaeh (L) was Minnie Mouse and Nevaeh (G) was Mickey Mouse.

The first parade of costumes were the little ones who don't go to our school yet but may be coming to our school in a year or a couple of years!

The first classes 1 and 11 did the Jiffy Mixer. After that 2 and 10 did the Bad Hair Day.Then 7 and 8 did the Gumboot Dance. After them 5 and 6 did Virginia Reil. Then it was our turn. “ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS IS MAMBO NO.5. We did our dance moves and finished then it was time to get your family member. I got my brother Hunter. He had no idea what to do. Then 3 and 12 did 5,6,7,8. After 3 and 12 did their dance my friend Mauatua brung me up for their dance.

Then everybody was finished their dances. All of us were hot and flushed. Parents and kids walked around handing out vanilla ice cream. We got given our ice creams ate them up and then talked with our friends.

This was my last year doing the fancy dress and it was the best year. But hopefully if I have a grandchild or child when I'm much older. I will come and watch the next fancy dress.

By Bijou

Folk Dancing!

Folk Dancing
This past week our teacher has been teaching us about folk dancing, now this is called strip the willow. Were not going back to the 90's or 80's. This is 2019 folk dancing. For the song were dancing to " Mambo no. 5" the songs really cool. The songs based on Disney characters. Me and Giorgio are dressing up as Daisy and Donald Duck. Nevaeh.g and Nevaeh.l are dressing up as Mickey and Minnie mouse. 

Folk dancing is with partners and you link arms and go to the opposite person and keep going till you get to the end. This dance is really exciting. I'm really excited for it.

Its going to be great to see other classroom dances and costumes!

Rippa Rugby New Zealand World Cup 2019

On the 25th of August me and the Waitohu School Rippa team went down to wellington for the New Zealand world cup. Previously we had won the Horowhenua Kapiti tournament. So we qualified to the Wellington one. Sunday we got to school got all our stuff ready and went down and chilled at the X backpackers hotel. For dinner we had fish bites and shoe string fries. For desert we had blueberry cheesecake. Then went back to X backpackers on the bus. It was about 7:30 and we were trying to get to sleep but through the night people were knocking and running from our doors so we couldn't get to sleep. (we were suppose to play 8 games but played 7 and won 5 out of 7)

Day 2:

The next day we got ready at about 6:30 in the morning did our hair and got our gear on ready for the tournament. We walked around the block and got warmed up. We went to the warf and saw people singing and dancing. As soon as we got back we had breakfast. Weetbix,Toast and Up&go's. After breakfast we loaded on to the bus and travelled to Wake field park were we were playing. Our first game was against Te Mata school representing Uruguay we lost to them by 2 points but we played our best the next couple of games we won.The night we came back we walked to wellington college for dinner. For dinner we had roast ham,roast pork and heaps of veges better than last night. Then for desert we had mini meringues with fruit syrup. A bowl of fruit and whip cream. After dinner and dessert we asked anyone who new the Git up to come and do it with us. It was so fun. We did the Git up dance with Te Mata School earlier. Then we went on a bus back to the X backpackers. We got ready for bed and got to sleep at about 8:30 way better than last night.


The last & Final day:

The last day we woke up and got ready. After that we went for a walk around the block. We went round in circles till we got back to the hotel. We had breakfast and waited for the bus to come and pick us up. But some other schools got on the bus we were suppose to go on so the games had to start later and some games had already been played. We had a little bit of warm up time. Our first game was versing Samoa we won to them by 4 or 5 points. Our next game is versing Japan, Japan had never been beaten but we beat them by one try. That was the game I got my first try! I was pretty happy with my self. Then we versed Italy we won by five points. Then we found out we didn't get in to any of the quarters, semis or finals which was pretty devastating because we had high hopes. But we felt very proud of ourselves. The finals was Fiji - Auckland and Russia- Manga-papa school. Fiji won the game. Then it was prize giving- Fiji got the cup. Russia got silver medals and South Africa got third place medals. We did our best and hope other kids qualify like us next year!