End of Term 1 2019

Our overall theme for our Inquiry of Learning this term was 'Building Champions' 

From all our learning based on champions, we created our own trophy of champions, and wrote down what makes us a champion, the values and influences that moulds and builds us into champion.

 As we shared with you previously, our writing genre this term was information report writing.  We selected a local hero to write about.  She is a prominent sports woman in New Zealand and even closer to home, from South Auckland.  Her power and strength has taken her to great heights in her achievements and we in New Zealand recognise her as our champion shot put expert Dame Valerie Kasanita Adams.

Here we are displaying our final copy of our information report about Valerie Adams.  Please feel free to come to Room 18 and read our writing.

Inquiry Research

Local Hero

Bill Pickering

Place of birth: Wellington

Date of birth: 24 December 1910     

Age(now): 108 (deceased)

Family: Albert William Pickering (Father)

Elizabeth Ann Pickering (Mother)

Education: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

What is he famous for: Becoming a rocket scientist

Achievements: Earning a Franklin medal, Nobel Copley medal, national medal of science, Elliott cresson medal, Kyoto prize, Edison medal, Charles Scott legacy medal and premium.   

By: Junior Ungounga

Sonny Bill Williams

Full name: Sonny Bill Williams

D.O.B: 3 August 1985

P.O.B: Auckland

Age: 33 years old

Height: 1.94 meters

Weight: 108 Kg

Nationality: New Zealand

Family:

Lee Williams (mother)

John Williams (father)

Denise Williams (sister)

Niall Williams (sister)

John Arthur Williams (brother)

Education:

Primary: Owairaka District School

Intermediate:Wesley Intermediate

College: Mount Albert Grammar School

Religion: Williams converted to Islam in 2009, while in France for Toulon.  He is the first Muslim to play for the All Blacks .

What is he famous for?

Sonny Bill Williams is a New Zealand  rugby union footballer, heavyweight boxing former rugby league footballer.  He has won 47 caps for the New Zealand (All Blacks), and was part of the teams that won the 2011 and 2015 Rugby world cups.

Who influenced him?

As a child he has been described as being a "small, skinny white kid who was "painfully shy", as well as "a freakish sporting talent, a competitive sprinter, a champion high jumper and cross country runner and the kid who played footy in teams a couple of age divisions above, to make things fairer." Despite being tipped to have a promising future in athletics, Williams abandoned it when he was about twelve years old.  Though his father was an accomplished rugby league player, Williams has said it was his mother who introduced him to the game and influenced him to the game.

Achievements:

He first signed with New Zealand Rugby in 2010, earned his first All Blacks cap that year and now has 33 Tests under his belt, along with two Rugby World Cup winners medals in 2011 and 2015. He made his debut in sevens in 2016, helping New Zealand to victory in Wellington and Sydney.  He has won 12 caps for New Zealand (the Kiwis) and won the RLIF Awards for Rookie of the Year in 2004 and International Player of the Year in 2013.

         

Majete Autagavaia