Dirt Bikes

Room 14 was lucky enough to learn all about Dirt bikes for Karlin's Genius Hour. 

Karlin researched a lot of information as well as recording what he already knew and presented a fantastic poster that gave all the children in Room 14 a wealth of knowledge about Dirt Bikes. 

He was very excited to be able to share something that he is passionate about with the rest of his class.

To wrap up Karlin's presentation we were able to watch him zooming around the school field. 

Great work Karlin!

Saturday Rugby

On Saturday the 2nd of May the H.R.S T-Rex's  played against the H.R.S Spartians.

Before the game we had to do some warm up drills and a team run. We had a hudle before kick off.

HOOOONK! We kicked to the other team and we chaced and we tackled. Jayden played 2nd 5 and wing,Karlin played half back and Brock played number 8.

Then Troyden runs through the middle steps and scores. Coby kicks for goal and gets the conversion.

In the second half we are leading 55 nil. They kicked to us and we ran it up then we heard someone screaming at the bottom of the ruck. It was big D from our team.We got him off the field and we called the ambulance because he was in so much pain.The nurse checked it and he sprained his ankle.

After that we carried on with the game and it was final play.We had a scrum and the back line called hands.We passed the ball out to Jayden and he ran down the sideline and scored.Jayden got last try of the game.

We won the game and the score was 75 to 5.We wished big D good luck and Brock gave the team a lolly pop each and we said goodbye.

The Friendly Dental Ironkids Triathlon

On Sunday the 30th of March it was the Friendly Dental Ironkids Triathlon. I did a 100m swim, 2km cycle, and 1km run. For an individual to enter it was $15. 

I had to pair up with some body for the swim. My buddy and I jumped in the lane pool at Ocean Spas and the lady counted us down from five. Go! Off I went with my buddy. When I finished my swim I felt very dizzy and my arms and legs were tired. 

I ran to transition and dried my body and put my shoes and socks on. I could feel the drips wetting my socks. I hopped on my bike and put my helmet on. When my helmet was on I biked as fast as I could go so I could get on to my run. As I finished the 2km cycle and got into transition to put my bike away my legs started to wobble but I felt fine after I started. 

As I started my run I caught up to Robby so I jogged with him the whole way. But when I got close to the finish I sprinted and bet him to to the finish line. My time was 19 mins and 19 seconds. 

After that I had a big drink and lots of food. Then when I had put all my gear in the car I went for a nice relaxing swim at Ocean Spa.

By Karlin

Iron Kids

On Friday 28^th of February I entered a run called Iron Kids which was held in Taupo. My mum, my sister and I travelled up to Taupo the night before my race, after a good night sleep I was ready to rock! When I got there I was very nervous at first but when I got to the start line I felt fine. We had to do 3 laps of a course, all together the 3 laps make 2km.

Bang! Off we went. All I needed to do was keep a good pace and try to stay running. When I was on my last lap I stated to get the stich, I kept running but I was a bit slower. As I got to the red carpet that leads to the finish line I stated to sprint “YAY! I DID IT!” I received a medal from an iron man champion. I finished in 12 minutes.

I did it because my dad did iron man the next day. Dad is my iron man champion.

By Karlin