Emma Twigg Visit ❤️😀

W.A.L.T: Reflect on exciting experiences  🎉

Emma Twigg, famous Gold Medal Olympian, came to our school on Tuesday, 17th of August. The Kapahaka group preformed an amazing Haka to Twigg and then we sang the National Anthem. Soon after that Twigg came up onto the stage and talked about her failures and her success. It was very interesting and great to learn why she started. She also talked about how she participated at 2 Olympic Games and came 4th in each of the races. Twigg explained how she came . 3 of a second away from winning a medal and how she left the sport for 2 years.

After those 2 years Twigg decided she would come back. She knew she could stand in the middle of the podium and claim a Gold Medal. After 3 years of training she got the Gold Medal and stood in the middle of the podium like she knew she could. She said, if you have a dream go for it because you will always achieve it!   

Aunty Fluff Olympics

 In Room 2 we have been working on our Olympic slides for reading and the last task was to read a book called "Chicken Olympics" One of the characters was called Aunty Fluff. We had to make a profile for her like she was in the real Olympics. I had a lot of fun making this.

Here is mine!   🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔    

Why all children should be involved in sports

 While we were doing our Olympic slides one of the activities I found was making a DLO (digital learning object) about why all children should be involved in sports. I spent a lot of time into this.

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Emma Twigg Article

We have been learning about the Olympics and Emma Twigg this term and we had to make an article about her. Here is mine.

Emma Twigg Proves People Wrong

By Emilee Van Egdom-Jones

Emma Twigg won the finals and brought home gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday at 12:30. She did not expect to win this time.



You could see the pain in her face while she was rowing as hard as she could to get to the end. No matter how hard people tried to catch up to her she went even faster. A fish even jumped out of the water to see Twigg claim the victory. She was very happy and nearly cried. "For anyone who's had a little bit of failure… just keep at it. If you believe you can do something and you know your worth, then the world's your oyster.”

Twigg began rowing a long time ago in 2001. After 2 years of rowing boat class she began Woman Single Sculls. She won gold in 2005 in the World Rowing Junior Championship. Then aged 29, Twigg left the sport, and it seemed the 2014 world champion and five-time medallist at world champs would depart without making the podium at an Olympics.

In conclusion, Emma Twigg claimed gold and trained a lot for this moment that she achieved. Alot of people did not expect this special moment

Red Hat Olympics

 W.A.L.T: Make connections to texts. 

In Room 2 we have been learning about the Olympics. One of our tasks on our slides was to make a red hat about how I feel about sports. Here is mine.

I also think that sports is really cool. 

White hat Olympics

 W.A.L.T: Connections to texts.

In Room 1 and 2 we have been focusing on the 2020 Olympics. As a class we watched the Swimming and Rugby Sevenths. We have a special connection to the athlete Emma Twigg because she is Rico's auntie. Today we had to find facts about the Olympics and put it in a google drawing