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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Commonwealth games report

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Table tennis is a Commonwealth and Olympic sport that is really fast and cool to play.
Table tennis first became an Olympic sport in 1988 (Seoul, South Korea) and then a
Commonwealth sport in 2002 (Manchester, England).

A strange fact is that the sport was banned in the Soviet Union (Russia) from 1930 to 1950
because it was harmful to your eyes. The sport table tennis was first played in England and the
person who invented table tennis was J. Jaques from United Kingdom in Leicestershire.
Earlier on Table tennis Paddles were made from Cork, Cardboard, or wood, and covered with cloth,
leather or sandpaper.
Table tennis is also known in some countries as ping pong.
They wanted to name it the International Ping Pong Federation, but they could not do that because
of the trademark.
So they called it the International Table Tennis Federation.

Table tennis is a game when 2 or 4 players hit a ball back and forth on a wooden table with a
plastic sphere ball.
The rules are when the player that starts with the ball has to hit it in there side because the table
is separated
by a net so the game can get a bit harder for the players
so yeah after the they hit it the plastic ball the other player/players have to just keep it of the wooden
table
and if it touches the table twice in a row on your side it the other persons ball and then they start again.

Also, I found out something that will blow your mind. There is an 11 year old girl
going to the Commonwealth games from Wales and that would be quite special to go to
especially for someone that is very young. Plus my favourite soccer player is from Wales his
name is Gareth Bale.
I wish I could go to the Commonwealth games one day or maybe
even the Olympics, If I went to the Commonwealth games I would like to play table tennis
and If I went to the Olympics I would like to play soccer/ football.Guess
What I just found out that the 11 year old girl just won her first game for the commonwealth games.

I have a Table tennis table in my garage and I am the best at table tennis i my family...
except when my Dad slams the ball but besides that I am really good at table tennis so when my
cousins come round I asked them to play table tennis with me and I mostly beat them all the time
but when They learn to slam like my dad they will start to win so I hope that will never happen.
I am learning how to slam I sometimes do It to my dad and he is always really surprised.
I got the table tennis table for my birthday It was such a big surprise I was playing all night on
my birthday.

It is very weird because New Zealand don’t compete in the commonwealth games for table tennis
I think they are allowed but they choose not to so that is really weird so yeah that was pretty
weird because I was hoping that I could watch New Zealand play table tennis.

Also in the commonwealth games if you come third you get a bronze medal and a Borobi toy
with it’s t-shirt covered in bronze and if you come second you get a silver medal and a Borobi toy with
the t-shirt covered in silver and of course if you come first you get a gold medal and a Borobi toy
with a gold t-shirt.

To play Table tennis you need the develop a big and strong backhand and forehand
also you have to be really speedy with you hands so if someone slams it on you you can
quickly recover so you really need to watch out for those slams people do.
Also people do spins so with there bat they turn their bat just when the ball comes to
them and then when the ball to hit goes on your side it will bounce and then spin off the table
sometimes so that they get the point.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Touch Rugby







At St Francis of Assisi school there is a touch rugby team and I am in it!!!

I am in the A team with all of my friends it is an all boy team so the people in the team with me are Ethan, Joey, Jude, Matthias, Ben and Josh also Miss Powick is our coach We have won most of our games in touch but there is one team, one team I never won't to vs again but that's unlucky because we are in the finals and we are versing them             🏈TODAY!!!🏈       










Friday, September 1, 2017

Thursday Sport

Hello and welcome back to my blog I am going to talk to you about something we do on Thursdays. In winter we do sports, well I won't talk to you for that long just sit back, relax and listen to my story about Thursday sport. Thursday sport is for when you are year ⅚ and ⅞ you get to pick a sport out of... Netball,Hockey,Rugby and Football. I picked Football because I play Football for a club at St Albans Shirley and I can tell you now my team is very very good, and so is my school team .For both of my games we can have a bye which means there is not enough  teams in my grade to compete in soccer game so you just stay at your grounds and train for your team. One day we had a bye it was so annoying .This week we tied our game which meant we got the same score 1/1 so we call it a tie or a draw. My best friend of all time ETHAN SANDYS got player of the day which means he was the best player on the field for that day and he is so nice and caring to me so I know how he got the award for player of the day. Ethan Sandys is one of the best players on my team. Well thanks for listing about what we do for winter sports.

Friday, May 26, 2017

My writing about my wonderful treasure

Hi and welcome back to my blog today I will be showing… MY TREASURE ABOUT A BOOK ABOUT MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDAD.


We decided to present one of our precious family treasures because we thought our class will have heaps to talk about  
My treasure is a book about my great great great grandad he was a sailor in the navy and in the navy when he was sailing across the sea he saw a man very injured because the Maori war was on and he saved the man's life and he is now rewarded with the Victoria cross with is now place in the hokitika museum and the Victoria cross is very very special because there is only 2 Victoria crosses in New Zealand and 1 of them is my great great great grandad so my family treasures the book of my great great great grandad.

Thanks for reading I hoped you like reading about my treasure be right back for more and maybe you should find one of your treasures in your house comment down below if you have found one of your family treasures.


Friday, May 19, 2017

My first post

Welcome bloggers


Welcome to my blog bloggers my name is Jack and I can't wait to share all of  my favourite learning with you. I hope you like reading about my learning check back soon for more.


Jack out.