Saturday, 19 July 2014

Basketball Tournament

Photo: Congratulations to our basketball girls who played in the Network Waitaki Basketball tournament in the weekend.  They played one game on Friday and 3 on Saturday.  They ended up winning only 1 game but had some tough competition and the grade we were in was won by the North Otago Rep team.  Hugh thank you to Diane Mills for organising the team and also to Claudine Black (coach) and Helen Pope (manager with Diane).In the first week of the school holidays, I was part of the year 7 & 8 Network Waitaki Basketball Tournament held at the Rec Centre.
St Joseph's entered a girls team which I was in.
The teams were all from North Canterbury, Mid Canterbury, South Canterbury, Central Otago and Otago.
We had four games and we won one of them. it was really rough and tough but I learnt alot! It was fun!

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

My Uncle Neil



Check out my Uncle in the Otago Daily Times! He has just finished his police training and is now a policeman here in Oamaru!
Click on the link below!
http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/308791/former-volt-facing-new-challenge

Friday, 4 July 2014

St Joes X factor!

On Thursday night the senior school put on a production called the X factor! i was a judge and had so much fun! im sure everyone else did! I loved the meaning of the production and how funny it was! As a judge you are on stage for quite a while because you have to watch all the acts perform. So i have to say my favourite act was the spice girls! as known as the teachers! even though i had to act like i was hating it, i thought it was pretty funny! It was my last production at the school, Which is sad but... I had fun!
see you soon!

Monday, 23 June 2014

The scream painting!

www.Michaelstaleydesigns.com
The scream painting
The scream is an iconic painting painted by Edvard Munch in 1893. The point of the painting is anxiety. Anxiety is a thing when a person gets stressed or worried I think… the picture looks like a man with his hands on his cheek screaming!
The painting is very descriptive; it is textured with oil, pastel and tempera. It is painted on cardboard.
I like the scream more than the Mona Lisa because it looks more textured, but that’s my opinion. Even though the Mona Lisa is more famous the scream is more like a book. The painting is on the cover and on the inside there are all sorts of mysteries! I think the scream is a little funny but it still has a meaning.
Edvard Munch died in 1944, at the age of 80. He had more the 1,008 paintings, 4,443 drawings and 15,991 prints! These were recovered in the Munch museum in Norway.
The scream painting was sold for more than $119,992,600 which was a lot back in those days, it still is now too!

Edvard Munch was a strange man, mainly all his paintings were based on death or sicknesses. I’m not saying anxiety is a sickness though! He was never married so he called his paintings his children; he hated to be separated from them.

I love the scream painting because it is much textured and quite cool! It inspires me to paint more and craft as well!

By: Laura Mather :) 

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Basketball

Hi guys! We verse OIS (again) and the score was 77-1 to us! 

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Basketball

Hi guys! Today we had basketball, the score was 50-17 to us. I hope we have a great game next time too!
See you soon!