Ron Cribb by Maria

Ron Cribbs' visit

Yesterday on Monday 11th June 2012, Tamaki had a very interesting day. We were going to powhiri ex All black Ron Cribb into our school. We practised and practised our, Sasa, waiata, songs, and haka. And then the moment arrived.

I was given the privilege alongside head girl Irasa to do the karanga for Ron Cribb. We also officially welcomed St Heliers students into our school.

Halfway through the karanga, KapaHaka leader Vea started the haka. After the haka several things took place. Many people spoke and songs were sung.

Then Ron Cribb showed a DVD on his career through rugby playing with the Blues, Crusaders and the All Blacks!!! It was quite exhillirating watching the way he tried.

After that we all went outside and we were taught by Ron Cribb how to pass without looking and how to keep the ball straight and hard.

At the end of morning tea Ron Cribb had to go away. Everyone was scrambling to shake his hand or get an autograph.

That day was awesome even though I went home and my mum didn't even know who he was!!!

DARE Programme by Maria

Drugs and Alcohol Resistence Education- or simply DARE, a wonderful opportunity for students of Tamaki Intermediate School to learn how to resist those horrible things we call drugs and alcohol.

Our lucky school was pleased to have Constable Teina Karaka from the Police Department come and teach us all about the side effects of drugs, the uses and disuses and the punishments for the use, possession and distribution of all these drugs.

Things were interesting from the very start when we played the Electric Shock game to the very end when a Customs officer came in with his Customs dog.

That assembly was awesome we saw a slideshow of what Customs officers do and where we saw what happens when you come over from a different country with drugs on them and we also saw weird places where people hide drugs. One place was in kids toys, strapped to the person around their stomach and many, many more weird and sometimes disturbing places.

Then there was the dog it was very happy and excited by all of the kids and when volunteers went up by the stage, the dog straight away went to Mrs Sigamoney. That was probably because the customs officer hid something on her before hand.

DARE was a fabulous and awesome thing to experience I am glad that this programme has been set up to help young adults to decide which is the right direction to go in and what one isn't. So I'd like to say hank you to Tamaki Intermediate and Constable Teina for setting up this opportunity and educating us on this.