South Africa Snatch Late Draw Against All Blacks

South Africa have snatched a last minute 16-16 draw against All Blacks. South African half-back Herschel Jantjies scored with one minute remaining, with Andera Pollard slotting the conversion for the tie. The draw sees New Zealand hold on to the Mandela Trophy which is played between the to countries.


The All Blacks led at halftime through a Jack Goodhue try, although South Africa was the better side for most of the 40 minutes. The All Blacks played better in the second half and looked in control of the match until the try in the final minute.

All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick suffered a dislocated shoulder in the game, however, he is expected to to be fit in the World Cup. With this year's competition has been shortened  to three rounds due to World Cup in September.

Hump Ridge Walks Wins Great Walk Title

Hump Ridge walk has been renamed as a Great Walk. Hump Ridge has won a special contest to be selected as New Zealand's next Great Walk. It will officially be confirmed as a Great Walk in 2022. The 61km track in South land will now undergo a series of upgrades, transforming it from a two night, to a three night experience.

The department of conversation began the hunt for the next Great Walk in 2017. There were three finalists to be picked from to be the next Great Walk, Te Paki Coastal Track, Hump Ridge Track and Queen Charlotte Track, but Hump Ridge got selected to be one of New Zealand's Great Walk.

There are 11 Great Walk's in New Zealand.

1. Lake Waikaremoana
2. Tongariro Northern Circuit
3. Whanganui Journey
4. Abel Tasman Coast Track
5. Heaphy Track
6. Routeburn Track
7. Milford Track
8. Paparoa Track
9. Kepler Track
10. Hump Ridge Track
11. Rakiura Track

World Champions - Silver Ferns Win Thriller

The Silver Ferns are 2019 Netball world champions. They have beaten Australia 52 to 51 to claim the Netball world championships. Australia were the hot favourites going into the competition. They had been the world champions since 2003. That means New Zealand has now won the title 5 times.

The match itself, as you would except, exciting. The Silver Ferns led 28-25 at half time and then by 4 at the end of the 3rd quarter. Australia fought back in the last quarter and won it by three goals but New Zealand did enough to stay in the game.

New Zealand captain, Casey Kopua said after the game. "It's all worth it when you have the belief nothing can stop you. I can't believe we've done it. It's not just for us it's for everyone in New Zealand."

Wood Works

I have chosen to make a Locomotive. I think this is the best choice for me because, I love trains and it will be a huge success if I complete it.

The locomotive will be used for having fun and also show my little brother, cousin's and many more.

Also I can do some experiments with it and too let some of my family members use my creation that I made such as my sister order brother. and many more family members.

For this project I will have to consider doing a locomotive because it's cool and also its a train but a bit different.

Helping The Environment

On Monday we went on a trip to our local river. We were given a partner my partner was Echo We found out that all the rubbish that had been in the river was going out to the beach.

They gave some people buckets so we could pick up rubbish that had been left there. After that me and Echo had to go further to look for some more rubbish to pick up.

When we finished doing one area we went to another were we tried to look for more rubbish and we found a playground and we all ate our lunch there. 

When we were done eating our lunch we had time to play on the playground then after that we all went back to school.