Super swimming

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week 5 and 6 of term 1 we bib swimming lessons for 25 minuets a day there where 5 groups the groups where 2 year 1&2 groups and 3 year 7&8 groups.

I was in the highest group and we used flippers some times ans some timed we used hand flippers. we had 3 water safety days the first bay was life Jackets and I had to look after my buddy because she was only a year 2 and pretty screed she was shaking the hole time so she was pretty nerves. the next day we did the same thing but we had bouts as well so wee had to role off and she was very scared and we where the last ones off. after that we went under the bouts and  then got in a huddle.

the next day we did pj's swimming  we had to do things like river swim  and then we had to pull some people with a rope I think this was probably my favorite part because it was very fun getting pulled in with the rope and also doing the pulling was quite fun but wish that I had done the things that I did with my buddies alone so I could have it to the beast of my ability and probably had more fun but I liked doing it with my buddies.

hope you enjoyed my story about swimming lessons.

do you enjoy swimming or swimming lessons?

The Brilliant Biography

Hello and welcome back to my blog. The other day I did a Biography mine was about Kate shepherded and if you don't know who Kate shepherded is then I hope you learn a little bit more when you read this Biography.

Kate sheppard biography

Kate Sheppard was the leader of the  New Zealand women's suffrage movement to help women get the vote. In her early life she lived in Liverpool United Kingdom and went by the name of Catherine Wilson Malcolm. Her parents were Scottish so in her early life she moved to Scotland after moving to England with her parents. She was raised and educated in Dublin,Ireland. In Scotland she got the nickname Kate from her teacher that said Catherine was too long. She was bort up strongly religious and she was very bright and therefore very smart and adsorbent. She noticed things that weren't fair and asked people why they were like that and she never got a good reason.

Her father died in 1862 and her and her two brothers,one sister and her mother moved to New Zealand as saloon passengers six years later. They arrived on the Matoaka at Lyttelton sometime in February 1869, nearly a year later. Then they lived in Christchurch where Kate got married to Walter Allen Sheppard on the 21 of July 1871 only three years after she moved to Christchurch. Their first and only son Douglas was born on the 8th of October 1880 in Christchurch. Kate was an active member of the Trinity Congregational Church, giving her time to the church by running Bible classes and fundraisers.

In 1885 Mary Leavitt, an evangelist delegate sent from the Woman's Catholic Christian  Temperance Union of the U.S.A, commenced her mission in New Zealand and Kate Sheppard became one of the founding members of the New Zealand Women's Catholic Christian Temperance Union. It was soon realised by the union that proposed social and law-giving reforms concerning temperance and the welfare of women and children would be more effectively carried out if women had the right to vote and the right to representation in Parliament. In 1887 franchise departments were formed within the local unions and Sheppard was made leader of the franchise and legislation department.

Kate Sheppard traveled New Zealand  holding public meetings and writing two newspapers. In 1893 Kate and the other suffrages started to gather signatures for the petition and they got nearly 32 000 women to sign it. The petition was 270-m-long, the longest petition to be presented in Parliament.  Despite the opposition of Premier Richard Seddon the petition was passed by both houses of Parliament and became law in 1893 making New Zealand the first country to have women vote . The news took New Zealand by storm and inspired suffrage movements all over the globe.

So Kate Shepherd was one of the most memorable women in New Zealand history. She gave women the vote that was one of the first steps of women and men having equal rights. I am proud that New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote. Just imagine if women couldn't vote imagine if it was how it was back then. I like to think I would do the same thing as Kate but maybe I wouldn't  be brave enough and would just go along with the popular opinion. Imagine how brave she would have to been to do all that and how tiring it would have been to have 3 failed attempts before she finally got the vote for women. She never gave up and that is what made her so great.

So that is why in my opinion Kate Sheppard is a great person and should be remembered forever of course there were others and she could not have done it without them but that was about her. She is my hero and I hope you think she is great as well. Now if you didn't know previously that everyone should be treated the same no matter if they female or man,young or old,strong or weak,they should all have the same rights and be treated equally. It is wrong to treated any human like they are more or less then human. These are some quotes that relay speak to me and I hope will men alot to you : “We are tired of having a 'sphere' doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is 'unwomanly'. We want to be natural just for a change… we must be ourselves at all risks” and there is also: “Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?” and the last one is: “All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.” there's are some of my favorite quotes from Kate Sheppard and I hope you enjoyed then and my biography. thatch the

There are all the sources that I used they helped me a lot

Kate Sheppard Quotes

Kate Sheppard Biography

TE ARA-Story: Sheppard, Katherine Wilson

NZ history-Kate Sheppard Biography

Christchurch City Libraries-Kate Sheppard, 1847-1934

hope you enjoyed reading it and learnt more about Kate shepered and what she did 

What was your favorite bit of my biography?

Swift Swimming Sports

Hello and welcome back to my blog so in week 3 of term 1 we did swimming sports. So if you haven't done swimming sports it is when you get options of what swimming stroke you wont to do and how long you go for. There is width race which is the width or the pool so it depend how long your pool is, there is 25m race witch is the length of the average pool and then there is 50m which is the length of a average pool x2 and is the only one you can go to zones for.Zones are further on in the cooperation  if you beat the other people in your year.

I did 50m freestyle,50m backstroke and 50m breaststroke. I got second in backstroke witch I wasn't very happy because It is my beast stroke but I did forget to put my goggles on before I went so that might have soled me down. I got second in breaststroke which I expedited because it inset my beast stroke but I was still pretty happy with that result. Finely I came first in freestyle witch I was happy with because I thou Nelia would bet me (Nelia and I are the tow who came 1st and 2nd in ever race but I think she is a better swimmer then me.)I ended up going throw to zones in freestyle and backstroke because you are only aloud to go throw for 2 races and I like backstroke beast and I won in freestyle.

What is your favorite swimming stroke?😃