Ki O Rahi inter school

L.I to play Ki O Rahi and have fun

On Wednesday The 26th of Panmure Bridge School, year 5,6,7 and 8 went to Dunkirk part for  Ki O Rahi inter school.

Our first game was against Tamaki Primary which we unfortunately lost 9-3, we played six games in total. The second game we played was against Saint Patrick's, we won this game 13-4. We played our third game against Te Puo, this was our second win 11-7. We played Te Puo again in round four, but this time we lost. We played against Stan hope in the fifth round and won 13-9, this was our third straight win. The sixth and final round was against stone fields and they were a good team, but we managed to beat them 8-5.

I really like playing  Ki O Rahi and this was a really fun tournament, I want to do this again because it was really fun competing against other Schools.

Ki o rahi

L.I to learn how to play Ki o rahi

For Kiwisport we played three games of Ki o rahi. In the game there are two team's the Kioma team and the Taniwha team. The Kioma team is allowed in Te ao which translates to world in English, They can only run through Te rotor and into pawero when a person in the Kioma team has the Ki (ball) and makes and attempt to score a try. The Taniwha team is allowed in Te rotor and Te ao, their main goal is to score points by hitting Tupu and stopping the Kioma team from scoring a try.

Kiwi Sport

L.I to play a game of ki o rahi

For Kiwi Sport we played a full game of ki o rahi, this was our last week of Kiwi Sport. There were two teams and we both go to play the two roles. The kioma team were running around the world and hat to intercept the ki (ball) and the and score a try in te rotor to get a point. The taniwha's role was to throw the ki at the tupu (island) to score a point with the ki te aki tiring to prevent that from happening. It was a lot of fun and the best part was that my team won.

Taniwha

L.I to learn how to play the Taniwha role

This week for kiwi sport we played as Taniwha in ki o rahi and had three challenges to do. The first one was throwing the ki (ball) at the tupu (island) we got the score of 25 with the time of 1:29. The second challenge was to was to successfully hit the tupu and sit down at Te Ao. The third and last challenge was hit the tupu with two guards gauading it, this challange was really had and we got a score of three.

Basics of Ki o rahi

L.I to learn the basics of Ki o rahi.

Today for Kiwi sport we learned the basics of Ki o rahi, it is a game created way back in the day be the Maori people so there would be no violence. First we split up into teams called Taniwha and Kiona . The first game we played was Taniwha vs Kiona, in that game our coach Shanice called one of the teams name and they had to run to safety in order to win.Then we started playing a game called eight pass which was one of the important games because they were similar games, in that game we had to pass the ball to our teammates eight times in order to score a point.