Precious Mckanzie

Precious McKenzie was born in South Africa in 1936. Unfortunately he had a chest condition which he luckily survived, which is why his mother Christena called him Precious. Precious was well known in New Zealand because he was a famous weightlifter.

In his early childhood Precious's dad was eaten by a crocodile. Suddenly his mother started drinking so she gave Precious and his sister to foster homes. Sadly their foster parents didn’t feed them properly so he didn’t grow properly. He only grew to 1.45m.

Without too much effort Precious did gymnastics hoping to be in the circus. Unfortunately he couldn't be in the circus because of his colour skin. He decided to do weightlifting instead.

He won the Bantamweight title in South Africa. and wanted to play for the empire games but he wasn’t allowed because of his skin color. They even refused to select for the Olympics. In 1963 South Africa finally chose him but he refused because he didn’t want to be treated like that, and be discriminated against.


He chose to emigrate to England. He also got married to a woman called elizabeth and was lucky enough had two children. After that he came to New zealand and was on our team for weightlifting. And he won a lot of medals.

Joshua Iosefo Brown Brother.

Joshua Iosefo is a prefect at Mt Roskill Grammar. He and all the other prefects had to write a speech to read to the whole school. But Joshua decided to write a poem about his skin color called brown brother. When Joshua read his poem in front of the whole school his friend Roshard recorded him and then his friend posted him saying his poem on youtube.


Joshua’s poem Brown Brother was very inspiring and it kind of sounded like a rap. His message is to don't believe or listen to stereotypes and don’t believe what others say about you. His message was similar to the korero that we say at Pt England School.

He wrote a great poem and it was life changing. It was better when he did some actions to all the words. That was the best poem I have ever heard from a prefect and it was trying to tell us something about stereotypes.

Click on this link to see his speech.

Precious McKenzie Aliza & Sesalina Practice

Preparing to lift the weights up Precious mckenzie was trying to concentrate. He was concentrating on the bars, His face was sweaty and he was gasping for breath as he was carrying those huge bars. Precious was trying to get the crowd's attention.

Art Alive

Matisse and Picasso

Picasso was born on October 25 1881 in Pablo Diego Jose Francisco in spain and died on April 8 1881, he was a spanish painter and drawn very weird paintings.  Matisse was born in le cateau-cambresis in france and was born 31 december 1869 and he died on november 3rd 1954 on age 84 and was friends with picasso and Marcel Duchamp.

Although both picasso’s “weeping woman’’ and Matisse “woman  with a hat’’ are portraits of women, they have different themes.
Matisse drawled a painting that was all about the  war, suffering and sadness, But picasso’s  painting used  different side views on one painting tat must of been hard work, but it didn’t look like he’s painting was happy or sad?

Matisse and Picasso had different kinds of colour mixer.
Picasso mainly used reds-oranges-yellow contrasting with blue, He used different colours on each shape on his paintings face. Matisse used all kinds of colours on his paintings face, And he had good shadings.


Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had used different lines on both their paintings.
Pablo Picasso used a lot of shapes and very crooked lines, He even used  different kinds of shapes for his backgrounds. Matisse had good shadings on his lines, He had perfect Matisse had good shading and used very bold lines he made it look like it was smugged.

Kiwi Kick

As I arrived to the courts my teeth were chattering, My body was covered in goose bumps, Rubbing my hand together trying not to make it  feel numb. The leaves were swirling, the wind was whistling and I felt like I was frozen and I couldn’t stop shaking. I raped my jumper around me so I can get warmer.

We meet two grown ups that was going to teach me and my class skills on how to play Kiwi Kick, their names were Sam and Anita. The first rule they told us to use was “faces away from laces’’ It was my favourite because it rumes. Then we learnt how to do a drop punt and a hand mark. I didn’t like doing the hand mark because my hand was hurting and it was getting red but at the end I started to get used to it. I was scared of the ball because it was flying everywhere and I thought it was going hit me but it was fun learning new skills.

They tought us how to play really fun games. My favourite game was Chetars vs Lepads, If the teacher calls out chetars then the Lepads have to run after the chetars and If the teacher calls out lepad then the chetars run after the lepads, And thats how you play My favourite games. Sam was teaching us and Anita was teaching a different class but we still got to meet her.

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My Mihi

This is my Mihi about me and my family.