The mighty All Blacks!

Do you really love the All Blacks

In this blog I will answer questions about the All Blacks.

All blacks research

I can research abut the history of All Blacks.

1} When was Rugby introduced to NZ and by who?

Rugby was first introduced to NZ by Charles Monro in 1870.

2} When did NZ play their first international rugby game? Did they win or lose? What was the score?

Nz played their first ever international Rugby game in the 1893 but lost 6-8.

3} When did NZ play their first Rugby game?

NZ played their first ever Rugby game in the May of 1870.

4} When was the NZ team called the All Blacks ? Why are they known as the All blacks?

The Nz team were called the All blacks in 1905 and their called the All Blacks because their uniforms were the blackest of black.

5} Name 3 of their best players what are they known for?

Richie Mccaw is one of the best players he is known for holding the world record for the most test appearances.

Jonah Tali is known for being the top player in the 1995 world cup he was also the rugby world cup all time try scorer.

Colin Meads is known for the greatest player of all time he was so dedicated he played with a broken leg and carried on!

6} Why do the All Blacks perform the haka before the match? What does it mean and what is it for?

The all blacks perform the haka because it was a war cry for the people it means they perform it with extreme intensity they do it to let the others their ready and serious.

Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary was a famous person from Nz. He was known for many brave and shocking things and his most favourite was climbing the biggest mountain on earth Mount Everest. But it all doesn’t start their, he has did many things before that to climb the most fiercest tallest mountain regions on the planet earth.

Sir Edmund Hillary first climbed Mount Olivier in 1939. It was his first major climb and took place near Mount Cook in the Southern Alps. It was really hard challenge but he made it successfully with big braveness had it had many rough strong windy, terrains through the hard process of climbing the mountain.

Then the big time to shine had came it was time for him to climb Mount Everest with Tenzing Norway it took him 7 weeks to make it to the top but when he made it to the top he had to get down cause of the small thin air up there so when he came down he was then congratulated by the neplanese people and took a flight back to wards England to get knighted by the Queen. And before he became a Sir he then had a big heart and decided to make school and hospitals for people in Nepal which have no where to stay, learn and get healthy.

Then he had his first ever marriage in 1953 with Louise Rose and he got his first child Belinda but a tragical accident in Kathamandu in Nepal. His daughter Belinda and his wife Louise sadly passed away in a plane over Kathamandu, we will still remember them from when it happened in 1975.

In 1989 he then married again with June Mulgrew, who died on Air New Zealand Flight 901 in 1979. June, Lady Hillary, passed away sadly in Auckland on 1 June 2024.

But Hillary continued to be involved with charities like the Himalayan Trust and served as an Honorary President of the American Himalayan Foundation. He also appeared on the New Zealand $5 note in 1992, the only living person who was not a head of state to do so.

He was also believed to be the first ever person to reach both south and north poles of the planet earth.

Now this was the extraordinary life of Sir Edmund Hillary and he would always be a remembered beloved human figure of the history of earth.

Lynley Dodd

This term we learned about Lynley Dodd. Who is Lynley Dodd? Lynley Dodd is a New Zealand author and illustrator, and she makes books for children! She has made lots of books in her lifetime, her first ever book was “My cat likes to hide in boxes”. But that isn’t all she has made way more books! Her most famous ones are “Hairy Maclairy” ” Zachary Quack” “schnitzel Von Krumm’ and lots more!

Lynley Dodd was born in Rotorua on the 5 of July 1941 she is now 84 and still alive! she also grew up in NZ and she graduated from Elam School.

In my class we had to choose a group and choose a character from one of her big time books in my group we had : Aadi, Harkaran, Keyan and Zachary. And the character we choose was slinky Malinky and it was a cat! We also had to make a speech and actions based on the character for our Whole School Assembely. I was also the speaker of the speech and my group did the actions it was also really hard to prepare but our class nailed it and I was also really nervous it front of about 700 people!

Finally this term it was really fun learning about Lynley Dodd. Thanks for reading!