E rua nga rakiraki iti - Two little ducks!

Cooking With Mrs Richards

2011-09-20T21:43:00.000+12:00

This wonderful movie was filmed by Vaha and produced by Ngaina. A special thank you to Mrs Richards for sharing her Cantonese culinary skills.

Grant Fox Facts by Awhina

2011-09-13T13:03:00.002+12:00

Grant James Fox was born 6th of June 1962 in New Plymouth. He is part of the New Zealand rugby union and played for the All Blacks. He is not just a rugby player he is also a soccer player. He was educated at the University of Auckland and Auckland Grammar School. During his time with the All Blacks from 1985-1993, he wore the number 10 jersey and he was the main goal kicker. He scored 654 Points from 46 All Black test matches.

Tule's Post about Blackout Day!

2011-09-09T14:41:00.000+12:00

This is us dressed in black to support the All Blacks for the rugby world cup.....

GO ALL BLACKS!

We are the Champions my friends...!

2011-09-08T09:00:00.000+12:00

“Do you have NZ champions in your school?” We do! Our Yr 8 Boys Rugby Sevens team travelled to Tauranga to compete in the 2011 Aims Games. We won the Rugby Sevens competition. We played 12 games and won them all. For winning this tournament we received the 2011 Rugby Sevens Champions Cup along with first place medals. There were also 6 players from our team that made the Aims Games Tournament team. The Tournament team has 12 players in it. The players were chosen from 32 different teams.Here is a movie that we have put together to show you some High-Lights from our week. Posted by Raven & Charm (Players AND selected Aims Games Tournament Team members)

Beni's Multiple Intelligence Test Results

2011-09-07T15:31:00.000+12:00

This week Room 22 have been learning about the Multiple Intelligences. Ms T showed us a site that showed us what weaknesses and strengths we have. My main strengths are: Music smart, people smart and body smart. My weaknessess are Nature and picture smart, word smart, number smart and Myself smart, those are the main things I will be working on.

Teari's Post about our NZ CHAMPIONS.

2011-09-07T12:29:00.001+12:00

This morning our school Pt England welcomed back our year 8 boys who went down to Tauranga to play Rugby Sevens.

They left on Sunday the 28th of August and they arrived back here in Auckland on Friday night on the 2nd of September as the New Zealands Champions.

As we heard the updates at the end of their games we were extremely happy because all the updates that we received were very good. They won every game that they played.

Royal Oak Intermediate were the National Champions (from last year) and our team challenged them in the Grand Finals. When we heard that they were challenging the champions we were really happy and we were hoping that Pt England would win. After the game finished we heard that they had beaten Royal Oak and the score was 31 - 5 to us.

So there it is, Pt England year 8 Sevens Rugby Team are the New Zealand National Champions.

Etta's Tuakana/Teina movie.

2011-09-06T09:00:00.000+12:00

Every Thursday afternoons Room 22 (Yr 7 & 8 Class) and Room 7 (Year 2 class) come together in the library for Tuakana Teina Reading. Tuakana means Big brother/sister and Teina means little bother/sister. We were put into pairs with the juniors. There are a number of reasons why we do this. The main reason is to work with the younger kids so they become whanau (family) and the second reason is so we (us seniors and juniors) get better at reading. We have turns at reading to each other and it's alot of fun. You should try it, maybe you have a junior class or senior class that you would like to start a Tuakana/Teina Reading programme. It's for 1/2 an hour each week and we love it!

Reporter & Producer: Etta Manase

Term 3 2011 - Keep your eye on the ball!

2011-09-05T12:46:00.000+12:00

Kia ora koutou katoa and Welcome to Term 3. We are all really excited about this term because of the Rugby World Cup. Our inquiry this term is based around "Keeping our eye on the Ball" This means we are focussing on identifying some of the attributes of champions and doing some inquiry around the 20 nations involved in the World Cup. Watch this space!

Schools SHOULD be cool... like ours!

2011-07-14T16:10:00.007+12:00

Did you enter the edtech 'School is Cool' competition? We were pretty keen to be in to win an ipad for our class so here's our entry. It was the Room 13 kings who inspired us too... so thanks Room 13 and good luck :) We have to say a huge thank you to Henry Tumanuvao for using his talent to share our ideas about why we think school is cool. Henry was our graphic artist, videographer, producer, editor and creator - You are amazing! Thanks also to our voice over experts Amos Hughes and Te Rangimarie Matatahi. We hope you enjoy our entry!

Fonterra Science Roadshow

2011-07-07T12:19:00.003+12:00

Awhina and Ngaina worked very hard to put together a movie to share about our 'Fonterra Science Roadshow' experience.

SchoolTV Part Three June 24th 2011 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Ben's Birthday Wooohooooo!

2011-06-17T11:14:00.002+12:00

My name is Benjamin and I am in Room 22. Guess what? Its my Birthday today because it is Friday the 17th June 2011. When I get home me and my mum is going to go shopping at pack n save. We are going to have chips and fizzy drink for Dinner to night. I am 12 years old today. I love being in Pt England school.

Its my birthday today and its also Miracles birthday too. He wore a black wig and a purple necklace.
we both stood up on the chair and my teacher played the song happy birthday. We both laughed with joy and I can’t wait until after school.

Awhina's post - Taonga time

2011-06-02T11:41:00.003+12:00

This year every Friday for an hour and a half the year 7 and 8 students have Taonga time with different teachers in different classes. Taonga means treasure in Maori. Why do we do this you may ask? We do this to learn about the different passions of our teachers. For instance one of my teachers passions is kapa haka.

We have a number of groups that we split up for Taonga time and they are; kapa haka, sport, music, science, and team building. The group that I am in at the moment is kapa haka. We learn new songs and new actions. We are performing for a powhiri in a couple of weeks.

I feel very pleased to be in kapa haka. We hope we do well at the powhiri and impress the teachers. I really liked kapa haka in the last session!

Vaha's Post - Netball

2011-06-02T11:39:00.001+12:00

On Thursday the 5th of May, Room 22 had their very first netball session with one of the netball helpers called Emma. We have it every Thursday after lunch from 2 o'clock to 2.40 at our school netball court outside the stuff room.

Our first netball session, we did a whole lot of dynamic stretches. We did bum flicks, high knees and also the grapevine. After learning all these dynamic stretches I can now use them when I’m getting ready for my netball game or when I’m training.

To finsh of our session we had a good game of corner ball. Corner ball is smiliar to netball but instead of 7 players we split into two teams of 16 players. Also to score a goal, a player from each team had to jump into the corner that was surrounded by small cones and catch the ball. The game was fun and it also went well.

Our session went well and I also enjoyed it. I really can’t wait for our next session.

Term Two - Bigger, Better, Stronger and Faster

2011-05-04T09:23:00.000+12:00

Kia ora koutou katoa. It's great to be back and we are reared up ready to go! This term we have a technology focus and are looking forward to learning about Innovation, Discovery, Creativity, Practicallity and Imagination.

All about me.. Teari

2011-03-23T10:25:00.001+13:00

Hi my name is Teari Harris, I am 11 years of age. I am Maori, Cook Island. I am the youngest child of 6 in my family. I have 1 sister and 4 brothers.

I just started at Pt. England Intermediate, I am in Room 22 and my wonderful teacher is Miss Tito.

My favourite subject is maths and my favourite sports are swimming and netball.

I hope I enjoy it at Pt.England and have heaps of friends.

Bar Graph

2011-02-23T12:21:00.000+13:00

As a part of our research my class and i have been studying about statistics. Statistics is finding things out. As you can see i have made a graph from the foods that we voted for. Beetween Curry Kumara and Nachoes there is 32 votes for Nachoes and least amount of votes for Curry kumara.

Week 3 already!

2011-02-22T12:00:00.000+13:00

Wow, time sure does fly when you're having fun. The students in Roon 22 have settled into our daily routines nicely. We love our new senior building and bright, modern classrooms. We are also in full swing of integrating the use of netbooks into our learning and are definitely experiencing highs and lows on a daily basis. Check out this short movie showing our gorgeous new senior space and the nifty netbooks.

Ka kite to the old.... Kia ora to the new!

2011-01-25T17:48:00.000+13:00

Our 'old' blog of 2010

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome back to another fantastic year right here at Pt England School. As you may know my new classroom is Room 22. So, time for change. If you're wondering about our class blogs' name... I did it on purpose to create a bit of mystery and I needed a bit of a challenge for our blog community. If anyone knows where the name came from then please leave a comment and i'll let you know if your on the right track :)

Anyway... I'm pretty excited about the year ahead and I look forward to working with my new whanau (Staff and students) in not only Room 22 and Team 5 but the whole of PES. I will do my best to keep you in the loop with what's happening in our learning community. So, watch this space and "Keep cool til after school!"

The Winners - Digital Thank You's

2010-12-07T10:48:00.000+13:00

Congratulations to Team One for their winning entry. Thank you to all the people who voted (All 147 of you). Well done both teams for representing PES and I am sure they were appreciated by Mr Wetere and Dr Bruce Bryant.
The Boys team have won themselves a free lunch provided by Ms Tito.

Well done BOTH teams :)

The winning entry...

Puna Kupu from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Vote for your favourite 'THANK YOU" message

2010-12-01T10:50:00.002+13:00

You had a sneak preview today during PENN. If you wish to watch the 'Thank You' messages again click below. If you want your vote to count, click on the link underneath the movies and choose your favourite message from either Team One or Team Two. Only one vote per student please. Don't forget to watch PENN next monday for the results.

Team One

Puna Kupu from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Team Two

Thank you Mr Wetere from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Click on this link to VOTE

New whanau for Room 19 and PES

2010-11-23T10:58:00.000+13:00

We have a new student in our class. I asked him to share something with us about his new class and school. We are lucky because he is another student who is fluent in Samoan... Yay another clever bi-lingual student. Heres what he wrote:

olu igoa o ieremus ou te sau mai samoa. olu faiaoga igoa o mstito e lelei ma tou faiaoga e sosoani
i mato e manaia le aoga. fafetai mo ms tito.

My name is Ieremus. I come from Samoa. My teachers name is Ms Tito. She is a good teacher. I am happy that she helps us. I love this school. Thank you Ms Tito.

Today is Netbook day!

2010-11-17T12:44:00.000+13:00

We thought this day would never arrive. The students of Room 19 received their Netbooks yesterday and spent the last part of the afternoon labelling and doing initial log-ins on their very own netbook (well, I should say loan netbooks until the end of the year).

This morning after Karakia, Mihimihi and Himene the students had their first 'play' with their netbooks. The classroom was filled with excitment and there was a definite buzz of activity throughout the morning block. There were moments of excited "Oooooooooooh's" and frustrated "Awwwwwwwww's" as students worked through the basics and setting up process.

I managed to capture a few moments via video and photographs in between supporting students. Take a look at a snippet of our 'Netbook' morning.

Technician beginnings

2010-11-15T12:56:00.011+13:00

These are our technicians that are learning how to use our new net books that have arrived here at Pt England school. First they started off with unpacking the net books and then they started to Image them . Being a Technician you have to be reliable and when something is wrong with the net books they are the students who fix them so that they can work properly.

If you look above you will see two technicians trying to image our net books known by the names of April and Nathaniel. They are two of the year 7 students.
As you can see here are some more students working on the same project. "Working hard technicians. "

Ko Ngaina Mihaka mo Room 19

Jesse

2010-11-10T22:58:00.001+13:00

Room 19 spent a term learning about two Mighty Teenage Mariners called Jesse Martin and Jessica Watson. During their study 'Boy' the movie was released. The movie inspired the students to recreate their own snippet of 'Boy' using 'Jesse Martin' as the main character. This film was written, planned, animated, filmed and edited by Year 7 students. We hope you enjoy 'Jesse'.

Jesse from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Our new intermediate

2010-10-27T08:59:00.001+13:00

Our new intermediate is looking fantastic it's almost finished and looks better than our school it's self. We all can't wait till it's up and running all the builders are working hard and so you get an idea of what it looks like so far here is a little slide show of it still being built. Posted by TomJoe Tavita.

Brand New Buildings

2010-10-18T16:07:00.004+13:00

Feki has been given the responsibility of documenting and sharing the progress of our new Senior Block currently being built right here at Pt England School.

Class of the Week - East and Bays Courier Article

2010-10-18T13:46:00.002+13:00

At the end of last term a wonderful reporter by the name of Amy McGillivray interviewed the students to write an article for the 'Class of the Week' section in the East and Bays Courier. The students put together a mini presentation for Amy answering the question "What is great about our class?" Amy chose to write about their blogging. Check out what Room 19 students had to say about their blogs.

Students share their work with the world
By AMY McGILLIVRAY
East and Bays Courier
29 Sep 2010

With thousands of blogs littering cyber space a class at Pt England School is leading the charge towards this form of communication. Each student in room 19 at the school keeps their own blog with posts ranging from rugby league to reports they have...read more...

Giant Cockroaches by Zane

2010-10-15T16:27:00.002+13:00

Zanes post gets to feature first as Post of the Week.

This term we are learning about little critters. This is what I have learned about Giant burrowing Cockroaches.

Vaha's Quiz

2010-08-25T14:30:00.002+12:00

As part of our studies about ‘Mighty Teen Mariners’ our class is looking at the Multiple Intelligences. We used our interpersonal intelligence and we put together a little quiz for you. We are looking at Blooms Taxonomy also and have shown our understanding of what we have learnt by ‘Creating’ the quiz.
Why don’t you check it out because you might even learn something new from these questions. You can answer the questions in the comments box and we’ll let you know if you answered correctly.
ENJOY!

Multiple Intelligence Challenge

2010-08-17T12:59:00.001+12:00

As you can see this is just a little snippet of the Famous Mighty teen Mariner, Jesse Martins voyage.

We were given a time limit of only 1 hour and 50mins to complete our task.
Ms T taught us about the Multiple intelligences. We chose two of them, which was Visual/spatial, that involves art and Musical/rhythmical.
We used hyperstudio to create our animation and we edited using Imovie. We also created a soundscape using garageband for our amazing background music.

The Pukeko and Bubbles

2010-05-20T10:46:00.004+12:00

Last week the Pukeko group made some fabulous Bubble artwork. This movie was filmed by the students and edited by the wonderful Mrs Clarke. Aren't they lucky!

Well done Brennan, Jane, Junior and Charlie.

Post of the Week - Week 4 Term 2

2010-05-20T10:30:00.002+12:00

Kia ora koutou - Hi everyone. I had an easy choice this week. Raven wins post of the week due to his effective paragraph writing. The students chose to learn about the legend of Mt Taranaki (you might have heard we are studying Volcanoes this term). Students were asked to retell the legend in their own words. Our big writing focus this term is writing effective paragraphs and we are slowly moving into writing full pieces of writing. This is a very good example. Students are now turning their pieces of writing into various kinds of digital learning objects - so, watch this space as their DLO's are due in next Wednesday. Oh, and by the way, Raven also had the privilege of sharing his writing with Mr Burt (our wonderful Principal). I am very proud of your efforts Raven. Keep up the great writing. To all you fans out there, don't forget to leave a comment on Ravens' blog.

Post of the Week - Week 2 Term 2

2010-04-29T22:52:00.001+12:00

My goodness! It's getting harder and harder for me to choose posts of the week because the students in Room 19 are just pumping out some jolly good posts. I have chosen Feki's post 'We had fun' because his writing to support the video was a good example of an effective paragraph. That's what we have been practising during our writing sessions. Well Done Feki.

Student Reflections

2010-04-23T13:36:00.006+12:00

The students were asked to reflect on a number of things related to creating their DLO. This is the same group that has their movies and rubric posted below. Here's what they had to say...

They also had to think about what they would do differently next time, how they could use 'new' information/knowledge in real life situations or future classroom situations, were they given enough time to complete their DLO?

Keep an eye out for their new 'full reflection' posts where each student will individually answer each reflection question.

Tracey, Feki, Mauina, Vaha and Ngaina.

Nga Pukeko at it again...

2010-04-22T10:10:00.004+12:00

The Pukeko reading group had such a great term last term. I can see they are rearing to go for gold again this term.
Here's a movie put together by Mrs Clarke - the students read the story 'The Mud Slide', wrote a script together, were given parts to read and were recorded for you to enjoy.
If you wish to give them feedback please go to their individual blogs and leave comments.
Thanks again Mrs Clarke.

Jane, Brennan, Ronald & Junior

DLO of the Term- The Pt England Way Korero.

2010-04-22T09:10:00.010+12:00

Last term the students were asked to make movies showing their understanding of some of the korero that helps our students remember the 'Pt England Way'. Students worked in groups and were assessed on a number of things.
The post you are about to see is the 'top' DLO of the class. If you check the rubric (above), you will see their final assessment.
Please leave comments for the students on their own blogs, they would love to hear from you :)

Well done Tracey, Feki, Mauina, Vaha and Ngaina. All your hard work paid off.

Post of the Week

2010-03-30T16:46:00.002+13:00

Jonty wins the post of the week award. He has chosen to write about a mythical creature 'The Hydra'. It is exciting to see him playing around with language and experimenting using descriptive words. Well done Jonty... Bring it on! Have a read and let him know what you think.

The Pukeko and Mrs Clarke.

2010-03-24T14:38:00.008+13:00

Room 19 are blessed to have the fabulous Mrs Clarke work with a group of students during Literacy. All our reading groups have been named after NZ Native Birds and Mrs Clarke works with the 'Pukeko' group. Throughout the term I have observed a number of wonderful activities this lucky group get to experience with Mrs Clarkes guidance. Here is a movie made by the Pukeko group explaining how they made their kites.

Thanks Mrs Clarke we love you!

Blog of the week

2010-03-23T06:08:00.005+13:00

BLOG OF THE WEEK

Tomjoe's Blog is my (Ms T's) choice for blog of the week. He was the first student to chose a new 'bling' or background for his blog and has a number of people from all over the world checking out his posts. It helps to have whanau or family spread around various parts of the world too - read some of his comments from family members and feel free to leave one yourself. The competition is fierce with Feki 'blinging' his blog today :) Click on the link 'Blog of the week' to check out Tomjoes interests etc. I loved the Avatar theme he chose - Great movie! Oh by the way, students are encouraged to post regularly and get to 'bling' their blog and add 'extras' to their blog to personalise them.

Meet Ngaina

2010-03-23T06:00:00.002+13:00

Ngaina

Meet Jonty

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Jonty

Meet Vaine

2010-03-23T05:54:00.002+13:00

Vaine

Meet Hajira

2010-03-23T05:48:00.002+13:00

Hajira

Meet Damien

2010-03-02T22:09:00.003+13:00

Damien

2010-03-02T22:09:00.001+13:00

Meet Tamati

2010-03-02T22:03:00.001+13:00

Tamati

Meet Henry

2010-03-02T10:34:00.000+13:00

Henry

Meet Gabrielle

2010-02-19T21:32:00.002+13:00

Gabrielle

Meet Jane

2010-02-19T21:29:00.002+13:00

Jane

Meet Casey

2010-02-19T21:23:00.002+13:00

Casey

Meet Tracey

2010-02-14T21:49:00.002+13:00

Tracey

Meet Raven

2010-02-14T21:41:00.001+13:00

Raven

Meet TomJoe

2010-02-14T21:35:00.002+13:00

TomJoe

Meet Nathaniel

2010-02-14T21:30:00.002+13:00

Nathaniel

Meet Maree

2010-02-14T21:24:00.002+13:00

Maree

More Room 19 students

2010-02-14T21:15:00.002+13:00

Kia ora koutou - Hi everyone.

Thank you for all your comments. We check our blog as a class most mornings and we are grateful for your feedback. Please let us know where we can improve and if there is anything specific you would like to know about us. A special shout out to 'Digi Donuts' our newfound friends in Room 22 at Roslyn School in Palmerston North.

Here are a few more of our tremendous students.

Meet April

2010-02-09T22:44:00.003+13:00

April

Meet Zane

2010-02-09T22:29:00.004+13:00

Zane

Meet Etta

2010-02-09T22:22:00.004+13:00

Etta

Meet Vaha

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Meet Feki

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Feki

Meet some of the Year 7's

2010-02-09T21:39:00.005+13:00

Well, here we are in week two. The students have settled in nicely to the rountines of being a senior student (again) at Pt England School. To kick off our year I asked the students to introduce themselves and share their thoughts on being a Year 7 student. They were also happy to share with you one goal (of many) that they will be striving to achieve throughout the year. Enjoy our wonderful Year 7's.

We're Here!

2010-01-25T16:26:00.002+13:00

Year 7 I hear you ask? At Pt England School? You better believe it! For those of you who haven't heard... Pt England School in now a full primary, which simply means our year 6 students who would normally head off to an intermediate, can stay here and continue their learning journeys through to year 8.