Today is Netbook day!

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

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

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

 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

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

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...

Tech Tags: East and Bays Courier newspaper News

Giant Cockroaches by Zane

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.