Week 3 already!

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!

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

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

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

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!

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