Etta's Tuakana/Teina movie.

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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.