Keep it Clean!

Strive to succes!!!

Today we had two special guest named Mr Patterson & Raenan who was known as a ex student at Pt.England School.  He came to talk to us about Inspiration, Aspiration and Motivation and that it all leads up to success he said that his main goal since year 9 in Tamaki College was to be deputy boy for year 13, Four years later he achieved his goal. Mr Patterson said that when opportunity come take them but also learn how to say no, back in year 8 Raenan was on on the NZ herald news paper.

Mr Patterson showed us a video of a boy named Dwight who was also a guy who achieved in school even though he grew up in a bad child hood he never gave up and kept on pushing, his video was very inspiring and his quote was "You can't CHANGE unless you CHANGE yourself". The point today was to take opportunity that will get you somewhere and never listen to put downs.

Perspective and Opinions

Finding evidence in a text

Maths Problems

Incredible Instruments Orchestra!!!

  Here are some images from the instruments we were studding on. We had to learn about the different instrument family like the String family, Woodwind Family, Brasses Family, Percussion Family and the Keyboard Family. Leave a good comment if you liked our display.

Makey Makey Term 3 Extension Reflection

Term 3 Extension Task! It gets harder and harder every Term. This was one of the hardest so far. Our Task was to use Makey Makey and code to make an instrument to play either the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Happy birthday or a song that you know how to play. If you don’t know what Makey Makey is the information is on here. My group, Me and Ajani chose to play Happy Birthday. Ajani was playing the Piano and I was playing the Drums. First Ajani had to create a piano by using a cardboard box and had to cut little cardboard pieces to represent the tiles. And I used playdough container and put the playdough pieces on top and used pencils to represent the drum sticks.

The biggest challenge that we had was to try and put the drumming and mix it with the piano luckily we had Zoe there.  Ajani and I had a choice between a game show and musical  instruments so Ajani and I picked to do instruments. The thing we found most easier was getting to know the beats and keys to play our instruments, we started with the twinkle twinkle little star song but that didn’t work out so we tried Happy Birthday and it actually worked out. If you think you can take the challenge go try out the Makey Makey and see if you can make a band, here is the site go have a look and buy the kit.

https://www.makeymakey.com/

Happy Niuean Language Week!!!

Moonu moonu moonu Tangaloa, Fakalofo lahi atu Today was the end of the first week of term 4.  As you know it is Niue language week and Pt.England where celebrating it with the Niuean group's item, Fun fact: did you know that there are only 14 villages in Niue, the surprising thing was that there were not only just Niuean kids there where a mixture of some Tongan, Maori and Samoan kids that just shows that you don't have too be Niue too celebrate the culture you just embrace it cause you can.
The Niue dancers outfits where outstanding, the boys looked like they where actually Niue warriors and on the other hand it was bright and colourful. It was probably the best Niuean performance ive seen if you Niuean just embrasure your culture 

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

WALT: Use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction word problems

How to make a cheese toastie

Today I will be telling you how too make the best cheese and onion toasties.  First make sure you have every thing you need cause you don't want too be excited about making toasties and not have the ingredients, when you have all your ingredients the second thing you want too do is butter your bread but butter it the right amount not butter it so you get diabetes but just right so it taste delicious.  

Thirdly get the cheese that you think will make your toasties yum, So what is your favourite cheese? any way slice your cheese than place it on you perfectly buttered bread,  

then get one onion and some safety goggles if you cant handle the little onion, then peel your onions without crying then cut it into little peicies so you can get more flavour in your toasties then you wait for about 2 minuets and it should be looking like this 

 if you think i gave you some good steps leave a good comment and you could tell me how you make a cheese or a different type of toasties.

Catching & Farming Flounder with Pt.England

  Flounder made us walk to Riverside avenue! your  probably wondering why we walked to riverside, Today Pt.England went to support Some students from Pt.England while they were catching some baby flounder for us to put in our tank to farm them.

Pt.England where catching some baby flounder because most of the flounder in the community is endangered so were catching them to let them grow in clean water. We were also trying to beat Kauri Flats School in partnership score of 4 flounders.

We sang a Himene (hym) and did a Karakia (prayer).  We sang for our floundering people bless them to catch some beautiful baby flounder for our school so we can farm them and so their not endangered.  So tell me would you save our flounder by not polluting and catch the right size and take the right ammoun.  If you do leave a good comment 

My speech relection

Pt.England 2017 wins GOLD!

Geometry

WALT: 1) Draw a 2D representation of a 3D model
2) Draw a plan for the side, front and top view of a 3D model.

Annual Speech Competition

Do you think you could be able to say a full speech in front of 150 kids? Last week team five had a speech competition there were three kids from each literacy class that were picked to say their speech lucky I wasn't one of those guys.  Each name was picked out of a box I felt so good my name wasn't in there, the first name was Amelia her one was about her nana and why she thought she was happy but it ended in a bad way but she made it sound like it was a good thing, then we went past a couple more.

The most appealing one was Danielle because her speech was very deep and people could relate to her lost most of us have lost a close family member it takes a lot of confidence to speak about that.

For me I didn't really think their was the best speech they all good but the one that was most entertaining was Mubashar he wasn’t shy he hooked the crowd with a good entrance he was funny and had good points on what he would do if he was president for one day, Most of these speeches were sad and entertaining.

DLO I Wonder?

WALT: Animate our answers.

Night light

The Space Race

My speech

Why you should come to school?

So my topic for today is why you should come to school?

Kids, they think school is just a thing you can run away from or ignore, well you can’t because school is like a part of your life.  I mean who would want to stay home. Like my teacher says “you stay at home doing nothing, you roam around with no money.  Look how many things you could do at school have a full conversation about life, play touch or held if you have a referee and a mouth guard.

Waking up in the morning and thinking if you should or shouldn’t come to school, I mean before you think about if you're coming or not just think about kids who can’t read and would love to go school. Even kids who just can't afford the things they need for school or uniforms.  Those are things kids don't think about they think school is for free.

The Immersion Assembly

Today was the first day of term 3 as I  walk past the school hall a ufo popped  out of nowhere.  Can you guess what our topic is for this term?…. Guardians of the Galaxy, as I sat down waiting for the first item to come up the lights went out… as Mr Jacobson fought with the aliens we all sat their in laughter and excitement waiting for the aliens to pop out.  BOOM!

The first item was by team 1 they were learning about  the solar system.  This item was about six teachers that left to outer space  to wander around the solar  system this was a very well played out. Their focus is about all the other planets like mars, the sun, the moon and the other planets.

Team 2's focus for this term is about the sun and moon.  And how they can learn more about those two planets and what other interesting facts and thing.  Their item started with a voice singing and miss nalder dancing with a shark helmet.

Team 3’s focus was about time and seasons, it was based on the days of their lifs and how time in space and in earth, the seasons are earth's time this one was the most informative out of all. Also Team 4’s focus was about can humans survive on other planets.  Their item started with an interesting hook the astronauts were guided by Pt England hackers.  Last of all team 5’s item, as the stars of Pt England walked up the stage we were all waiting for miss Judd to sing. WOW! Team 5’s focus was about what does the impact of the moon have.

Which was the most entertaining? Team 5
Which was most Informative? Team 3
What are looking forward to? Is to try new things this term