Last day of School!

It's our last day of school for 2018 and we had some time in our home class this morning to say farewell to the Year 8s who are off to High School next year. There was a mixture of sadness, laughter, tiredness and excitement. 

From all the students in Room 2, thanks for visiting our class blog and sharing in our learning journey in 2018 - we wish you a very relaxing, happy and safe holiday break.

The lasts words are from David who could always be counted on to get us all thinking with his favourite catchphrase!

Year 8 Graduation

Last night was a special night for our Year 8 students as they took the stage to celebrate and mark their final days Pt England School. Angel and Tom did the honours to introduce Ms. Tapuke as their home class teacher - a special moment for her because this group were her first EVER class of students she has had for a full two years. She will always have special memories of them.

Congratulations to Andrew, Kerstein, Aneelis, Sabrina, Angel, Sheales, Benioni, Syriah, Tom, Vili and Hone - look out Year 9 in 2019, here they come!

For those who missed the Senior Prize-giving last week, take the chance to check out the dance moves from our Year 8s in their finest gears - it was a great night for whanau, teachers and especially our graduating students!

2018 - Senior Prizegiving

It's hard to believe that another year has come to an end and last night our Year 8s take the stage for their final prize-giving at Pt England School. The senior kapahaka group, Manaia ki te rangi opened the night with a strong performance and a speech from our principal, Mr Burt. 

Congratulations to all the prize-winners from Room 2 for their efforts this year in class, in giving service to the school and in sports - fantastic achievements!

CLASS AWARDS

Best Effort - Andrew Bowden (Yr 8)

Citizenship - Benioni Duthie (Yr 8)

100% Attendance for 2018 - Sabrina Fifita (Yr 8), Manaas Negi (Yr 7)

OUTSTANDING SERVICE

Prefect - Sabrina Fifita

House Captain - Tom John Manarangi (Hine Moana/Blue)

House Captain - Kerstein Salima (Hine Moana/Blue)

House Captain - Sheales Maeva (Hokule'a/Green)

SPORTS

Female Sportswoman of the Year - Aneelis Fahina-Gataua

Team Spirit Award - Rugby, Netball - Sheales Maeva

Auckland East Storm Rugby Representatives

Sabrina Fifita, Sheales Maeva, Aneelis Fahina-Gataua, Charlese Cecil

To end the night, the Year 7s and 8s, covered in lolly leis, got to show off to whanau and teachers, the dance moves they have been working so hard on for the last few weeks!

Year 8 - Wall of Fame!

Not long to go now before the term is over - these Year 8s smiled for the camera with their friends for our Room 2 WALL OF FAME! Look out Year 9 in 2019!

Andrew and Benioni

    

                          Germaine and Charles.                              Adrienne and Nyree            

The Portal

Imagine finding a portal - a secret doorway where things move through space and time. Check out Room 2's film for the 2018 Manaiakalani Film Festival and see what some of the students get up to! What did the students in Room 2 find in 'The Portal? What would you use a portal for? Comment below and share your thoughts!

Vodafone Warriors - Healthy Living!

Wow what a great way to spend our Monday afternoon!   The team sent to teach us all about healthy living were awesome!

We had a team of 4 Vodafone Warriors lead us through a very informative session.  The headings of the 3 areas they covered were: Nutrition, Sleep and Hydration.  Three very important parts of our daily life.  If we do a good job looking after what and when we eat, drink and sleep we will be in top shape for our learning and more!

The style of teaching used quick fun quizzes after every short talk on these areas.  Chanting our team names was the way we identified which group would answer first.  'Warriors' and 'Nate is the best' were the two chants.

No doubt Team 5 will swing into gear to tell you more detail about our great afternoon with the Vodafone Warriors here at Pt England School.

Special thanks to Tohu Harris, Nathaniel Roache and...can you name the rest of the team.  Leave their names in the comments section to win a prize!

Believe in yourself! - Inspire Tour 2018

Covenant Events brings their 'INSPIRE TOUR' to Point England!

It was an awesome time for all our year 7 and 8 students.  Learning valuable lessons for life right now and into the future!

Here are some gems from the show:

• How can we achieve the goals we set ourselves? Have you set yourself a goal?  Do it!
• ASK - don't be afraid to ask for help.  It's the best thing to do when you're stuck. People WANT to help you!   
• BELIEVE IN YOURSELF - having the confidence to give things a go is another key to achieving our goals!

Through play, song and dance Mayo and Levi entertained and taught us.  It's very likely a message we've heard from our own families, teachers and friends, however, it's always good to hear again.  Maybe for some of us we haven't heard it said enough.

Our Year 7 & 8 boys had the privilege of spending some time, up close and personal, with these two talented young men.  They got to have some real talk about being Pasifika, Maori and Kiwi boys who CAN achieve what they want to.

Thank you Levi and Mayo/Covenant Events for this wonderful experience.  No doubt other Manaiakalani schools will be keen to have you visit them too!

Malo lava le faasoa ma taumafai auā fanau a le Pasifika ma Aotearoa!

Code Club - Lost in Space!

Today was our second session of Code Club - we doubled our members from last week and now have SIX keen new coders! 

This week we tried out a new SCRATCH project called 'Lost in Space' - each student got to use new sprite animated characters and use code to make them move. We made a rocket blast off, change colour and shape and added in a floating monkey astronaut, a twinkling star and a bouncing asteroid.

Check out Andrew's coding work below:

Code Club - SCRATCH magic!

Today Lehi, Andrew and Ben met in Room 2 for our very first Team 5 Code Club session! The club will meet every Wednesday lunchtime to learn new coding skills. Today they signed up for a new SCRATCH account and had fun getting started on their first coding project - creating a Rock Band with different characters or 'sprites' and using code to add realistic sounds. Check in each week to see what we get up to!

Year 8 Camp - Kauaeranga - Thames

Last Wednesday, the Year 8s headed out of Auckland to Thames. Why? It was time for the annual Leadership Camp. 

For three days, students got to challenge themselves, physically and mentally by pushing themselves outside of their comfort zones and step up as leader. 

We were lucky with the weather and made the most of all the outdoor activities. Delicious hot meals, lots of singing (and talking!) and plenty of activities like the flying fox, go-karting and the rifle range kept everyone busy - some people didn't want to go home! We stopped by a local park before the long, slow ride back home. 

Check out the movie to see what the students got up to!

Maths Whizz - Making our time count!

At the start of Term 2, Ms. Tapuke told us we need to get better at using Maths Whizz. She showed us a video to help us learn about the idea of Return on Investment. We found out that we need to use our time wisely to get the best results!

Our goal is to  get 4 progressions in one week! Guess what? One of our classmates, Josh made a huge improvement - in just the first week back he made 7 progressions!

Check out the video and get busy with Maths Whizz!

Introducing AL87 - Aspiring Leaders from Year 8 & 7 for 2018

Do you know who the AL87 leaders are in Team 5? Check out this short video to meet the students who are stepping up to take on new responsibilities in the senior block this year along with our prefects and house captains.

Ukulele Group - Fiafia 2018

Not long to go now until Fiafia 2018 - Whaea Haara and Ms. Hockley have been helping us out each week to practise our ukulele songs. We meet 1-2 times a week but our lessons always end too quickly! We lined up outside on the field like it will be in Fiafia night on the stage - we all have to remember where to stand!


Come down to Pt England School next week on the 12th April and check out everyone's Fiafia performance

BLOG OF THE WEEK: ANGEL - Attitude Talk

Check out Angel's blog post about Tony from Attitude who came to speak to Team 5 students.

Today we had a guest come into team 5 and tell us about things we need to know.

My favourite part about the attitude talk is which animal am I?Like what kind of attitude do you show in class like are you a entertainer which is a otter.Or are you a lion a director,A Golden Retriever  is a peace maker last of all a beaver which is the facilitator. I reckon I will be a lion because sometimes I  will direct people around especially to my siblings.

What should we do when were doing dumb things.We should dump our dumb ideas and focus on good things not going around the class and being a clown that's how you don't get anywhere in life.When were doing dumb things we could get over board and try and do something very bad so that's the reason why we should dump our dumb ideas.

Try new things? When your in a group and there's something new going on try it out.You would probably get use to it for a couple of mins trying new things out is great it could help you with your learning.If you don't try new things out that will be kind of boring because your just gonna stick to the things you know and that's dumb I reckon we should try out new things.

these are my three points about how tony had talked to us about our attitude and all sorts of things like What animal am I,who am I,am I normal,all those kinds of things I reckon the attitude talk is important to me because I wouldn't know which animal I will when I grow up in the future.

Try the personality test for yourself by clicking on the link/picture below:

2018 Garage Sale - Fundraiser for Year 8 Camp

As part of our fundraising for Year 8 camp, Team 5 have their annual garage sale and this year we had it on Saturday 24th March. What a beautiful day it turned out to be with students turning up at 7.30am to help put their stalls together.

We had a long table filled with deliciously home made cakes, pineapple pies, cup cakes, muffins, cookies and some wonderfully made otai to quench the thirst. A candy floss stand was also a favourite for the kids. Parents got to enjoy some yummy seafood chowder made by Roz while our students were being great sales reps at the cheese toasties and hot dogs dogs.

It was great to see Josephine Bartley and Mrs Tele'a join us along with our Pt England babies.

We could go on and on but take a look at our video below to see more of our fun filled day.

A huge THANK YOU to our Pt England families and the wider community for coming down and supporting our students in their fundraising efforts.

We raised $1700!!! This is absolutely fantastic and will go towards our Year 8 Camp in Thames Valley.

Blog of the Week: GERMAINE - Visual Mihi

Here is my visual Mihi its a visual representation of me. in the bottom right corner is the Maori flag because I'm Maori. the top right corner is fortnite my favourite game even tho i dont have a ps4 my uncles do. top left is my YouTube channel the name is boss hoeta go subscribe if you want. bottom left is black ops 2 i always play this game on my ps3 and its lit. i always trickshot on that game. hope you like my visual mihi  

What does 'good' group work in Maths look like?

In Maths this week we had fun finding out what 'good' group work looked like. In groups of four, we had to figure out what we needed to do to make sure everyone took part to complete a task successfully. Check out the photos and comments below:

WHAT DOES 'GOOD' GROUP WORK LOOK LIKE?

Helping them if they don't know 

Team work 

Don't give up if it's hard

Take turns

Listen to what they are saying

Give things a go

Kia Ora! Talofa Lava! Malo e Leilei! Mingalaba! Greetings from Room 2!

To introduce ourselves and make our room look brighter and more colourful, we each made our first piece of art the year. We had to include our name,  a greeting in a language that meant something to us, and a fun fact about ourselves. 

TEST YOURSELF! 
Do you know what language these greeting comes from?
Write in the comments below and we'll let you know if you got them right!

A) Kia Ora 
B) Talofa Lava
C) Malo e lelei
D) Mingalaba
E) Fakaalofa lahi atu
F) Kia orana


Here are some close ups from David, Angel, Aneelis and Sheales.

Karakia, Mihi - Sabrina shows us how!

Team 5 starts every school day with an assembly for all Year 7 & Year 8 students and teachers. Each class takes turns to run the assembly. Two students lead the mihi and karakia and the homeroom teacher delivers the notices.

Every Wednesday, students from Room 2 take their turn.

Do you need to practice?

Well, Sabrina, a Year 8 student/prefect from Room 2,  has recorded the karakia and mihi to help you out! She hasd done an awesome job - Ka mau te wehi Sabrina! 

Click here to listen.  Follow along with the words below. Kia kaha! (You can do it!)

2018 - Here we come!

The holidays are over and Term 1 for 2018 has started back at Pt England School. Here in Room 2, we have Year 8s back for another year as seniors of the school along with a bunch of  Year 7s joining us - full of energy and ready to make the step up to being leaders of the school as part of Team 5.  Follow us through the year as we share our learning for 2018. Ka kite ano!