Term 2: Immersion Assembly - I Like Your Latitude!

Welcome to Term 2 at Pt England School - today we kicked off the new term with an Immersion Assembly. Read Nevaeh's blog post below to find out what happened!

On Monday the 29th of April, today is the start of  term 2 for 2019.  The whole of Pt England School had a school Immersion Assembly we had this theme called  " I Like Your Latitude. " Mr Burt was talking to us about what Latitude means. It took a while until he had finished, but when he finished we had moved on to watching each teachers from each teams making a movie and  a live performance  about what the team is going to  work about and talk about.  After watching team 1, 2 and 3's movie, my favourite one was watching team 4's movie. 

Team 4's  movie was really funny, the four teachers were called to go to Pak'n Save for no reason, but then one of the teacher's phone was ringing from the Mr Goodwin which was the one who said to go all the way to Pak'n Save, after the call the teachers had to find their way from Pak'n Save to Pt England School.  They couldn't use their phones for google maps they had to use a map and compass for help. They got the staff and went of finding their way.  The funny part about this was one of the teachers Mrs Sio went off trying her way of getting there all the teachers thought that she would get them back to school cause really looked like she would.  But instead of getting them to school she got them to follow her all way to Great Tongs takeaway and buying her a bag of chicken, so that Mrs Sio could eat all of the other teacher's was really mad at Mrs Sio. 

When they had finally got to school they were really happy and glad they had finally made, but they were also mad at Mr Goodwin so the teachers burst into the class rooms they were gonna have meeting but the 4 teachers were just mad at him so they were yelling at Mr Goodwin.  Miss West yelled at Mr Goodwin saying " Why don't you try finding your way back home, without using your phone." so she took his phone and they all walked away slamming the door and leaving Mr Goodwin having to do a meeting by himself.  

Every first day of the term Pt England School will have an Immersion Assembly to see what other teams will be doing for the term and Inquiry, also to find out what the theme is for the whole of term 2. 

Careers Talk: Senior Nurse - Mary-Anne Ross

Check out this blog post from Maria sharing her impressions of a visit to our class from a senior nurse at Auckland Hospital

Today we had a special talk about how our heart works by Mary- Anne was friends with Ms. Tapuke as Kiriwai Tapuke they were still friends since 1976 and they were friends when they were 5 years old. They were in room 23 Sunnynook primary school. They have been friends since they were little Mary - Anne is a Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. We were talking about how our heart goes and how fast it goes, then we started talking about how heart disease is different from the good heart it’s different heart disease is when your heart starts to stop and you get heart disease. In the middle, we started to ask Mary-Anne question about the tools for the doctors then we started asking questions like is a nurse the same as doctors she said no because nurse organizes the equipment for the patients they make sure it’s the right one for their patients. Doctors do different work they check on the people about the health of their hearts. We started to watch a video about how the heart works inside how it opens then close when the blood comes up when you are breathing. The heart muscle is special as it pumps blood around your body. The blood provides your body with oxygen and nutrients. If something is wrong with your heart it can affect other parts of your body. That's why it’s important to look after your heart and keep it healthy.

Blog of the Week: CINQUAIN - Room 2 Literacy Class

This week in Writing we have been learning how to write cinquain, a type of poetry invented in the United States over a hundred years ago. It is similar to the Japanese haiku but has a style all of its own.

A cinquain (pronounced sin-cane) is poem that tells a short story in 5 lines. It has a special syllable pattern of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2. It can rhyme but it doesn't have to!

Check out all of the cinquains from our class of Year 7 & 8 students - see if the syllable pattern is correct in each poem!

Pisirina - Year 7

Ash - Year 8

Hopa - Year 8

PINATA
Candy
Eyes blindfolded
Attacked by little kids
Feeling happy when I bash it
toothache

A.J. M- Year 7

Piñata Day - A Traditional way to celebrate!

For the last two weeks, the JACKSON reading group have been learning about piñata, highly decorated containers made from papier mache, pottery or even cloth and filled up with lollies. Piñata have links in history to different parts of Europe as well as Latin American countries. In Mexico, piñata are traditionally made for birthday celebrations for children.

This week, Nahea, Rozaidah, Skye, AJ M, Ash, Filipe and William worked together to create two Easter Egg piñata.

STEP 1:  Cut or tear up strips of newspaper and use PVA glue to cover a balloon with a couple of layers to make the outside shell.

STEP 2: Listen/watch Skye and Nahea show you how they fill the piñata.

STEP 3: The last layer of the piñata is decorating it with crepe paper to make it bright and colourful!

Check out Rozaidah's blog to get her instructions on how to make your own piñata.

Finally, we got to have some real fun. Ms. Tapuke tied one end of the piñata to a piece of string and hung it up on a pole outside Room 2. 

Everyone had the chance to try their piñata skills!

    a)  First they had to wear a blindfold, next

    b) they were given a stick and then they were

    c) turned around a few times and afterwards had try to hit the piñata. 

The best job was holding the string tied to the piñata - by pulling the string up and down, you could have fun making sure the person with the stick kept missing! 

Well there was lots of yelling and excitement as we watch everyone trying really hard to break the piñata  - it's not as easy as it looks!  Some of the boys gave it a good crack and at one point, the stick went flying over the carpark at one point!

In the end, we took turns smashing up the piñata after each one fell on ground and when they were opened up, we shared out the chocolates.

What traditions do you and your family follow to mark special occasions like a birthday?

Blog of the Week: KING, CALEB - DATA DETECTIVES:Which graph is best?

Room 2's Maths class were practising being DATA DETECTIVES by helping Mr Vogt to figure out when would be the best time to plant shrubs by checking the weather forecast for the next week. 

Check out King and Caleb's explanation and their decisions about which graph to use to support their answers. Which graph do YOU think best shows the temperature data?

This our graph bar and line graph that we used to answer a question about Mr Vogt and his precious little Shrubs. Over the week, we had to pick the best days to plant his delicate shrubs, it needed to be above 20 degrees celsius in the day, and it needed to be not hotter than 11 degrees celsius overnight. He is not available on the weekends. Here is our bar chart, If it goes over 20 it good and if it’s 11 degrees or lower it is good. And if it goes lower than 20 or higher than 11, it’s not good.

The next graph we did was the line graph. Another person in our class did a line graph, and it ended up pretty good. So we decided to try it out ourselves, and, as you can see, it worked out amazing. It shows the same information as the bar graph, but it shows the numbers more clearly. Here is our Line Graph.

Garage Sale - Fundraiser!

Zaeeda and Tha Zin are members from AL87 (Aspiring Leaders from Year 8 & 7). What do you think.  They did a great job creating an eye-catching poster to promote the upcoming Garage Sale being held in our school hall this coming weekend. The aim is to raise $$$ to help pay for fees for the Year  8 camp.

Come down to Pt England School this Saturday morning to support our Senior Students!