Inquiry - Parts of the Orchestra

Check out the inquiry work from Angel and Amethyst...

This week we are working on a presentation that will be showing you about different instruments and  also different parts of a orchestra.

Blog of the Week: INEZ Explanation Writing - Regular Exercise

This week our blog of the week is from Inez who explains 'why regular exercise is important'.

Read her awesome piece of writing below and check out her blog to see more of her work.


Greetings, I will be explaining ‘Why is regular exercise important’. There will be three main points that I will focus on, in this piece of writing. Why we need to exercise, What happens if we don’t exercise, and How you can do regular exercises.

Firstly, Why do we need to exercise? It is important for everyone to exercise, because it will lower the risks of us having diseases. Also it’s unhealthy for our bodies to not get exercise. When you exercise it helps you sleep better. Exercising can also help those who struggle in life. It can also take your mind off things and make you feel better. It can sometimes be boring and tiring, but if you make it fun, you will enjoy it. When we exercise it reduces stress from our minds.

So, what happens if we don’t exercise? If you don’t exercise it can cause the immune system to weaken. It also makes it harder for our bodies to fight viruses, such as the flu and cold. You’re likely going to find yourself getting sick more often, if you do not exercise.

Finally, How can you do regular exercises? You can do your own exercises at home. There are awesome sites online that can help you exercise at home. Also if you sign up to a local gym, there are people, classes, and sessions, that can help you with your regular exercises.

In conclusion, regularly exercising can help make a difference in your life. But it’s all up to you if you want to exercise or not. I think it’s good for our bodies to get exercise. Even though I don’t really like exercising.

Musical Madness

Welcome to Term 4! Loseli is a Year 8 student and shares her impressions of the Term 4 Immersion Assembly at Pt England School. 

Hello people, the is the start of a new term which is Term 4. The topic for this term is called Musical Madness!!!. Teachers from different teams have created their own skit or item during the school holidays to present to the students of Pt England for the last term of 2017. Each team did a very good job entertaining us with their awesome skits and singing. 

To start off this term we had an eye-opening performance by the remarkable senior management team and one astonishing teacher who are followed by Mr Burt, Mrs Nua, Mr Somerville, Mr Jacobson and Mr Wiseman (astonishing teacher). They were singing their new song Musical Madness Saves the Day. Each teacher had an instrument to play. Mr 
Burt was playing the guitar, Mrs Nua had her tambourine, Mr Somerville was rocking out his drums, Mr Jacobson playing with his trumpet and Mr Wiseman playing the bass. Together they made a wonderful band.

Team 1 teachers did a item when they were playing cards and listening to music. There focus for this term is listening to music and how it affects their emotions. Team 2 did an amazing performance of Miss Gaston singing "The Lion sleeps tonight". As she was singing other teachers came in with different instruments. Miss Peck was playing the castanet, Miss Tumahai was playing the xylophone and last was Miss Nalder playing the bongos. 

Teachers from Team 3 made a movie about songs in real life. They were also lip syncing to different types of songs as they were talking to each other. The teachers involved Mr Moran, Miss King, Miss Eadie and Miss Davis. They were singing different songs. Team 4 teachers made a little movie kind of like carpool karaoke but they were singing different songs in a car. Each of them had a turn driving while they were singing their hearts out!! The teachers are followed by Mr Somerville, Mr Goodwin, Miss Scanlan, Miss Parent, Miss West and Miss Buchanan. 

Last but not least was the wonderful Team 5 teachers who performed an excellent item. The group of teachers are Mr Wiseman, Mrs Ilaoa, Mrs Tele'a, Ms Tapuke and Whaea Kelly. They were acting as if they were a family and they also watched the movie Lion King for their family movie night. There was different music in the audio and whenever it changes their emotions change too. It was really funny and amazing.

My favourite was Team 4 and 3 and 5. They had wonderful movies and made me laugh the whole time. It is pretty sad for me because it is the last Immersion assembly before I go to college.

Blog of the Week: JUNIOR - HTML Coding

Hi everyone, this is my coding that Iv'e done with Miss Shearing. As you can see that Iv'e been coding. Did you know that we are doing the exact same coding as the year 12's at Tamaki College, Amazing right. If you want to do your own coding then just go on CodePen.com. Coding is basically another language, but a Computer language. If you want to color your font then just type in <font color="......">. If your wandering what the dots are for, its for the color so just type in any color, but make sure it starts with a capital letter. So enjoy my blog!

Blog of the Week: SHEALES - 3D Shapes (Screencastify)

Check out a post this week from Sheales - scroll to the last slide and listen to her describe properties of different 3D shapes. To see more of her work, click here.



WALT  identify and describe 3D shapes
For the past 2 weeks or so we have been learning about 3D shapes. We also have been learning about how many edges faces and vertices they have. If you look through my presentation you will see my 3d shapes and you will also see how many vertices faces and edges they have I also have made a screencastify about it. Enjoy!

Tongan Language Week - Fakakoloa Aotearoa ‘Aki ‘Ae Nofo 'Ae Kainga’ — Enriching Aotearoa with our Family Values. 3 - 9 September, 2017

Mālō e lelei!  Tongan Language Week / Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga is being held from 3 to 9 September 2017. The theme of the week is ‘Fakakoloa Aotearoa ‘Aki ‘Ae Nofo 'Ae Kainga’  — Enriching Aotearoa with our Family Values.

Here is a blog post from Bradley who performed on Friday at the full school assembly to celebrate Tongan Language week.

Last week on  friday  it was Tongan lauguage week Girls & Boys perform I was in the Tongan groups along with my Firend’s Andrew & Taani. We practice Monday to Thrusday We had last practises about we got on stage. I was Pretty Scare I was at the front. The girls we on first then we came we did the Tongan Haka people were cheers after that we got our sticks and did the dance after that we were done. I like Tongan Language week because it my culter. Later Tongan people had a Share Lunch we had Hot Chips Pizza Drinks.

Blog of the Week: SABRINA - Team 5 - Speech Contest

Sabrina shares her thoughts below on the Speech Contest finals for our Year 7 and 8 students last week. Feel free to read more of her posts here.

On Friday Team 5 and Team 3 came together and there was 15 students that came and shared there speech to everyone and the person that said her speech was Amelia and her speech was about her nana and her mother and Amelia Nana was the cleaner at a school in. Pakuranga and it is called Riverina and her nana always smile at Amelia when she sees her.Also Amelia told us that her nana had passed way and my favorite speech was Muba

The most entertaining for me was president Muba. His topic was about if I were a president for a day. He talked about if he was a president for a day, the first thing he would do, would to provide a shelter for the homeless people. The second thing he would do, would to Take the pollution level down as well as bill depts. And the last thing he would do is to make the world a better place. The reason why I thought President muba was entertaining was because he would provide a shelter for the homeless people, and the first thing that came to my mind was that he would be an awesome president one day. He’s actually funny as well, he even knows how to make people laugh and that is one of the things I like to do as well. Is to make people happy and also make them laugh as well. it was a great time i enjoyed it