Blogger of the Week: Zamera - Letter to Ms. Tapuke

This week in Literacy class, Zamera wrote a letter to Ms. Tapuke to share more about herself, her family and the goals she wants to focus on this year.  Check out her letter below. Write in the comments and tell Room 2 what goals you have set for yourself in 2020!

Dear Ms Tapuke,

My name is Zamera. I’m 12 years old and a Year 8 student at Pt England school. I am the second youngest out of my family. I have 1 younger brother and 2 older sisters. My two older sister’s namesare Sheales and Juliet and my younger brother’s name is Jeremiah, my 2 older sisters go to college and my younger brother comes to Pt England as well. My Dad is Maori, Niuean and my Mum is Niuen and Cook Island.

I love playing Sports. I play T20 Cricket for Uni-(University Cricket Club), I play Touch, Netball, Softball, Rugby, Tag, Volleyball and Cricket for Pt England School. This Year in 2020, I'm going to be trying out Ki o Rahi for School.

My Favourite subject is Maths and Writing, I don’t really like Reading that much. I like Writing because I get to write down my thoughts about something, what I imagine and also write about anything. I also like Maths because I get to think about the questions hard and when my brain starts to hurt then that means i’m learning something new.

At school I really like playing cards with my friends. At morning tea me and my friends and some other people like playing a game called Cheat, the way you play it is you have to have a partner and you also have to have a signal, then the dealer gives each partner four cards each then the dealer also
put four cards on the table and you have to get the same four cards and when you get it then you do your signal and your partner has to say your name and cheat. My teachers in Team 5 are really funny and really interesting. They give us hard work but even though it’s hard it will help us with college work.

A fun fact about me is I like to cook, my Dad is the person who taught me how to cook and also my Mum.But Me and my Dad like cooking homemade burgers with homemade patties and it’s delicious, we also like making spaghetti bolognese and lots of other delicious things. Sometimes at home I cook dinner for my whole family and then I don’t have to clean up afterwards. I really enjoy cooking!

Yours Sincerely,

Zamera

Blogger of the Week: KAHURANGI Te Taha Tinana (Physical Wellbeing)

This term for our inquiry we are looking at Te Whare Tapa Wha. This concept compares our bodies to a whare (house) with tapa wha (four walls or sides). Each wall or side represents an aspect of our health that we need to look after so that we are strong and healthy.

In our class, we worked together to find out more about TE TAHA TINANA or our physical wellbeing. First they drew a gingerbread person and covered it with different ways their friends and family could use to look after their bodies.

Simon and Kahurangi

Then they had to create three targets for the next week that would help them to improve their physical wellbeing.

Kahurangi's personal goals were:

Do/Movement

My first goal is to join more sport groups. Also i want do more running activities.

Eat/Drink

One of my goals for physical well being is to improve my eating just like getting better at deciding whether i want healthy food.

Hygiene

Last i want to get better at brushing my teeth more often and have showers 2 times a day not once.

What three goals could you set yourself to have better physical health?

Blogger of the Week: SONNIA - Great group work in Maths

This week in Math's, Sonnia had fun competing against her classmates - working in a group, she had to try and find as many numbers as possible between 1 and 100. Each group had 3 rounds to improve their score. Each round was 3 minutes long.

Afterwards, all the groups had to think about all the things they did that helped them to work well together. Check out this poster by Sonnia to share tips on what makes great group work in Maths!

Can you think of any other ways that would help you work well in a group?

Service to Team 5

Today students from Room 2, 4 and 5 spent the afternoon working putting up sponsor's signage for this year's Weetbix Tryathalon.

It was a scorching hot day so the plan was to spend get the signs up as quickly as possible on the wire fences marking out different parts of the course.

An added incentive was our efforts earned a small koha for Team 5 that can be put towards events for the intermediate block. Great team work from all the students made the sweat worthwhile!

Prize Winner: SONNIA - Summer Learning Journey 2019/2020

This morning at our weekly school assembly we got to celebrate all the Pt England School students who took part in the Summer Learning Journey during the holidays.

There were two separate programmes - one for Year 3-5s and one for Year 6-8s. The aim is for students to keep up their learning while the holidays are on.

Sonnia did an outstanding job - blogging about different CHANGE MAKERS and commenting on the work of other bloggers throughout the summer break. Her hard work gave her enough points to place 2nd overall at Pt England School. For her awesome efforts, Sonnia received an official certificate PLUS a huge bag full of cool prizes including a brand new set of headphones and a novel.

It's only the first week back at school but Sonnia has started the year the best way possible - arriving at school READY TO LEARN! Tino pai to mahi Sonnia!

Never Lose Hope - Kia mau tonu te tumanako!

The school value for 2020 at Pt England is:

Kia mau tonu te tumanako - Never Lose Hope. 

This means that for the next 12 months we will all try hard to remind each other that no matter how difficult things get in our lives - at school and at home, with our friends and family - we need to know there is always someone or somewhere we can turn to for help and support. Let's work together to make 2020 an awesome year. Day by day, taking the time to lift each other up so together are the best we can be!

First Day Back for 2020!

TENA KOUTOU KATOA!

2020 is a special year - not just because it's the start of a new decade but we get to experience a leap year with 29 days in February instead of the usual 28! Today, we got to welcome a new group of Year 7s to join the Year 8s in Team 5. 

This photo is of our Room 2 whanau for 2020 and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead. Please watch out for highlights of our learning journey throughout the year here on our class blog. 

Feel free to leave comments. Ka kite ano!