Memories - 2020 Year 8 Leadership Camp , Thames

Just in case you missed PENN today, check out the movie below for highlights from the Year 8 Leadership Camp that took place in the first week of August at the start of Term 3.  

The Kauaeranga Valley Christian Camp hosted Pt England School for 3 days and 2 nights. We appreciate how lucky we were to get to camp this year - 4 days after we got back, the Auckland region was put into Lockdown 2.0 at Level 3.

Here are special memories of what they got up to - trying out new activities, making new friends and stepping out of their comfort zones! Enjoy!

Tikanga - Team 5 Assembly - Writing for a specific purpose - ZAMERA

This week students had to explain and justify that the tikanga we follow for our Team 5 assembly (in the street at school and online with Google Meets) is appropriate and honouring.

Read Zamera's thoughtful response as she explains what we do in the senior block at Pt England School for our team assemblies and why

Feel free to leave a comment for Zamera on her blog

Measurement - Checking and Converting Units - SIMON

Making sense of units of measure can be a little tricky - read the story below:

It makes NO SENSE! See how Simon changed the units so they are correct and did some conversion calculations and shopping tasks! 

Awesome work Simon! Click on this link to leave a comment on his blog

 

Rātā and the Tōtara Tree - Myths and Legends - ZAEEDA

This morning we had a literacy google meet. We at another Maori Myth, called Rata and the Totara tree. It was about a Maori man who was looking for a tree to craft a waka for his village. He wanted to get away from the island as Tangaroa and Tawhirimatea we going to have a war which would destroy the village. Rata found a large Totara tree but forgot to follow to recite a karakia of invocation for Tane Mahuta, this lead many birds and insects to restore the tree to its original state. 

We had to create a storyboard which I quite enjoyed doing, because it helped me get a good idea of what happened in order. Next we had to break up a portion of a text into word groups, we then had to record ourselves reading it fluently. I had to re-record this last time so I tried extra hard to tell the story well and fluently. Next we had to do word groups, I wasn't sure how many we had to choose and use in sentences but I did two of the ones I found most interesting. 

We then had to do our create task we could choose 1 out of 2 activities, I decided to try making a movie review as I loved the message the clip on slide 3 explained. Overall I enjoyed this task and like how there we 2 parts to our literacy task, looking forward to doing more!

Leave a comment for Zaeeda on her blog.

Myths and Legends - Ojibway - First Nations - Creation Story - ISAIAH

This week we listened to a story from the Objiway, First Nation people in Canada about how North America was formed. Click on this slideshow to watch/listen to the video. Read Isaiah's storyboard and check out his list of fun facts about the Ojibwe people. Leave a comment on his blog.

Rona and the Moon - Video Review - LEILANI

Read Leilani's review of a short video based on the myth about Rona and the Moon - does her review make you want to watch the video for yourself - click on this link here. Leave a comment for Leilani on her blog

Rona OR the Moon? - Who do you blame? Persuasive Writing - MARIKA

This week in writing there were two points of view for Persuasive Writing

Supportive OR Unsupportive of Rona blaming Marama for tripping up and breaking Rona’s calabash.

Check out the slideshow to read Marika's writing - what point of view did she take? Did she manage to convince you of her viewpoint? Leave a comment on her blog.

Myths and Legends - An Aboriginal Story of Creation - JARREKA

 Find out more about a creation story from Aboriginal people of Australia from Jarreka

Today for Inquiry our main focus is all about an Australian myth based on a Blue-tongued lizard named Lungkata and his creation Uluru.

Taking a stance - Māui tricked his brothers - (Persuasive Writing) TOBY

  

Do you know the myth about Māui outsmarting his brothers to take him fishing? He caught a giant fish which became Te Ika A Māui, the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Imagine you are Māui and you need to convince your mother that it was good idea to sneak aboard your brothers' waka. Read what Toby wrote - are you convinced? Leave a comment on his blog.

Measurement - Olympic Records with NESI

This week Nesi checked out some past Olympic Records across different sports - see if you can sort out the measurements and match them to each event correctly! Leave a comment on Nesi's blog

READING: Te Ika A Maui (Myths and Legends) - Pisirina

This week we learnt read different versions of the traditional Māori story of how Maui used a magic hook to fished up the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. 

Read through the slideshow from Pisirina - check out slide 4 and listen to her fluent and expressive reading of an excerpt from one of the texts.

Below is Pisirina's CREATE task - a review of the short film about Te Ika A Maui.

Visit her blog and leave a comment about her work this week.

 

Maths - Measuring Up!

Check out today's learning in Maths from Paschal:

For today's task we had to measure the two line's and find out which line was longer and found out that they were the same length. Then  we had to measure five other objects which were the door frame, door latch, number two sign, width of the desk and our hand span.

Visit Paschal's blog and leave a comment about his measuring skills.

Maths - Measuring Up/In Training - MADISON

This week Room 2 Maths class investigated how to measure length and distance. Check out Maddy's learning and leave a comment on her blog.

MEASURING UP - Blog Link

Today we were given to tasks, for the first task we had to find out which line was longer and which line was shorter. For the next task we had to find out the width from the top of a desk. Then the height of the door latch. Next the length of the number two sign, 4th the height of the door frame. Lastly our hand span.

IN TRAINING - Blog Link

For this task I had to find out, how many metres would Kauri run. If he ran 3 laps, and how many laps will
Kauri need to run to complete a distance of 4km. Then for question 3 we had to plan a daily running schedule for Kauri fro one month. How many laps will he need to run each day to hit the target of 7 km each week. We had to write our answers on a piece of paper.