Kids @ Work 2019 - Bike Track Monitors!

In our school assembly this morning, received certificates from Mr Jacobsen for their efforts as part of the Kids @ Work programme at Pt England School. This year may students from Room 2 got involved as Milk monitors and as Tech Monitors. The team also included four Year 8 students - Lucy, Maria, Nasibah and Thet Htar - who formed the Bike Track team. On fine sunny days their lunchtimes were pretty busy making sure that each kid on the school bike track was fitted with the right helmet and using the right sized bike. They also had the unglamorous job of putting all the gear back in the shed!

Great job Lucy, Maria, Nasibah and Thet Htar!

Prize Giving 2019

This week we had Senior Prizegiving, the first of our school End of Year celebrations. Our senior kapa haka group, Manaia-ki-te-rangi opened with a stunning performance.

Students from Room 2 were amongst those honoured for their sporting and academic achievements in 2019. Tino pai to mahi - AWESOME!  We are very proud of their accomplishments and excited to know that four students from our Home Class will be part of the school leadership group in 2020!

Class Awards

MARIA Citizenship (5th from left)

HOPA Best Effort (6th from left)

MAANAS 100% Attendance (8th from left)

Sports - Team Spirit

ASH Rugby

NYTRAM Rugby League

Academic

 MAANAS  Co-Dux for 2019

School Leaders 2020

NEVEAH, PASCHAL, SIONE, SONNIA - House Captains

We also got to see some awesome performances - the hard work from the tutors paid off! A big thank you from the Year 7s to Miss Timmi, Mr Wright, Shania and Tia and from the Year 8s to Toreka!

Check out the items for each year group below:

YEAR 7s

YEAR 8s

Blog of the Week: MARIA Year 8 Leadership Camp 2019

Check out this blog post from Maria, a Year 8 from Room 2 and her thoughts about the Leadership Camp in Thames.

Last week Wednesday we all went to team 5 block when the bell rang, after we

all sat down including the year 7’s after they did the mihi, karakia we started to

sing the song that was chosen because it was a normal day but it was different

because of the notices was short. After we finish Mr Burt came to give the whole

team 5 a talk about how the year 8’s are going camp and the year 7’s needed to

take over the prefects because the year 8 prefects were going to the year 8 leadership camp.

 

When we were finish we all went to the hall to go pick up the bags and the
suitcase
the instructions were to pick up any bag that was around when we pick up the
bags we put it on the bus when we started to finish putting the bags on the bus
we went to go and sit on our buses that was given to us to stay on. It took 2 hours
to get to the kauaeranga valley christian camp. When we were on the bus we
were playing talking to our buddies about how it would look like and i thought on
the other side of new Zealand would be cities but it’s a countryside with farms and
animals but it was cool looking at the animals and the farms.

When we had arrive at kauaeranga valley christian camp we all were meeting the

people that was introducing themselves to us, after they have introduce

themselves we started to put our gear into the cabins that we have bring to

stay at the camp.After we had put our gear into the camp we weren’t aloud to

put our sleeping bag and pillow onto the bed because the teacher said cause we

 had a lot of time to play today we had our first activity for thames we had go kart it

was fun i keep on going on it and everyone else was, it was so fun. We only had 2

days a night and he we had fun together when we had arrive and on the other days

we had a disco on our last day at camp it was so fun we had so many light off and

there was colourful lights shining. Then we started to go sleep before we hittin the

road back to school but we had a special place to go it was a garden with some

animals in their and plus their was secret pranks hidden it was so fun and funny.

After we were finish we started to go back to school and go back home.

THE END.

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.