Arts Alive: Room 2 Protestors - Our Final Sculptures!

OUR ART CHALLENGE:

To create a sculpture, in the style of Alberto Giacometti. Each person's figure would represent a protestor supporting a cause or issue that was important to them.

Check out the poster below made by Maddy, Nesi, Nevaeh and Sonnia that shows the steps we took to make our Giacometti style protestors:

We made a lot of mess - with paint and plaster all over the desks, the floors, the walls, our uniforms and ourselves (a big SORRY to our awesome cleaners and our parents!) but... we had a lot of fun getting creative and finding out that we ALL had some pretty cool art skills! See our Room 2 whanau artists in action! 

Here is Room 2's final Arts Alive exhibition display:

Matariki Celebrations 2020

Today our whole school celebrated Matariki, the Maori New Year. We started with a school assembly. Students from Room 2 were part of the performances - John and Sione on guitar and Nevaeh and Nina as part of the choir singing the Matariki song from Rahera Davies.

From L to R: Pisirina, John, Nevaeh, Kitione, Nina, John, Eternity and Sione

After assembly we split into different groups across the school - in Room 2 with the help of Miss Vili, our group used paper, glue, wool and cardboard to make star cards to represent Matariki and her six daughters, Tupu-ā-nuku, Tupu-ā-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waitī and Waitā, and Ururangi.

Check out the artwork that Valessa and Kauri made using pastels in their workshop session with Mr Goodwin.

VALESSA

Today on Friday 26 of June it was matariki fun day and we were about to see which activities we were about to do for the whole 6 hours of school! There was Cooking , arts and crafts , Sports , Movie making and I was put in arts and craft , My class I was in was room 7 and the teacher was Mr Goodwin For art we had to create a galaxy kind of art , Here is my art I made it didn't take long took maybe a hour or less to make this . 

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KAURI

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What did/will you and your class/school do to celebrate Matariki this year?

3-D Lettering using isometric paper!

This week we brought maths and art together to create  3-D projections using isometric paper. 

Using specially marked paper, it is possible to use vertical lines and horizontal lines (at a 30 degree angle) to add height, width and depth to a shape. 

This week, Rm 2 students used their new skills to use an isometric alphabet to create their own name tags.

Check out the work of Jarreka, Nina, Sione, Isaiah, Kauri, Nevaeh,  Caleb and Valeli!

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

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.