Farewell - from Ms. Tapuke

Wow! I'm so incredibly grateful
to have been part of

the Pt England School whanau

but... after 4 (and a bit)! years, 

it's time to say farewell.

I will leave with a 

heart full of many precious memories 

of my life at PES.

To the staff at PES
Thank you for your friendship, 

your willingness to share ideas,
 your passion for educating young people 

and plenty of good laughs!

To my students - past and present:)

I learnt so much from each of you -

thank you for being my teacher!

My deepest wish for each of you is

that you find a way

to step into your amazingness

(yes - this is now a word!)

and show up as

the best you can be!

Ka kite Pt England, 

Team 5 and Room 2 

- it's been a journey!

Arohanui,

Ms. Tapuke 

Senior Prizegiving - 2020

Tonight was an evening of celebration at our Senior Prizegiving.  Manaia ki te Rangi led the way with a another awesome performance. Throughout the night, awards were given to students from Year 5, Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8 for academic and sporting achievements and each group to take the stage to show off their dance moves!

Check out some of the award winners from our Room 2 whanau:

Year 8s

Teu le vā Award - Sione and John

Best Effort Award- Jarreka

Citizenship Award- Nesi

Team 5 Spirit Award- Madison

Looking forward to 2021, we found out that FOUR students from Room 2 had been chosen to be school prefects -  a big pakipaki for Nina, Bradley, Kauri and Simon - we know you will each be amazing leaders next year!

Our night ended with a closing speech from our principal, Mr Burt and a karakia from Toby. 

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:

Last day of Term 3, 2020

Today is our last day for Term 3! Well done to all the students from Room 2 whanau who made it to school today - it's been a crazy term with a second lockdown in the middle. At the end of the day, the whole school sat on the field and we listened to messages from our principal, Mr Burt. He wished all safe holiday - see you back in Term 4!

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.

IN THE NEWS... Current Events with Paschal and Kauri

IN THE NEWS this week is a story about Rocket Lab is a Kiwi-American company with an office near us in Mt Wellington, Auckland. Check out what Paschal thought of their recent launch attempt.

Read Kauri's impressions about an ordinary Kiwi guy stepping in to save our national Kiwi bird.

MATHS - Properties of 3D Shapes - Paschal

Paschal shares his learning today about the properties of different three dimensional (3-D) shapes.
Visit his blog and leave a comment for him.  Test your own knowledge of faces, vertices and edges!

TE REO - He aha enei? How many are there? - KAHURANGI

Kahurangi shows off his Te Reo Maori skills to ask and answer questions using numbers.

 He aha enei? - how many are there? Check out his 'alien' conversation on slide 6!

Leave a comment on his blog

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!

Easter Learning Journey - A Special Time - ZAMERA

Ngā mihi o te Aranga! Happy Easter everyone!

This year, the way we celebrate Easter will be different as we stay in Lockdown and in our bubble. Read how Zamera usually spends this time of year with her whanau.

Task Description: For this task we had to write what our family's do on a normal Easter Sunday. My family does lots of fun things, we have a BBQ, go to the beach and sometimes go up to our family house up north. This is task number 1 and 2 and also day 9 of the 2nd week of the Easter learning journey. Doing the Easter Learning Journey is really fun and also helps us with just keeping up with blogging.

TAHA TINANA - Healthy Body - Play Mitimiti/Matimati - JARREKA

Jarreka has a new TAHA Challenge for us today to strengthen our TAHA TINANA to build a healthy body.

Challenge: Play the traditional Māori game, Matimati or Mitimiti with a buddy from your bubble

This game was used to train toa (warriors). It helped them to 'read' their enemies moves and evade and disguise their attacking moves.

See how quickly you can move your body so you don't get tapped! See if you can trick your partner to move in the wrong direction!

Level 1 - Tap your partner's shoulder

Level 2 - Tap your partner's shoulder or waist

Level 3 - Tap your partner's shoulder, waist or knees

Have a go at building your TAHA TINANA powers today playing Matimati (or Mitimiti).

Leave a comment below on our Room 2 Class Blog for Jarreka

Easter Learning Journey - Poster/Text Message from SONNIA

Sonnia has been taking part in the Easter Learning Journey these holidays and has some advice to share from her whanau to help stay safe in Alert Level 4  for the COVID19 Lockdown and a message for us all!

Day 5 Activity 1

Task Description: For this task we had to Create a poster that shows 3 key quotes that we have heard our family say since being in Level 4 alert.

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Day 5 Activity 3

Task Description:

For this task I had to write a message to NZ only using 10 words. So my 10 word were 

Stay Home Safe Lives Stay Strong were in it TOGETHER.

Easter Learning Journey - Special objects for Travelling - JAZZELLE, SIMON

What special object would you would travel with? Find out what Jazzelle and Simon would pack to take with them. 

JAZZELLE

Malo e lelei and greetings my name is Jazzelle and I'm an Year 8 student who loves reading books sometimes. Today what I have in my hand is an book that is named Salt&Stone this book is about how One hundred and twenty-two began and only sixty-four remain, There's two characters in here and it is Tella and her brother so Tella made it through the first terrains of the Brimstone Bleed but the contest isn't over yet. If she wants to save her brother, she must face the fierce ocean and the icy mountains, all for the chance of winning the cure, If I were to go on a long trip in the car with my family I would bring this book with me because it has Four-Hundred and Ten pages in this book which I'd be able to read on an long trip, it would be also interesting to find out weather she had won and she had got her brother back.

SIMON

Today I'm gonna finish tasks that I forgot about. This activity is for the Easter Learning Journey. I have to take a photo of my self with one special items that I would bring when I'm travelling. I chose my Nintendo switch, because while in my car I could be able to play some games! That's what I would bring if I'm travelling.

Building Taha Powers - TAHA TINANA - 10 Press Ups - Ms. Tapuke

This is no April Fool's - the TAHA POWER BUILDING has begun!

Kahurangi has laid down the challenge to strengthen our Taha Tinana and build a healthy body. His home class teacher - Ms. Tapuke has accepted! 

Let's go Room 2 - have a go and put it on your blog!  Find out who else has completed the challenge with this link  and leave a comment on their blog.

Check in every day to find out the next TAHA CHALLENGE!

Dream Big! - NAOMI

Naomi has shared her thoughts and a poem about the power of dreams. 

There is no limit, until you dream big

Take the TAHA CHALLENGE!

 Kia ora everyone and welcome to TAKE THE TAHA CHALLENGE!

Do you remember our inquiry from Term 1 - Te Whare Tapa Wha? We learnt that to be healthy - we need a strong body, mind, spirit and whanau.

Well, how about using your time NOW to build your TAHA POWERS? Click on this link to find TAHA CHALLENGES to try every day!

Have a go, take a video or photos, then make a blog post and comment on other people’s challenges as well.

ARE YOU READY?

Here is today's challenge from Kahurangi:

Check out his blog and see how he got on!

I can’t wait to read your blogs and see all of your TAHA BUILDING in action! KIA KAHA!

SELF PORTRAIT: Ko Wai Au? Who Am I?

This term Room 2 created multimedia self-portraits. We used a combination of photographs, collage and painting to share with each other some of the things that make us unique and special.

First, each student created a two lists: 1) things they enjoy doing and 2) adjectives that describe their key personality traits.

The whole class worked really hard to complete their artwork  in time for our first Parent-Teacher interviews for the year.

Check out the movie below to see how Room 2's self-portraits turned out!

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: 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!