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. 

KIA KAHA TE REO MĀORI - Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori - 2020

To celebrate the end of Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori, the senior kapahaka group performed in our school hall. Their items were recorded on video by Mrs Lagitupu to show to the rest of the school as part of our weekly online assembly in Level 2. 

The theme for this year was KIA KAHA TE REO MĀORI and encourages all New Zealanders to make the Māori language strong!

Members of the Room 2 whanau took part - John, Kalani, Mahoe and Sione - Ka rawe tamariki ma!

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!

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!

Bloggers of the week: SIONE, PASCHAL, ARTHUR Te Whare Tapa Wha

Our inquiry topic for this term is TE WHARE TAPA WHA. We are interested in finding out how we can balance our lives physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Read posts from Sione, Paschal and Arthur to see which areas of Te Whare Tapa Wha are strengths in their lives and which areas they could try to improve.

SIONE
Taha Hinengaro is a strength in my life. I enjoy seeing heaps of motivational speeches when i watch videos. It makes me have the spirit to get up and do some fitness to get fitter and faster, stronger. The most motivational part is getting use to all the strength you have to make yourself a better person than the past. last, but not least stay healthy and take responsibility for health too. Beauden Barrett is someone that i look up and listen to, because he has many possibilities on what he's doing. When it comes too his big games he has thoughts on what time the training begin, where the balls going and his position.

PASCHAL
Taha wairua is a strength in my life. I go church on Saturday and Sunday, on Saturday morning we go to church and have prayer meeting and bible study. I can improve in Taha hinengaro by having good thoughts and by making the right choices. Another Taha I am strong on is Taha whanau, I am strong in Taha Wairua because I always go church with some of my family members and friends. I also like playing video games or board games with my family and friends and those are my strengths in the Te Whare Tapa Wha.

ARTHUR
Taha wairua is a strength in my life. I go to church every Sunday and every second Sunday is my Sunday school. Sometimes I walk to church. While i'm walking I'm thinking to my self who is gonna be there? Is my friend Finn gonna be there? or is my other friend Tyler gonna be there? but I dont know because i'm not at church yet to see who is there. When i'm at church everyone always have to respect our pastors when they are speaking. I have to improve by taha hinengaro which is making right thoughts.

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