Year 8 Graduation - 2020!

After a fun day for Team 5 at Swimarama, the Year 8s made it back to school along with their whanau for our last big event for the year - Year 8 Graduation 2020!

It was a special celebration with speeches from our prefects, rangatahi leaders, Mrs Tele'a, Mrs Samuels and Mr Burt. 

Check out the video below from Mrs Lagitupu for some highlights!

Sonnia and Paschal looked amazing and did a lovely job of introducing Ms. Tapuke - what a fabulous turnout of Year 8s from our Room 2 whanau for 2020!

Back row: AJ, Paschal, Sonnia, Ms. Tapuke

Front row: Mr Burt, Maddy, Jarreka, Sione, Shania, Isaiah, Caleb, John, Nesi, Mahoe
Absent: Damien

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:

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.

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?

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

Ready to Learn - Summer Learning Journey

This week in our school assembly we got the chance to celebrate all the students from Pt England who took part in the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) o for 2018/19. Congratulations to our Room 2 students, Filipe, Lucy, Sonnia, Nasibah, Maanas and Arthur.  Sonnia got a special mention for a spot prize (What IS in that brown paper bag?)

This group of Year 7 and Year 8s arrived at school in Term 1 ready to learn - all the blog writing and commenting that they did over the break has really helped keep their brains in good shape! Did anyone from your class/school take part in the SLJ? Did anyone win one of the cool prizes?