Rainbow's End Magic - Year 7s End of Year Trip

On Wednesday 20th November, the year sevens were lucky enough to visit Rainbows End. This is a trip that is held every year, to celebrate the end of Year seven, before they come back as the leaders of the school in the new year.

They spent the entire day there - got into small groups with a parent helper and then got to explore the park with them. Here is a promo movie of the trip!

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? 

Code Club - Lost in Space!

Today was our second session of Code Club - we doubled our members from last week and now have SIX keen new coders! 

This week we tried out a new SCRATCH project called 'Lost in Space' - each student got to use new sprite animated characters and use code to make them move. We made a rocket blast off, change colour and shape and added in a floating monkey astronaut, a twinkling star and a bouncing asteroid.

Check out Andrew's coding work below:

2018 Garage Sale - Fundraiser for Year 8 Camp

As part of our fundraising for Year 8 camp, Team 5 have their annual garage sale and this year we had it on Saturday 24th March. What a beautiful day it turned out to be with students turning up at 7.30am to help put their stalls together.

We had a long table filled with deliciously home made cakes, pineapple pies, cup cakes, muffins, cookies and some wonderfully made otai to quench the thirst. A candy floss stand was also a favourite for the kids. Parents got to enjoy some yummy seafood chowder made by Roz while our students were being great sales reps at the cheese toasties and hot dogs dogs.

It was great to see Josephine Bartley and Mrs Tele'a join us along with our Pt England babies.

We could go on and on but take a look at our video below to see more of our fun filled day.

A huge THANK YOU to our Pt England families and the wider community for coming down and supporting our students in their fundraising efforts.

We raised $1700!!! This is absolutely fantastic and will go towards our Year 8 Camp in Thames Valley.

2018 - Here we come!

The holidays are over and Term 1 for 2018 has started back at Pt England School. Here in Room 2, we have Year 8s back for another year as seniors of the school along with a bunch of  Year 7s joining us - full of energy and ready to make the step up to being leaders of the school as part of Team 5.  Follow us through the year as we share our learning for 2018. Ka kite ano!