Joy

For our term one project, we have been given one of our Pt England values to show what it really means. The value I have chosen is Joy. Here I have is a short movie of what I think it means. Hope you enjoy!

Friends

What I like about my friends is that they are always cheering me up when I am down and also how they always share things with me. They are very kind and caring. Although we are not the same, we still get on well with each other.

We are all multi-cultural which is cool because we sometimes talk about what we do with our families. Paulitia and Helen are Samoan, Sela is Tongan, Destiney is Maori and I am Cook Island. Because of them I have learnt so much about the Tongan and Samoan culture.

Since year 4, the 5 of us have been good friends. We all like music and enjoy playing sports like basket ball, volley and touch. But next term Destiney’s going to go and live in Australia. We are all going to miss her terribly, but she has said that she’ll come back and visit us. We have been friends since we were little and we will be friends for many more years to come!

Welcome To PE

This movie has little snapshots of what we do at Pt England school. We have done these short movies in our groups we go to every Fridays for Taoga time. The Pt England way helps us to understand how and why we respect each other. It also helps us in many ways, that is why it is important to us. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy it.

Camp 'Take Charge'

Camp ‘Take Charge’ was the first ever Year 7 & 8 camp here at Pt England School!

For me, this camp was a real privilege because I was a camp leader for the first time! I was a camp leader with Rayden and my crew was ‘The Carerz’. There were 6 groups, including our group, which were the Motivatorz, Thinkerz, Respectablez, Responsiblez and the Participatorz.

There were lots of fun filled activities we could do. There was hangi prep, kayaking, item practice, Indigenous games and team building. My favourite activity for the day were the Indigenous games. In this activity there were six mini games taken by Mr Harris. There was one game which had hula hoops placed around in a circle. Each person in my group had to stand in a hula hoop and throw a tennis ball to each other without it touching the ground. To win we had to do this 3 times non-stop.

At the end of the day, a group at a time walked down to the YMCA pools to have a swim and then have a shower. After we have finished our shower we would walk back up to the camp grounds and have either free time or item practice and get ready for dinner.

A hangi was what we had for dinner on the first day of camp. Each person got a little tray full of 1 kumara, potato, pumpkin, some stuffing and some chicken and pork meat. The hangi tasted nice but could of been better if there was salt in it.

The next day we had ‘Rock Up’. ‘Rock Up’ is a company that goes around Auckland/NZ with games and activities for people to do. My favourite activity that they came with was the Dunker! We had done the Dunker last year and everybody enjoyed it! Luckily for my group, we had The Dunker as our first activity. When it was my turn I got very nervous. I could feel butterlies fluttering around in my stomach. I sat on the wooden plank that divided me from the water, waiting for someone to hit the target and get me out. The first person stepped up with the ball ready in their hand and they took their shot. Next thing you know I was floating in the pool of water. I got out on the first shot!

On the last day of camp, Mrs Nua gathered everyone into the street (Intermediate block). She told us who came first and last out of all the groups. The Thinkerz came first and my group The Carerz came 3rd! That was a real surprise. After Mrs Nua told us all the notices and things we needed to know, she let us go and get our bags. We left for home. I was pretty sad to leave but I was kind of happy as well because then I could go home and have a nice good SLEEP!

Tamaki Tech

Yesterday was the first day of tech for 2011. It was also the first time our year 7's. Every Mondays from now our year 7 and 8 student's from pt England school walk down to Tamaki college for Tech. At Tech there are many different subjects such as food tech, electronics, science, wood tech and graphics.

My group was in graphics first. Our teacher was Ms Ferguson. In class we learnt about rendering colour's and also how to make something look 3D. We had to draw a cube and colour it in. One side dark another lighter and the last side lighter than the medium colour. We did this so that the cube will look 3D.

All about me

Hello my name is Kezia Teono and I am 12 years old. My nationality is Cook island. I have 4 sisters, and they all live in Raro with my mum. I stay here in New Zealand with my grandparents and my cousin.

I am a year 8 at Pt England school and I am in room 21 my class is mixed with year 7 and 8’s. My teachers name is Mrs Lagitupu and my principle’s name is Mr Burt.

My hobbies are travelling, playing with friends and relaxing with my cousins. My favourite sport’s are touch and basketball. My favourite subject at school is Maths and Art.

Explain Ready

This Term we got given a task which had to be completed by a certain time. We all got given a word which we had to explain what it meant and show some examples of what they are. My word was Antennae. Here is a little movie made by me which shows what Antennae means.

Hope you enjoy!