Science Roadshow

Yesterday the senior classes went to a science roadshow. Each class went one by one. The science roadshow was at Tamaki College auditorium. The reason why we had this science roadshow was to learn more about our ‘Topic,Bigger,Better,Faster,Stronger’.

When we got there we had to wait outside until a lady named Laura came out and got us. When we went inside we had to sit down on the chairs. After a while they were talking to us about the temperature, how it rises and how the heat goes down. They gave us a few examples.

One of the examples they showed us was how fuel can blow up. They got a piece of paper and put the tip of it on fire then put it into a container but it didn't blow up. It didn't blow up because it had no oxygen. Then they lit a candle and sprayed fuel on the candle then there was a huge fire on it. This happened because there was heaps of oxygen around the lit candle.

There was another experiment that they showed us. It was liquid nitrogen. They also had this little metal stick with a hoop at the end of it. They also needed a volunteer. The volunteer had to put safety equipment on and put a little ball through the hoop and it dropped through the little hoop. Then the lady put the hoop thing into the liquid nitrogen for a few minutes. When she pulled the hoop thing out, the volunteer had to drop the same ball through the hoop and see if it dropped through. When she dropped the ball it didn't go through because when she dipped it into the liquid nitrogen, it decreased in size.

Soccer

The 24th, Tuesday, May 2011 was the day that the Pt England Girls Football (soccer) team had their very first football tournament. We weren’t very experienced but Mr Harris, our coach, said that we were just playing for fun and that we’d learn on the way. So, that’s exactly what we did, played, had fun and learnt more about the game as we played !

Our first game was against Ellerslie and sadly for us, we lost. But we still had 2 more games to go. After our 25 minute break, it was time for our 2nd game. This time it was against Panmure District School. In this game we didn’t get a goal but we had improved from our last game we had. On our last game we played against Churchill park. This game was our very best because we won. It was 1 - 0. Tracey got the goal in the last few minutes.

As soon as the ball got into the goal, everybody jumped around with joy and excitement ! We finally scored a goal. But the game wasn’t finished yet, we still had about 10 minutes left. So we played hard until the end...Yeah ! we screamed, we won !

Immersion rotation

This term our topic is BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER. For our immersion rotation, our class went to other team five classes for the chance of learning more about the topic. In each class there were different ideas about our topic.The different ideas taught in each class were Imagination, Creativity, Discovery, Innovation and Practicality. Today (Friday) is the last day of our Immersion rotation.

For our first rotation, we stayed in our own classes. The word in our class was Imagination. On each table was a big paper with questions that a few people had to go around to each of them, one group at a time. One of the questions was ‘Imagine if you had special powers, what would they be?’ This activity was a lot of fun because it made us think outside the box and invent new things in our head using our imagination.

The second rotation was on Monday in Ms Tito’s class. With her we learnt about creativity. We had to create our names individually using different fonts than other people. Each letter of our name had to have a different design. If we copied someone else, we would be disqualified from the competition. There were many out standing creations that entered.

Our third rotation was in Mr Bark’s class. Practicality was what he was teaching us about. He gave us a demonstration with some hedge clippers and he had a little story to tell us as well. His story was about his neighbour and how his neighbour would trim the weeds on his footpath with scissors instead of using hedge clippers. Then he’d ask us if it ( the story ) was practical or impractical. It was impractical.

For our last rotation we went to Mrs Nua who taught us about Discovery. Included in our lesson of discovery was an egg, straws, rubber bands, popsicle sticks and tape. With these things she gave us a challenge. The challenge was to make a protective basket sort of thing around the egg, so that when we drop it on some newspaper it won’t crack! Tragically my groups egg cracked!

Throughout our immersion rotation I learnt a lot of useful information and I also had loads of fun. My favourite rotation was Discovery in Mrs Nua’s class because the activity was to create something to protect an egg.

Albany Tornado

Devastation strikes Albany with severe damage leaving two people dead and many reported injured. The tornado hit with such strong force that it was able to rip off metal sheets of buildings, like Placemakers. Many shops remain closed, but opening soon because of the deadly tornado that occurred on February the 3rd.

There were heaps of natural disasters that I’ve heard take place like the earthquake, tsunami, aftershocks and so much more. Never before have I seen an actual tornado come about here in New Zealand. Numerous numbers of cars that night were packed on the motorway evacuating and trying to stay as far away as possible. It was pouring down with rain that same night in the upper North Island.

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.