Maasai Tribe

In Room 4 at Pt England I have been learning about the Maasai people. I've learnt that they live in between Kenya and Tanzania. Me and my buddy's Maroroa and Isaiah wrote about How they live by Maroroa, how they eat by Isaiah and the clothing by me. So thanks to the teacher Ms Hockly for teaching about them.

Merry Christmas

This year I am looking forward to Christmas because I get to spend my holiday with my grandparents. I can not wait until I see them and see what I get this year. 3 years ago I got heaps of presents, but my favourite was the remote control car from uncle. This whole year I've only met them once which was last holiday and it was quite boring.

I hope I can decorate the tree and get some present for my other family in the house. I feel so sad because my mum can't be there on Christmas because she is going to Samoa. The other boring thing is I don't even get to be there for her birthday which is 5 days before Christmas.

I just wish my mother could skip Samoa and come to Christchurch but it's her choice. I just wish everyone a happy Christmas with your family's.

The Warehouse

This Morning on Wednesday the 2nd of December we had the Warehouse to come and visit us at Pt England School. We saw them sitting down and we greeted them with a mihi and a wonderful waiata. Next they came to the front and talked about our community and the variety.

 They helped us out with the year 8 Leader ship camp and donated $2000 for the camp, the buses were about $250 each so we were really thankful for them to come along. They had a surprise for us which was the plastic bag thing and we made $1,094.46 which was awesome. They had another surprise for Mr Burt which he didn't know, the warehouse entered the community hero but they didn't get the big award. They did win a different award which Mr Burt won and had a $500 gift card.

Later on we had a speech from Josephine to thank the warehouse for every thing they have done for us at Pt England School. So we ended with a big thank you waiata for them.

Cardboard Expedition

  Cardboard Expedition

On Tuesday the 24th of November we were the lucky last school to get chosen for the Google expedition and we were very excited. We were very lucky to have them come along because some other schools weren't  chose. It was really interesting and fun, they showed us how to hold it and we had to hold it like a burger.

All the phones were Acers which was a new brand, they were all connected to one iPad. The reason why they call it cardboard expedition because they create it out of cardboard. You would put the cardboard covering your eyes, and as you rotate the camera would move around so you could see the back and front.

We didn't use them for fun we would have to learn something about it and how it works. We would try and spot animals and creatures and also sea animals like the python, Beatles, sting rays and more. It feels so realistic and it feels like a great experience, we went to space and I could see the sun, earth, and mars and also the moon.

What was so interesting was it actually felt like a real experience exploring how it would feel like around the wild. My age group which are the year 7s went first looking in it because the year 8s went tech. Maybe you can have a try and see what it feels like.
 

Cindy In Da House

The past 4,5 weeks I have auditioned  to be in our dancing,singing,and acting but I chose to audition for dancing. I ain't a good dancer but it will be fun to do something besides sports before I go to Christchurch,so yeah it will be fun to be in the production and to support Pt england so as my family. Maybe you's could come to Pt England School Glenn Innes and buy you a ticket for $5 each before they are all booked and sold. The days that the performances are on are Tuesday 22nd 6.30-8.00,Wendsday 23 6.30-8.00, and Thursday the 24th of September from 6.30-8.00.

This has been a great experience in how much effort actors and dancers put in and I mean a 5 minute thing takes like an  half an hour thing or even an 1 hour thing so it is really really hard effort.

 Please leave some comments.

Cyber Smart

Today me and my class have been learning how to be cyber smart online,and on sites and even on your email.We also went on this website  to learn what to do if something good or bad things come up online. We also learned not to give anyone passwords,address,school,phone number and more, I hope you enjoyed. 

Cell Phones Should Be Banned At School

Cell Phones Should Be Banned From School:

I agree because people bring expensive things to school and most of the time their things get stolen. People say they bring phones for emergency, but most play times I see people taking photos on Facebook and on games.

It would be great to ban all cell phones from school because it wastes your time from learning and stuff. Kids have lots of time to play on their phones after school at home instead of mucking around. Children just waste their time on their phones doing different things that's not part of school work.

People are just idiots bringing their phones to school, children come to school to learn and study to find a better education but they don’t come to school to play on their cell phones.

Cell Phones Do Not Help Children Learn.

Future Aspirations

Today we heard from the future legend Marcus Winter and Louis Gordon - Latty and also their boss Andrew Patterson. Marcus Winter is known as the sandman, when i mean sandman i mean an artist with sand, and Louis is known as an good technology student which experiences different things. The part that stood me out of Louis was if you would have a sports game and you had a special highlight in that game and you could just keep watching it over and over every time, because you cant play and video at the same time. Well he invented an iPad app which you could video you play a game and see your highlight, and when the game is over it automatically stops.

The thing that stood out of Marcus was he was an artist using sand and he started from the streets to the queens ship and he made over about $12,000 dollars and he became really famous. He was an intelligent guy and artist.

They got bounced from different jobs but they never gave up and they kept looking and looking until they found on and their word to us was never give up. When you get bounced bounce them back, for an example if you try something and it doesn't work out and someone says haha or something like that bounce back.

They also said that people will forget what you said what you did but they will never forget how proud you made them feel.

We Shall Remember Them

This represents for all those who fought for us and really took care.
WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

WW1

Mr Burt came in to tell us about WW1 and a lot of interesting facts, there was this really good question. Is Technology Good or Bad, what i thought was both because there were sometimes back then when you really needed it and some times when you don't need it when its bad.

For an example I have a tank and the good thing about it is that it has a lot of protection and and the bad thing is that its used for killing which i call it a killing machine. Mr Burt was really great and we had to sit there for a long time but Mr Burt's korero paid it off.

WW100

After all of that work It was tiring but just thanks to Mua, Jess, and Gloria for helping me and thanks Mrs Moala  for putting a great and fun work for your Zeal Zone Group, Your Sincerly Owen Tauamiti

Letter

Malo uso o la sa misi oe I lenei tausaga, la sa tatalo atu ia oe e sefe. Faafetai le atua e sefe oe ma faafetai lava I le tusi, e lelei lava le faalogo ia oe. E fia’fia atu e le sa fasi’oti oe ma e leai se mea la sa fai ia oe.

I hope that lo’u talinga e heel ma lou mata ma aua e te alu i se mea faaleagaga,  a e faafetai oe ma faafetai latou tina ma tama ok lava ga ia au

toe fa soifua.

Anzac

On Anzac day I went to the Anzac commemoration and I saw all got to put my poppy in my great great great great grandpa’s cross. My family was crying and it was really sad. We saw some people dressed in army uniform. I was dressed in a suit and with a poppy. My older sisters were dressed in a dress,

What I thought about Anzac was sad, horrifying, horrible and most importantly I was disconsolate. Same as my family, too bad I didn't make it to a dawn parade ceremony and what I done when I got home I went straight to sleep.Then before all of that it was sad looking at all those crosses and it was just sad.

I thought about what happened and I dreamed of being in the army.

My great great great great grandpa had a good experience and spend his life with the other army guys fighting for our lives. I just hope that all their souls stay with us and may they be blessed with joy.

Polyfest Part 2

Polyfest......

On Friday the 20th of march, Pt England Team 5 went to polyfest and had so many cool things. A couple of hours later we got slit into our groups and I was in Lorenzo’s group. We were travelling around polyfest and we found this place that if you win this park the car game you get a treat.

Later on Me and Tevita won 3 times so we gave two away and kept one for ourselves. After that we went walking around and I won this pretty cool fire man t-shirt from the fire department. We also got these pasifika proud bands and punja crackers.

Later on we went to the opposite side of where we were and we only got to watch half of Avondale High School perform. So after that we were walking back and we saw Tyson and Mr wiseman looking for us. Then Tyson said “you’s were supposed to come at quarter to 2.00, so our leader said “oh I thought it was quarter past 2.00.

So we ran to where all the others were and we were so embarrassed.  We had sore legs waiting for the bus and we were frying like sausages, so finally the bus came and we got inside and we sat down and relaxed.

Polyfest

Polyfest,

Yesterday the 19th of March we went to the polyfest and we had so much fun. We won a lot of bands and we got a goody bag with glasses, caps, sunscreen, and a lollipop. It was so awesome that we even got a photo from the Flava and I went into the draw for a bike.

After that we heard that there was a dancing competition on the Niue group stage, but it wasn't the real Niue groups. I can only remember the name Sarah,  Rotorua, and St Carths.

The interesting thing I found was that we had fun and Mr Burt can trust us if we are allowed to go to different places for our school trip.

Polyfest

                                           Polyfest......

Kia Ora, talofa lava, malo e lelei, fakaalofa lahi atu, kia orana, bula vinaka, namaste and greetings!!  It’s Pasifika week in Aotearoa, this means it’s a week long celebration of all things Pacific.  This includes the birthday dance we had with Mrs Tele’a!  Part of the celebration is the Polyfest!  This Thursday we are planning to travel to Manukau to take part in some workshops and then visit stages.  The two stages we will be visiting will be the Maori and Diversity stages.  Did you know that this event - the Polyfest celebrates 40 years since it’s beginning?  Awesome isn't it!

Young people and family’s love to dance at competitions and the Polyfest. Man I wish I was a good dancer to join the Samoan stage and be a professional sports player. People love to participate in the Polyfest for their schools, and families but for themselves to.

These are what dancers had to do before they joined the Polyfest they had to have good behavior, good dancers, they had to learn, and they had to practice and practice and practice. People who have never made a mistake has never tried something new because everybody tries.

Our cultural groups promote to get in higher ranks to win all there dancing groups and competitions. They would get higher levels and if they think that's the level they should stop that’s a good position for young and old.

My First Day Back At School

Hi this is a new year in a new class, and it feels nice to meet my new teacher Mr Wiseman.
I am a year 7 and I am in class 1, Everybody is like a brother and sister to me.
There are different rules here and much more better and I wish yous all a happy new year.
We played games like silent ball and stuff like that, we had so much fun.

There were other teachers like Miss Paeto, Mrs Clark, Mrs Telea, and Mrs Moala.
Its cool to be in a class with year eights , and sevens. That's what I did
on my first day of school.

My Goals For This Year

* Try to move a level to another step and to keep trying

* Try to put all I can into my school work and classes

* Finish Work on time

* To respect my older people and to listen to what they say

* Try to get better at every sport I join and do my best

* Is to be honest and to tell the truth if I do something bad

but to have fun and relax and to enjoy PES