Crusader @ Pt England School

BE CYBER - SMART MY PEEPS

2012-02-16T10:13:00.002+13:00

Too often these days, people post photos on face book with little thought of the consequences. WE WANT YOU...TO BE CYBER-SMART!!!

The reason why you should listen to me is because unfortunately, in the future, you might not get unemployed because of the negative footprints that you have left behind. Because of one photo that you have posted, people might think that you have a bad background and the job might not go to you.

Another reason why you shouldn’t post up photos of yourself is because other dodgy people might pick it up and try to connect with you (in a bad way). You might think that your settings are on private, but really it is not. From one press of a button, that photo will be exposed to the world. You might have to face some serious ramifications.

The last reason why you should listen to the man himself is because, when you talk about someone on face book dis respectfully, you are actually making them feel bad. The person that you are saying it to, might do some bad things to them selves because of what you said about them. If you can’t say it to their face, then don’t say it on face book or to anyone else.

So I urge you to listen to what I have been saying or else you will be facing some really bad consequences. THINK BEFORE YOU POST PEOPLE.

THINK BEFORE YOU POST!!

2012-02-10T12:01:00.000+13:00

Hank took a photo of himself and flippantly posted it online. “No worries, my account settings are set on private so no one but my friends will see this” he thought. But really, because of one untrustworthy friend, it was shown to the whole world.

He was disregarding the dangers of what was happening around. Unbeknownst to him everyone saw the picture that he uploaded. Once he found out that people around the world saw his photo, he regreted it because he couldn’t delete the photo off Facebook. “What if my family sees” he said to himself.

Poem About Me

2012-02-08T10:25:00.000+13:00

I am a millionare dreamer
One day, I will win the lotto with my lucky numbers

I am a League Star
Best forward in my grade

I am a son
I want to make my parents proud

I am a brother
Love to make my siblings laugh

I am 11
Turning twelve this year

I am a joker
Making people laugh is what i love to do

THE END

Day at the Beach

2012-02-08T10:16:00.001+13:00

I was shivering in the buffeting wind. Wrapped up in my blanket, I watched the waves get bigger bigger. With teeth chattering I asked myself, “Why did we come out here on this windy day?”.

NO TURNING BACK!!

2011-12-14T09:45:00.001+13:00

Do you know what it is like to have no net-book? I do, and I never want to turn back.

In the olden days (last year), we use to use pencil and paper, and that made school, a bit boring. I would never want to go back to that. Last year all classes had to write in a book which was horrible, because, when we wrote a really awesome story, we didn’t get a chance to put it on our blog and show it to the world. It’s kind of like training for a sports match and train and train, but don’t get a game, who wants to do that? But with the net-books we can write a story and put it straight on our blog.

Ever since we have had our net-books, it has made my learning better, HEAPS BETTER!! They have made school better and have made me actually want to come to school now. I have been learning lots on the net-books in lots of fun ways like maths whizz, Thesaurus.com, Dictionary.com and a whole lot more of exciting sites. Another way the net-books have been a help is that, instead of going to our teacher to find out what we are going to do next, we get to go on Google Sites, which is easier for us, and a whole lot easier for the teachers too.

But still there are some problems that we have, and we think there can be improvements. One of them is our drawing system. We use Tux Paint, but, our drawing is not as good as what we do on the iMacs. The Tux Paint system almost makes our work look like a 6 year old did it. There is one last problem; the Internet connection is not fast enough. It is a bit slow and sometimes, on other peoples net-books, their Internet keeps on going on and off and on and off. That’s about it.

I can hardly imagine what it would be like without a netbook.

OUTTA THIS WORLD!!

2011-12-08T10:09:00.001+13:00

Through out this whole term, Room 17 got a project from our teacher to animate two parts of a movie. in the first part of the movie we had to create a problem that was wrong with the earth, my problem was, a lot of people were dropping their rubbish on the ground. Because this has happened know one has anywhere to live and then we had to move to a planet in space, JUPITER.

The second part of the movie was, there was also a problem on the planet we picked to live in. My problem was that there was no air to breath and we were breathing in toxic gas. The tricky part of the second part of the movie was that for this problem, we had to have a solution. I found a solution but you have to watch the movie to find out. Hope you enjoy it.

Adidas Sale!!

2011-12-05T09:05:00.001+13:00

Through out Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, ADIDAS had a sale with lots of cool things. ADIDAS has a sale every once a year, and they bring out a lot of new stuff and put them on a very very low cost from their usual cost. I only went on Saturday and Sunday. My auntie works at ADIDAS and she gave my whole family free tickets to go in.

When I first went with my cousin, my cousin rang his mum who worked there, let us in for free and we started our SHOPPING (cough cough). When we started walking around, I was holding a bag to bye. We were looking at these runners and I really wanted to bye them, but I didn't have enough money. When I knew that the workers could get a discount, I gave my runners that I wanted to my auntie to bye. I also went to the sale on Sunday and then brought 6 pairs of all blacks socks, and a All Blacks training jersey.

The ADIDAS sale was awesome and I can't wait for next years sale. I heard that the next ADIDAS sale, they would have with REEBOK gears to.

Athletics Day 2011

2011-11-25T12:45:00.001+13:00

On Wednesday the 23rd of November 2011, Pt. England School had their Athletics Day. It was a really cool day which everyone was apart of. This day was awesome with lots of activity’s such as high jump, discus, shot put, sprints and a whole lot more. My best activity was HIgh Jump. I went further then a lot of my friends, but of course, I didn’t get to win. I loved this day and I thought that it was the best athletics of all my years here at Pt. England School.

Election Votes 2011

2011-11-24T14:52:00.001+13:00

The extension group of Pt. England School got a task to make our own billboard for the elections. The reason we had to do this is because we have been learning about this all week and the elections are are coming up this Saturday. We had a choice to make our own party or stick to the real party that we got to choose. This is my billboard.

My prediction for this weeks election is that Labour is going to win. This is because I think their way of seeing New Zealand's future is better then other party's. There are two very important things that are involved in the elections and they are MMP and First Past the Post. Fist Past the Post is when a person crosses out a box next to a candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins and the other votes don't matter. MMP stands for Mixed Member Proportional. MMP is a voting system that was originally used to elect representatives to the German Bundestag. I really hope that Labour will win the elections. GO LABOUR.

FREAKED OUT

2011-11-24T10:38:00.001+13:00

Before we were even going to do abseiling, I said that I was going to do it and I was so excited, but, I was actually freaked out to even climb up. When the first person went up, I was really embarrassed to say I wasn’t going to go up because, the person was smaller than me, smaller than a lot of people. I really wanted to go now.

I finally decided to do it, but I was still really really nervous. As I was climbing up, I was saying to my self “Don’t look down, don’t look down”. Man I wanted to get this over and done with. When I got to the top, I was so relieved. The next step was to come down, I was FREAKED OUT.

Coming down was probably the best part, why? because it was almost finished. when I got to the top, I started shaking, that’s the first time I have ever been that scared. The most scariest part of it all was leaning back. I didn’t want to do it, but that was the only way to get down. Eventually I got down (which was a long time) and when I finished I wanted to go for another turn, but that was our only go.

IT'S KAYAKING TIME

2011-11-22T12:01:00.001+13:00

Kayaking was next, and I wasn’t sure to go because I heard that we were going to see STINGRAYS. I was so scared. As we were kayaking out, our kayak pro, Erin said to us “Hey lets go see the stingrays” “WHAT” we all said I saw my first stingray and it went underneath my kayak which was pretty scary. We started to see a lot of stingrays and I started to get used to them.

At this point, I did not want to capsize. I was kayaking so carefully trying not to get into the water. We were kayaking and, the water was getting more and more shallow and my kayak couldn’t go any further. I could even touch the ground with my hand. “Can we go back now” I said.

When I saw our camp ground and all the campers, I was so relieved to get back on shore. Erin said that we were going to play a game called kayak tiggy, and I didn’t really want to play. When we were finished our kayaking activity, I was so happy. Didn’t capsize once.

THE TERRIFYING HIKE!!

2011-11-21T12:25:00.001+13:00

“A hike, really?” I said. When I heard that we were going on a walk, I was horrified. As I was looking at the hills that we were going do it on, I just froze up. When we started the tramp, my legs were getting tired in a second. I was so happy when I saw a flat ground ahead of us. At this stage, I had a rest and a drink of my water bottle (just as well I brought a big one).

When we finally stopped for a rest, I had a little sleep. After that I had a big munch of my lunch because I was so hungry. We then got to play near the beach and everyone started skimming rocks on water, it was so cool. My high score was three skims on water. When I heard we were walking again back to the camp, I quickly found a tap and filled up my bottle.

The last walk was shorter than the first. I was thinking that we were going a shorter way. “Why couldn’t we do this way in the beginning” I said. As we were walking, I started to go ahead of a lot of people. I was at the back of people when we were going uphill, but I started passing lots of people and I thought that they were tired from the uphill part. When I was finished I quickly found my bag, went to my cabin, set up all our beds then just had a huge rest.

!!ART IN SPACE! 17!!

2011-11-11T12:12:00.001+13:00

Room 17 got a task to draw three perspectives of four superheroes and make a pretend trailer using the pictures we drew (we didn't actually make a movie after we made the trailer). We used lots of applications on the iMac like Hyperstudio, Comic Life, iMovie 11 and lots more. In my trailer I used the superheroes Captain America, Wolverine, Dead Pool and the ALMIGHTY THOR.

Captain America comes from earth and was skinny but was made in a machine to be more stronger. I think that Captain America has no weakness, I reckon that he is strong without and with the shield. Dead Pool's strength is a thing that he has called a Accelerate Healing Factor and without that he can die in one shot of a bullet.

Wolverine has the the same thing as Dead Pool and has a thing called a healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human. Thor has both a weakness and a strength. His strength is when he has the hammer and without the hammer he is pretty much nothing.

This is my trailer and I hope you like it.

Tennis Coaching

2011-11-06T10:30:00.000+13:00

"Tennis? Aye" I said when we heard that we were going to have Tennis Coaching. I was so suprised when I heard that we were going to do this sport beacause, well,Tennis is not what New Zealanders play so I was wondering how this was going to go out. Were we good, or NOT?

    My mum had always told me that she used to play tennis when she was younger, and I never believed her. One day I saw a old dusty tennis racket in a shed outside and it said my mums name on it. "So you did play tennis" I said. She sighed and walked off, I wanted to know more about it. I was annoying her all day.

    The first skill we had to learn was how to hold the Tennis racket, in other words the grip. First, we had to put our hand in a V position, and picked it up like you were using a frying pan. This was the same way we held the BAT, when we had Cricket coaching. We then had to bounce our tennis ball with the racket and keep the ball steady, It is harder then you think.

    We then had to learn was the forehand. Our coach Marcel told us that we were going to play a game and everyone started cheering. Games was what we were really here for. Thsi game was supposed to help us learn how to hit a forehand properly. We had to choose a partner, and they had to toss us the tennis balll. Marcel wanted us to hit it softly but I wasn't used to, "Come on HAND" I said.

    That first day of tennis coaching was so cool and was really fun. I cant wait for the next week.

ICE CREA COMETS!!

2011-11-03T10:52:00.000+13:00

Do you know what comets are made of? They are made from Ice cream cones, Ice cream and crushed biscuites.....NAH I am just joking. Comets are actually made from, real ice, dust, rocks, and lots of gas. As comets get closer to the sun, they start to melt, and melt, and melt untill it is all gone. Kind of like how it was when we made ICE CREAM COMETS.

I was so excited. When I first walked into the class, I was wondering what Room 16 were doing in here. "Aye, not to be rude but, why are they here for?" I asked. By the time I sat down, I saw Ice cream on the Teachers table, icecream cones, buscuites and sprinkles. It was like heaven. I didn't know what we were doing. As I was sitting down, me and my mate over heard people saying Ice Cream comets and then it all started to make sense. Ice Cream for the ice, Crushed biscuites for the dust and rocks and the Ice Cream Cone for the tale. Everyone had wild excitments. I had a impaient stomach.

We started of by, our teachers Miss. Garden and Mr. Somerville putting buscuites into a plastic bag and giving it to students to bashed for the dust. There was supposed to be big and small pieces but our students dominated the biscuites into little tiny pieces (I really wanted a turn). The real purpise for this was to see what a comet is like, but we all were just here to eat. You could even see it. Miss Garden gave us a scoop of Ice Cream and we had to put it in our hands. Thats why we needed to wash our hands really clean at first. Man it was ice cold. After that we had to get a bit of crushed biscuites and a Ice Cream Cone. It was Delicious. I was Scavenging for more.

By the time we all finished our ice creams, our courtyard was all MESSY! Our class cleaned that place and our class specially for this day and at the end, it was just to messy. Some people droped theirs so that was a real pain. Their was alot, and I mean alot of crushed biscuites on the ground beacause of them. Man you should of seen my face when even and also my hands were a sticky mess. The courtyard was more like a junk yard at the end.

At the end of the day, we all had fun. I really really hope we can do that again.

Movie Banaza

2011-10-27T09:39:00.001+13:00

“ Yes, finally I’m gonna go somewhere” I said when my auntie, told me and my cousin were going to go to the movies. This was going to be the best day ever as this was the first time I had been anywhere all holidays. I was so thrilled.

When we got to Sylvia Park, we went to Pak n Save to get our snacks. This was because it was WAY cheaper over there than at Hoyts. Our budget was fifty dollars, so we took our chance and bought lots of snacks. We knew that we were going to be fool through out this whole movie. I just couldn’t wait to go.

My cousin and I watched Johnny English 2, it was so hilarious. I thought it was the best out of lots of other movies. "HAHAHAHA" I said when the movie was on.

We watched !!REAL STEAL!! After the movie, we stayed in for the credits to finish all our food. “ Man we cant even finish” I said. So we just went back home and saw dinner on the table. I so wanted to eat but, my stomach was just too full.

After that day I was happy that I had finally gone somewhere, it was so cool, two movies in one day. I hope to do that again.

RWC Poster

2011-10-25T09:59:00.000+13:00

This is my picture that I drew based on Fatu Feu'u.

My RWC Countries

2011-10-05T12:58:00.001+13:00

This movie s about two countries that I did research on. These countries were picked by our teacher Miss. Garden. The countries that she gave us had to be a country that was competing in the Rugby World Cup 2011 hosted in New Zealand. Hope you enjoy my movie that I made.

Manly Sea Eagles Fly High

2011-10-04T12:49:00.001+13:00

On Sunday 3rd of October, the Manly Warrington Sea Eagles took on the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL GRAND FINAL!! This game was going to be great, but at the same time they were both fighting to try and win the Telstra Premiership.

The CROWD WENT WILD, when both teams came out. As the teams were in the locker room, Maori people came out to lead the Ka Mate Haka. It was so cool when all the Warriors fans joined in and as loud as they could, they chanted the Haka, which would have hyped up the Warriors for the first half.

The battle against Krisnan Inu and Steve Matai was crucial. They were both bumping off each other, trying to get them out of the play. Steve Matai took the first hit on Krisnan Inu, but then Krisnan Inu came back and and hit Steve Matai two times “Woohoo, Kiwis” i said.

With a penalty goal kicked by James Maloney, Brett Stewart scored with a beatiful inside ball from Daly Cherry Evans. Two more tries were scored for the rest of the first half. Warriors scored two unconverted tries and tried to bounce back, but they let away one more try.

At the end of the game, The Manly Warrington Sea Eagles won to be the best team in 2011. Next year Warrioirs, next year.

Duffy Books

2011-09-27T14:43:00.000+13:00

This week on Monday, we got duffy books from the Bucklands Beach Lion Club. We do this every once a year, and we get two each. We get these books for free because kind people from The Bucklands Beach Lions Club hold fund rasisers to give us these special gifts.

We need to look after these books like a treasure. We had had a special guest that used to be on Shortland Street and her name was Alison Quigon (Yvonne Jeffries)his is only one of the books that I got and it is called Spartucus and his Glorius Gladiators.

A big special thanks to The Bucklands Beach Lion Club who gave us these books. Click on this Bucklands Beach Lion Club and it will take you to there web site.

SAMOA DOMINATE NAMIBIA!!

2011-09-13T17:43:00.002+12:00

The beautiful island of Samoa will be taking on Namibia. Samoa will be going from beautiful, to fierce since this is the RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011. This game will be on at Wednesday the 14nth of September at 1:30. This game will be held at Rotorua International Stadium which is in, of course, Rotorua. I predict that the score will be 45-21 to Samoa. GO MANU SAMOA!!

The Rugby World Cup Begins

2011-09-12T10:52:00.003+12:00

On Friday the 9th os September, the Rugby World Cup Kicked off. It was also the night to celebrate ten years of the 9 11 attack in America. The opening ceremony was awesome. It got separated in to four parts. I reckon that it looked better on T.V, then live at Eden Park.

To kick off the tournament, the MIGHTY ALL BLACKS took on TONGA. I had a feeling that the All Blacks were going to have high points. But the score ended up being 41 - 10 to the All Blacks. Of course we knew that they were going to win, but it wasn’t the score that we were expecting it to be.

The crowd was awesome when they were cheering for their teams. When the teams were doing the HAKAS, the crowd went berserk. People supported really well and some people even dressed up.

Although the city struggled with the huge crowd, some people agreed that the opening ceremony was a huge success.

NEW ZEALAND THRASH TONGA!!!

2011-09-08T09:46:00.006+12:00

Tomorrow the RUGBY WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT 2011 will kick off. The matches that will be kicking off the RWC tournament will THE ALL BLACKS up against the team with lots of fans, TONGA. This match will be crucial as it is the first match of the tournament. I predict that the the score for this game will be 108 to 7 to the ALL BLACKS. The best part will be when the ALL BLACKS do the HAKA and when TONGA do their chant.

KA MATE HAKA

2011-09-01T10:51:00.003+12:00

In the beginning of the term Room 17 had a task. The girls got split up into how the HAKA got made, and the boys got to make a animation of the real All Blacks HAKA and got to pick a player. My player is Ma'a Nonu and this is My animation of the HAKA. I hope you enjoy it.

When I Grow Up

2011-08-31T10:40:00.004+12:00

In the Wekas group in room 17, we have been learning to use information from the text to learn new words. We have been reading a book called When I Grow Up. One of our tasks was to draw a picture matching a phrase that people say often like, jelly legs or run like the wind. In this picture, I draw a picture matching the phrase, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. Hope you like it.

The Digestive System

2011-08-29T14:38:00.006+12:00

Recently in the year 5/6 Extension class, we have been learning about what a healthy digestive system looks like. We got splited up into groups which got papers about the digestive system. We had to make a animation matching what was said on the piece of paper. The extension class has been doing this to show how important water is to people around the world and to also think about the people in Africa. My part of the movie is the first part of the digestive system

My reflection on our team movie is that all our animations were awesome. I think our voice overs were great and i reckon that our movie will be enjoyed. I rate our teams movie out of ten, 9/10. What do you rate our movie?

How To Look After a Baby Bird

2011-08-29T10:07:00.002+12:00

Our reading group has been learning to get information from a range of different sources.

We have found out how you can care for baby birds.

New Zealand

2011-08-24T12:41:00.002+12:00

New Zealand is a beautiful country, and a must - do for any travel holiday. Our country has idyllic islands with stunning coastlines. It also has thrilling adventure activities like bungee jumping, and hiking, on our vast mountain chains.

Badminton

2011-08-24T12:36:00.002+12:00

“GO, GO, HIT THE SHUTTLE”!! I said. Every Friday in the hall Room 17 have badminton training with Laureen which was a great badminton player for a old person (not that old), but this week, we had a different coach named Donna who had a WHOLE different style and was way younger. We did a lot of activities like badminton soccer, we played badminton, and we learned some and lots more, we even got taught some really cool strikes we could do. I was very excited, BUT also nervous.

How to play badminton you might ask?? Well, you could play in teams of two, or just one on one. The whole point of the game is to hit the shuttle, get it over the net and let it bounce on your opponents side, you then just rally for more points and then see who wins. BUT, it’s not easy. For some people badminton is natural for them, but me, hitting the shuttle could be pretty hard and I could get easily frustrated from it, but with more perseverance and determination, I knew that I could do way better.

Over in the hall we learned lots of different hits and strikes. We learnt the backhand, the forehand and the overhead shot. Hitting the shuttle with these strikes, I got more and more better at badminton. I knew that I could do it, it was actually a pretty easy thing to do when I started to get the hang of it.

The activities we did with Donna were great, we played a game called badminton soccer, the activity to help us do the over hand strike, and the best of all, BADMINTON!! MAN all games were funny, competitive, frustrating (again), and a whole heap of FUN. Badminton soccer was cool but sadly I lost. Playing badminton was the best part of the whole training session. Man I was beating a lot of people and some of those people were the natural badminton players(I think that I am on their level now). Man badminton was great.

I loved badminton that day, and would love doing every Friday. To make it even better, our class split up and we went into a class that went strait to badminton, WHICH WAS AWESOME.

Whale Child

2011-08-18T10:22:00.003+12:00

These are some sea words that I had to do for my reading task. I then put it on wordle.

I read a story called Whale Child by Elizabeth Pulford.

All Blacks Web Page

2011-08-08T10:17:00.001+12:00

Irish Web Page

2011-08-08T09:19:00.001+12:00

We Need a Makeover

2011-07-14T12:25:00.000+12:00

Pimp My Courtyard

2011-07-12T10:51:00.002+12:00

This is my rubric marked by my classmate Marvin. The red writing is the paragraph that Marvin marked on the rubric. This is also my persuasive writing about why our courtyard needs a makeover. Click on the rubric to get a closer view.

Outside Room 17 we have a courtyard which hardly anyone plays in. There are many reasons for this. First of all it looks ugly , too many people get crammed on the hard court with crowded conditions, and we don’t have space to just relax and sit down. So room 17 has surveyed kids while, we have been redesigning our courtyard to make it better for kids to play with.

Unfortunately, our courtyard is extremely hideous. Which doesn't entice children to come in. There is a big muddy drain right in the middle of it. This makes people trip up over when they are running or playing. Sadly, this horrible place is also unattractive. The walls are all dirty, because annoyingly, people with grubby hands, wipe their grubby mits all over them. We think that if we give this courtyard a makeover, more people would respect this place

Whenever the fields are closed, years 6-8 have no place to play and then, we get bored. When we get bored, we get frustrated because we have nothing to do, then cannot concentrate on school work. At that time, we have no place to play. These reasons being, is that all our other play areas are fulled with children and, again we have no place to play. This makeover will invite them in for more children to play.

Finally, like I said in that other paragraph, the hard courts and our play areas get crowded. People like us need more place to play in, or else we cannot work properly in class. Also little children get knocked over by the big kids with their sports gear, and like you said, our children need to be safe.

So don’t you think that we need a makeover so our children can be safe and we can work better in class? I DO.

On the Trail

2011-07-07T10:42:00.004+12:00

Lately in Room 17 the Wekas group have read a book in the School Journal called On the trail. I have drawn a Motocross track with a key. The key follows the colours on track.

Story Web

2011-06-27T10:24:00.003+12:00

This is my story web about a book we read called Amazing Stickers.

Click on both the picture to get a closer look

Compensation Stragety

2011-06-21T12:29:00.002+12:00

In the Hexagons group for maths, we have been using a strategy called COMPENSATION and this poster shows you how to do this strategy and when to use it.

Click on the picture to get a closer look at it

Partly Cloudly

2011-06-17T10:19:00.003+12:00

The main characters in this mini film are the clouds and the storks. The story is set in the sky. In the beggining of this story all the good storks in the sky have to deliver babies from the clouds. The main action for this story is that there are all these good clouds give good babies and there is this bad cloud which makes bad babies like crocidiles and sharks. The stork for the bad cloud goes to the other good clouds making the cloud think that he is now going over to the good clouds but actually he is going to get protective gear to protect him from getting hurt from the bad babies. I rate Partly Cloudly a 8 out of 10 because it was it was a good story line.

Extreme Makeover Courtyard Edition

2011-06-14T11:51:00.003+12:00

Drinking Fountain

In me and my partners team design we have put in a new drinking fountain. We have put that in because our old one is too small for us and our backs get sore. I need to contact Mr. Jacobson or Mr. Malloy to ask if they know any people to build drinking fountains because I can't any cheap prices for drinking fountains.

Smooth Ground (Smooth Concrete)

We have also put smooth concrete in our team design. My partner put that in because he thought that it would be better then the rough ground. I am also thinking of covering the grass outside our class room with the smooth ground. My dad can do it and a little help from Mr. Malloy would be great. All we need now is some cement and we are all sorted.

Wooden Deck

My partner decided to add a new deck to the steps. He thought that it would be good for hanging out if anything gets bored. My partner couldn't find any prices until he heard that you had to hire a builder to build or you could DIY.

I AM MAKING MOVIES 2

2011-06-01T14:58:00.005+12:00

The year 5 and 6 extension group put together a movie for the I AM MAKING MOVIES 2 compition and this movie was on a category called Bravery, Heartbreak, Loss and Hope. This is about brave men who had to leave there families leaving the women to do everything without them.HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!!

Brave men AND women from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Cable Car [Final Part or Part Five]

2011-05-27T21:01:00.006+12:00

Finally the last part before coming back to the same old life in Auckland [JOKES] we went on the cable car. Man I thought it was going to be the one in the air but it wasn’t; it was like a train, but still cool. At the top we took our last pictures, (Most of them of the GIRLS or LADIES) and we got to see rugby players playing down at the field.

The plane back home was just writing and writing, and I got bored so I shut down my netbook and started answering questions on the screen on top of us, well we didn’t watch on top of us, ooh you know what I mean. Wellington was the best and I will LOVE to go there to the WINDY city and go experience that all again, WELLINGTON WAS AWSOME.

Te Papa Museum [Wellington Part Four]

2011-05-27T20:49:00.005+12:00

Te Papa MuseumWAS AWSOME. The stuff inside that museum was awsome. My favourite thing that was there, all put together, was this cow, not just any cow it was a cow made out of CORNED BEEF CANS, it was cool. There was a lot of touching things at the Te Papa museum and the best touching thing was this mix maker, and we all crowded around it and started playing around, which was pretty cool.

I’m sorry but the best part of the whole trip and Te Papa museum....BESIDES the Koru Lounge, would be the motion master or the motion ride. The cool thing about it was that we saw it as a real life video instead of a cartoon video. Before we got to see that we saw this Wii thing, where you get a special kind of wand and it makes a hand move on a huge screen. What you have to do is to take a picture of your self and you can mess around with it and muck it up, and we got to do it over and over and over again.....BEFORE we got on the motion ride. Te Papa Museum was cool and I mean cool.

Koru Lounge in Wellington [Wellington Part Three]

2011-05-27T10:58:00.004+12:00

Probably the best part of the whole Wellington trip was the Koru Lounge in Wellington. We got in and again iPads and iPhones everywhere but it was okay; did I mention that we had our Net-books in our bags? When we got in Mrs. Burt told us that we could go back and forth to get more food and drinks, all for free. One thing Mrs. Burt told us not to do was to get a whole bunch of food on one plate.

Man it was awsome there, eating, drinking as many as we want. This one time when we had dessert, my friend Darius came in with two trifles on his plate. The best food there were this meat thing with rice which I had a million times. Koru Lounge was great and would love to go there just one more time

Presenting at TUANZ Conference [Wellington Part Two]

2011-05-26T14:35:00.006+12:00

The eight of the us young presenters were hidden at the back of the stage, ready to present to people who are older then us. I WAS REALLY NERVOUS. Before we got on stage Mrs. Burt told us that they thought that it would be important people from America or something. but nooo it was actually going to be little kids presenting to them.

When we got on I was extremely nervous, seeing older people with there iPads iPhones everything Apple has to offer was there at the conference. But it was okay, I started to get more and more confident as I started to speak more. I was very happy of myself when I walked of the stage.

Pt England Kids at TUANZ TELCO Day from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Going to Wellington [Part One]

2011-05-26T12:19:00.003+12:00

“Wake up now son, get ready now” my dad said to me. It was not a normal morning, on Thursday morning. I struck out of bed excited to go to Wellington. It was my first time for me to go Wellington so I was really really excited to go today, and to make it even better, I got to go with my mates.

First we got to go to the Koru Lounge in Auckland. I am not sure if it was the Koru Lounge because we went in our own private room which was even better. We went in to see biscuits muffins and a big jug of orange juice. That was like my breakfast because I didn’t have any in the morning so I had two shortbread cookies and two cups of juice, it was nice.

Technology Challenge Part Two

2011-05-24T10:29:00.010+12:00

Planning:First my group is going to roll up three pieces of paper into pipes, and then tape them up separately. We are then going to cut holes at the end and beginning of each paper. After that we are going to connect the pieces of paper together and then put the marble through the first tube.

What we did:As soon as we started making our track we straight away started rolling up pieces of news papers. After that we started to cut holes in them. Two holes in the small tube, two holes in the medium tube and one hole in the long tube. We didn’t end up completing the plan but it was still fun.

My Awsome Term 1

2011-05-05T12:22:00.004+12:00

This term was awesome. To start it all of, I was selected to be one of the Pt.England School Ambassadors, [Presenting to visitors that come to school] and we even get to go to Wellington to present next term to PRESENT THERE, what an awesome opportunity. I haven't been on detention like most of my years of school. I just CAN NOT wait for the holidays to come, OOH lets get back to my first term. Camp was also cool, well because, you know its camp with your friends. I was the leader of my group True Crew. Another cool part was being in the year 5 and 6 extension group in Pt.England. We got to do things like go to the Auckland Museam and enter the compitition, I AM MAKING MOVIES 2, but we are still working on our movies. My favourite part of this term is probably art with our teacher Miss Olivia Muliamaseali’i. She comes every Friday and one hour in the morning on Thursday. Another awesome part was getting our netbooks. I was really excited, and I am probably on it as you are reading this right now. I know how to try, just try to make my term better next term, try to listen to the teacher, don’t get in trouble and to get involved with opportunity's like going to Wellington for example, but I really need to work more on my writing in Term 2 for 2011.

THE END

Vote for the Best Introduction

2011-05-03T09:55:00.012+12:00

This might not seem right but these are two introductions that I wrote in my class, and I need you to tell me which one is better so I can use it in my story I am going to write about my easter holiday. The first one starts straight away on the action and the second introduction is telling you about my thoughts or feelings.

“WOOO HOOO” I said, as I came speeding down the slide with my cousin. I was at the Waiwera Pools for my 2011 Family Reunion. We had to do things like perform items, play games, and we had lots of food, which was probably the best part for me.

I had seen lots of pictures of Waiwera Pools and it looks very cool, the thing was, is that I knew that nearly everybody in my family has been there, but me. We went there for our 2011 Family Reunion which was exciting for me.... and well every one else in my family.

Please comment below to vote

All About Me!!!!

2011-04-14T14:32:00.004+12:00

In Room 17 our first task was to do a movie All About Us and this is mine. This is a photo I drew of my family and my movie to follow on. Hope you enjoy it

Artspace 17 (My Pt.England Flag)

2011-04-08T10:02:00.001+12:00

In Room 17 we have an art teacher named Olivia Muliamaseali’i and just recently we have done flags and this is my one. It all started when we had to do a rose and it is up on our wall. We then went on to the flag. We sketched our picture and then we went over it in vivid. After that we painted it in the colours we knew that would suite our flag. In my flag you can see the word RESPECT. I have chosen that word because our school and my country is RESPECTFUL. My flag has the colours blue and green. I have chosen those colours because blue is for the water and green is for the trees hope you like it.

My Digital Story

2011-04-05T14:11:00.006+12:00

Just recently in the year 5 and 6 extension group, we had visitors. They were Erin and Dr Helen Barrett. They taught us how to create a autobiography about ourselves or something you have done or went. This is my Autobiography. Hope you enjoy it.

Crusaders Digital Story from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

"Letter To Fleabus"

2011-03-31T10:46:00.002+13:00

We read a story called "Letters To Fleabus" and this is my wanted poster. The $100 prize is not
real
Description
Last Seen: At Our New House 43 Wood Street
Phone Number: 276-315-1411
Name of Cat: Fleabus
IF FOUND YOU WILL WIN 500$

Why Do Babies Need More Sleep Then Grown Ups?

2011-03-30T09:37:00.007+13:00

Babies require more sleep than adults. The smaller the baby the more sleep they need.

When babies are little they do nothing but sleep and eat. They are always growing while they are sleeping. Young children also grow but not as fast as babies. They don’t need as much sleep as a baby, but they do need more sleep then adults.

Grown ups need sleep for a period of rest for their bodies. While they are sleeping the cells that a worn are being replaced. As long as they get more sleep, grown ups are ready for work the next day.

The bodies of grown ups only need food for energy. But bodies of babies need food for growing bones and muscles. Bodies of babies also need food for energy when they start turning 2 and 3.

What Are Hieroglyphics?

2011-03-29T10:25:00.010+13:00

Hieroglyphics are hard to say, pronounce and spell. They are two Greek words, which means sacred carving. Hieroglyphics are familiar objects which are drawn to represent words, syllables or sounds.

Hieroglyphics were made on the marks on temples and palaces in Egypt. These buildings were made thousands of years ago, still stand today.

In 1799 a large stone appeared in Egypt. It was called the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone was written on a stone because they didn't have paper. It was written in Hieroglyphics and no one could read it. The stone was a decree, which was for a crowning of a king. Luckily underneath was a different language called the Demotic, and under that was Greek writing. A French professor discovered the Hieroglyphics and could read many more of them.

Who Were The Spatans

2011-03-28T09:50:00.005+13:00

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Spartans lived in Ancient Greece. They were always honest and courageous and loved freedom.

Two boys at the age of seven, were trained only were war. They both had long hair and had no luxuries. They got taken from their families. The boys learned nothing so they went to be policeman then on to solders.

Spartans fought all the time, either for themselves or for other city’s that payed them. The work were done for them by men and women captured by the Spartans. They were called Helots

The women of Sparta were very tough. They would always feast and celebrate when a death of a son were killed. If a son came back and had lost a war, the women would sometimes kill them.

Christchurch Message

2011-03-21T14:25:00.002+13:00

Earlier this year a devastating earthquake demolished Christchurch, so me and my friends had made a movie for them to try and make them fell a lot better. Here it is.

Japan's Double Disaster

2011-03-15T10:55:00.007+13:00

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In the weekend a terrifying force of nature hit Japan. Their was a earthquake which was magnitude 8.9. Not even that, the earthquake caused a tsunami which engulfed most of the city with water, it was a double disaster.

The earthquake hit the pacific ocean of Japan. It didn’t really do much damage to the houses because they are built specially for earthquakes. A 6.3 earthquake also hit the main city of Honshu.

Straight after the earthquake appeared, a tsunami unexpectedly hit just of the coast of Japan as well. The wall of water completely annihilated the north east of Japan, it was a terrifying sight.

Cricket Coaching

2011-03-09T07:05:00.010+13:00

Yes it’s finally cricket time. Every Thursday Room17 have cricket with two guys named Hamit and Robin who work for the NZC (New Zealand Cricket) teach us how to play cricket.

One day we learned how to do a shot called the front foot drive. When we did that shot we to hit the tennis ball between the cones, I think I did NOT do that well, I didn’t even hit it between the cones. It was still fun. I still have alot more to learn.

After that we had a game of cricket. We all got to have two shots each (it wasn’t like a real game of cricket). When it was my turn I only got about four or five runs, but my friend Ashin hit two MASSIVE hit, but Hammit always bowled the ball. It was really fun.

I still have alot more to learn from them.

Christchurch Earthquake

2011-02-24T10:53:00.005+13:00

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Yesterday a devastating earthquake hit Christchurch. Right in the centre of the city got demolished by this horrifying event. It was a catastrophe. The earthquake was 6.3 on the Richter scale. Prime Minister John Key said that it was New Zealand’s darkest day.

In this earthquake the buildings got demolished in to debris and rubble. People were also trapped. IT WAS CHAOS. The top of the Cathedral also collapsed to the ground, it was a scene of utter devastation.

This lady got pulled out of the Pyne Gould Building. She was there for 25 hours long until she got pulled out. Her name was Ann. Friends and family that knew her were very very happy when they heard about it, especially her husband. She was alive when she got pulled out. Ann got put on a ladder so they can take back to her home.

New Netbooks

2011-02-16T10:19:00.005+13:00

Finally our netbooks are here.I can use my net-book at anytime at anyplace. Our net-books can get us ready for the future.

I was anxiously waiting to unbox my new netbook. Teachers from other schools were giving us support, on how to set up our new netbooks. Nevan was helping me to set up my new netbook because it was not working when I first turned my netbook on.

I was so excited and I couldn't wait to get my netbook but I had to wait and be patient. It was queit intriguing when Mrs.Burt told Room 17 to write down the serial number of our agreement sheet, what was that for? It was over whelming, on how we get to keep our netbooks and it is ours.

Holiday Highlight

2011-02-09T14:33:00.003+13:00

In the holidays I went to the pools with my family. Firstly we got our cloths, towles and togs ready for swimming and after swimming. We went to the Papatoetoe pool. I went with my older cousin in his car and the rest of my family went in their own cars. After we were all ready we drove of to the pools

When we got to the pools it took for ages to find a parking so we just parked at the Plaza. When we found our parking we went inside. It was free so we just walked inside. I was very excited to hope in the pool so I quickly got changed and went to the outside pools. “Its cold as” I said as I hoped in the pool. As i was playing with my cousins I started to get use to the coldness.

“Come out and have a rest” my dad yelled out to us. We had to go out because we had to eat. We ate chips, sandwiches and some other stuff. After we ate we had to wait for twenty or thirty minutes long until we could go back in the pool again. when our thirty minutes was up we went back in to the pool.

When we hoped in the pool we were fighting over my cousins beach ball that she brang. My dad took it of us and we all started to play volleyball in-side the pool. We played lots of games like this diving game that we played. The person who could go the longest wins and my cousin Jack went all the way to the end of the pool.

When we were finished in the pool we got changed and we went back home to have a rest. I had a lot of fun at the pools and I would like to go there again with my family and my
cousins.

Our Pizza

2010-12-07T14:46:00.005+13:00

This year for the extension group's breakup for the yaer we are making pizzas. This term Pt.England school are learning about Little Critters (Bugs) so we have to make it like a little critter. Here is my groups pizza and we will show you the real one later.

Joseph Parker

2010-11-30T14:37:00.003+13:00

In Term 4 week 1 our extension teacher [Mrs. Tele'a] gave us a task of picking a game and a athlete and compare them to a bug. We had to compare them to a bug because Pt. England's theme this term is Little Critters. Here is my movie. Enjoy.

My Cousins First Birthday

2010-11-24T10:47:00.003+13:00

“ Quick quick quick we are going to be late for the birthday” I said. On Saturday I went to My cousin Diegos first birthday. We had to dress up as Ben 10. I just got me a plain green t-shirt, some shoes and my black jeans. It was boiling that day.

We got there and I was nervous because I wasn’t use to seeing those people there. “I’ll come with you guys” I said to my cousin. I said hi to everybody and then helped my cousin set up his D.J set. My other cousin came around with some fruit kebabs with chocolate and I had three of them.

Excitedly we said a prayer to get ready to eat. We ate some BBQ., potato salad, some sausage rolls and a lot more. After that we had a game of musical chairs. I made it pretty far. Full of disappointment I got out. Tiredly we played our last game and when I heard that it was a piniata I was bursting with excitement.

It was my first time doing it. We had to get blind folded and get the sword tied to our hand. You could only get three shots. It was my turn and people were telling me “Go left go right,” I didn’t get it but my cousin did and everyone grabbed the lollies of the ground.

The wonderful party was over and everyone started to go home. It was great and I cant wait for his second birthday.

Blackbeard

2010-11-23T09:52:00.005+13:00

Blackbeard (Edward Teach), was a notorious pirate. He began his pirating career at 1716, but died at 1718. his ship was called Queen Anne’s Revenge. He pillaged their precious cargo like tobacco, dyes, sugar and gold.

Blackbeard had a menacing appearance. He was strapped with knives and pistols. He always drank a concoction of rum and gunpowder before he ordered his men to attack. He had a braided beard, shaggy black hair, smoking fuses and a crimson jacket

Year 7’s Getting Their Net-Books

2010-11-19T10:20:00.006+13:00

“WOW” I said as the Year 7’s were receiving their net-books. Every year 5-13 in the Tamaki Cluster Schools will hopefully get a net-book each. I can’t wait till we get our one.

There are many benefits about getting net-books and they are that we can take them home and work on our writing and you can do your work in the holidays. Another good reason for you to go on is that you have the freedom and you don’t have to ask anybody.

Swimming

2010-11-11T09:29:00.002+13:00

With great difficulty I squeezed into the life jacket Chris gave me. This is cold” I said to my friend. Eagerly awaiting to go into the pool, Chris helped me adjust life jacket. My friend Chante was chattering excitedly to me and just before I got reply every body had to line up ready to make their way inside the pool.

Chris is a Great swimming teacher he is a helper at water safety NZ he is going to teach as about water safety every Wednesday until it is the end of the term.

As I hopped into the pool my teeth started to chatter like beaver gnawing at wood. After a while i got used to it and and the chatter of my teeth started to die down. When all of us were in the pool we had to practise our help position all around the pool , we were crashing bumping into each other while doing that. Some activities that we were doing were a recap of the ones last week.

Another activity was when we all had to get in a huddle and sing the national anthem. Chris our instructor was spinning us around in a circle it was fun. After awhile we had free time. Chante, Jay’lee and I sang ring a ring a Rosie. After that we had to go “I cant wait to go next week” I said to Miss Squires. One of the games we played was a five second frenzy, with our life jackets on. It was hard because the life jacket forced us to float on top of the water.

How Scientist Classify the Animal Kingdom

2010-10-19T09:58:00.003+13:00

Scientist classify the animal kingdom into categories according to their characteristics. There are to main groups which are vertebrates and invertebrates.

Vertebrates all have backbones. There are groups in the vertebrates like birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians and mammals. The humans are part of the mammals. They also have hair, they are young inside their mother, they suckle milk and they are warm-blooded.

Invertebrates are animals with NO backbone which make up 97% of the animal kingdom. They are comprised of seven groups. One of the groups are Arthropods. They have an exoskeleton, a segmented body and jointed legs. Another group is Molluscs which are soft bodied invertebrates. They are snails and slugs. The last group is the annelida which are just worms.

Cross Country Day

2010-08-26T09:25:00.003+12:00

As I was waiting on the courts for our turn to race I was shivering with cold in my jumper. I was nervous and anxious to get this race over and done with. I am sure everyone had a goal and my goal was to beat Kingston, I beat him last year and I wanted to do it again this year. I had butterflies in my stomach as my legs were shaking and my heart was racing, until finally Miss. Jarman called us up to get ready for the race.

We were standing and waiting and standing and waiting then “BANG!!!” the clappers went and we sprinted of. I sprinted as hard as I can because I was squished between the bunch of boys. They were pushing and shoving as I started to pick up the pace. My legs were pumping as I started to leave people behind. Kingston was beating me but I still ran to catch up to him and finally beat.

The race was about to finish and I caught up to Kingston and Waata but we decided to all finished at the same time. We were walking and people started to pass us, but then I said “When we get to the fence lets run again. We were near the fence and Waata sprinted off, but me and Kingston and I finished at the same time. It was finally over and I was dehydrated. I had a dry mouth as I was dying for thirst. I knew that I gave it my all and I was happy that it was over. We went to wash our feet and watched the other races finish. I was happy that it was over.

2010-08-09T14:20:00.005+12:00

In Term 3, the extension group once again did a exciting project. It was drawing maps. We didn't actually draw maps, we had to draw Mrs. Tele'a, our I.C.T teacher. We had to draw her in the angle that we were in. She was just like a still stick. From my angle it was hard because it was in front. The back people on the other hand, well that was easy because all they had to draw was her hair and the chair.Next time we will do this I think I will work on the things I use like the paint brush and the pencil and things. Here are some of our pictures that we drew. Some of them are in different angles.

2010-08-05T09:33:00.008+12:00

In the past few weeks of term 3, room fifteen had to do a project in groups.We had to pick a mariner because our theme this week are Mighty Mariners. We actually got the Polynesians but we wanted to swap with Christopher Columbus. In our group we had individual tasks. It was doing mouth talking, the way that they went and the ships that they went in. Here is my oart of the movie. I will post the whole movie when it is done. Enjoy.

Dj Hero

2010-07-22T10:53:00.006+12:00

In the holidays my cousin bought a PS3 with lots of games like UFC Undisputed 2010, FIFA World 2010, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Fight Night Round 4 and 3, SEGA games and DJ Hero. My favourite one is the DJ Hero game because I really like to do some real Deejaying on real decks. My cousin is a DJ and so he told me how to do it. So we got DJ Hero.

When we got it we played a little bit of FIFA World Cup 2010 and then we started to play it. First we went on to the tutorial so that we will know how to play. The first time I had a go I went on easy and I was useless. I got better at it and then started to go on medium. On Sunday that was the first time I got a 4 star and a 5 star. That is when my brother went on medium.

The End

Immersion Assembly Term 3

2010-07-22T09:52:00.010+12:00

Another immersion assembly with crazy teachers in crazy costumes is here, the first day of term three. It was Monday the 19th of July, Pt. England School were sitting in the hall waiting to find out what we are learning about this term. It was Might Mariners.

First Mr. Burt said a prayer to welcome us all back from the holidays. Then Mr. Burt told us is story about him and Mrs. Burt going to America. He had lots of t-shirts underneath each won. Each shirt represented a different part of his journey. When he finished his story we went on to the items.

My favourite item was team ones item because of there cool little movie that they made. Kingston drew all their graphics because his mum was one of the teachers in team one. They had a movie about the seven wakas coming to New Zealand.

I think this terms topic about Mighty Mariners is going to be great. I cant wait till we learn about it in our classes.

Spain Wins The FIFA World Cup

2010-07-21T19:39:00.004+12:00

"YAAH" Spain wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time. It was Netherlands and Spain in the finals. It was over but they had 30 extra minutes to get a goal. If each team didn't get a goal by then it will be a penalty goal shoot. A penalty goal shoot is when each team has seven chances to get the goal, But they have to go head to head against the goaly who has to save those shots that they take. In the dieing moments of the match a goal was scored by Andreaze Iniesta, and the Spain fans when wild. That was the first time they had won the FIFA world cup. They had been in the finals lots of times but this is their first time winning. The Netherlands were complaining that he was offside but the referee said "No it was as goal". So up they went to collect there trophy. When they won it they lifted up their coach. It was a very happy moment for them. My favourite player in their team is Fernand Torres. On the news they said it will next be hosted in BRAZIL.

My active earth movie

2010-07-19T12:18:00.000+12:00

Mt.Tarawera

2010-06-30T14:11:00.005+12:00

This term Pt. England school have been learning about Active Earth. To show that the extension group have been learning about it we put a movie together about the Mt. Tarawera explosion. we had teams to work in and different parts to do about it. So we made all our movies and put them all in iMovie09. This is our part of the movie. If you don't know what is happening it is the Omen waka which was part of the story.

Mt.Tarawera Project Reflection

2010-06-22T14:43:00.006+12:00

This term The extension group from Pt. England School were doing a project about Mt. Tarawera because our theme this term was !!!ACTIVE EARTH!!!. We had different parts to do in our teams and this is my reflection of it.

Positive

The positive aspect was that we had a preety good team. We worked together hard and we did our work untill we finished our parts of the project. Our team was good at working together and finding out a way to delete one of our ideas and bring in one of our ideas to make our part good and interesting.

Minus

The thing that I think I did wrong was the voice-over. When we went in to the office to do it I had this part I did not want to do so me and Kingston swaped places. When Mrs. Tele'a came in I was just sitting there but when she went out I started to be silly. I did lots of mistakes while we were doing the voice-over.

Interesting

The most interesting part for me was Waata and Makerita's team. That was interesting to me because they are year fives and they got alot of their work done and put into a iMovie before our group was even finished. Makerita was good in their team because she worked hard and she did all of work.

STATE OF ORIGIN

2010-05-27T10:44:00.005+12:00

STATE OF ORIGIN the interstate champion ship. The first game is already over and QUEENSLAND had it for 80 minutes, BUT it doesn't mean that it is over for the NEW SOUTH WALES. There is still to more games to go and if NEW SOUTH WALES get it then it of to one more game. There will be one more game and who ever wins that game takes it out for this years STATE OF ORIGIN but if Queensland take it out in next weeks this would
be there fifth year STRAIGHT beating NEW SOUTH WALES. I am going for NEW SOUTH WALES because they got good players in their team like Jonathen Thurston and Billy Slater and Willie Tonga Greg Inglis Sam Thaiday. Now I will name the good players in NEW SOUTH WALES, there is Jarad hayne, Brett Morris and Anthony Watmough and many more. My best Highlight for STATE OF ORIGIN is last year when a QLD player kicked the ball in his own team mates face.

Christmas Holidays

2010-05-26T10:49:00.005+12:00

On christmas day me and my family went to Mission Bay. When we got there I saw that my dad and my uncles were doing a bbq.

When I got there our tent was the biggest tent there because in the morning my brother, dad and uncle set it up in the morning. The first thing we had to do was to get changed into our togs. Then we ha had to put some sunscreen on our faces and on our body. Then we got to hop into the beach. When I got in we started to play rugby with my cousins rugby ball. I was playing with my brother, cousin and my other cousin. As I was playing my cousin past the ball to me and I lost my T-SHIRT and we tried to find it but we can't. We carried on playing rugby. It was starting to get boring so we started to run into the beach and bombing in it.

After a few minutes we went to go and have a feed and a drink. Then my mum told us to have a rest before we hope back in the beach. After that we jumped back into the beach and my dad, my uncles and my cousins started to come with us. Me, my brother and my cousins started to bomb on my uncles and my dads back and it was cool. After a while my other cousins came over for a little swim but we had to go out but then I asked for five more minutes. When our five minutes was over we had to get changed and help pack up the tent. After that we went to my nanas house to for christmas and I got a pillow, a towel and a iPod nano.

The beach was really cool and I would like to do it on this years christmas.

The Experiment

2010-05-26T10:36:00.003+12:00

As I was watching the video of the experiment with Mr.Barks showing us the pressure of dried-ice I was so excited to watch the rest of it. I wish I had been there, I just couldn't wait for the bomb to explode. "What bomb I hear you ask?" Well in this bomb you needed dried-ice, a bottle, a mitten and some water (the water sped up the process).

First Mr. Barks got out the dried-ice from the chili bin. He wore the mittens so he wouldn't burn himself woth the dried-ice. Mr barks told them that the dried-ice was 78.5 degrees celsius.

Mr.Barks put his safty gogles on so he wouldn't get hurt. Another safty thing was he tightly screwed the lid so it wouldn't explode early.

The explosion was going to happen so Mr. Barks put the bottle down and the kids counted to to 21 "BOOM"!!! The bottle exploded into pieces. They did it a second time but this time they put his mitten over and they counted to 25 this time to. "BOOM" (again) and all the stiches came of . It was so cool.

I would like Mr. Barks to this again but this time with the extension people.

Bigfoot Adventures

2010-05-25T13:04:00.005+12:00

As soon as morning tea finished I saw cones on the courts, ramps on the fields and bikes on trailers. It was Bigfoot Adventures telling us how to be safe on a bike.

There was two guides and they were Tony and Adrian. First Tony was telling us the precautions for bikes while we were listening attentively. While we were listening to him he called out Starford to show us how to carefully adjust our helmets. Following that he told us the correct safety equipment like a helmet, bright coloured clothing and our chains for the bikes so we were in good order to ride.

When we were riding on our bikes we had to do this obstacle course and when Tony showed us how to do it , he went over the ramps and around the cones. When it was our turn to do the obstacle course I wibbled and wobbled around the cones and I said "WOAH"!!! I finished the obstacle course and then gave it to Waata.

When we finished our obstacle course we went of to the courts to learn some hand signals like stop and putting our hands out to the left and right. It was finally our turn to begin the hand signal course. As I started to pedal down the alley of cones I put my hand out to the left and said "1 banana 2 banana 3 banana" Cafully I put my hand back down and turned to the left. Turning the corner with ease Tony showed us a little game when Tony pulls out a card and we have to turn around and tell him what it is before hand signalling and turning. It was so cool.

Finally it was sadly over. I hadreally liked it. I hope for them to come back next year. Learning about bike safety and ding all the activities. The best was the obstacle course.

Michael Jordan

2010-05-08T17:42:00.007+12:00

Michael Jordan the best basketball player in the world, first he does really cool slam dumps and he does really cool three pointers well I don't know if he does three pointers.

Michael Jordan was always going to be a winner at basketball all the time. When Michael was in collage he scored the winning basket in the last 13 seconds in the Champion Finals Series.

After finishing collage he started to play for the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls were one of the worst teams in the NBA when Michael joined the team. Later that year, He led the American team to the gold medal at the Olympic Games.

In 1991, the Bulls won the National Basketball Association title for the first time. Their decision to pick Michael back in 1986 had paid of. He was chosen most valuable player in the finals. When his father died in 1993, he was so upset that he retired from basketball. He spent a lot of time with his family, and then he spent a season playing baseball with the Birmingham Barons team. He enjoyed playing Baseball, but soon he realised that he liked basket ball the best.

In 1995, Michael Jordan went back to playing basketball with Bulls. With Michael back the team won their sixth NBA title in 1998. In the final game he scored the winning basket in only five seconds before the game was over. He then retired again.

Who Am I ?

2010-05-03T12:11:00.001+12:00

In the Middle of me is my core which is very hot and made out of nickle and iron. My core is 5000 degrees Celsius.

My mantle, my second layer is, is hot molten rock that is rising and sinking. Why does it rise and sink? Well when it rises it cools down and gets closer to the surface from the plates which makes it sink. Once the magma gets close to the core at the bottom it makes it rise again.

The crust is my third layer. It is made from separate plates. Some of the plates are overlapping and some are reconnecting together because of the hot molten rock. Continually moving underneath it resembles a jigsaw puzzle of me. The crust is the outermost layer.

Muhammad Ali

2010-04-27T13:50:00.006+12:00

From the red corner, he is fast, he is quick and he is the best boxer in his time thats right he is MUHAMMAD ALI!!! He is the best in the world and this is his story (well I think).

When Muhammed was only twelve years old in the American state of Kentucky someone stole his bike. So he went to a nearby gym to ask for some help. While he was there he saw some men boxing and he thought he would like to try it. He trained hard for six weeks and after that he won his first fight.

Ali's parents called him "CASSIUS CLAY" but he changed his name to Muhammed Ali when he became a Muslim in 1964 when he was twenty-two. In the year he became a Muslim is the same year he beat Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight Campion of the World. The cool thing about this fight is that he beat Sonny Liston first minute first round.

After he became a Muslim he refused to be in the army and that is what made him very unpopuler. His world title was taken away from Joe Frazier in 1967 and wasn't aloud to box for three years.

When wasn't aloud to box again, he tried to get his title back but he lost to Joe Frazier. He had another try in 1974 and he beat Goerge Foreman ( another really great boxer) to show he was still the greatest. He liked making up sayings. He told everyone "I am the greatest. I float like a butterfly and Sting like a bee.

Ali stoped boxing. He had now won 56 fights with 37 knockouts. He lost 5 times, he is the only boxer to win the world heavyweight campion three times.

In 1984 Ali was sick with Parkinsons Disease, but he still travels the world meeting his many fans.

Muhammed Ali was chosen to light the flame at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Did you know that Muhammed Ali used to tell people in which round he would win in. When he boxed the British Champion, Henry Cooper, he said he would win in the fifth round and he did.

Immersion Assembly Term 2

2010-04-27T13:49:00.001+12:00

Suddenly a siren blared as Mr. Jacobson walked through the door telling us what to do. It was our immersion assembly, to welcome Pt. England back to school and to find out what we are doing for each term and in term 2 we are doing Active Earth.

First Mr. Burt came up and showed is his emergency kit for when a volcano will erupt. He had alot of stuff like this weird lawn mower, two torches and alot more.

My highlight of the immersion assembly was when it was team 4s turn to get on the stage, I was so excited. First Maggie Magma (Miss. Vaafusuaga) and her assistant Mrs. Lavalava (Mr. Barks) introduced themselves and then announced the three contestants.

My other favourite item was team 1s item . It was cool when Miss. Wild coughed out flour.

I can not wait to find out what we are doing in our classes for Active Earth.

Family Reunion

2010-04-22T10:49:00.022+12:00

Just when term 1 finished me and my family went to Camp Adair in Papakura to have our family reunion. We also made it a camp but it was one day which was Friday and Saturday.

First me and my family had to wake up early to have a shower and get changed. We had to go to my Nana and Grandpa's house because that was where the shuttle. At the back of it was a thing to put our bags and blankets in. We had a little play around before went into the shuttle to go to my FAMILY REUNION!!! When we went inside the shuttle we were singing songs. After that we looked on my uncles laptop to watch his sons boxing fights and some movies so we wouldn't get bored. We finally got there and my auntie, my uncle and my cousins were already there because they were hosting it this year. Last year it was me and my family.

The camp site was really cool and looked really nice. While we were playing around and looking for what cabins we were going to sleep on, the guide guy (I can't remember what his name was) came to tell us all the safety things and we all had to be quiet to listen carefully. He finally finished and then we carried on playing. My other cousins came with their rugby ball and we went to the camp-site so we can play touch. We had half time and we went into any cabin to have a rest in and my auntie came in and said "OK this is the cabin all you boys are sleeping in" and we said "OK" and the girls slept in another cabin.

My uncle had a stick and a whistle. He had it because when he blew the whistle and hit-ted the pole we would have to go to the camp-site, and the last person to get there would have to sing a song. The first people to sing was my cousin and my brother. That was finished and my uncle had a little talk about when lunch and dinner was at. I was dinner time and my uncle made his butter-chicken and I took a lot of that. After our feed we had to get changed because we had to do performances, and so we all went to get changed. We all got changed and my uncle hit the pole and blew the whistle and my auntie that was hosting it was last and she sang the alphabet.

After that my uncle put numbers in his hat to see who goes first and we got out number two and so we went second. after my auntiew and uncle finished it was our turn to do our performances. We got up and my mum introduced us to them and then of we went with our performance. We all finished and then we got changed back into play around clothes. It was getting dark so I put on my track pants and jumper then went to the hall to hang out with my cousins. We played on the laptop and played some music. My other cousins started to come and my brother and sister came so well all hanged out there till my auntie told us to go sleep. We went to sleep. That same night we all stayed awake and my brother and cousin went to scare the girls in the other cabin and me and my cousins were on the look out to see if any parents were coming.

It was the next morning and we did this excercis and we called Shock Your Body and then we started doing that. When we finished our excercis my auntie and uncle came to give us some easter eggs. We went back to our cabins to get ready for a volley-ball game. We got there and started to play. While we were playing my uncle aksed us if we wanted to go on the mud-slide and straight away we all said yes but all the people that wanted to finish of the volley tournament stayed. We all got changed and went to the mud-slide. My first go was cool because I was sliding and then I wooped in to the mud-water. When we finished the mud-slide we all packed up and had one more liitle feed before we went home. Our shuttle got here and then we went home.

I had a very fun time at Camp Adair I would love to go there again, IT WAS AMAZING.

Camp Kindness 2010

2010-04-21T10:59:00.014+12:00

In Term 1 year fives,sixes and the sevens had camp at Pt. England School and the first thing we did was bowling. When we did Ten-Pin Bowling I said "I'm excited because I have done this before".

The first place we went to was ROCKCLIMBING!!!! When we got there I was like WOW!!

The second place we went to was bowling. When I bowled the ball didn't get anything but the second time I bowled I got all of them so the sign showed up showing me I had a spare. My second round I got a Strike and I got more points for my team but we were still losing and the girls were winning all the girls were beating the boys team and we ended up coming last or something near last place.

Swimming

2010-04-21T10:56:00.002+12:00

"Mrs. Squires this water is cold as" I said to Mrs.Squires. For two weeks Room15 and Room17 have been going to swimming at the pools, I was so excited.

I got changed and went to the pools and Mrs. Squires told us that we could put our feet in the pool. When I put my feet into the pool I felt very excited because I have not been in the pools since last year. My favourite thing was when we did the freestyle because I learnt it fast.

At at the last day of swimming we got to have free time because we never had free time on the other swimming days.

I can't wait till next years swimming.

Treaty of Waitangi

2010-03-31T17:05:00.004+13:00

This is a movie of the NZ History and before the Treaty of Waitangi. This is what Room 15 done this so we could learn why they made a Treaty. It was because New Zealand was a very dangerous place to live in. So please enjoy my movie as you watch why and how they created the Treaty of Waitangi.

Highlights of Term 1 2010

2010-03-30T14:18:00.005+13:00

Sadly it is almost the end of Term 1 but I am still looking forward to next term2. My first wonderful highlight of Term 1 is something we did in extension and it is talking to D'Wayne Edwards one of the lead designers of NIKE. The reason why I liked talking to D'Wayne Edwards us because we drew a really cool NIKE SHOE, telling us how he got into designing shoes and explaining to us his lifeline.

My second highlight and it is also part of extension is Flickr and how we put our Mihimihi on Flickr. The cool thing about Flickr is that when you read there mihimihi there is some things that you wouldn't know about them and thats what I found out about there mihimihi. Another thing that is cool about Flickr is that you get comments from different country from around the world.

Last of all my third highlight of Term 1. It is CAMP. The reason why I liked camp is because we did some really cool and fun things like Rock Climbing and Kayaking. Another reason why I liked camp is because that is because that was my first real camp with tents and my parents were not there. Camp was really fun I can't wait till next year.

And those are my three highlights of term one.

THE PIN

2010-03-25T13:54:00.003+13:00

"I'm scared" I said as the bowling ball was coming down the lane. Standing like penguins the ball just missed me. The second time I got down and the bowling ball got a !!SPARE!! Were you scared too? I asked my friend.

The second time I got set back up and another person came and picked up a ball. I was even more scared because this guy got a strike last time which made my head hit first on the hard ground. So my friends and I got ready. The bowler got the bowling ball down the lane and he missed me AGAIN!!
Third try. Looking at the ball coming down the lane he got me this time but didn't get the other pins and so he didn't get a spare.

THE END
BY CRUSADER

2010-02-25T09:31:00.003+13:00

Crusaders Capture the Flag

2010-02-23T09:55:00.004+13:00

On Friday Room 15 went to play a game with Room 14. This game was called Capture the Flag. It is a tactical game. A tactical game is a game when you have to have a strategy.

When we got Room 14 Miss.King was precisely explaining the rules to Room 14 and then she explained it to us well. We were listening attentively.
After that we got into 4 lines, a girls and boys line for Room 14 and one for Room 15. We all went to the bottom field and Miss King divided us into teams. We all had different roles, tagging people, flag people, guarding people and my role was to get the flag. We lined up our teams. When Miss. King said "GO" we all started to run into our positions. I was trying to run to the flag before the flag people got guarding people got there.

When I got there to the safe zone Logan took off and got the first point of the game. Then we all got back into our lines. When Miss. King said "Go" we all started to go back into our spots. I got to the safe zone and it was filled with lots of Room 15 students. I got the flag and ran as fast as I could and Kingston. P was chasing me but I still got to our territory. Starford got the 3rd and 4th tries of the match. Starford tried to go for another try but then he had an unsuccessful attempt.

I was stuck with James. By the time we got our 6th try they got their 1st try. I was stuck with James again but this time it was longer. It was like I was distracting him because he just focused on me. Then Prince got the last try of the and we won 7-1.

That was really fun and I would like to play it again with Room 15.

2010-02-14T18:20:00.003+13:00

Welcome to Room 15 Crusader. For everyone reading Crusader's blog here is a link that takes you to the posts he wrote for his class's blog in Room 11 in 2008 and in Room 12 last year.
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