Reflection of 2018..... 2019 HERE I COME!

List all the things you have been involved with this year:

Fiafia

TC Tech

Cross Country

Athletics

Kiwisport

Team 5 performance

Rainbows end trip

Choose 2 which you thoroughly enjoyed, explain why - I loved Rainbows End because we got to go on so much rides and it was so much fun. I also loved athletics because we got to do so many activities while we were competing each other. 

Choose 2 that you didn’t enjoy as much, explain why - I didn’t really enjoy cross country because we did to much running and the worst part was we had to do 2 laps around the pt england reserve. I couldn’t think of anything else I didn’t like because 2018 was really fun.

4. Special mention/thanks?  Do  you have specific people or groups you’d like to acknowledge from your time in Pt England - I would like to mention five beautiful teachers that taught me how to be smart. My thanks is to Mrs Tele’a, Mrs Ilaoa, Miss Sio, Mrs Salu and Miss Tuia because they’ve taught so much throughout this year and my learning has been expanding a lot.

5. 2019: What are you looking forward to next year?   What are you anxious about?  What will you do to help you get through difficult times in the class, playground, with your peers - What i’m looking forward next year is being a year 8 and being a leader to the whole school. What i’m anxious about is  that if I get picked for prefect I won’t be good enough to take care of people. What I will do to help myself is either talk to an adult or try to figure it out myself.

6. Sign off: What’s a neat sentence or phrase you’d like to sign off with?  One of our Team 5 sayings?  Mr Burt Korero -  Well this is my reflection about 2018, I’m so excited for next year and I can’t wait to be a year eight. One of my favourite sayings that i’ve heard was from Mrs Salu, the saying was ‘Kindness given, Kindness you may receive’.

Rainbows End Poster!

Task Description - 

The year 7's went to rainbows end and had an amazing time there. We went on so many rides and some of us really sick that we puked. The scariest ride there for probably all of us was the stratosfear even though I didn't go on it. Well hope you like my little poster!

Language Features

WALT: Poetry. We are learning about the language features that are present in poetry.
 

Task Description -

Throughout these two weeks my class has been doing language features. We have learnt a lot of things about language features and I hope you learn more about them looking at my slides.

The Wonder Tree?

I found an unordinary tree that was all alone. I stared at it for a while and noticed something about it. All of its leaves were falling on the ground, like it was crying. I walked up to it and held one of its branches. I felt cold and sad inside so I swung my arm away from the branch.

‘That was weird?’ I felt normal again. As I was just about to leave I had an unusual feeling inside of me. I felt nauseous, sick, I couldn’t see properly. I fell to the ground and started to see things from the past. I saw the tree but something felt different about me, I looked around and saw many other trees.

This big machine with axes connected to it charged for all the trees. The machine chopped every single tree that was around me except for the one tree. I woke up looking at this black, tall figure. My eyesight was blurry so I couldn’t see what the figure actually looked like, at that moment something happened…..

Task Description -

Well this is my story about a tree. I only had to do this for two days so I wasn't able to finish it all but I might continue it later in the future. I hope you've enjoyed this writing about my mysterious tree.

Writing - Colour Code

Are my friends good to me? Am I a good friend? Well no need to ask those questions anymore because in the following paragraphs that i’ve written is to explain to you what a good friend means and does.

One of my good friends are trustworthy. Trustworthy friends listen to your story’s and makes sure not to tell anyone. For example if you tell someone a secret but they tell others then thats not a good friend so make sure you trust the person before telling them.

Encouraging! Now what does that mean? Well encouraging means someone who pushes and supports you when you really need the encouragement. People who encourage you are good friends, they make sure that you have at least someone you can rely on to support you.

If you have a friend who puts you before others…. That’s a good friend. When someone puts you before anything, is something really wise to do. E.G If people put you before anything that means they care for you more than anything (maybe not family or god).

Ok, now this idea is simple. Being helpful!. Now i’m sure everyone whos reading this has someone in their life who is very helpful. How are they helpful? Glad you asked! Helpful people does stuff for you like cleaning up after you (but sometimes it’s creepy when they do that) but anyways. Being helpful is good for a friend because sometimes they can’t do things them self.

My last idea is giving things to a friend when they don’t have it. This might seem really dumb but your sharing love to them. When you share love I guarantee you’ll get it back, maybe not from them but from someone that GOD SENT!!! (ok maybe that was just a little joke but you get what I mean).

Well that’s it. This writing is just simply trying to help you or someone to be a good…. no great…. wait AMAZING actually just a friend that they can forgive and remember. If your wondering why it’s good to be a good friend, it’s because some people out there are having problems in their life and the last thing that they need is someone ruining it even more, so share the love to others and you’ll get the love back.

Task Description -

Today we had to get our writing and highlight what was our statement, explanation and example. Statement = Yellow, Explanation = Green and Example = Blue.

Cross Country Day!

WALT: Writing for the audience of my peers and whanau

Body aching so much, don’t think I could heal from it….. CROSS COUNTRY IS OVER YAY!

Last week we had Cross Country and everyone was wearing different colours to support their house and people. Some wore costumes, ribbons, wigs, lei’s and other wacky things. Before we started everyone was nervous, everyone was shaking and when  Mr Burt said “On your marks, Get set, GO!” we were off.

When we were running it was muddy, it was tiring and we were all breathless. All girls were huffing and puffing to the end of the course but each one of us tried our best and kept going until we finished the entire race. I finished the race, calves stiff as stone, body aching so much and throat drying up in the hot sun, breathing heavily as I grab a water from the teachers and sit down to catch my breath.

I came in the top 15’s and i’m proud of myself, my goal wasn’t to come in the top 10’s or 5’s, but my goal was to finish the whole course by trying my best! My favourite part about cross country was people encouraging others who were struggling to run, they kept persuading them to keep going because they knew that they could make it to the end.

Task Description -

This week for writing we had to write about Cross Country but before we started that we had to brain storm. What we had to do was name things that happened in cross country and put them into groups, we had to use those words we came up with and use them to help us write about cross country.

My Mums Childhood Poem!

As I think about my childhood and how it use to be, with only one good memory of my siblings and me, Building forts in the forest with pretend guns and grenades, playing war games till dark those were my happy days, I dreaded all those times I had to say goodbye to them, and head back to the slums that I was living in, Crying almost every night hoping God would hear my preys, “Please lord can you hear me, I want to get away from here!” Unfortunately he didn’t hear me and I was all alone again, but still hoping that one my mum would save me from this pain, one day I will have children and maybe married too, he’ll help me raise them better then what I went through, but until that day comes this is how i’ll live my life, and look forward to a bright future minus the stress and strife.

Task Description - 

The homework that we had to do was to ask an adult that is way older than you and ask them about their childhood, you collect the information that they gave you and put it together to try and make a poem. This poem was made by my mum when she was about 20 or younger. Her childhood wasn't that great but she put that in the past so please enjoy this poem that my mum made!

Research about Paula Green

WALT: Writing poetry for the audience of my whanau

Task Description - 

Last week and this week we had to do research about Paula Green. Who is she you might ask? Well Paula Green is a lady who writes books for children and adults.

Rhyming Poems

Task Description -

This week my class had been learning about poems and how to make the sentences go with the rhythm and the beat. Poems may seem easy but really it can be difficult for some people, for me it's kind of easy because I have a clear mind sometimes and I make a lot of poems at home.

Paying It Forward?

I think it’s good to pay it forward because it’s way to show an act of kindness around the world or the community. What does paying it forward mean? It’s a meaning of someone doing something nice for you and then that person does the same thing to other people and it carries on.

Paying it forward is a good thing for everyone because when you do something little, it could turn into something big. It’s just like the saying “Little can be huge”. If we all can do one thing at a time, we can change the world bit by bit.

I hope that you will take this advice and use it one day for someone in your family, community and world. Please make this world into a better place so we can all live and grow up to be happy and safe.

Haere Mai, come to Pt England

Come to Pt England

It’s a really great place

Where kids make animations

But remember not to trace

All the laughter

And all the fun

We keep on learning

Until schools done!

A poem about my day!

The sun comes up

I can feel the heat

Put my headphones on

And listen to the beat

Cleaning and cleaning

Singing away

Dancing and grooving

To the song that plays

Strike Day!

Why do people have strike day?  People have strike day because teachers never have time to teach kids because they’re always doing paperwork that the Government gives them.

Resourcing for additional needs?  Meaning kids that can’t control their behaviour end up breaking stuff because they don’t have someone to help them. They don’t have the help they should be getting in school.

When students have graduated from high school maybe their dream job is to be a teacher so they go online to check out the teachers job, but they find out that they don’t give much money to their bank account.  

My partner and I agree that teachers need a little bit more things so they can interact more with their students. They need a better pay, more teaching time and needs more teachers so they can help students with how they act!

Ned - Kindness Adventure!

Somethings are different in life right? Well just because somethings are different doesn’t mean that their bad. Today Ned and his friend Cosmo told us heaps of things about Kenya and how it’s different compared to our country, New Zealand.

One of things that caught my eye was how your smile can make a big difference. He said that we all have a superpower and that superpower was our smile. When i first heard that i was like “My smile isn’t my superpower, my smile is my ENEMY!”. I noticed that when you make a person smile you feel good about yourself so that’s why this is one of my favourite points.

Each person matters a lot! What would that mean? I think that its meaning that if there’s someone different to you, you still have to give them as much love, just like you give love to your family and friends. They may be different and they may look a bit weird but it doesn’t mean that their a bad person.

Include Others! This one really attracted me. Why? It attracted me because most of the people that i hang out with don’t really include people when playing games, sports and so on. When your playing with your friends and you see someone walking by themself, What would you do? If I were you I would go up to them and ask that person if they wanted to play with me!

Sticks In A Bundle Are Unbreakable! What does that mean?  In my opinion that would mean ‘people together are strong’, so never be that person who thinks their cool and stuff, but be the person who will lead the group and makes sure “NO MAN'S LEFT BEHIND!”.  Well I don’t really mean that but just be the person that everyone loves to hang out with.

Well that has been 4 messages from the ‘Ned - Kindness Adventure’ show. Hope you liked reading this!

My Story About A Burger Van

Nasty Blasty Burger Van

A little girl named Zoe was starving for a burger (ROAR ROAR) that was the sound of her tummy. “I'm hungry get off your butt and get a burger can’t you hear me i'm starving” Zoe's tummy said. She was so shocked with fear. “Well hurry up this tummy can’t feed itself” So she quickly got off the couch, grabbed some money from the kitchen and ran outside the the “Delicious Burger Van” well that's what it said on the van. Zoe quickly ran to the van and order a cheeseburger. He gave her a burger and Zoe went home she was just about to eat the but then….. There was a RAT IN THE BURGER. “AHHHH THERE'S A RAT IN MY BURGER……..

Recount About Team Building With The Year 7's

On Week 4, Wednesday, Term 2, the year eights left to go to their year eight camp so while they were gone the year sevens were doing some team building, but in my opinion i thought we were just having fun. There were 6 groups called Green Dox, Blue Dogs, Red Rebels, Orange Justice, Purple Panthers and last of all Yellow Churry. On the first day there were 3 rotations which was Making Fluffy Slime with Mrs Salu in room 5, Cooking little pancakes with Mrs Sio in room 3 and Whare Kelly doing chair tiggy in the street. The first thing that we all did was decorating our banner. For my team it was very frustrating because no one really listened, but at the end it turned out really fun.

"Should Student's Get Paid"

“Should Students Get Paid”

Well my opinion is that I disagree, Why? Because the school needs the money to give to other people out there that need Health Medication. The reason why I chose this opinion because it’s true. The school does give money to the people that are in a lot of pain. E.G if the teachers kept giving us students money we would spend it on less important things and also the people that are in pain will have to suffer for a long time. So I disagree about getting paid.

Welcome Back Mrs Tele'a!!!

Dear Mrs Tele’a,

My name is Trendy and I am 11 years old also a year 7. My cultures are Samoan and Maori. You already know my family but i’ll still tell you anyways, my mum’s name is Paulina, my sister’s name is Stylez and my lazy brothers name is Charm. I am the youngest child in the family and my father wasn’t really there for me after i turned six but you should get what i mean. I was born up north, in Kaitaia.

I don’t really play sports but last year i played Softball and Netball. I also enjoy a sport that i made up and it’s called eating. I know that eating isn’t a sport but it should be. I also enjoy helping people with something that they need help with around the whole school.

If had to choose out of all the subjects in this school, mine would be maths. I love maths because i love using numbers and calculating stuff. I don’t really like doing maths in front of people but i like doing it in my own time because i have space to concentrate on the maths problem. I love cleaning at school but i don’t really like cleaning at home. I think my goal for this year is to be nice to everyone and make sure that nothing bad happens around this school.

Best Wishes,

From Trendy

Simple and Compound!

WALT: Identify and write simple and compound sentences

Task Description - Today we learnt about simple and compound. its pretty easy when you get use to it.

A Debate On "Should Students Get Paid"

“Should Students Get Paid”

Well my opinion is that I disagree, Why? Because the school needs
the money to give to other people out there that need Health
Medication. The reason why I chose this opinion because it’s true.
The school does give money to the people that are in a lot of pain.
E.G if the teachers kept giving us students money we would spend it
on less important things and also the people that are in pain will have
to suffer for a long time. So I disagree about getting paid.