Life's A Stage - Last Term For 2019

Have you ever heard of the play Romeo & Juliet? A dramatic love story, written by William Shakespeare. How does this relate to my writing? Well, This is our last and final term and our theme that our teachers have chosen for us, is 'Life's A Stage'. Drama's, Fiestas and many more to come!

Is That Mr Burt? We walked into the hallway to see a random man with colourful afro hair and big yellow glasses but turns out the random man was Mr Burt! Mr Somerville, Mrs Tele'a and Mr Burt had something to show us. Is it Kind? Is it True?

Bippity Boppity Boo! Team 1 made a movie showcasing Cinderella and her four evil sisters. While Cinderella was cleaning around the house, the four sisters were dressing up in gowns and putting on lots of makeup. Dancing their way through corridors, Fairy God Mother popped out of nowhere and turned the four sisters into frogs. I guess that's a happily ever after?

We've Got Some Hula Girls In Mind! Team 5 did a little dancing performance for us. They danced to He Mele No Lilo which is originally from Lilo & Stich. One of the other dances were Git Up, and as we all know, this is one of the new challenges people have made. Do you know who Shakira is? One of her most famous songs is Waka Waka. They used some of the moves from just dance, so if other people knew it as well, they could join in.

In this immersion assembly, many people embarrassed themselves, trying to make others laugh. The good thing about this was that they were confident enough to get up on that stage and do the weirdest things ever. Being confident is one of the most powerful things I've experienced, but that doesn't mean being nervous is a bad thing either. A brave person is a person who shows their fear to others, letting out your fear takes courage, and that's what you call a brave person.

We Back In The School Vibes!

Back In Business Kids! To our surprise, we found Mr Burt, Mrs Tele'a, Mr Somerville and Ms Va'afusuanga having a BBQ. Our theme that the staff had picked for us is 'Something in the water - He Mea I Roto I Te Wai'. Let's start our journey and eat some Smoked Trout on the way!

Then what eats the seagull? Team 4's movie was the most suitable movie for all ages. They said sea creatures like Plankton, but the Mussels eat them, but the Crabs eat them, but the Seagulls eat them so then what eats the seagulls? Technically, nothing eats the seagulls but they are threatened by human beings because we have been polluting our area. I learned something new from that video, the sky is called water.

Cell, Nucleus, Chromosome, DNA, Gene! As usual, Team 5 did a little production to show us what their team will be learning. The teachers made a song about the five things that live inside the Cell (including the Cell itself). The song started slow but then got faster, kind of like a nursery rhyme. The question that we have to figure out is how are the living organisms connected?

Overall, my favourite thing about our immersion assembly was getting to eat food but not just any type of food, seafood! Since Mr Burt and the Prefects didn't have any stickers to give out so instead, they gave out prawns, fish, mussels, etc. I'm more of a meat lover but I do fancy the different flavour of seafood. What I learnt from eating seafood was, 'Don't judge something on what it smells or looks like, just enjoy how it is!'.

What do you think lives in the ocean but hasn't been exposed yet? Us humans still have lots to learn about the earth and how we are all connected in different types of ways. We have only discovered 5% of the ocean so that means 95% is undiscovered. Maybe you could join us on our journey to learn some fascinating things about the ocean and what lies beneath it.

Task Description -

By now we should all know how the immersion assembly's work because we've had it every single term. The management team chooses a theme for the whole school, our teachers pick a subject or something that has to do with our theme to learn about.

'I Like Your Latitude!'

WALT - Latitude and Longitude!

WOO HOO! It's only the first day and it's already going great. Our theme this term is 'I Like Your Latitude!'. What do you think this saying means? Today I will be telling you about the immersion assembly and what were my favourite parts!

Mr Goodwin got the teachers LOST! Team 4's movie was hilarious, their movie was about how to navigate your way around the continent/s. All the teachers in Team 4 (except Mr Goodwin) had to complete a quest. Their quest was to find a way to get to school by using the olden day style, using only a map and a compass. They had their little arguments but in the end they finally all agreed to go one way and found their way to school. The teachers were very upset at Mr Goodwin so they told him to find his own way home without using Google Maps or a GPS. Mr Goodwin just sat there alone....

The Magic Button..... Team 5 did a real life act. Their idea was all about, Where in the  latitude and longitude are you? Ms Tapuke was the main character, she used her 'Magic Button' to go around the world. She traveled to North America, Asia, Africa, Europe and in every country she went to, she met someone. She would always ask them "Where in the Longitude and Latitude are we?". The answer would always be numbers and degrees so my team (Team 5) will be learning about how to read and find out what longitude and latitude means!

This immersion assembly has been a BLAST! All of the Teams did such great videos and performances. Our whole school will be learning about Latitude and longitude but we will be learning about them in our own different ways. Team 1 - The Bee's, Team 2 - Easter Hunt, Team 3 - Pick A Path, Team 4 - Navigating, and last of all Team 5 - 'Where in the longitude and latitude are you! I hope all of us students at Pt England learn something new about our theme.

What & Why I Love Immersion Assemblies?

Te Wa Toi is a meaning of ‘Time For Art’. This term we are going to be learning about what artists think and feel about their art. Immersion assembly was different this term, usually Team 1 - 4 makes videos but instead they showed us on what they think of art?

Being eager to learn more, today immersion assembly really touched me, what I mean is that every single team expressed on how they see art. Every person has different thoughts and words about what art means? For example, Ms King thought that some paintings shown in some museums were weird. In her mind I think that she has a different meaning of what art could truly mean!

Why I love Immersion assemblies is because it’s hilarious, it’s satisfying and heaps of other reasons why but I can’t think of any. I love the fact that the teachers from each team shows and explains on what their team is going to be doing. What I like about Immersion assemblies, they explain what their learning in a way that gets us children hooked to listen more about.

Team 3…. Well I can’t even describe it because it was really crazy. Mrs Carruthers, Mrs Scanlan & Mr Moran were dressed into a white paint suit. At first I thought that they looked like the Ghost-busters, Ms King and Ms Eadie had pallets of paint with some paint brushes in their hands. Music played and the teachers started dancing while Ms Eadie and Ms King put some paint on Mrs Scanlan, Mrs Carruthers & Mr Moran rolled all over the big, white paper that was on the stage floor. The funniest part that I loved was when they showed us their art and started doing an auction and most of the kids put their hand up and it was SOLD!

Team 4 had a paint-off but instead all the teachers (except for Ms Parrant), painted. Ms Parrant had picked a volunteer which was Mr Moran, and he had to do poses for the teachers to paint. Once they were finished they showed their art and explained what their inspiration was. My favourite was Mrs Sio or Mr Wiseman because Mrs Sio looked just like Mr Moran and Mr Wiseman was a black hole to describe his mind.

4 reasons on why I love Immersion assemblies is because teachers don’t just explain what their doing but they also make videos or show kids what their doing, other reason is that it makes you laugh and thinking that you want to learn more about it. 3rd reasons sometimes teachers (including the principal), are dressed up into hilarious clothing that looks ridiculous on them. My last reason that I can think of is teachers do weird dances and make fun of themself but they don’t care what we think because their happy that they make us laugh.

Task Description -

We had Immersion assembly which was the best, we had to write about what & why we love immersion assemblies.

Beyonce Bert

As I was walking into the hall for the Immersion Assembly, I saw Beyonce!!! I was so excited to met Beyonce for the first time but when Beyonce turned around I was in a lot of shock. Beyonce turned out to be Mr Burt.

My favourite team that did their thing for the Immersion Assembly was Team 5. I liked team 5’s one was because they were doing ‘Tai Chi’. Now if you have no idea what Tai Chi is, Tai Chi is a type of martial arts that most people do near China. The funniest part about it was Mr Wiseman, the reason why was because while he was doing the actions he thought that he was a TIGER!!!!

I would like to say a big thank you to all teachers that took their time off during the school holidays to make their movie for the immersion assembly. Taking your time off during the school holidays is a very hard thing to do because you don’t really get time to relax or have some quality time with your family. Thank you teachers for doing this for us students.

Term 4 Immersion Musical Madness!!!

WALT: use exciting language in a recount

Today we had an immersion assembly. We are learning to create our own music and instruments, we might learn how to play instruments too. Do you know how to play an instrument?

This team’s theme is Music Madness and it’s all about music, of course. All the teams did something for the theme and they all had music in it. My favourite team out of all the teams was Team 3. I liked their one because they did Songs in real life and it was funny in some parts and dramatic in others.

Team 4’s topic is about creating our own music. The teacher’s in Team 4 made a movie about pretending to do an apple ad, but instead they did a Pt England ad. They were in a vehicle, listening to different music tracks on the radio. In one part of the movie Mr Goodwin was being so DRAMATIC (some of the songs i didn’t know because they were old school songs).

I want to play the guitar and I hope we will be able to learn some other instruments that we don’t even know about. I want to make my own song and even maybe try to make my own instrument. I really hope we will be able to learn more about music because I LOVE music. I really hope we get to make our own movie about music as well.

Overall I like this terms theme better than the other theme’s this year because this theme is all about music. Music is like my favourite and I love school as well so combine school and music might be a fun term (or it might be a catastrophe). Do you want to do the same thing?

Task Description: It's the start of term 4 and our theme is Musical Madness.