Next year us year 7s at Pt England School will become the leaders of the school for next year. This week our year 8 students have gone on their last camp for the school. This is a good opportunity to bond and spend their last times together because when it comes to college everyone will be splitting up and there are chances that they wont see each other again.
Since our leaders of the school have gone on camp our teachers are looking and watching out for hard working, responsible, nice students that stand out from the rest to be our prefects and house captains for next year.
A good role model should be nice. They treat others respectfully so the younger children can grow up and be like them. They need to be hard working because sometimes it can be hard being leaders and some may not be ready to be leaders.
Someone in the year 8s that have really stood out for me is April O’Brien. She is intelligent, sporty, a good role model and she is a really good person to look up to. People will be inspired of her and would like to be like her.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Netbook Reflection
This year Pt England senior students from year 5-8 recieved their Netbooks. In term 3 we started taking our Netbooks home and the government and schools put TLN Manaiakalani wireless gadgets so us students in the Manaiakalani cluster can connect to the Internet and do our work at home.
The thing that I like about having our netbooks is that we can do our work using electronic technology. When we move on we can no how to use different tools to do our work. It is really nice knowing how to use our netbooks and it is better then doing our work in our books. We also have a experience actually using them.
There are also things that I don't like about using our Netbooks. When we use our books we can't muck around and we can actually finish our work, but now that we have our netbooks we tend to muck around a lot some of us don't finish as much work as we usually do.
It is easier using a netbook because you can do more work and it is easy to correct your mistakes. You can store your work and still access it. We can also do our work by not using the Internet because we still have other accessiories to use on our netbooks.
Overall I have really enjoyed using my netbook and I hope it can carry on for our younger generations.
The thing that I like about having our netbooks is that we can do our work using electronic technology. When we move on we can no how to use different tools to do our work. It is really nice knowing how to use our netbooks and it is better then doing our work in our books. We also have a experience actually using them.
There are also things that I don't like about using our Netbooks. When we use our books we can't muck around and we can actually finish our work, but now that we have our netbooks we tend to muck around a lot some of us don't finish as much work as we usually do.
It is easier using a netbook because you can do more work and it is easy to correct your mistakes. You can store your work and still access it. We can also do our work by not using the Internet because we still have other accessiories to use on our netbooks.
Overall I have really enjoyed using my netbook and I hope it can carry on for our younger generations.
Tagata Pasifika
This morning at Pt England School in Room 22 my class, people from the show Tagata Pasifika came in and did abit of filming with us.
When they came in we were all nervous and really really shy of the camera. Osone Okesene explained to us what will happen during that time.
After that his self and his camera crew started filming. During that time we were making Christmas Decorations out of a mixture dough of salt, flour and water. He asked us questions like What do you like about Christmas, What do you do on Christmas and about what we were making.
The first group that he was talking to were the girls right beside me which were Vaha and Tule. They were nervous. Then he went to Tui and it was funny because I was sitting right next to him too.
Overall I really think that we represented our commuity, family, school and our selves really well and I can’t wait until we are on Tagata Pasifika.
When they came in we were all nervous and really really shy of the camera. Osone Okesene explained to us what will happen during that time.
After that his self and his camera crew started filming. During that time we were making Christmas Decorations out of a mixture dough of salt, flour and water. He asked us questions like What do you like about Christmas, What do you do on Christmas and about what we were making.
The first group that he was talking to were the girls right beside me which were Vaha and Tule. They were nervous. Then he went to Tui and it was funny because I was sitting right next to him too.
Overall I really think that we represented our commuity, family, school and our selves really well and I can’t wait until we are on Tagata Pasifika.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Tennis Sessions with Marcel
"Thrash" went the tennis ball as I hit it with the tennis racket.
Our new sports for this term is Tennis. Every Wednesday my class Room 22 have tennis lessons with a professional Tennis player who comes in and teaches us how to play tennis and his name is Marcel.
When we had our first session with him he taught us the basics of tennis. For our first activity we just got given a tennis ball and racket. This was an easy task to do, we had to hit the ball up and down to see how much we can get in a row without dropping the ball and losing control of it.
Our second activity and in this one he showed us how to hit the ball on the strings and then on the rounding of the racket. This seemed a bit hard but since he is professional of course it was really easy for him to do it. But when I tried to do it, it was really hard and I was getting confused and I was getting a bit annoyed.
At last he taught us how to play a game, that game is called King of the Court. In this game my class went against him to see who will be the King of the Court. We were getting our hopes up since it was 32 students against one professional player. When it was my turn I didn't really want to do it because it felt embarrassing if I lost, but it quite really didn't matter because I am a rookie anyways. In the end he took it out but I think it was just about us having fun.
The aim of tennis is concentration. You also have to control where you are hitting the ball. You also have to be fit and active because you have to move around a lot.
This is like my first time actually playing proper tennis and I think it is a very fun and active game. Marcel is a very good teacher and teaches us very well. I can't wait until our next session and to see what we are going to learn.
Our new sports for this term is Tennis. Every Wednesday my class Room 22 have tennis lessons with a professional Tennis player who comes in and teaches us how to play tennis and his name is Marcel.
When we had our first session with him he taught us the basics of tennis. For our first activity we just got given a tennis ball and racket. This was an easy task to do, we had to hit the ball up and down to see how much we can get in a row without dropping the ball and losing control of it.
Our second activity and in this one he showed us how to hit the ball on the strings and then on the rounding of the racket. This seemed a bit hard but since he is professional of course it was really easy for him to do it. But when I tried to do it, it was really hard and I was getting confused and I was getting a bit annoyed.
At last he taught us how to play a game, that game is called King of the Court. In this game my class went against him to see who will be the King of the Court. We were getting our hopes up since it was 32 students against one professional player. When it was my turn I didn't really want to do it because it felt embarrassing if I lost, but it quite really didn't matter because I am a rookie anyways. In the end he took it out but I think it was just about us having fun.
The aim of tennis is concentration. You also have to control where you are hitting the ball. You also have to be fit and active because you have to move around a lot.
This is like my first time actually playing proper tennis and I think it is a very fun and active game. Marcel is a very good teacher and teaches us very well. I can't wait until our next session and to see what we are going to learn.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Halloween
What does Halloween mean to me? Now that I am in intermediate I think it is embarrassing to go trick or treating for lollies. Anyways Halloween is a Britain thing and is mainly celebrated in Britain and the American area.
When I was little it was really fun going trick or treating because you get heaps of lollies. At this age the only place I like to go trick or treating is in Mission Bay and St Helliers or Glendowie area because that is a nice and friendly suburb. When you go trick or treating in that area instead of getting lollies they give you money which is really kind and generous because you can buy your own things with the money.
Do you celebrate and like Halloween ?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Our day out in the holidays
Sylvia Park was the only thing on my mind when the holidays started. So on the 20th of October I went to my friends house to sleep over because we wanted to plan a day out to watch Paranormal Activity 3.
We asked all our Glen Taylor friends to come with us so we can hang out with different people.
We all met up at my friend Anna’s house. Finally we were at the train station getting ready to go to Sylvia Park. When we got to Sylvia Park we went straight to the movies to pay for our tickets but we were scared that we were going to be rejected because you have to be with adults when you watch horrors. But luckily we were allowed to watch it because there is two versions of Paranormal Activity 3 , one of them is rated M and the other version is rated R16.
When we finished paying for our tickets we went to buy some food for the movie. So went and got Chips, Drinks, Chocolate, Lollies and much more junk food.
Finally it was time to go into the movies. My heart was pounding because I was really nervous. As it started I text Sylvia (my friend) to tell her if I text you it means I am dropping it because its too scary and she said okay. The movie was really frightening but the sound was really loud and scary , it was even scarier than the movie itself.
After the movie finished we came back to Glen Innes but it was only early so we decided to Bus to Mission Bay to have a swim because it was really hot. The only thing that I was angry about is that we were in our skinnies and hoodies because we only planned on going to Sylvia Park. But anyway when we got to Mission Bay our friends wet us so we ended up going for a swim. While we were there we saw Eko Malu, he is a Junior Warriors player. At around 6:30 we came back to Glen Innes soaking wet , it was really uncomfortable walking around in wet jeans.
That was the end of our day and we really enjoyed it. I wish we can do it again but plan our day before we go.
We asked all our Glen Taylor friends to come with us so we can hang out with different people.
We all met up at my friend Anna’s house. Finally we were at the train station getting ready to go to Sylvia Park. When we got to Sylvia Park we went straight to the movies to pay for our tickets but we were scared that we were going to be rejected because you have to be with adults when you watch horrors. But luckily we were allowed to watch it because there is two versions of Paranormal Activity 3 , one of them is rated M and the other version is rated R16.
When we finished paying for our tickets we went to buy some food for the movie. So went and got Chips, Drinks, Chocolate, Lollies and much more junk food.
Finally it was time to go into the movies. My heart was pounding because I was really nervous. As it started I text Sylvia (my friend) to tell her if I text you it means I am dropping it because its too scary and she said okay. The movie was really frightening but the sound was really loud and scary , it was even scarier than the movie itself.
After the movie finished we came back to Glen Innes but it was only early so we decided to Bus to Mission Bay to have a swim because it was really hot. The only thing that I was angry about is that we were in our skinnies and hoodies because we only planned on going to Sylvia Park. But anyway when we got to Mission Bay our friends wet us so we ended up going for a swim. While we were there we saw Eko Malu, he is a Junior Warriors player. At around 6:30 we came back to Glen Innes soaking wet , it was really uncomfortable walking around in wet jeans.
That was the end of our day and we really enjoyed it. I wish we can do it again but plan our day before we go.
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