Term 2: I Like Your Latitude

Today was the beginning of Term 2 here at Pt England School. We started the day with a school assembly where we learnt what our school wide topic focus is for the term, which is "I Like Your Latitude" and our focus question is "Where in the longitude and latitude is that?". 

We are very excited to travel the world as Year 7/8 students while learning about the 7 continents. We are also exploring how to locate places around the word using longitude and latitude and around our own community using a GPS.

Later this term, we will be coding our very own choose your adventure stories and participating in PES Greatest Race.

Ko wai au?

This term, as part of our Inquiry study, the students of Team 5 will be answering the question Ko wai au? Who am I? While studying the Malaga (or Journey) that their family has been on to bring the students to this point in their life and what their futures may shape up to be we have been working on the first of two animations for Term 1. 

We hope you enjoy some of our Visual Mihi's.  Please click on the link below each picture to leave a comment on that student's blog.

Tevarihi

Donte

Quincess

Coke Bottle Explosions

As part of our team Inquiry Immersion Day, students spent time in three different experiment situations.  One of those experiments dealt with Diet Coke Bottles, Mentos and Dry Ice.  The explosions from this experiment could be heard across the school!

Check out Penny's Learning:


Here is one of our explosions from during the day.

Making Bouncy Balls

Today, the students of Team 4 had a Science Immersion Day, which was so much fun!  Students were able to participate in three different experiment settings that explored various physical and chemical changes.  One of the activities that students participated in was following a lab procedure to create a bouncy ball.  Students completed a Scientific Method report during their experience.

Here is Leatham's Report:




Here are a few pictures of students creating their bouncy balls: