PENN: Chromebook Rollout

We are so excited because we finally got our Chromebooks! Check out this video showing Mr Burt and our Year 4 Chromebook Rollout!

Team 3 Bubble School

 This week, we started a Team 3 Bubble School class. Here is a video we made during our first day together in bubble school (Thanks Ms West!) to play on our daily school news PENN.

We hope you enjoy seeing all the things we do to stay safe at school!

PENN: School Lunches!

 This term, the students at Pt England have been blessed to be part of the government funded school lunch program. Everyday, each student receives one of 500+ lunches delivered to our school, sorted and then brought to our classrooms on large bread trays. Students wait in anticipation before opening their lunch box to see what they will be having each day. For many students at PES, each day there is a new surprise in their lunch box.

Students in Room 21 have been learning about trying new things with a proper try. We always take 4-5 "McDonald's sized bites" before determining whether or not we like something. We also always try our main course before we enjoy our piece of fruit/veggies and yogurt/muffin.  

Check out our video below to see what lunch looks like in Room 21 and to hear some of our favourite things that we have had for the first time. 

2020 Visual Mihi

Every year the students of Team 5 spend the first few weeks of Term 1 using Hyperstudio to draw their own visual mihi. Each student starts off by tracing a picture of themselves. It is important to note that when it comes to using Hyperstudio this is generally the only thing that are students are permitted to trace. Therefore, as you look at the different visual mihi in this movie you will see original graphic artwork from our students based on 4 important aspects of their own life as they see it right now.

PENN Term 4

This term, the students of Team 5 are dancing their way around the world. They are spending a few afternoons with each teacher on the team learning some history of different countries as well as the story of the dance they are learning with that teacher.

For PENN (our daily school News) we shared some footage from three of the countries we have visited so far. Enjoy!

Term 3 PENN

This term, the students on Team 5 are working with two professors from Auckland University to learn about Genomics. So far, we have gained an understanding about what genomics is, discussed the scientific view of the Tree of Life and we have begun to explore the Fragile Web of Life.

We were very lucky on Monday of this week because our very own scientist, Dr. Thierry from Auckland University's Medical School, came in to visit each class and share some special living things that he recently found in a rock pool in the northern part of New Zealand.

For our PENN video this week, we decided to share a it of our fun with Dr Thierry and share a few things that we have discovered.

We hope you enjoy learning with us!

Rm 1 PENN Movie Term 2

This term, the students of Team 5 have been exploring different countries around the world as we learnt about the locations of the seven continents. We also spent time learning how to code using Scratch.  We took this information and our own Hyperstudio drawings to create our own scratch animations. Here is the movie we showed on PENN this term to showcase some of our work.

Year 7/8 Polyfest Trip

This year, the year 7/8 students from Pt England spent the day at Polyfest exploring various future opportunities, while having fun building relationships with students from across the team.  Here is the movie we put together to show on PENN (our school news network).  We hope you enjoy and that when you are done watching, your class tries the "Polyfest Dance Challenge" too!

Life in Team 5

Ever wonder what it is like during the day in our Intermediate block at PES? Check out this amazing video Mrs. Stone put together for our school news PENN.

Team 3 Visits the Stardome

This past Wednesday, the year 3 and 4 students from Team 3 spent the day at Auckland's Stardome.  We had so much fun exploring and learning at the Stardome before watching the very cool Planetarium movie. We also had a time period to hang out outside and have some kai before playing on the amazing playground, which included a flying fox!

Here is a short video highlighting some of the fun we had on our trip that we played during our school newscast PENN.  Enjoy!

Term 2 PENN Movie

This term, our team has been looking at Comic Art and all the elements that go into writing and reading a comic book or graphic novel. Here are three of our animations from this term.

Term 1 PENN Movie

Pt. England School has their very own News program that airs daily in all of our classrooms.  Each class takes turns making movies that show the cool things that we are doing everyday.  Check out our movie from Term 1 about volcanoes.

PENN Stars!

This term, we decided to do student interviews for our PENN movie.  We had so much fun making our movie, and doing our drawings on KidPix.  We hope you enjoy it!

Class 24-Q&A Session from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.