Surprise Pizza Party Thank You!

Class 6 Maths enjoyed a special thank you from the video team that filmed Noah Samuels as part of a short series on the Spark/Manaiakalani Program featured in the NZ Herald this past term.  It was a very exciting surprise and a fun way for our class to end Term 3!

Thank you Spark people for all you continue to do to support and love on our Pt. England (Manaiakalani) children!

TERM 3 PENN Movie

This term, we have been learning all about different things that have been happening behind the scenes of the Rio Olympics.  Our animations have been based on one Olympic event, and we were challenged to include body movements while animating our athletes.  Check out these three animations that were highlighted on our school news PENN.

Maths: Stem and Leaf Plots

Walt: find the mean, median and mode of a data set.

Posted by: Penny, Sheales, Sheena and Jasmyne

Term 3 Immersion Assembly

It is a new term and it is Term 3.Term 3 we are learning about the Olympic games and our theme for this term is We are the champion.There was a special visitor that came to our school and it was Mr Burt our principal he came back from his vacation.

The first team that started off the term was team 1.This term they are learning about healthy food to keep themselves fit and have more energy so when it come’s to cross county they will be able to not stop well running.

The next team after that was team 2.Team 2 are learning about other sport and how they can be just like the sport players.

Team 3 they don’t know that much about sport and they are having a quiz game to see how knows they most about sport player and sport games.

The most funniest team was team 5 cause of Mr Wiseman.Mr Wiseman had a tutu on and a pink Singlet and the team was AUS,AKL and USA the team that won was KIWI.

The team that I’m in was Team 4.We are learning about Geography,Rio,Virus,Contamination and Advertising.

This that I mostly enjoyed was my team's video they made.

They thing that I looking forward this term is finishing off my word for next term.

Posted by: Kei

Comic Artist Paul Martin Visits PES

Our Team 4 students have been studying Comic Art this term. They have also been looking at the elements used to create a comic/graphic novel in their literacy classes. New Zealand Comic Artist Paul Martin came to spend the day with our students and here is Charles recount of the day.

Has a comic artist been to your school before? On Wednesday the 22nd a special guest came to our school. PAUL MARTIN. We had a art day. He taught me how to sketch and draw better.

As a team He told us that he played for the chiefs. Paul Martin had to come to one of the classrooms the first class he came too is my class room 6. He Told us what should we pick out of background and how to draw anything else. I picked backgrounds. Sabrina gave me are pencil. I went off to a table and drew a background. I drawed space with the planets.  

The teachers had to pick 10 kids in a group to do a session with Paul and I was one of the kids that got chosen. He drawed a kiwi called Kory. Paul made Kory. Some people got his book I wasn't one of them that got a book. The book cost $15. After lunch he had to go. Thank you for coming Paul Martin we all thanked you for helping us and helping me draw better. THANK YOU I hope you come back soon.

WALT: Use capital letters and punctuation correctly.

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.

Kei's Paul Martin Assignment

This term, our team has been looking at Comics and Comic Art.  We are so lucky to have a New Zealand comic artist coming to visit us on Wednesday!  As part of Kei's (click on link to leave her a comment) literacy assignment last week, she read about Paul Martin and created a poster that shows what she learnt about our guest.




This term we are learning about Paul Martin because he is coming to our school. He is coming to look at our blog's to see what we are doing this term and telling how he makes his comic.