Cook Island Language Week

As part of Cook Island Language Week, we had an amazing group of students perform during our school assembly today.  It is always exciting to see our Pt. England students sharing aspects of their cultures with others. In the Pav, we were mostly proud of our sweet Lydia not only for performing beautifully, but also for being brave enough to speak in one of the Cook Island languages to open their performance. However, both Mr Moran and Mrs. Moala had a great time dancing up on stage when they were selected to be part of the "Around the World" dance at the end of the performance.

KiwiSport Tennis Week 1

This week, the students of Room 11 started learning how to play tennis!  We had so much fun learning how to use our rackets from our new coach, and we are so excited for the rest of the term with him.

Welcome Mr. Helmhout!

This past week, the students of Room 11 have been blessed to work with Mr. Helmhout.  Mr. Helmhout is a student teacher from AUT and he will be with us for for the next four weeks.

CRE with Mrs. Clarke

Today the amazing students in Room 11 Maths spent some time after lunch with Mrs. Clarke learning about putting forth our best efforts in order to be the most successful person we can be.  Mrs. Clarke told us that we need to be sure to make good choices.

Mrs. Clarke introduced us to Wynton Rufer, an amazing NZ soccer player, who wanted to date a young lady named Lisa.  Lisa was a Christian and told Wynton that she would not go out with him because he was not making the best choices in his life.  This made Wynton change his ways, and he later became a follower of Jesus.  Lisa gave him another chance and the two are now happily married.
Wynton created a WYNRS academy that trains world class soccer players and world class citizens.

Mrs. Clarke showed us a video of Mr. Rufer persevering to keep a soccer ball off the ground and we were able to try it ourselves using a balloon.  Mr. Rufer is now the coach of the PNG soccer team and he wants his team to be good role models both on the field and off.

Term 3: Immersion Assembly

This term, the students at Pt. England School will be studying "The Guardians of the Galaxy."  The amazing students of Team 3 are going to be learning about why we have time and the seasons, as well as the awesome things happening in Space.



The teachers of Team 3 created a movie for the assembly showing "The Days of our Lives."

We Found a Silver Fern!

Look who we found at the Netball courts!  It's Irene Van Dyke from the New Zealand Silver Ferns!  We were so excited to meet her and even more excited to get a picture!

Term 2 Immersion Assembly: Now That's Thinking

This term, we will be looking into Technology with our school-wide focus "Now That's Thinking."  The students of Team 3 will be diving deeper into Māori uses of kites and various ways to make them.  Students will be exploring different materials and different methods to make the best kite for flying.

We will also be exploring Māori mythology and Matariki.  The students of Team 3 will be working to complete their very own animations of the Māori myth Tamarereti.

Check out our Immersion Assembly movie of Tamarereti below.