KiwiSport: Snag Golf

This term, we are learning how to play Snag Golf for our KiwiSport.  We are so lucky to have an amazing coach and this week he taught us how to put using our putter.

Listening to coach give instructions on how to put.

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Ana is a superstar lining up her putt.

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Team 4 Testing Has Begun!

Today, we began our beginning of the year testing in Rooms 6, 7, and 8.  We are so lucky to take our tests on our netbooks!

Welcome to 2016!

Rooms 6, 7, & 8 Discussing our Class Treaty

Welcome to the 2016 School Year!

That's right!  We're back at school, and this year Mrs. Moala is so excited to be part of the fabulous Team 4 teaching years 5 & 6!  

During our first day back, we had a great time getting to know our team.  We started the day off by having a lot of fun at our team sports rotation.  After morning tea, we spent some time working on our Chromebooks updating the About Me sections on our blogs.  Then, we talked about our Class Treaty and started our graffiti wall name plates, which we worked on for the rest of the day.

We are so excited to see all that this school year has in store for us!

Film Festival Recount

MANAIAKALANI FILM FESTIVAL
By Lizara Year 8

Are you a part of the Manaiakalani family? Well Manaiakalani is a place where people enjoy watching movies and experiencing what other schools do compared to the school you go to. Usually every year my school “Pt England” go with “Tamaki College” but this year we are going with a school that has never been to one of these before. Which is “Ruapotaka primary and intermediate school”.

Some schools usually just make 10-15 movies but our school makes over 20 movies because it is based on each class room. So every year their school principals or teachers pick 2 people from their school to present in front of everyone to show and tell what their movie will be about. And my class presenters were me and one of my best friends Quasia. Manaiakalani has always been held in one place which is in “Sylvia Park at the cinemas”.

As we all sat on the mat in the street with our bags at 12.30pm, and our teachers trying to tell us how we need to act normal and do the right thing by striving to succeed in the cinemas. We all made our way to the buses that were waiting outside for us and we made our way to Sylvia Park to watch amazing and creative movies.

As we made our way there everyone besides the presenters had to sit in the front to get ready to present and show off our movie that we created as a class. Halfway through the movie this Tamaki College girl named “Gloria” presented a short film that shows everyone who is a year 8 and is going to Tamaki college can get a scholarship. When we finished watching all the movies after about an hour and a half I honestly think that room 2 had an awesome movie based on how you need to keep clean and always wash your germs away before touching someone or something.

As soon as we finished going to Manaiakalani we made our way back to the buses to go back to school. And as we went back to school we started doing our practice for the year 8 prize giving performance. I honestly think that this year was the best year ever but I would like to be a presenter for College again because it was so much fun this year especially facing my fair.

2015 Film Festival

This year Class 4 decided to do our comedy version of New Zealand's favourite tv show Shortland Street! We hope you enjoy watching our movie! We had a lot of fun putting it together for this year's Manaiakalani Film Festival!

Term 3 Pizza Party

Tomorrow marks the end of Term 3!  It is so hard to believe that this year is 3/4 of the way finished! Not long to go, and our Year 8 students will be Pt. England Alumni!  However, they are well aware that they need to finish it off properly and put forth their best efforts during Term 4!

To mark the end of a wonderful term, the students of Class 4 had a fun pizza party for lunch today!

Pt. England Cross Country 2015

Our school Cross Country race was last Monday afternoon, and the students of Team 5 were more than ready to run their best race ever!  Year 7/8 students had to run around the Pt. England field onto the Reserve and back two time totalling 3 km.  We are so proud of all of our students and the efforts they put into running their races!  They have worked so hard this year to increase their fitness levels and watching the efforts during their CC run showed off all their hard work!

Great job Team 5!

Ready to Race...

Mr. Burt giving the girls a pep talk

Year 8 Boys Ready to Run!

Champions Never Give Up!

On Your Mark...

Our whole school listening to instructions.