The End of the Year

After an amazing 11months of learning sadly the year has finished... It has been an amazing year of awesome learning, exciting adventures and some very cool explosions. Here are just a few highlights from our year!

Science Immersion day 

- Where we got to do some amazing experiments!

KA-POW art gallery

Yr 5 & 6 Camp 

- Where we nearly all got blown away and had to move into our classrooms in the middle of the night.

Pt England Olympic Rings

- Where the whole school (600 students) formed the olympic rings on our school field by standing in circles and holding a coloured plate above our heads. 

The BMG @ the 2016 Manaiakalani Film Festival

- Where our class film, The BMG (Big Manaiakalani Giant), made it into the Film Festival evening showcase and was shown on the HOYTS Extreme screen. 

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It has been an amazing 2016. Thank you to all our blog viewers and commenters for taking interest in our learning this year and helping make our learning real, authentic and purposeful. Please continue to follow us on our new class blogs and sites in 2017!

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Motat Trip

The Year 4 & 5's got to go on an awesome trip to Motat this week. We got to explore lots of interesting things and also bust some science Myths. There was also a very old Tram that we went for a ride on. Here are a few highlights from our trip.

The BMG

The BMG 

(Big Manaiakalani Giant)

Have you heard about the strange things happening down at Pt England School? Some people say it’s because they have Chromebooks but I’m not so sure that’s the only reason … 

This movie called the BMG, the Big Manaiakalani Giant, might give us some clues...

Into the Cave Writing

Ilaisaane @ Pt England School: Into the Cave: 

On a sunny morning a little family went on an adventure in a cave.

When the ground was shaking and their little family tried to get out but the rocks fell so they ran to the the left. Then they ran to the right but it was full of rocks so they tried calling for help but they left their phones in their car.

While they were waiting for someone to come and rescue them they started to. Get hungry so they looked in their bags and they had water and sandwiches for lunch. Some of them got bored of waiting so they checked in their if they

bought some toys.

Mum and dad started to get sleepy so they closed their eyes for little bit then. They heard someone digging the rocks out and they saw a little hole on the

side of the cave. When they got out they didn’t know what to say so they invited them for dinner to say thank you when they finished their dinner they walked them out  and they said good bye.

And they never went to the cave again  

Petesa @ Pt England School: Into the cave

Into the cave!

One day there was 4 friends that wanted to go to the beach. Their  names were Luck, Willie, Richey and Coby. They could hear splash of the water and the little sound of sands and people playing and eagles talking. Luck and Coby went for a little swim at the beach. While the others will go and lie  down on the sand. Coby and Luck finished swimming for 10 minutes.

When they finished swimming Luck, Willie, Richey and Coby went for a walk around the beach. Luck called to his friends, “ Willie, Richey and Coby I found something”, They bursted out to look for Luck. When Willie, Richey and Coby found Luck they wanted to know what was happening. So Luck said, “ Look I found a cave”, So Willie, Richey and Coby was so excited so they ran inside to see what was inside.

So Luck, Willie, Richey and Coby went to have a journey around the cave. They could see spider webs on the corner and rocks all over the ground. Willie was running all over like a monkey. While they were walking they got lost they got really scared and sad. Richey felt like crying and confused. Coby remaindered he brought his phone. He rushly got out his phone and called his other friend name Lorenzo. When Lorenzo heard the news he got his rope and started to drived to the beach. When he got there he got his rope and started to ran around the beach and up the hill. When he saw the cave he looked around the cave and started to shout out their names. When Lorenzo found them. He followed the rope and started to found his way out. They were so so so happy they didn't know what to say to Lorenzo. They could feel the breeze coming to there face. They were so HAPPY!!!.   

 

Awathan's DEIT COKE BOTTLE EXPERIMENTS

Awathan @ Pt England School: DEIT COKE BOTTLE EXPERIMENTS

PES Olympics Day 2016

Last week the whole school went outside onto the Pt England School field. We made the Olympics rings by standing in circles and putting plates over our heads. I was the red plate. Then our teacher Mr Baxendine and Mr Somerville flew a drone over us and videoed the Olympic rings.

We also spent the day in teams where we had to compete in 7 different games. They were a bit hard but the hardest one was the Tug of war and football. My favourite bit was Dodgeball, Handball and Volleyball. It was funny when I fell over at Volleyball.
By Leone.

Team 4 - Science Exploration Day! Dry Ice

Today, we had a day where we busted myths! We had a lot of fun experimenting to learn about the scientific method and changes between solids, liquids, and gases.

We completed a 3-way rotation. In these photos, we are exploring sublimation (changing from a solid to a gas). We used dry ice to show this change in state through a number of experiments.

SAFETY

Did you know that dry ice is a solid and has a temperature of -78.5 degrees celsius? That is 78.5 degrees colder than frozen water (ice)!

It is so cold that whoever handles the dry ice has to wear gloves to protect their hands from the cold!

DETERGENT BUBBLE

In these first 3 photos, we showed a build up of gas as the dry ice went through sublimation by created a detergent bubble over the bucket.

DRY ICE AND WARM WATER


Here, we added dry ice to water to show the release of a gas during sublimation.

BLOWING UP A BALLOON




In these photos, we compared a balloon which had been blown up by using our breath (left), and a balloon which had been blown up by the gas created using dry ice (right). The balloon on the right was much heavier so it hit the ground first when dropped. You can also see that the balloon on the left is see-through where as the one on the right is not.

EXPLORING THE RESULT OF DRY ICE, WARM WATER, AND DETERGENT 

We then explored the result of mixing detergent, warm water and dry ice. It created a foam made up of lots of bubbles which turned into a gas when popped!

STUDENT LEARNING

We finished by creating a blog post showing our learning. Check out Ayla's learning here!

Today we were doing rotations we had 3 rotation this is the last rotation I came too. In this rotation we were using dried ice and applying it to warm water.

Ch...Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes!

Ch...Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes! 

This term we are looking at science - the material world. So that means we are going to be Myth Busters and perform a lot of science experiments focussing on the changing states or matter, especially looking at solids, liquids and gases. It's going to be very exciting!

Check out our teacher's term introduction movie:

Pick a Path Stories

This week we have been writing our own pick a path stories. It was lots of fun coming up with some crazy ideas and different paths for our stories. Here are a few of our stories.

Tepaia @ Pt England School: Weird adventures of pick a path



Brooklyn @ Pt England School: My Pick A Path Story, Presentation

Writing Adventures

This term we have had some exciting writing adventures. Room 9 have had a few Olympic race competitions which we have then written about and shared on our blogs. Here are some highlights.

Olympics Exposed

Team 4's Immersion Assembly Movie - Olympics Exposed!

Team 4 immersion Term 3 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Term 3: We are the Champions

It is Term 3 and something very exciting is happening this term, the Rio 2016 Olympics! Therefore this term Team 4's topic is Rio Olympics Exposed! We are going to be exploring all the hidden things which we aren't normally shown or told about the Olympics

KA-POW

This term our inquiry topic was KA-POW, which was all about art. In team we focused on Comic Art and especially superheroes. Here are some photos of us creating our art and also our whole school Art Gallery. 

Hopa's and Sione's radio interview

Hopa @ Pt England School: Hopa and Sione radio interview:

This week we've been learning about some of the good and bad things about living near a volcano. Here is our radio interview.

Jaylim's mystery word quiz

Jaylim @ Pt England School: mystery word quiz



This is my mystery word quiz. Have a go to see if you can get the correct answer. Good luck!

The Earth's Core

This term we have been learning all about volcanoes. So we also got to learn all about the earth's core and tectonic plates. But we didn't just do this in a boring way... Next time you have a watermelon see if you can identify and remember the parts and names of the core of the earth.

Here we come 2016!

This is our class of 2016! We are looking forward to having an amazing year!

3D Printing Adventures Begin!

In class 9 we have started a very exciting project! Thanks to Rotary Pt England School has got it's very own 3D printer, a MakerBot Replicator 2. This week we started a design project where we will follow the design process to create our very own 3D printed product. While we began our design our teacher printed some cool things to get us inspired about what we could design ourselves. So far we have discussed a problem, completed a brainstorm and begun designing our product on paper. Our next step will be to use TinkerCad on our Chromebooks to make our designs digital and 3D.

Rocket Day

We were very lucky to have Rocket Aerospace Education come spend the day with us and teach us how to build rockets. Here are some highlights of our exciting day.

Atareita's Riverside Camp Highlight

Atareita @ Pt England School: Riverside Camp Highlight:

RIVERSIDE CAMP HIGHLIGHT

Once the 12:30 bell had rang, the super duper holidays had started. I was so excited. I dashed out the classroom door to see my parents. They were waiting for me in our Big Black Ford. I just couldn’t wait for a mysterious monday morning because on the first monday morning of the holidays I was going to go to a very awesome camp called Riverside Camp. It was going to be held at Willow Park, Eastern Beach.

I was going with 79 other riversiders from Pt England School. I decided to go so that I could have a bit of fun for the 1st week of the holidays. Did you also know that our school riverside camp has been going on for over 25 years now?

At about 10am we had arrived at Willow Park. Once everyone had got out of the buses we unloaded the them and took of our our luggage into the meeting room called The Rimu Room. Furthermore, then we had figured out our teams and the cabins that our team was going to sleep in. My Team slept in room 8. Moreover, we then got our beds ready and we were given a task by Mr Burt to come up with a group name and a group chant. After about 15mins my team came up with a group name and chant. Our name was the PUMBAS. Our group chant was: In the jungle the mighty jungle, the PUMBAS are here to stay. In the jungle the mighty jungle, the PUMBAS come to play and we’ll win all the games we play today X2.

For the teams there were 4 girls teams and 4 boys teams. The Boys names were: BWA, R4BZ, The Simbarians and TANZ. The Girls names were: The PUMBAS, COG, FLAVAS and MUFASA. There were a lot of different chants and names. In our teams we played games in our free time. The first thing that I did in my free time was that I went up to my cabin and got dressed for the beach. After 30mins later, Mr Burt blew the hooter for everyone to meet in the Rimu Room so that we could grab all of our stuff that we needed at the beach to keep warm and even to get a bit wet and sandy. Our activity was to make beach sculptures and we had our own team spaces to make our sculpture in. For 5mins we had time to figure out what we were going to make. Our team made a 3D tree called A Tree Of Life In 3D. So first we drew a border to make the tree. We shaped it, we dug it and then we filled it in. Once we had filled it up with sand, my whole team helped to put props on it. Like grass, sticks and more crazy stuff.

When it had been 1hr, everyone gathered around other teams sculptures and Mrs Burt and Mrs Hamilton was judging them. 4 Teams even made heaps of different things. I can’t even remember most of them. It was too awesome. After we looked at everyone’s sculptures, Mrs Burt the winner in mind. Guess who won? THE PUMBAS! My team jumped up in the air and shouted. YAY! We were all so happy that we even ran and slid on the sand crazily. It was an awesome day for us.  

I had so much fun at Riverside Camp. Maybe next time I will tell you more. Sometime soon. I bet if you were there you would have more fun than I did. I didn't even have a favourite part. I wish I never had to leave.  

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