Reflection From This Year

How do you feel about this year? Alright

What did you find especially satisfying this year? Playing sports every Friday

What did you find especially frustrating/difficult this year? Meeting in the street to much

If you were to to give yourself a grade out of 10 - 10 being awesome…what would you grade yourself? Why? 5 because I wasn’t normal  

In what ways did you contribute to team 5 in 2015? Playing the guitar every morning

What would you change for yourself in 2016? To start studying every day

What might you want next year’s teacher to know about you (things you’re good at)? Nothing

What things might you want more help with? Writing/Reading

What could you show your teacher from your blog to help her/him understand those things? There’s nothing to show my teacher

Something I did for the first time

Firstly, I was waiting with my Mum and my Aunty for our flight. While we we're waiting we we're weighing our bags to see how heavy it is. After weighing our bags we waited and waited until it was time to go.

I felt excited that we are leaving New Zealand to go to Tonga. Once it was time for us to leave we said our goodbyes to my family and then we left. Once we left I felt so excited that I was about to go on the plane for the first time.

We checked my mum’s handbag and our other stuff and it was taking quite a while. I thought to myself that we were about to miss our flight I was getting worried and scared at the same time. Once most of our stuff has been checked I wasn’t that worried anymore.

Once the checking has been finished we carried on walking towards the plane I was getting excited again that I was about to go on a plane. I was rushing my mum telling her ‘’to walk faster so we won’t miss our flight’’. When we arrived inside the plane myself my mum and my aunty sat on our sets and the plane took off.

After, Sitting in the plane for about 2 and a half hours I was happy that the plane was landing in Tonga. Walking out the door feeling the nice breeze I felt good that we have finally arrived in Tonga.

Basketball Tournament

Waking up to a beautiful morning on Wednesday the 16th of September. The year 7&8' girls basketball team represented Point England School at Selwyn Collage.

There were 8 teams that attended the basketball tournament. Once we walked into the Selwyn Collage stadium we watched the teams who were playing the the court. There were only 3 courts in the stadium. After watching the teams who were playing we went down because it was time to play.

After our first game we went straight for a little drink then we had a game after that. We won both games but then we had our third game it was a hard game. We caught up in the second half but we still lost. The score was 27 - 22.

At the end of the day we came 3rd. It was a good day and I was proud of the girls.

Cross Country

The cross country day was on Monday the 7th of September. Cross country is the day where the whole of Point England School runs in their year group. There are 4 house colours which is (Tokite Temu) (Te Aroha) (Tainui) (Matatua). Tokite Timu is yellow Te Aroha is red Tainui is blue and Matatua is green.

On the beautiful day of Monday we had lunch early at 12:15. Because at lunch time which is at 1:00 it is when our whole school starts the cross country. The first runners we're the year 1’s then it carries on up until the year 8’s.

We sat in the sun all day waiting for our turn to run. Then few hours past by and it was the year 8 girls to run. The year 8 girls had to line up in a line and walk onto the hard grass. Everyone was in there starting position. As Mr Burt smacked his two woods together we all ran. I was running and I was huffing and puffing threw out the whole race. I felt sweat dripping down my forehead.

Half way threw the race I walked for quite a long time. I ran out of breath and my legs we're so sore I could hardly walk. The finish line was just a few steps a head of me. I walked for about just a few minutes then I ran the rest of the way. While I was running I felt like I wanted to stop and walked the whole way but I chose to the run the rest.

Passing the finish line was the best feeling. I felt nervous at the start but now I feel proud of myself. Now that the cross country is over I can finally rest my sore legs.

Spend Share And Save

During the last few weeks in inquiry we have been working on our Spend, Share, Save. It is about saving your money. What I have learnt during our season was that saving is something impotent. You can get money by working. 

Reading Progression

At the moment I am at the red stage witch means I haven't been turning in my task at the right time. When it's Wednesday my goal is to turn in all my task at the right time so then I can move up to the orange level.

Rough Draft

The Spider is big and long it is very scary as you know. Its also a boy spider and it has long legs. It is a daddy long leg. Its a black spider with brown bright eyes.

Ata was so terrified when she saw a big long spider come out of the wardrobe. She didn't know what to do at that very second. Ata woke up scared once she saw the spider it was the scariest day of her life.  

Ata was so afraid of the spider because it couldn't stop following her everywhere she went. It was annoying. My family and I tried to stop the spider from causing a lot of trouble. The spider was annoying everyone.

When the spider couldn't stop scaring people we gave up. We couldn't get the spider out of the house and we couldn't solve the problem. So we just let the do what he wanted to do.

Pre-Writing a Nerrative

Reading Goals

Right now i'm at the Orange level. By next week I want to move to the blue level, my goals are to be better in reading and to complete some of my reading task. To reach my goal I have to get over 75% to reach my goal.

WW1

This song is written by George M.Cohan and is called Over There he is also the artist. It came out on 22nd of November 2009 and it is about WW1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hRDS3LvQQ

My Goals

My goals this year

1. To work on my maths, reading and writing
2. Come to school on time
3. Treat people the way I wanted to be treated


My goals this term
1. Move up a level in all subjects
2. Focus in class
3. Go hard in sports

Letter to Mr Wiseman

Dear Mr Wiseman,

My name is Ata and I am 11 years old. I’m feeling very excited to start a great year to the term. I live with my Mum Dad older brother and my little sister. The memories I could remember when I was little was my first birthday. My favourite hobby is sports I’m good at stepping and touch. I have been to Tonga and I would love to visit Samoa. This year I am looking forward to sports. The best thing about Point England is that we get new sports gears every year.

Thank you latter

Dear Barbara,

Thank you for coming on our yr 7 trip to the Auckland Museum. All the teachers and kids are thankful for all your help. Without your help us teachers and kids wouldn’t be able to go on that trip.

Thank you for giving up your time to help us. My highlight was getting to go into that volcano.

Thank you very much.

Ata (Class 2)

Touch Tournament

Last week on Thursday the year 7 & 8’s got the opportunity to play touch at a tournament against the best Intermediate teams in Auckland. There were two teams going to the tournament. It was held at a park in Mangere and it was also a fun day out. We had a theme about anti bullying.

To start off the day we had to go and watch our other mixed team because they played before us. We warmed up after 5 minutes after our warm up we walked to our field we played on field 1. The ref had explained what the rules are.

Through half of the day we were winning all our games and we made it into the semi finals. It was a pretty tough game. We almost lost but then in the last minute one of our teammates did one of his magic tricks and we had won.

We had made the finals and it was a really hard game. We played Kedgley Intermediate in the finals. They had fast sets and fast people and they also had a good team. Even though we lost we still came 2nd place.

I was proud of my team even though we didn’t win, but I'm still proud of my team.

Athletics

Last week Point England School had Athletics. Athletics is an event that Point England does every year. There were different kind of events happening. The events were sprints, high jump, relay, sack races, javelin, shot put, softball throw and many more events.

We started right after morning tea because Mr Burt wanted to let the grass dry. It was raining the day before. As we started we had to get into our year groups. Mrs Moala was our sports leader for our group. We started off with softball throw.

As we started coming 1st was Allanah in 2nd place was Iron and in 3rd place was Mua. Allanah Iron and Mua’s throw were pretty far. It was my turn up next. My 1st throw wasn’t good it went out but my 2nd throw I bet all of them. Next up was Jordenne she threw pretty far but I just won buy a few centimetres.

Our next activity was a team sport so we had to be in our house colors. Our sport was relay, there were cones on the other side so what we had to do was half of our team had to go on the other side . After a while of running we all decided to just lie down and have a rest and wait for our next event.

As we reached to shot put we had been given instructions right after that we started. After quite a while it was my turn i threw the shot put and it went pretty far so I was coming 1st then Jordenne threw her’s just near mine and she was coming 2nd place after that Iron came along and threw her shot put and it just bet the third place person.

Athletics was really cool.

 

Auckland Museum

This week the Yearr 7’s had a trip to the Auckland Museum. The Year 7’s had their trip on the same day as the Yr 8 camp. We had to be put into groups of 7, and we also needed to have enough parents to go to the trip.

Students were put into groups so it would be easier to look after us. To start off our tour around the museum we had our morning tea before we went around the museum. Our leader has gave us a worksheet so that we could draw some patterns of artwork from the Maori and Pacific galleries.

All groups have been given a task to draw patterns. My group started off with the Maori patterns. I was so surprised when I saw a waka at the museum. That waka was one of the biggest waka I have ever seen in my life.

My experience at the Museum was really cool and kinda boring, but it was worth going. It was really cool seeing the waka and all the amazing art.  

My favourite part of the Museum was going into the volcano as it was really fun. We were waiting for quite a while after we went inside we watched this video about a volcano eruption suddenly the room started to shake and an volcano just erupted out of no where.

At the end of the day we got to do something like a amazing race. We had to go around the domain and take photos of the list we have been given.

 

Why do you need sleep?

Why is it important to sleep?

Well children should be sleeping for about 10 hours each night. Because it will help you grow faster and it helps your body. Also sleeping allows you to rest your body and brain. It also helps you rest your brain for thinking.

Resting is really good for kids so that you can be prepare for the next day. Resting can also help you learn if you get enough rest. If you don’t get enough rest you will be really exhausted and lazy.

It can also cause accidents and many bad things. You also need a comfortable bed for you to be sleeping on. Resting can also help you learn better and think more faster. It can also help you think faster.

Sleeping should be helping you with no distractions. If you stay up the whole night with no sleep your brain will be very tired. It can also help your brain sort out things for the next day.

If you haven’t slept for two days your brain and also your body will be very very exhausted. Babies should be sleeping about 14 or 15 per hour. Babies also need a comfortable bed.

Babies should always likely to be sleeping for about 14 or 15 per hour. Little kids should are likely to be having 10 hours per day. It always helps you think and learn more.

There are many reason why children should be resting per day.

Tattoo design

This art is a design that is known as a Samoan design. I drew this flower because it is a nice design. I chose these colors because they stand out and I also chose it because it is nice and bright like an flower

How To Play Touch

How do people play touch rugby?

First of all only 6 people are allowed on the field per team. If there are more than 6 people the ref will blow his/her whistle and stop the game.

Touch is the same as rugby but there is no tackling. But touch is a bit strict if you get touched and you run off your mark and play the ball it would be hand over. Touch is also a fast game and is known as fast play.  

There are many rules to this game. For this game you just need to be onside most of the time. Many couches pick the people that have most experience in touch. With the most experience players your team could properly be the best.

Some of the equipment that is needed is a rugby ball and cones. People normally play touch on the field where it is usually played. Cones are needed so that you would know where the out and try line is.   

Many people are into touch, touch is a fun sporty game it is played as fast play the most important thing is that you always need to be onside. If someone doesn't touch you and you play the ball it is hand over.

If you drop the ball or even if the ball hits the ground it will be hand over. The rules are simple there is no tackling, no forward pass, have to be on your mark, have to be onside and there is only allowed 6 players on the field.

If you don’t know how to play touch well I have just told you the rules and how to play.

Class/School Rules

Why is it so important to have rules? Well it will be really dangerous for the student and the teachers. But at Point England school we have rules. If no rules were made at Point England school there were be a lot of violence and a lot of disrespect towards the teachers.

It is very important to have rules at school so that the students can have respect towards the teachers and also they can have protection. It’s very important to have rules so that students can know where the boundaries are.

Rules are made so that students can respect the teachers. Also students and teachers can get a good future by following the rules that are made at school. Students can also get into University if they follow the rules.

If no rules were made a lot of bad things would be happening at school. Many kids would be doing dumb things they would also be giving teachers a pain. No one would be able to control them because no rules were made.

Schools need safety and also protection. Otherwise many bad things could be happening like student could be taking drugs, also they might not turn up to school on time or even they might not even come to school.

There are many reasons why we all need rules so that we can have a good future.