Cardboard Expedition 2015

Cardboard Expedition

Yesterday morning while the year 8 students went to tech, the year 7 students got to enjoy the morning with Miss Formatu, Miss Tito, Miss Hockley, Mrs Tele’a and Mr Clarke. We had an awesome day with the Google cardboard Expedition.

While the year 8 students were leaving the year 7 students were getting into their Te Reo groups. While group 1 was with Miss Tito group 3 was with Mrs Tele’a in the street exploring the cardboard expedition.

As it was group 2 turn we had to sit down and wait for instructions. When Mr Clarke put a background up, so we got to explore the forest, space and even more. You had to spot a subject from every realistic location. When the visitors walked by they had a try too, Mrs Burt asked Mr Clarke if we could go to a location she picked for us.

It was a really fun experience to learn all about cardboard expedition. All of the locations were very cool to look at and to spot different things. If you didn’t know where to spot something a arrow will point to it for you.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2015

On Wednesday we got to go to Sylvia park to watch all of the fantastic movies. Ruapotaka school got to come along to watch all of the films for the first time. I think everybody enjoyed watching the films especially Ruapotaka school, for the first time Ruapotaka school actually liked the movies that the students of Pt England made. Please leave me comment

On a Wednesday sunny afternoon the year 7&8 students got to go to Sylvia park for the Manaiakalani film festival. For the first time Ruapotaka primary school got to come along with us and watched all of the fantastic films.

When we were getting on the busses everybody had excitement in them, It was funny because  we saw the Juniors coming back in the other busses. As we were getting to Sylvia park the students of pt england school tried to wave at other people to see if they will reply by waving back. Some people waved back but some people didn’t.

As we were getting of the bus's everybody had excitement in them. Everyone was jumping around to get into the theater, when we were going up the steps we saw some students from Ruapotaka school in the front of us, some were tall and some were short. When we walked through the entrance door you could smell yummy buttery popcorn. Some people bought money to buy thing to eat but we were not allowed to buy anything.

As we were getting into the theater everybody was so excited. When everybody took their seats Mr Burt introduced the opening of the films everybody made to show on the big screen. When Mr Burt finished talking a girl popped up on the screen she was introducing the opening of the Manaiakalani film festival. Everybody went quiet, we waited for the introduction to finish everybody we're excited to see the first movie that was going to show.

When the first presenters went up on the stage everybody was clapping and cheering for them, when everybody was cheering and applauding you could not hear what the presenters were saying. Then the movie played and everybody stopped cheering and applauding for them so they stopped clapping and started to enjoy the first movie, during the movie some people were laughing, cheering and clapping for them.

When the movie finished everybody started clapping and then the next amazing presenters came up on the stage they introduced themselves and what the movie was about. When they told everything we needed to know about the movie they went of the stage and the audience started clapping and the movie played.

All of the movies were amazing, when the presenters from my class went up on the stage everybody cheered their names out and they were clapping very loud for them. When the movie played everybody went quiet Mua, Sateki and Tevita showed up first because there the main characters in the movie. Everybody were laughing at the movie, our class didn’t get picked to be in the evening session we were sad but unless it got played.

When all of the manaiakalani movies were finished we headed of to the busses. The busses were late to come and pick Pt England students up so we waited and waited so we played hand games while we waited for the busses. When the busses arrived room 1 students and the presenters were the first people on the bus. Everybody else had to wait for the other busses.

The movie I liked the most was my class movie it was all about using bad words. It was so funny because Miss Longbottom had a funny noise to go with the rocking. There were a lot of laughing and clapping going throughout the films. Some people said “I liked room 1 movie” and that sounded amazing. I was really sad that we didn’t get to see the rest of the films, but I am really happy that everybody tried their best, at making the amazing films we got to watch.

Navy Band 2015

Two weeks ago on a sunny thursday morning, the New Zealand royal navy band got to entertain the students of pt england school with their talents.

After the bell rang after morning tea “ring ring” we ran fast to class and got into B.G lines. As we were walking to the hall we heard music playing very loud.

As we sat in our seats, one person introduced himself. He asked us to stand up and sing along with them, the song we sang was Roar. As we were singing the navy band instruments were going louder and louder.

Then they played us some movie themes from Spongebob, Star wars, Incredibles, Spy and many more. As they finished they were asking different students questions, then they had a turn at conducting the navy band. It was so funny watching students conduct because they were moving really funny.

During Tech!

What I am doing during tech?

Mr Pineda showed all of the students in graphics a video, it was all about how to design your own T-shirt or jumper. What me, Khaia and Marilyn are making is a T-shirt for our netball team. As we were designing our logos that we were going to put on our t-shirts, Mr Pineda showed us what the t-shirts should look like. The t-shirts he showed us were very colorful and cool.

The first thing we had to do was figure out what we are going to put on our T-shirt. On the front of our t-shirt there would be a superman logo and that will represent sorority that is our team name, on the back of our t-shirts at the bottom there will be our name.

As we were finishing of our designs Mr Pineda showed us some steps, first you had to find a spot on your t-shirt then put scrap paper underneath this square thing which will not get anything on. As you painted over this fabric you had to hold the square thing steady, it was pretty hard to keep it still. Then you had to pull the square thing of really carefully, then you had to wipe the fabric really quickly so it doesn't dry up. After that you had to blow dry your t-shirt.