Barack Obama at the Stonehenge

Barack Obama could not resist a chance to see the stonehenge himself ordering his helicopter to make an unscheduled stop on his return home from Nato Summit. After flying out of Newport in south Wales. 

As Barack Obama said "How cool is this? Spectacular!" Barack Obama exclaimed as he afforded privilege access to see the stone's for himself. Obama said he wanted to knock out the stonehenge off his bucket list. 

Nice to meet you! The President shook hands with the family after the unexpected landing by his helicopter. 

 

La luna

We watched the opening scene and the animation La Luna and described it. We wrote two different paragraphs each describing the scene.

In the pitch black sky the moon it was shining bright like a diamond. A they rowed gently surrounded by water. Stroke by stroke the man with humongous muscles gently moved the boat through the glimmering water.

In the pitch black sky the moon it was shining bright like a diamond. A they rowed gently surrounded by water. Stroke by stroke the man with humongous muscles gently moved the boat through the glimmering water.

Kabaddi

Kabaddi was originated in India 4,000 years ago. It includes tackling , defences , agility , strength and aggression. Kabaddi is a international sport that other countries play.

In Sanskrit the word kabaddi is translated holding hands. Kabaddi is a contact sport it is also similar to rugby , capture the flag and wrestling.

Kabaddi has altered over time. Originally the raider had to say “kabaddi kabaddi kabaddi” until they ran out of breath and you could tag more than one person. But now the raider has 30 seconds to tag the opponent and run back.  

Kabaddi came from the northern parts of India subcontinent and became popular throughout south Asia. And started to spread to Japan and Iran. There are seven members in each team.

The game is played in twenty minutes halves and five minute halftime break during which team is exchanging sides.

Usain Bolt

Usain St.Leo Bolt was born on the 21 of August 1986 he is a Jamaican sprinter and the fastest man in the world.

Usain is the first man to hold the 100 metre and 200 metre records since the fully automatic time measurement became forced in the 1977.

Along with his teammates, he also set the record in 4x100 metres relay. Although worldwide popularity for a sprinter double victory at the Beijing games. 

Usain has won more games in the 200 metres. As a child Usain attended Waldensia Primary. Where he first show his running potential. 

By the time Usain bolt turn 12. He was the school’s fastest runner over the 100 meter run.  

Possom poles

Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on July 21, 1951. Robin was an American actor and a comedian , film director and a screen writer. Robin Williams started as a stand- up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid 1970's , Robin Williams was credited with leading San Francisco comedian regeneration. Robin william was friends with David Letterman.

Ki-O-Rahi

Ki-O-Rahi is a traditional Maori team sport that was made centuries ago. Ki-O-Rahi was based on the legend about Rahitutakahina and the rescue of his wife Tiarakurapakewai where they invented the game as a way to resolve disputes peacefully. Ki-O-Rahi is a sport that includes strategy ,  speed , strength , accurate ball handling skills and teamwork.

In the legend about Rahi his wife Tiara was abducted by the Patupaiarehe. The Patupaiarehe who cast a spell on the forest dragged Tiara through the forest.

So Rahi got ready for his journey to save his wife by packing up some moa eggs and food. Rahi made a manu tangata (kite) to try and travel to the forest where

Patupaiarehe were hiding Tiara.

      

     How to play Ki-O-Rahi

First you need a circular field. You also need 7 poles which you need to make into an inner and an outer circle. You need to make an Ara which is a line through all the circles.

There are 2 teams named Taniwha and Kioma. Taniwha has to hit Te Tupu and Kioma has to touch pou with the ball then get a try. 5 people from each team are allowed to be in the middle circle. 3 from Kioma can be defending Te Tupu in the inner circle.  

If your tag gets ripped off you only have 3 seconds to pass but if 2 tags get ripped its a handover instantly. If Kioma get a try you have to restart the game over again by 1 person from Taniwha throwing it from Marama.

There are 3 version to play Ki-O-Rahi there's a tackling version a tag version and a touch version too.Ki-O Rahi is becoming more popular and more competitive. Its also a school competition.

Sticking Arounding

This is a pattern with matchsticks we worked out that to find out how many sticks you need per triangle the rule for the pattern is (n x 2) so for 20 triangles (n x 20 )
(20 x 2 ) + 1 = 41.

Kahurangi Danced Group

"Kia Ora" everyone we said to Aroha. As he introduced himself to all of us. Then introduced the rest of the group they performed a haka with precise movements and perfectly pitched harmonies. They were funny because they told jokes and did their actions funny too.

The first item they did was about how Tawhirimatea and Tanemahuta and their brothers separated Ranginui and Papatuanuku. The other items were when three mighty warriors from audience. The three warriors were Korobeau, Auri , Mr Godwin the three warriors copied one of the performers and the three warriors struggled to do it and laughed alot.

And they had facial expressions and sung with powerful voices.

diving

As she came up the platform she steadied herself and took a deep breath. She balanced then leap of the platform. 

Her body making accurate manoeuvre and twist and turns. Trying to make her body straight she entering the water cleanly.

trip to the civic theatre

On the 30th of july 35 students were allowed to go out to see some animated and emotional films. So Mrs Nua got everyone how gave there 2$ and permission forms. I was one of them she told us to go in the street to call the role. how was here or not. 

But there was no more spots for one person but lucky that person made it in. So the was supose to be wasn't there so the person that was last made it in. Mrs Nua told us to get a buddy for the bus.

When we got into our buddies. Mrs Nua said we could go and line outside for  the bus. As we entered the bus Mrs Nua counted us 2 ………4……..6 and on after that me and my buddy went to the back and sat with our friends. While we were go to the city all the boys that were at the back sang songs and laughed a lot.

As we arrived we got out of the bus and walk into the civic theatre. It looked like the modern days. As we went to go sit down I lions that glowed and shooting stars above us.  

A.F.L Lessons with tim

Every Wednesdays we go to A.F.L at the hall. Tim coaches us new skills such as the speckie and the drop punt , hand pass , high mark , low mark , chest mark and punt ice cream scooper.

We play some games to practice the skill like over the river and Lamborghini vs Ferrari , batman vs superman and we played a game how we had to throw the ball on the ground rebound back to us.The first team back wins.

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car wash

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We are holding a Car Wash on FRIDAY 27th of JUNE it will be at LUNCH TIME Please come along and support us so that we will have enough for our Literacy group to go and visit the sky tower. PLEASE!

Ben, Nathanial, Class4, Literacy Group, Fundraiser, Sky Tower. 

How the leaning tower become leaning

The leaning tower of Pisa, in italy is famous because of its tilt. An inscription on the right hand corner above the entrance said that construction began in 1173. It was built as bell tower to wake up people to go to church or warn them of emergencies. It was or so built to show the  wealth and power of Pisa.

When they got to the 3rd storey the building started to sink because the subsoil was weak and the foundation was not strong or sturdy. As you go up the spiral staircase there are 300 well worn stone steps when you reach to the top you can see a panoramic view of Pisa.

At the top of the tower it should be vertical but it’s not. Now today it is almost 4m where it should be. The tilt was worsening because of the weak subsoil underneath the poorly laid foundation. So they compensated for the tilt by constructing 1 side of the tower taller than the other.    

Immersion Assembly

On Monday the 5th of may was a new term for term 2 & our new topic was I like to move it move it Mr Burt showed us his toy taxi car on taxi car there were balloons attached to it then he told us how many balloons could lift. It took about 16 balloons to lift it. Then we started the assembly by looking at each teams topic.

Team 1’s topic was about how they were going to the zoo, team 2’s topic was about how thing could fly also  how it could work, team 3’s topic was about the flow of colours and how it could turn into rainbow, team 4’s topic was about displacing water (floating or sinking(buoyancy), team 5’s topic was about sounds and how sounds was made.

The 10th Annual Sky Tower Stair Challenge

6 firefighters who walked 303km from Waitangi to Auckland when they reached Auckland they crossed over the harbour bridge. There was a shiny beacon guiding them to the Sky Tower. They raised  money for leukemia.

when the 6 firefighters arrived at the Sky Tower people from Auckland City gave them gifts. The 6 firefighters took part in the 10th annual firefighter challenge the challenge involves 700 firefighters that pushed themself to climb 51 storeys or 1103 steps.

With determination they climbed to the top of the Sky Tower feeling exhausted and with aching muscles. As they reached their goal/destination they felt emotional because they were feeling relieved . Some collapsed from overheating.   

Roomates Who Found $40,000

Three roommates brought a couch for $20 and found $40,000 in banknotes burred inside the couch  and returned it back to the 91 year old man upstate New York widow had hidden it underneath the couch. WABC- TV in New York has proclaims that a State University in New York at New Paltz student and his two roommates found the money loaded in envelopes hidden in the couch they got it from salvation army in march previously.

Student Reese Werkhoven from New York City said he was the one to find the first collected pack of money. Then they started to search the couch and found lots of  packed envelopes in the couch a social worker with the Woodstock Family who shared the same apartment along with two friends in New Paltz from the north of New York City. Directly opening his mouth everybody said was it an a believable amount of money.

The three roommates bought back the couch and a chair for $55 at salvation army then they noticed.    

Echolocation

Echolocation is the use of ultra high beat sound for exploring and locating there prey. Bats and marine mammals are able to use noises to see. It is when a echo rebounds an animal or a object it images some parts of the environment. An echo must be loud enough and short enough so the echo can rebound of an object it sends out another high pitch. Marine mammals like dolphins , whales and some human and birds can use echolocation. 

In some bats that sound are made and sent out by their noses but most send differently by their mouths. The sound rebounds off objects and prey in their surroundings for example insects , fishes , branches and humans and they are picked up by the bats sensitive ears. Even if bats have good eyesight, they depend on the echolocation system to direct them self around as well find their prey. 

Bats can deflect obstacles no wider than a ribbon they can identify the size of an object.

THE PT ENGLAND WAY

    

The Pt England Way :  

The Pt England Way is a group of values, attitudes and behaviours. We want Pt England School to be a respectful community and The Pt England Way helps us to do this.                          
WHEN IT BEGAN :

In 2000 - 2001.The Pt England Way started . The original name was called Belonging to Pt England the  purpose was to be happy, safe, behave and learn well. Miss Otalani Meleisla, a teacher who used to be at Pt England School  helped write some ideas .      
 
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE :


The Pt England Way was to get everyone at Pt England used to one another and bond with each other.As our principal Mr Burt says it is our kawa of care, the way we do things is so that we could be happy with one another feel safe and that we learn well.