Term 3 reflection

“Yaaay, the term is nearly over!” It is the last week of Term 3 and I am very excited for the holidays! This term we had a lot of stuff on at our school like Cross Country, we had The New Zealand Manager of Samsung come to our school, her name was Ms Kenny Yeon. Then we had prizegiving for sport teams and sports and also we had a very tough netball tournament for the year 7&8 netball girls.

When Samsung visited our school the Year 6 Ambassadors and the Intermediate students did a Powhiri to welcome them to our school. We sang a song called he honore, and then the manager handed over a gift for our school. When Ms Kenny Yeon (the manager) was doing that we sang a song called ‘Powhiri Mai’. Then Tyla-Marie handed over a traditional maori necklace to the manager of Samsung we sang ‘Powhiri Mai’ again.

This term we had Kiwisports. Kiwisports is once a week for each class. We learnt how to play different kinds of sports like AFL, Soccer (football) and  Netball.

This term we had a couple of adults that inspired us to do what we want to in the future. They were part of a future aspiration group. A future aspiration group is a group of people that come to our school and inspire children to do there best in school and their studies so they can get a good job when they grow up.

Also this term some of the year 8 students enrolled to their college for next year. I was one of those people and I enrolled at Auckland Girls’ Grammar. I was very happy because I got accepted into that school. That means I need to focus really hard on my school work to get into a good class.

Yes, a very busy term it has been for everyone! That is why I am very excited to have a two week break from school!

What is Cross Country?

What is cross country???

Cross country is an annual event for a lot of schools, but not only schools, it is an event that anyone can feel free to do, with either friends, family or even a team. Before this event happens they would usually train very hard everyday to get fit for the event. Cross country is an exciting event that you can either run by yourself or with a group of friends.

Cross country is an event that you need to be fit and healthy also have a lot of stamina to stay in a good pace for the race. Cross country is a race run over mountains, hills, grass, mud and all sorts of tracks. It is also not about coming first, it is about you trying your best and doing your best.

I love doing cross country because this event keeps me fit and healthy for when I play sports. Cross country is an event that we have every year at Pt England School. It is held for our whole school to attend. Usually I would attend this event but I couldn't be bothered this year.

Here at Pt England School, Cross country is an whole day event, because we have a large school. So, usually the first group of kids to run are usually the little Year 1’s. Then it goes To Year 2’s, 3’s 4’s and all the way up to our older students.

When you start Pt England School Mrs Flavell, our office lady, would put you into a house color. Those house colors are for The events that we have in school, like Cross Country, Athletics or even team assemblies. Here at Pt England School some teachers are very kind because usually in team assemblies they give house points out to children that sit up nicely, or do some kind of ‘Random Act Of Kindness’.

In our school we have 4 house colors for 4 teams. Those colors Takitimu (Yellow), Tainui (Blue), Te Arawa (Red) and Mataatua (Green). Each of these houses have about 100 kids in each team, and that is all of our school students split up. These houses are the houses that you need to line up in when our school has Cross Country.

When it is the day of Cross Country, our whole school meets on the court. Usually there are lines that you have to line up in. Those lines are, Year 1 girls, Year 1 boys and it keeps on going until you get up to the Year 8 boys. Once you are lined up Ms Va'afusuaga would ask our house captains to lead their house into their chants. Oh did I mention, each house has their own chants too!

This is a good event for maintaining body strength, losing weight or becoming fit and healthy. If you've never did cross country before then I recommend this is a good event for you or your team!!

Film festival

Filming for Manaiakalani film festival

This week our teacher, Mrs Lagitupu, came up with an awesome idea for our film festival movie. But first....the other week she gave us a task that was for the Film festival and that was to come up with ideas for our class movie to share.

We all came up with different ideas and Mrs Lagitupu didn't know who to choose. So, she came up with and idea and that was to put all our ideas together and add a little twist.

Me, Chloe, Sarona and Martha's scene is all of us on a MTV channel dancing to a song by Jason Derulo called Bubble Gum. That scene is only part of the movie, so if you want to know what happens in the rest of the movie, then you will have to wait and see! :)

Argument Writing

Dear Prime Minister John Key

I am writing this letter to say that I think we need to reduce the amount (or even ban) of plastic bags in New Zealand. Other countries around the world have already done this so I think that it is a good idea that we do it to, to save our animals and sea creatures that are eating this plastic.

The reason why is because too many people don’t care about our animals, lands and sea. Instead of putting their plastic bags in the rubbish they throw it elsewhere. That is dangerous for our animals and nature because too many plastics and fragments are going into our seas and the animals are eating them. Animals can die because people are littering their plastic bags and animals can easily mistake it for food and they end up eating the plastic bags.

Already 30 other countries have banned plastic bags because of the issue and if New Zealand wants a clean green country like how other people from around the world see it as, I think we need to ban plastic bags.

Did you know that New Zealand goes through 1 billion plastic bags a year? A lot of all that plastic ends up in the sea and many sea creatures eat it and die.

Your sincerely

Gianna

Pt England School

Why taking care of your mind and body is so important

Why is it important to look after our bodies?

It is really important you look after your body because some young people decide they want to put some kinds of drugs in their body and that is really dangerous because it can damage your brain and also your brain can stop functioning they way it is supposed to be.

Looking after you body means taking extra care of what you put into your body, like, the kinds of food, alcohols, and drugs you put into it. You need to make sure that if you are at a party or any occasion you don’t drink too much alcohol because you may end up drunk and that alcohol will actually stay in your body!

Taking care of your mind

Taking care of your mind is making the right choices and decisions. Like, if you’re still in school and you have a dream for what you want to be when you grow up, it is important that you don’t make any bad choices like wagging school, taking drugs in school etc.

Why, is because some of those bad choices can ruin your whole chance of succeeding and having a great future, also you can get kicked out of school and you may not be able to get the job that you want and the right money to pay your bills and stuff. So.... making the right choices when you’re young can get you to where you want to work and what you want to be when you grow up.

Commonwealth Countries- Canada

Location:

Canada is a country in North America. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. In the northern part of the continent. The capital language of Canada is Ottawa. Canada is a country that

Population:

Which has a population of 34.88 million people, who some speak english and french. Canadas most popular sport is hockey.

The Flag:

As you can see the flag has two red square shapes on each side of the flag, that represents hardiness, bravery, strength and valour and the white square in the middle of the flag which has a red maple leaf in the centre of it represents peace and honesty.

Culture & language:

In Canada english and french is known as the most preferred language there, or spoken most there. Canada is a home for the

Immersion Assembly

Immersion Assembly.

To start off each term we usually have an Immersion Assembly on the first day back at school like every other term. I wasn't excited to come back to school because I was having an awesome holiday, but I was excited to find out our topic for the term and see my friends!

When the 8:30 bell rang I walked into class having a fair idea of what our topic was about  from the world map and the pictures on the wall. Once I found out that our topic for this term is “Game On” I straight away knew why that was, it was because the commonwealth games are on...

When we walked into the hall there were bikes on the stage and on the floor, I thought it was because bike riding is one of the events happening in the commonwealth games. Then assembly started and we listened to Mr Jacobson talk about our topic and why is was that.

Once he finished talking Team 1 was first up showed their Item, it was about some of the countries participating in the commonwealth games. They showed us a video of the the team 1 teachers supporting a few countries that are representing their countries in the commonwealth games.

Then it was Team 2’s turn to share, their item was about two sports that are in the commonwealth games, Netball and rugby. We watched a video of them playing those sports. Then after that they went on the stage and showed played those sports.

Next up was Team 3, They showed us some videos of some competitors doing gymnastics, then they demonstrated gymnastics themselves. Then they demonstrated gymnastics to us on the stage..

After that was Team 4, then Team 5…...