How to make an Arrow Paper Plane

Ever made paper planes before? Vivienne has. She has made a Delta paper plane and now a Arrow Paper plane too.
Go to http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/Plane%20Downloads.html to get the template and you can make it step by step with Vivienne.

Logan writes his own report

Like Elizabeth in a previous post Logan wrote a report for himself too. He thought carefully about what he thought he had improved on throughout the year and what he might focus on next year.

Mary's e-learning task

Last year in 2008 Mary was working hard to improve her e-learning using kidpix in the classroom. Watch her animation and comment her on how well she has done.

A self evaluation report by Elizabeth

At the end of the year it's a particularly busy time for everyone. But especially for teachers. Teachers write reports for each child and it can take a long time. Last year the children in Room 10 wrote their own reports with as little help from the teacher as possible. Listen to Elizabeth's self evaluation report and see if she has made any improvements or not.

Alexandria experiments with Bubbles

At the beginning of 2008 one of the first things we wrote about was bubbles. Listen to Alexandria's story and how she was able to sequence her ideas carefully.

Elizabeth reflects on her e-learning for the term

Each term children have a task to do in e-learning. This term they had to draw the rubbish then decide which bin it goes in and animate their pictures in kidpix. This is Elizabeths first post and she has done extremely well.

Hueloata's Simile about a Hot Air Balloon

In term 2 our topic was Up, Up and Away and we looked at flight. Our children were very lucky to have a hot air balloon fill up but not fly away on our school field. We were learning to write similes for this hot air balloon. Listen and find out what Hueloata thought.

Dante says Recycling is Important!

Listen to Dante's writing and find out why recycling is important.

Julia retells Tarzanna

This is Julia's recount of the story Tarzanna.

Mele says Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!

Why should we reduce, reuse and recycle? Mele has written why everyone should use the 3 R's! Listen and find out if what she says is right.

Kane and Tarzanna

Have you heard of Tarzanna? While I was away Mrs Maude read the children Tarzanna and they went away and wrote a recount about it. It sounds like a great story and the children wrote what they liked best about it too.

It's Holiday Time!

Yesterday our children at Point England School finished up for 2008. The children were all excited to go on holiday. Some especially the Year 6 children were a bit sad and got teary eyed because they were moving on to different schools for Year 7 in 2009. The staff wished them all the best. BUT, just because we are on holiday doesn't mean our blog is! Over the next few weeks children's work is scheduled to appear on our blog so please come back and have a look also leave comments. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year.

Goodbye Miss Hawkins

This year at Point England School we have had a few teachers leave us. One of them is Miss Hawkins who taught year 3 in Room 9. This is our farewell movie for her.

Mele's School Athletics Adventure

Mele wrote about our school athletics. Listen and find out how well she went.

Onosai retells Tarzanna

Have you heard of Tarzanna? I didn't until I listened to Onosai's story. Listen and find out what his favourite part of the story was.

The NZ League Museum

As you know New Zealand have the Rugby League World Cup. As part of our EHSAS writing some of the children were given the chance to go and see it. Have a listen and find out what else is in our museum. It's amazing! Here are photos and a movie about our little trip there.

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The World Cup is at the Rugby League House in Penrose at 7 Beasley Avenue. You have to make an appointment so ring (09) 525 5592 and thank you to Mr Don Hammond who is the curator for the museum.

Nova tally's up the Rubbish

A few weeks ago Room 10 went for a walk around our school with a tally chart to see which pieces of rubbish were the most common to be found. Listen carefully to Nova's recount about what was the most common piece of rubbish found around our school.

The Point England School Film Festival

This term our topic is Go for Green and we have been learning about recycling and the 3 R's. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. For our school film festival we all took part in either being in a movie and some children got the chance to make their own movies. Here is some writing we have done and some pictures of the movies that we saw. There's also some photos at the bottom that you can have a look at. You can check out all the entries on our school website at www.ptengland.school.nz and look under Events.

On Friday at Point England School we had our Film Festival in our hall. We saw lots of movies. I liked Room 7's movie because they were dancing like robots.
By Tauwhare

I liked the Keep it Green, Keep it Clean movie becuase it was funny. I liked Room 7's movie too because they made robots.
By Kane

I liked Room 9's movie because Raenan was dressed up as Mother Nature and he came out from behind the tree. Then Prince was chasing after Donyae and they ran across the field. Donyae was the recycling bin.
By Kobe

On Friday Point England School went in to the hall. My favourite movie was from Room 9 because Donyae was running away. He did not like things that can't be recycled.
By Logan

On Friday we had our own Film Festival. I liked the films that weren't made by teachers. I liked the one when Wayjo and his friend got bashed up by some other boy because they kept on chucking their rubbish on the ground. Wayjo was tired so his friend got bashed up too he was tired.
By Hueloata

I liked Room 18's movie. It was funny when Mokani was hiding in the tree. I like Room 7's movie too when they were dancing like robots.
By Onosai

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Vivienne's in Charge of Rubbish

What would you do if you were in charge of rubbish? Some of us got to write about what we would do. Listen to Vivienne's story and see if there's anything she might be missing about the big clean up.

Mele retells Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Last term we gave narrative writitng a go. Have you heard of Goldilocks. What did she do? Listen to Mele's retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.