Immersion assembly

Today the 26th of July was Pt England's day back to school of term 3. Today I am writing about the immersion assembly, and the subject we are learning about is Healthy me Healthy you. So my favourite highlight about immersion assembly was team 5's act. There act was about the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, it was really funny and interesting the teachers got into small little groups of two and one of the teachers were the athlete and the other was the coach.

The country's they did to compete was U.S.A , Australia , and NZ. The first group up was Australia their performance was really cool it was an awesome act. Next up was U.S.A. their act was very cool they did it with some hula hoops, it was really cool because they were spinning it around there arms hips and even there neck.

After U.S.A it was the amazing NZ, they did gymnastics it was an amazing performance some cartwheels and spins it was very amazing, and that was the end of the Olympics and in first place was NZ , 2nd place was Australia and last place is U.S.A.        

The Colosseum - Imformation Report

 Today I'm going to talk about the Colosseum. So why does the Colosseum look half broken? Well It was broken because a major earthquake toppled part of the outer wall, and the fallen stone was taken away to use for other buildings.The Roman Colosseum has lasted for over 2000 years, although it’s partially broken.The Colosseum had been built on the site of an artificial lake, underneath it ran channels that could deliver water from a nearby aqueduct to flood the arena floor until the was deep enough that real ships were able to float on it. 

The Roman Colosseum was made from thousands of slaves.The Vespasian died before it was even finished!The Colosseum was opened by his Son, Emperor Titus.The Colosseum is the height of a 12 story house. When it is completed, it could fit 50k people!It is made of stone, bricks and concrete. The first games in the Colosseum lasted for 100 days! Thousands of animals fought and were killed. Criminals were executed in the Colosseum as well.

Gladiators were very popular, were meant to entertain people. Successful gladiators could be celebrities .It helped keep the Emperor Popular with the people of Rome. The sea battles were only held in the Colosseum for a short period of time. Fights and hunts were held for hundreds of years. Construction began on the Colosseum in 72 AD… under the direction of the Emperor Vespasian

Restoration of the Colosseum began in the 1800s and continues to this day. For centuries the Colosseum crumbled gradually each day. Originally called the Fl avian Amphitheatre.

Egypt The Great pyramid of Giza

  “Did you know that Egypt holds over 100 pyramids identified? 

Egyptians believed that by burying the deceased with the organs, they can rejoin in the after life. Egyptians kept burying people with things they think were ‘important to them’. Although it backfired as wild animals kept digging up the sand, and thieves stole the loot, that's when Pyramids came.

Pyramids were created and this is so the Pharaoh's valuable loot doesn’t get stolen as you can see from the first paragraph. Pyramids were made from a material called ‘limestone’, Limestone is made mostly by something called ‘calcite carbonate’ . Pyramids were made by hand! They were made by hand because in the past the technology humans developed didn’t exist. 

As you know Pyramids were created for tombs, then this Pharaoh named KHufu created the largest pyramid in the world, called the ‘ Great Pyramid Of Giza ‘. The Great pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 pyramids in Egypt with superstructure.The Great Pyramid Of Giza is one of seven wonders and it’s the only one that exists till this day!

Letter to The Prime Minister

 Letter Writing

When Jacinda Ardern came and visited us, she asked our class if we could write letters to her and talk about problems we see in our school/community or New Zealand.  Think very carefully about these problems and what you believe we can do to solve them.  Once you have finished writing your letter I will send them to the prime minister.

Date: 2/03/2021

Dear Prime Minister

Body of your Letter

1st Paragraph -

My name is Maddison, and i’m from pt england school. Room one is learning about how we can help with our community and like problems. Personally I love you being our prime minister of New Zealand and you're doing a great job with the work you're doing.

2nd Paragraph -

What problems are there? Well our problems are plastic pollution.

Why is it a problem? The problem is that the plastic is going into the sea and the sea animals think it’s food and they eat it and they eventually die because of our plastic. Also did you know that it takes 450 year for plastic to decompose.  

What can the government or New Zealand do to help? Well they can try to start making plastic decompose faster like up to days for it to decompose instead of years.

3rd Paragraph - 

Something you really like in another country/city you would like here. Nothing really because our country is fine as it is.

Signature

Yours Sincerely, 

Maddison,  

                         

Meeting the Prime Minister

 Today the 25th of February team 5 and most of the teachers met Jacinda Ardern and her body guard. When she first arrived it was really exciting because I had to follow her around with the camera. When she got out of the car Simon and Kauri greeted her and then she walked over and met the prefects and she turned around and waved at me, after that she started walking over to the senior block. When she got their the seniors started singing and then Mr Burt said a speech and then she said a speech. After that it was time for lunch, she walked over to my class room and handed out the lunches to the kids. She talked to all the class rooms then went out and walked around the school. When she got to the gate we set up the camera and Nadia and Aye interviewed her. Then she walked to the staff room and talked to the teachers a little bit then she left... Hopefully she could come again to our school.

Thank you to Jacinda Ardern for coming to Pt England school we loved your visit. 

    

Art Expo Writing

Today the 4th of December, The whole school walked around into different classes and saw many different types of art that each class made. Team 5 first went to team four. It was really cool because they wrote about different cultures and drew different patterns. Then we moved into team 1.

Team one’s artwork was really cute and creative. They made butterflies and we saw some of their animation’s and some of their paintings that they made with their hands. Then we moved into the creative space.

In the creative space it showed the extensions artwork and my artwork was on the wall “yay I made the cut”. We moved out and then we went into team two’s class room’s. Their artwork was really cool because they drew their faces and drew Indian elephants. 

After that we went back to the Street/Team 5 block and saw some of our own artwork and others.

The Art Expo was a really fun experience and looking at other peoples art was really cool.

Writing task

Task description: For this task my whole Reading class had to pick a top ten endangered
species from New Zealand. After that we write down facts about them and I chose a
Maui Dolphin.

Tongan language week

This week is tongan language week. Tongan language week is to celebrate the
culture and all the cultural dances and what tonga’s about. The theme for this
year is Fakakoloa 'o Aotearoa 'aki 'a e Lotu Mo'oni which means Enriching
Aotearoa New Zealand through Prayer and Faith. 

Facts about tonga:

Did you know that tonga has 170 islands divided into three main groups.

Did you know that there are many cultural dances for tonga like the soke
and the Otuhaka, Ma'ulu'ulu, Ula, Tau'olunga, Kailao.

Here are some pictures of the tongan language.

This is the tongan flag.                             and this is the tongan symbol.

Immersion assembly writing

Today is the first day of term 3 and this morning we had Immersion assembly.
At the Immersion assembly Mr Burt explained how he collected hats from around
the world and our theme for this term is A world of difference. So Mr Burt
showed us all different kinds of hats that he collected. They were really cool.
Then Mr J told us about his culture and then Mr Somerville came up and
told us about his heritage and his generation. They were knights and lords
that was so cool to hear about. 

After that we team one showed us their movie about what they were doing
and then team two did the same thing and then team 3 made a movie just
like them and team 4 made a movie but team 5 did a small little play it was
about a myth sina and the eel. My favorite part was Sina and the eel but
I really like all of the movies and plays. All the movies were really cool,
they all had different kinds of ideas and it was really cool.

Here are some pictures of the immersion assembly.

Thanks for reading my writing.

Term 2 reflection

So in lock-down it was fun but it was annoying just staying in the house but we went for walks every single day. So my first highlight from coming back to school is like seeing all my friends and seeing the teachers and stuff changing. My second highlight is like changing classes and it is fun in room 4 we do different kinds of stuff for work and we post a lot every single day.

Writing task

Shocking news a 7 year old girl has recently gone missing from her home in Auckland. The girl was walking home from her school, but she never came back. 

When her parents got back home they realised she wasn't there with her sisters. They called the police.

The police are still looking for the girl. The girl was last seen on Pt England road, wearing her blue and black school uniform. 

If you see her call the police straight away! She has black hair, glasses and pink Nikes.

Protest writing

What is a Protest


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A protest is when different people gather together to protest. People usually start

A march and other people join together To fight for other people or for teachers
like strikes. What do you do to protest? Do you march, strike. Because people what to
change the world and make everything fair.Also a strike means when all people from different
countries take a day off and protest for their rights. 

What causes a protest?


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So what causes a protest? People usually protest about . their rights or something they want to change. For example Kate Sheppard got lots of people to sign a petition for womens right to vote. Women wanted to be treated more fairly.

Do protests actually work?


Some protests do work. For them to work, lots of people need to agree with the protest. Particularly the government. For example, in Parihaka, the Maori protested peacefully, but the settlers sent in the soldiers.


In conclusion, people protest to get rights and get attention to something important. They can work if most people agree with the protest.

School Assembly

This Morning the whole school had assembly for the first time in 98 days
together. So yesterday Mrs Telea and the teachers from team five
planned a surprise for Mr Burt he didn’t know what was going to
happen he thought it would be a normal assembly but what he
didn’t know is that we would sing two songs and
the boys would do a Haka for him.

So we went to assembly and all the normal things happened
then we sang two songs then we sat down and the boys kept
standing then they did a Haka for Mr Burt. After that Mr Burt said
thank you to everyone and said to Mrs Burt I love you. It was a cool
experience and all of us appreciate what Mr Burt and Mrs Burt
have done for us. 

Writing Task

Task description: So this is my writing task that my Reading and writing class has to do.
We have to sketch and make up our own invention. 

AN admirable person

Topic: An Admirable person 

Do you want to know who my admirable person is?
Well my admirable person is someone I look up to or like I admire this
person or something like That.The person that I admire is my mum, I chose
my mum because she is a hard working and loving single parent to five kids and
that's pretty hard
to take care of five kids on your own. but she always supports me and my
siblings in everything
we do.She will come to every single tournament I have and never
miss a game. she will do that
to every single child she gots. Accepted my older brother
Mitchell, he is not really into sports so yeah and the.
reason why I chose my mum it’s because I want to be like her
when I grow up, because she got through a divorce
and got through moving to different houses.
Now she is working as hard as she can so that she can get
our own house so we can stop moving to different houses.
So yeah I want to be like my mum when I grow
up because she is a role model to me and my sisters. Also she is a role
model to my two brothers since our
dad isn't here she is still there to be their role model to.

Letter to Ms Tapuke

Dear Ms Tapuke,  My name is Madi, I’m 11 years old and I am a year 7 student at pt england school. I am one of five kids and the middle child. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. Also, my mum is a single parent. I am fijian and tongan. My mum is fijian and my dad is tongan. My favorite sibling is my little baby brother. He is so funny but naughty sometimes. 
I Love playing sports like rugby, rippa,tag and other sports. This year I have a goal. My goal is to get better at maths and writing and not get distracted by my friends so I can focus on my learning.
My favorite subject at school is Reading, I really like reading different kinds of books and finding out new things. Also every morning I have to wake up at 4 or 5 a clock and it’s really annoying. But that's okay because I have to catch a bus and train every single day with my younger sister. She is in year 5. She is 9 turning 10 and I am 11 turning 12. I'm so excited for my birthday but I have to wait a few months until it comes up. That’s pretty much it thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed my letter.
Kind regards Madi.

The Rocky shore

Walt: Research and write about about sea creatures from the rocky shore.
Task description: So first we have to pick a sea animal, then describe it and label like
there fins and that.

Independent And Dependent clauses task

WALT: to construct effective sentences.

Task description: Mr Goodwin, made a task for us and we have to well it's like we have to correct the sentence. Something like that.

Setting Descriptions

WALT: write a detailed account.

Task description:So first we had to make a copy of the slides and we had to write about three pictures and like what there about.

Setting Description

Setting Description

Ocean
The ocean has a sparkly touch to it with a turquoise color shining through each wave
that comes on the shore.

Sand

The sand has a golden touch fading away in the sparkly ocean with a glitch
touch of yellow sand.

Sky 

Also the sky has a beautiful ombre blue and white beautiful clouds with a pretty
sun that shines through the glistening ocean.    

Imagination
Also people are tanning in the pretty sun and going swimming in the ocean with a beach ball and
some floaties.