Congratulations Zahn and Manu!

Congratulations Zahn and Manu! A certificate for working hard at cross country training. As Sports leaders you both make great role models for our younger students. 

PBS 2016 School Leaders

Introducing our 2016 PBS student leaders pictured with Ms Kirkpatrick our Deputy Principal. L to R (Latham, Zeba - Manaiakalani Leaders, Evelyn, Manu - Sport Leaders, Sajiha, John - Head Students)

Maths Animations

This is my presentation about why I think it is important to learn maths in school. I collaborated on this presentation with one of my classmates, Manu. We used the ruler as our characters to make it more interesting. We think that this is a very cool way of telling people why Maths is important at school.

Teaching the Teacher!

Today San Tat and Manu showed me how to use animations in google slides. These boys were great teachers and their instructions were really clear. Thank you to Paige who took the photo.

Wheelchair Rugby

Manu created this DLO after reading a text about the Wheel Blacks. I think he has done a really great job of telling their story.

Shake Out by Dontalian

Today we learnt how to be safe in the earthquake. I made this with Manu and Zahn.

Story Swap: Fine and Manu

Today in Writing we did a 'story swap' in pairs to write a collaborative recount that made sense. It was a bit challenging because we could only write one sentence at a time, we weren't able to talk to each other and we had to make sure our ideas flowed even though we weren't thinking the same thing. I learned that if you read your story out loud you can hear if the tense is wrong.

I stared into the cracked windows of the abandoned house trying to discover its secrets. I had to walk in. I felt scared but I still had to do it. The house had stuff I hadn’t ever seen before. I was at least five steps away from the broken door when it slammed behind me. I went into a room and all I could see was an empty space. everything looked shut down. I felt someone watching me as I looked out a window. I turned around but there only the sound of a piano being played to trace. I followed the sound and it took me somewhere where there was a picture of an old scary looking lady. I walked up to it, examining her. Was the music coming from a place behind the picture. I lifted the picture up and took a little look. I saw who was playing the piano. The lady in the picture sat on the seat playing a fast rhythm. When I lifted the picture up more she stopped and focused her action on me. I had this feeling that she was going to come closer but she just sat there and looked at me. I heard breathing. I quickly turned around and saw her there. Confused at why I was here but i just kept staring back. I didn’t know what to do. I blanked out. When I woke up I was outside on the grass.

Manu and Saruja's Scarpbooking

Manu and Saruja told us about the fun they had a scrapbooking with Mrs Prasad. Their pages looked really colourful and told a story that was special to them.

Learning to use Speech Marks: Manu, Zahn, Jacob

This is the DLO that Zahn, Jacob and I did. We made a popplet because it is very easy to use and showed our learning. The best part was we could all work on it.

Showing our thinking: San Tat and Manu

This is my Maths DLO. I made with my partner Manu. I made this DLO to show my strategy that we have learnt this week. 

Mindmup: Manu

This is a Mindmup about interface that we did at Digital Tech at Tamaki College. 

Maori Gods

 

Maori gods (Atua) are an important part of Maori religion (Whakapono). These are some of the DLO's created to share our learning.

Manu's Duffy books

   Today we got two Duffy books. I was very lucky to get  books so I can read when I want to. Thank you to Duffy books in homes for my books.

Manu and Zahn's report on the inter-school cricket

On Wednesday the year 7 and 8 team went to Colin Maiden park to compete in the inter-school cricket tournament . Our first game was against Point England they played a fair game but unfortunately we lost. Our second game was against Stonefields. We were really lucky and we won the game by 3 points. Our third game was against Glenbrae. We all had fun but unfortunately we lost this one too. Our fourth game was against St Pius. We got a lot of points and eventually we jumped for joy because we won. Our fifth and final game was against Sylvia Park. We were lucky to beat them because it was a close game! At the end of the day we all received prizes and had fun. We would like to say a special Thank you to Miss Paton and Mrs Emma for looking after us for the day and we would also like to thank Mr Johnston, Mrs Speight and Ms Kirkpatrick for helping us with the transport.

Manu, Raymond, Tiare and Yvette explain their addition strategy

This is a powtoon my thinking group collaborativly created. This powtoon explains how we answered a math problem. I hope we have explained our startegy clearly for you to understand.