Reflection of 2015

2015 has been an amazing experience for me, because of how close our friendships have become here at Point England School with how we communicate and how we learn in the digital world.

This year we had heaps of trips, special people coming to visit us like Andrew Patterson, we went to Polyfest, Year 8 leadership camp, students from Tamaki College to talk to the Year 8’s and preparing them for college for next year and there's one more trip to come…  we're going to Parakai.

Since I only came last year in 2014 it was really great for my first time in a new school, seeing new faces and having new teachers in different learning areas.

The bond that everyone had with each other was really amazing they cared for each other and helped one another if we weren’t having a great day. Each and everyone are all different.

We have different cultures from other people and they had learn’t more about their own cultures and other people’s culture to be more pride of who they are and what comes for them in the future.

For the new teachers in team 5 they did pretty well for their first time in Point England School and having faith in the students learning.

My home class teacher is Mr Wiseman. He’s great to be honest for his first time on the first day, I wanted to to be in his class when I first met him, when he introduced himself.

I remember when Mrs Tele’a was calling out the names for the class, I was the first one in the whole block to be called out that was really awkward. Mr Wiseman is a really good teacher he boosted everyone's confidence throughout the year and made everyone participate in all the activities that came up.

Being in his class has made me think twice about my actions and the words that come out of my mouth. The first Term we had with Mr Wiseman was really not so great I didn't want to do stuff in the classroom and just played around and follow the people in my class because I thought that's what you were supposed to do in class that made you get attention from other people.

But when Mr Wiseman told me in Term 1 “ That's not how you behave in class and if you still do it in College it will get u no where in life and do you really want that in your report to let your parents see what you have been upto.”

I’ve changed from Term 1 to Term 4 by my Attitude, behaviour, actions, of what I say and knowing more people to be my friend and not just hanging out with a certain crowds but always bouncing around to other people to see if they want to play a game or just chill out if we don’t want to play around when it’s hot.

The teachers helped us with our learning and our problems. At my old school it’s really different from Point England. The learnings different, the teachers way of teaching us was different, the bond that everyone has together with the other students, the teachers and the rules that we have.

I have Mrs Tele’a as a Numeracy teacher. She’s a really good teacher she is the leader of this block and the leader of the team. She helped everyone when she had time. Usually she worked with each group, in the time that she had with us. How she taught students was really cool because even if a student said the answer wrong she didn’t just say “ NO THAT’S WRONG” she always replied nicely with a great response.

Mrs Tele’a cared for each and every other student in the block like they were her own children. But when the students were misbehaving she still loved them with care and kindness.

My favorite memory was the Year 8 leadership camp. We learnt how to lead others into success. I still remember the Fiafia night when we were at camp, it was so cool seeing other groups get up on the stage and giving it their best. I love that the teachers participated in the activities that they provided for us to have fun in the activities. When we left we knew when we arrive in Term 2 that we will lead the school when we go and we will leave Point England School to the next year 8’s  that will learn how to lead the school into making their dream a reality.

This is my last year at Point England school. I’m going to College next year I am going to Auckland Girls Grammar School. I heard it’s a really good school I can’t wait. Point England School has helped me with what I wanna be and what I wanna do with my life when I get older.

I officially want to be a pro lacrosse player. Since the game is now becoming popular I’ve seen people play and it’s an interesting game. To be a  pro Lacrosse player I will practice and show up to trainings and give it my 100%.

This year I rate myself a 9/10. Because I was always getting in trouble for talking too much in class and not talking about what we were learning about than talking about what was happening yesterday. What I'm going to focus on next year and the years after I choose to focus more on my education to see if  I’ve done pretty well and achieving more goals.

Prevent yourself from getting sick

This is my help for you to: How to prevent your self from getting sick.

Rhyming Poems

This is my Rhyming poem about what happens in the Senior Block. And how to rhyme. And how to use rhyme schemes.

Justify our opinions with a reason

This is my presentation about justifying our opinions when we have been given a statement in a article. I felt alright working with people and working individually on this tas

Finding a rule

This is my Working out to finding a rule given the input of numbers. I found this pretty hard because this was my first time doing this kind of work.

Dusty Room - Group Task -

Dusty Room Tearing walls ripping down The smell of mold goes round and round The taste of black Liquorice  makes everything vicious Windy sounds come rushing through in different areas of the room From wall to wall the smell gets stronger Inside and outside no smell of delight Trapped all alone and nowhere to go      But no need to stress it's just a big mess Walking through the door we notice the ripped walls moulded roofs with rats crawling through   and cockroaches crawling round and round          As I arrived in the room I looked down. And I see Paint falling off the roof and I start to drown I could smell a Musty smell on the wall. Than I start feeling small. When I looked around I can hear the Mouse's footsteps running on the roof. But I wish it would be soundproof As I drew the Curtains then I feel goosebumps coming up my arm As I walk around the room I have this kind of dry taste in my mouth like I want to spew it out. The room starts to rumble  The ceiling began to crumble Smelling mould I start to get a cold Everything’s broken And it can’t be spoken Disgusting floors Covered in paint Broken draws I wanted to faint

Word Problems - Tapawha - T4 - W6

This is my Working out to show how I worked out my word problems for Maths. I found this hard at the first time but when I saw that you could work it out by doing equations, then I found it easy to work out.

Find A theme of a text

Where is Dora?

Where is Dora?

When I was 6 years old. My brother, my nana and I went to go get some Mcdonalds. When we were waiting for our food we went to go play in the playground. Whenever we went somewhere I bought my Dora doll with me all the time anywhere and whenever.

First when I arrived at the playground I took my shoes off then grabbed my doll and then started to play with it. I pretended I was in a magical fairy tale with Dora and started playing around. Then my nana came in and told us to come for lunch. So I left my Dora in her castle and left her their.

Then when I left to go toilet I ran straight to the playground and Dora was missing so I ran straight to my brother and asked if he’s seen my doll. I kept on looking around, then 5 minutes later I saw a girl leaving the building with the exact same doll in her hands.

After that I wanted to go get it but it was already too late to go get it back. So I was crying all the way back home.

When I saw that girl with my doll I felt very angry and sad at the same time. When I arrived home I cried even more cause I can't get dora out of my head any more. But I was so devastated that I won't see dora anymore. Afterwards I told my mum and then a week after I had a dora doll in my hands, 6 years later I still have it.

Immersion Assembly T4 W1

Immersion Assembly T4 W1

Once sorted and ready for school I wondered what will happen in immersion assembly. I arrived at school feeling tired and excited at the same time. Today we were going to find out what topic we were going to focus on this last term of school.

We did our normal routine where everyone sits down and lines up in their class lines and do the karakia, mihi and himene Mrs Tele’a usually one of the teachers tell us special notices and telling us what we were going to do today. She told us that we had our Immersion assembly now. When we arrived in the hall there were teachers in costumes and silly hats and silly clothing when we sat down whenever we look straight ahead it said   

“ SURVIVORS.”

Then the first item came on and it was team 1 Miss George talked to us about what they were going to be doing during the term. They’re going to be learning about different kind of animals and going to the zoo.

The next item was team 2 and team 3 they’re going to focus on dinosaurs and team 3 are going to invent their own dinosaurs this term. Team 4 and team 5 are going to learn about different kind of animals that are soon going to be instinct. Team 5 are going to learn about how humans adapt thru their culture.

My favorite item was the team’s 5’s item because they were acting out how to survive. They made a skit about how other human beings adapt thur their whole life. We were going to learn about how animals survive and how humans adapt thru their culture. I couldn't wait for this term because for the year 8’s it’s going to be our last year and then we're going to go college next year. I can't wait for the big journey that's going to come my way.

I'M THE WINNER

I’m the WINNER!!

Warming up on the track with my other teammates eyeing each other out. I can hear the crowd yelling my name. Cameras flash lights in my face like I’m important and people asking me questions about the race.

First they told us to come up and get ready on the start line. Ready… Steady… BANG went the gun and off we went.

Then I was running as fast as I could trying not to get distracted by the people taking photos of us running. I can feel my heart racing as fast as I was running.

Afterwards I realised that I just crossed the finish line having smiles on my face and camera lights in my face while trying to see my fans and high fiving them and congratulating my fellow runners.

After my run I felt on top of the world because I came 1st and receiving my gifts from the judges. When I came back I had a big headache of all the noise’s from the crowd. I think I have achieved my goal from running this race. Finished another face now I have many more to come… Let the journey begin

How to prevent yourself from getting sick

People these days are getting sick because of the bad cold weather. Everyone is getting sick because they’re not taking care of their body and there are many ways for people to get sick very easily. This is my guide to how to prevent yourself from getting sick. So listen very closely because being sick is very not nice.

One of the easiest ways of staying healthy is eating a balanced range of food. This means eating from the 5 food groups with a focus on fruits and vegetables. If you do that then your body will receive all the nutrients it needs to be in the best condition to fight off invading germs.

Another way to prevent yourself from getting sick is to not shake hands with a sick person. This means that if your friend or family member is sick you need to be careful while shaking their hand, you could just say “Hello”. The only way you won’t spread germs is to not shake their hand if they are sick. Don’t hug or kiss people that are sick because you want to prevent them from spreading germs to others. If you do this then you won't get sick and it will help you from not getting sick from other people around you.

One of the best ways to prevent yourself from getting sick is to not share food or drinks with others in case they are sick. This means if someone who is sick offers you food that they have already eaten you have to say “No Thank You” in case they give you food that they already ate while being sick. If you do this you won't get germs and you also won't get sick because you didn't eat the food off a sick person.

TALKING POINTS REFLECTION

This is my talking points reflection. 

What I have learnt in a whole week

In Literacy, I have Learnt how to prevent your self from getting sick. 

In the week I learnt how to write and explanation about the topic " How to prevent your self from getting sick".

We wrote three paragraphs about the topic and learning how to write an explanation. We had to give advice to the readers and hope that they will listen to the advice we give them.

Writing an explanation means explaining about the topic and learning about it while working on it. We had to define what it means to prevent yourself from getting sick. Writing and explanation kind of means explaining the topic to others. 

What I have learnt from explaining how to prevent yourself from getting sick. 

How can we be financially responsible?

We had a task to answer the question How can we be financially responsible. We had heaps of slides in this presentation, I learnt heaps of stuff while doing this and I hope you do too.

High Tea

Fractions, decimals and percentages

This is what I have been learning on the past few lessons with Mrs Tele'a. We have been learning about understanding the realationship between fractions, decimals and percentages. I have learnt something new about fractions, decimals and fractions. What I've learnt on this presentation that on slide 6 all we had to do is just use our 5 times table. After this I have learnt heaps of stuff like cent means 100. So together mean per 100.

Inferring W1 T3

This is what we've been doing in literacy class. What I've learnt from Inferring is being able to read between the line and when the author implies something but doesn't actually state it. You need to use the clues in the text and your own prior knowledge to help you understand. After I did the inferring activity I felt like I knew more about Inferring.

First day back T3

First day back

Excited or am I not. Term 3 nearly at college. So I arrived at school, so many hugs I got from other people. Every start of the school we always have these immersion assembly's and every term we have topics to learn about for our whole school, last term we had the topic Tinkiring tools and toys now this term our topic is Trade and enterprise. That means being financially responsible with your money.

Every time we have each team to show the whole school what they're team is learning about the whole term. So as you know Team1 went first. They were looking at how to make ice cream. They started with a movie about some kids going to the shop and buying ice cream. So they are learning about how ice cream is made and how to make ice cream. 

Now it was Team 2's turn. They were learning about what you want to be when you grow up. Firstly they made a video to the song YMCA. So they were all dressed up from that they wanted to be when they grew up.

It was Team4's turn they are learning about how you would spend your money do you need to spend it on that your do you need to spend it on a useful stuff. So it was a whole act about how your emotions control your mind about your choices.

Now it was Team5's turn that's year 7 and 8's we are going to learn about how do we spend our money on useful things and should we be spending that money on things that we need. First they did an act about how to be financially responsible.

So we started Term 3. One more term than Im done for intermediate and now I'm going to college next year. It's going to be a good intermediate year. I'm going to miss Pt England. 

Graphic organiser for Boy on a Bike

Room 1 literacy class had a task to Read a artical and as you can see the before means that what you think the book is about before you read it. During the book we had to find some words that we don't know but at the end of the story I had to find what the word means. When I did that I felt like I'm getting more smarter as I'm in the class because now I know what the other words are.