Our Place Our Space

2021 Manaiakalani Film Festival 

What is the most important thing in the world - He tangata, he tangata, he tangata - We belong!

Room 910 presents our 2021 film festival movie Our Place Our Space! This year has been a bit challenging with being in lockdown for a very long time. But it has given us time to think about where we belong and how important our community is during these times. We all really love our community of Tāmaki and this is where we feel like we belong. We hope you enjoy our movie! 

Camp Reflections

Last week we had an amazing time at our year 5 and 6 camp at Pt England School. This week we have been reflecting on our experiences and thanking the people who helped us. Check out Aniqua's thankyou letter below.  You can also click on the link to her blog and leave her a positive comment. 

Thank You Letter

Task description: Last week we had an amazing camp at our school. Today we learned how to write a thank you letter. I decided to thank Miss Timmi because she was our camp mum and looked after us all. Below is my letter. 

Aniqua

130 Pt England Road

Pt England 

Auckland

1072

Miss Timmi
130 Pt England Road
Pt England
Auckland
1072

Wednesday 31st March 2021

Dear Miss Timmi,

Thank you for making the food at camp, It was very yummy and nice. I loved the dinner and the breakfast. It was  delicious and yummy. We were so lucky to have you cook us food. 

I am grateful for you being camp mum because you looked after us and made sure we were okay. You looked after all of the kids at camp which was a lot. 

I am also grateful for having a yummy cooked meal every day for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert. It was my camp highlight. Thank you so much for everything you are amazing. 

Yours sincerely, 

Aniqua

Camp Week

This week we room 10 and team four were lucky enough to have our Year 5 and 6 Camp on the school field. We had the opportunity to sleep in tents that were put up for us by Mrs Nua, Ms Squires and some of the other lovey teachers and students at Pt England. We had so much fun at camp and were able to complete activities like kayaking, killer zone, slip and slide, cycloball and many other awesome activities. We had a camp concert night were we all got to preform an item in our camp groups! On the last day we went to the pools and had lots of fun! Check out some of our photos, we will post more next week.

   

Thankyou so much to Mr Somerville, Mr Burt, Mrs Nua, Mr Jacobson, Ms Squires and Mrs Lagitupu for making it possible for us to have a camp at school. As well as a massive thankyou to all of our whanau who helped with cooking, security and other activities you are amazing! We appreciate you!

Science Week

This week we are calling our learning "Science Week." There are so many things about our world that we don't know much about, but thanks to science, we are able to take a closer look at what these things are. Science can help us understand how these beautiful things operate, and also be a lot of fun. Check out some of the learning that we have completed this week while looking at the human body and other scientific things!

Flynn - Four Facts about the human body

Lennox - Four Facts about the animal kingdom

Maryjane - Four Facts about the Americas Cup

Kensi - Four Facts about the Solar System

Wonders of the World

We are now in covid alert level 2 - this means we are all able to be back at school learning with social distancing in place. Team 4 have decided to continue on with the learning that we have been doing in level 3 by looking at a topic for the whole week. This week we are learning about the wonders of the world. 

We have looked at the following wonders:

1. Monday - Pyramids of Giza
2. Tuesday - The Great Wall of China
3. Wednesday - The Statue of Liberty 
4. Thursday - The Amazon Rainforest 
5. Friday - Wonders of the World (general overview)

Each day this week we have looked at a different wonder and have had to complete a range of different reading, writing, maths and design tasks related to the specific wonder. Check out some of our learners from Room 10 and the work they have posted on their blogs below!    

                      Odyn                                                 Patrick                                   Victoria

            Statue of Liberty                                7 Wonders of the World             Great Wall of China

 

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                                              Tumoe                                               Blessing                                   

                                            Amazon Rainforest                            Pyramids of Giza       

                                           

Lockdown Again!

Auckland is in a Level 3 Lockdown again! Some of us are needing to go into school and complete our learning at "bubble school." Even those of us at bubble school are jumping onto our google meets and completing remote learning. It is so awesome that we can still see each other online twice a day for our google meets which you can see below!

This week for our learning we have been looking at different cultures around the world. So far we have looked at Māori culture and Pasifika culture as well as looking at some countries in the continent of Asia and Europe. We will share some more of our learning with you later on this week. 

Please check out our learning on our individual blogs which are located down the side of our class blog. We hope you all stay safe and in your bubbles at home where possible!

Pt England Picnic

 

We have had such an exciting week at Pt England school this week! Yesterday we had Jacinda Ardern the Prime Minister of New Zealand come and have lunch with us and today we were able to have our Pt England School Picnic!

We started the day by walking down to the beach in our classes and then were able to swim, play sport, dance, bike ride and so many other fun activities! Room Ten had an amazing day at the picnic it is definitely one of our favourite events that we look forward to each year.

 

We hope to share some of our writing about this next week when we are back at school learning in the classroom. Please enjoy the selection of pictures from today that we decided to share. 

Visit from the Prime Minister

Today we were so incredibly lucky to meet the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern! At school last week we started to get free lunches at school and some of us wrote letters to thank her. Mrs Moala and Room 21 sent her in a video of how much we love our lunches at Pt England School. Jacinda Ardern loved our video so much that she came to have lunch with Room 21 and then walk around the school and meet us all. 

Jacinda Ardern was kind enough to have an interview with some of our year 7 and 8 students which can be accessed via the Pt England School website. Room Ten practiced their letter writing last week and wrote letters to the Prime Minster thanking her for allowing our school to have free lunches. We haven't had a chance to share these letters on our blog yet but as soon as we do we will share them with you. 

Thank-you so much Jacinda Ardern for coming to our school and having lunch with us! It was such an incredible experience and is something that we will never forget. We are so incredibly blessed to be able to have free lunches in school and we all think they are super yum! 

Auckland Level 3

 We are back in level 3 in Auckland

Remote learning is back! This week Auckland has found itself back in level 3 restrictions that means that unless we need to come to school we are completing our learning online. Even those who are needing to go into school are joining us online for google meets each day. 

Our learning looks a bit different but we are still very excited to continue on with our learning. This year our theme is "Cherish our Treasures - Tiaki Taonga." So this week we have focused our learning to incorporate the toanga in our lives. For our learning we have been designing, reading and writing about what is special to us in our lives and what we consider to be a toanga. 

Today our research task was to describe and locate our toanga, what is special to us. Raphael completed the research activity and showed his family as his toanga. Check out the presentation below. 

We will continue to look at what things are special to us and how we can treasure them over this week. We will continue to learn remotely online until we are able to return to school. 

Please check out our individual blogs to see what they rest of Room 10 have been doing during Auckland's level 3 lockdown. Also feel free to leave us a positive comment on our blog. 

Duffy Show

Today we were lucky enough to have the Duffy Theatre show at school. The show today was about Duffy and his cousin being in lockdown and trying to do their school work online while also being kind to their whanau and each other. This was relatable to us as it was something that we were really good at doing last year with having to go in and out of lockdowns and start remote learning each time. 

We loved being able to watch this show and learning how to be kind to others and to our devices at home. The actors were really great and we had an amazing time. We will share some more of our highlights next week. 

Thank-you Duffy!

Room Ten 2021

Kia ora and welcome to Room Ten class of 2021! We are an amazing bunch of year 5 learners at Pt England School in Auckland, New Zealand. Our teacher is Miss Parrant.  This year we are part of Team Four. Our team is made up of year 4, 5 and 6 learners and we have 5 amazing teachers looking after our team. 

We are in a 1:1 chromebook classroom and share our space with Room 9 and Mrs Siō. We cannot wait to start our learning this year and share this on our blogs. We will share out learning on this class blog as well as on our individual blogs. Check out our individual blogs along the side of this blog. 

Please feel free to leave us a positive comment on our blogs!