D.L.O World War 2 (Made by Kingston, Darius, Raenan)

World War 2 K,R,D from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

In our D.L.O we were trying to show that world war 2 was a massacre to the people that were involved in the War. A lot people didn’t return to their country they were either lost in action, or killed. What we learnt from this event was that a lot of people were trying to fight for their own countries.

P:

(Positive)

What I thought was positive was that we had finally finished our D.L.O. (Wasn’t on time though, but we had acting for production) We had good animations and a good voice over. We worked together well as a team, we got out tasks finished as well. Our sound track was a good suit for our movie.

M:

(Minus)

What I thought that wasn’t good is that sometimes we would go off task and sometimes not focus on our main objective. Another Minus was that we didn’t finish the D.L.O on time.  We could have focused more on our Storyboard and involved more acting as well.  I think we should show more drama instead next time.

I:

(Interesting)

What I found was interesting is that World war 2 was so big that the events that we chose was the starting of World War 2 and the ending. Another thing that was interesting was we finished the movie.

Year 7 Boys Softball Tournament 2012

On Tuesday our Year 7 Boys Softball team travelled to Rosedale Park in Albany to compete in the Auckland Softball Championship. Here is some footage from the day.

Theres No Going Back

What would it be like if we were still writing on a piece of paper? This year I have loved being a Netbooker . It speeds up learning, but sometimes there can be some technical problems that happen with the Netbook. Netbooks are better learning devices then a piece of paper and a pencil.

A awesome thing on the Netbooks are the games. In our free time we can play games on the Internet and off-line too. When I feel bored I like to play games and download them too well that's outside of school.

The thing that helps me most in writing is the thesaurus on the Internet. It helps with my which helps my vocab. Another thing that helps is the spelling checks it can help my spelling a lot. Writing is the one subject that I struggle on, but the net book really improves my writing in lots of ways.

One of the things that maybe could be fixed is the Internet connections. There are problems with the Internet and it would help our learning if the Internet was a lot faster. Some time the Internet is very fast but then it loses the connection.

This year has been one of my favorite years at Pt England. Next year I can’t wait to get back to learning.

Outta This World Project

This term Room 17 have been focusing on the topic Outta this world. This is the E-learning project we had to complete. This explains what could happen in the future. Hope you enjoy what I have created for the last term.

Were Going To Die!!

Kayaking is super hard (For me) it makes your arms tired and gives you a sore back. “Sit up straight” Erin instructed in my head I thought my back is aching with pain thought. Since we had to Kayak to the many Wharfs we had to paddle through it.

We paddled against the hard blowing wind it was hard trying to push against the current. “Swish” the water began to pick up it was making me float towards some where out to sea I started paddling faster and faster my arm was getting sore. As the winds were blowing wildly it took my Kayak off course.

Erin had instructed and told us of this game called The Kayaking Game. The object of this game was to transfer someone into your Kayak and you go to their one. The people were chosen to play first were Kingston and Patrick. Patrick and Kingston just got out of their Kayaks and set out for each others Kayaks. Patrick had entered Kingston's Kayak but then get fell into the water and he had to climb back in again

C.R.E

Saviour: Jesus is the person who saved all of us


Words for Christmas:
Inn: Is almost like a hotel
Bethlehem: A town near Jerusalem

Christ: Is Jesus other name
Stable:Keeps animals in a certain place feeding them and taking care of them

Bombing Time

It was a hot day and there was a beach right in front of you what would you do? Obviously the simple choice is to go for a swim and that's what I did. At the first touch with my foot, I felt so relived of the sun heat . Out I into the wide spreaded ocean I began to creep. One foot at a time.

The water began to rise right up next to my neck. I just got to the pontoon, lucky or else I would have been jumping for my life. “Ouch” I screamed in pain my hand scrapped against the back of the steps I think it was the Oysters that were cutting everybody I could see blood pouring out of the wounds that people had

Everybody was crowding on the pontoon the only people who were jumping off were the boys. While the girls just sat at the edge of the pontoon, the pontoon slowly began to drift off turning side ways. One after one we jumped off Miss Garden had said to find a spot to jump off so that nobody gets hurt.

Sixty Minutes In A Leaky Boat

Have you ever sailed before ? Well we were going to aim at one of the boats a cross the harbour to the yacht called Typhoon. Kingston and I were sailing buddies. You could go with a Buddie or, go solo. We had to line the boat up with Typhoon and then sail back to the red play ground.

The winds were blowing wildly which nearly caused Kingston and I to capsize. Most of the time Kingston had actually tried to capsize us so that we could have a swim. I kept saying “let go of the rope” he didn’t listen.





When we were sailing I was steering like rubbish. I sort of made us go in circles like we were doing laps or something. Mrs Sommervile had actually tried to instruct us to go further out to Typhoon, but Kingston kept saying “Turn the boat around were going to die”.

Space Quiz

What are Pluto’s moons called?

How many years does it take for Pluto to orbit the sun?

My New Book

This is the book that I chose for this year I still have to pick one more book though. This book is about all of the creepy stuff that happens non-fiction and fiction. The Bucklands Beach Club always produces these books for us. I can't wait for next year to get my two next books.

I would like to say thank you to the Bucklands Beach Club for supporting us. I would also like to say thank you to Alison from the cast Shortland Street but she's not in Shortland Street anymore.

Space Nuts

I have been reading a story set in the future called Space Nuts Light Speed by Simon Cooke. Just like in this story, I have written a historical file about an object we use on earth, that someone could read about in the future.

Badminton Para 2

Have you ever played Badminton? Well I have and I have got to say I was one of the worst at playing it. Our class was in the school hall on Friday, waiting patiently for the instructor to arrive.A few minutes later our mentor for Badminton had finally arrived.

She had instructed us all to sit down in front of the stage then she started to speak. About badminton asking us questions, It was like a pop quiz to see which child had actually listened to the last instructor. Then she told us that her name was Donna.

Then she picked a few people to hand out the rackets. There were about 20-30 rackets and only 3 people to hold all of them “Onosai give us the short racket”. All of the boys moaning and groaning for Onosai to give them a short racket but Onosai didn’t give them one.

“Okay once you've got your racket find a buddy “ said Donna. It was a decision I go with Gabriel or Crusader “Hmmm” I thought. Okay I’m going to go with Crusader I really felt sorry for Gabriel but I couldn’t go with both of them. If only their were two of me I thought.

I went to go and grab a Shuttle for me and Crusader. Did you know that back in the olden days they use to put feathers on the Shuttles. Have you guessed yet well would you have thought that the feathers were used to help the shuttle fly. But these days we use plastic.

Crusader served and I missed I think I was awful but it was my first training. My turn to serve I hit “Yes”!!! I thought that was my first hit in the whole game but will it make to the other side? No it didn’t make it.

Okay so maybe I’m not a natural player and maybe I think Badminton is one of the hardest games I have ever played but if I keep practising I think I can achieve my goals.

Topic sentences

New Zealand is a beautiful country and a must-do for any travel holiday. Our country has a vibrant city filled, with sophisticated restaurants. All around the city are idyllic islands with, stunning coastlines.

All Blacks Web Page

This is the info I have found about the All Blacks.

Irish Web Page

This is a post about the Irish team and if you click on the movie it will show you all about the Irish team. ( If you noticed it is all green Thats because of the land).

My Movie-tastic Holidays

"Oh Yeah"!! I screamed, I screamed because it was finally the holidays. I had been waiting for these holidays, because I needed some time off. Me and my mum were questioning each other to gather ideas about what we could during our 2 week holiday. Mum said maybe we could go to the Waitomo caves, but I said "how about we just go to watch some movies and stay home and relax". Feeling relaxed, it was just then when then it hit my head. I still had my game of league to go to. Oh how I pleaded with my mum not to take me to my game. But she had insisted I go.

We were at the movies in Highland Park cinemas (oh and by the way this was the next day) and we had to wait because our movie wasn't scheduled for another hour. So we killed some time by playing a game of pool. Finally I thought we were going to have a game of pool table. I hadn't played one in a while. There was this arcade that me and my mum always went to we only went because it was the close to home and it had pretty cool games. Then after a few months the place had been closed down. So ever since wev'e been to the Highland Park cinemas we would have a game of pool. "Yeah I won!! Ok now we need to check what the time is" I said to my mom. It was time to go and stand in the long line and wait forever luckily my mum said lets go to the part that said online tickets. The line was so short it only was a few minutes before we got to the front of the line.


"I would like some MNM's too please", We were going to see Kung Fu Panda two (there you go the answer to your question) . My mum and I were setteled in our bluish seats. Then the lights started to fade into a black pitch cinema. A blue light apeared then it quickly switched into the trailers. We started to devour the popcorn in it's little box. So, Po the warrior has a fight with these bandits and he scadooshes all of them. With the help of the Furious Five. He sees this red sun symbol on one of the bandits uniforms. Po has a flash back to when he was younger and it showed his mum. My favourite part of the movie has got to be when Po's in a punching stance flying down the stairs all the while a bandit's head kept banging into his fist. Almost knocking him out, I laughed.

Extreme makeover courtyard paragrahs

Do you have a courtyard that isn’t used much? Well wev’e got the same problem as you but we are going to change it. Outside the courtyard in room 17 that we have is completely useless no one uses it so it is a waste of space. In the winter time the fields are closed. Our courtyard has a big ditch filled with mud.

This is my rubric that my buddy Waata marked

Unfortunately in winter time the fields are muddy and closed. Which causes crowded conditions in our play areas if we re-make our courtyard then the chances of crowded conditions can not become so often. Little kids can be knocked over by all of the crowds on the court and in the breeze.

Our courtyard is extremely hideous. The concrete is uneven, and there isn’t enough space to play games. We have a big ditch filled with mud and rubbish in the center of our courtyard which connects to the eyesore drain. There are mud on the walls because of the patch of grass which is right next to the toilets.

Seniors like to hang out in a relaxing place. We know that seniors like to play touch and hang out because we sent surveys to other classes to see what they like to do. If we change our courtyard maybe older kids can play in this area. Then the older kids can just relax and talk to each other.

We would like you to help please.

Tail of the Geko

The Kiwis have read a book about a Geko and the title is called The Tail of the Geko. Written by Marlene Bennetts.

Maths Stratergies

This is a poster showing the “Compensation” strategy.

Chidokan Misogi 2011

Once again the anual misogi had finally arrived for our dojo. Like last year, we had to get up before 6.30am and had to be there before then. So mum and I got up earlier. I think my mum woke up at 4.50am and then she woke me up.

We arrived at Mission Bay, near the fountain and it was freezing cold. Luckily, it wasn't raining like last time. There were people from the Papatoetoe dojo, North Shore dojo and the main dojo New Lynn. Misogi is compulsory for people who are green belts and higher. Everyone that was there assembled by the grassy area. Our sensei said to get in a circle for basics. It's kind of like a warmup, where we do basic punching and kicking. 15 minutes later, our sensei instructed us to get into groups for kata. There were three groups, one for the black belts, one for the purples and brown belts and anyone who was lower than those belts, in the third group. We practiced our kata over and over again perfecting our moves. With that finished, we headed for the beach and were knee deep in the ice water. We got into two lines for free sparring. I felt like my feet were sinking in the sand and I couldn't move as fast as I wanted to. While sparring, I got dunked in the water about four times from higher belts and even my sensei who wasn't my opponent. I had a lot of fun and I can't wait for next year.

*Chidokan Karate lessons are Monday and Wednesday at 6pm-7pm held at the Alan Brewster Recreation Centre in Papatoetoe.