Mosaics

Since it's the last year for us , we are making Mosaic , that will be display in front of our school, our design had to represents something.

Day and Night

Our task in class , was to research or find out how day and night occur or process.

My Dream Out of this world Holiday

Brring …...’ screamed the alarm. I tried to ignore it . I wanted to stay in my dream. My dream ‘Outta This World Holiday’.

As we were anxiously waiting for 9 Years , it finally arrived . As we hoped off we were all surprise to see NOTHING ! “HELLO ! we all shouted . All we heard was our echo . We were really cold , it was probably - 0.

We were surrounded by Nothing . No trees , Plants , House , it was nothing compare to back home . We had second thoughts about coming to this planet for a dream holiday . So then we searched around for a good spot for us to set things up .

Thanks to Leni for reading my writing.

Mnemonic Planets

This term we are learning about Out Of This World. We had to find out a way to try and remember the planets in order.

New Zealand Conversation

Map of New Zealand

Lets take a tour around New Zealand to see what we can learn about New Zealand .
“Where is New Zealand located in the World?”Gabrielle asked.
“Well New Zealand is located in Oceania,” I replied.
“ What’s the population of New Zealand?”
“Well, there are 4.4 million people in New Zealand,”I smirked .
“Wow! There are a lot of people here in New Zealand,”she laughed.
“ What is Hangi?” I mumbled. “Hangi is food that is cooked underground.”
“Oh yup, in my culture it’s called umu.”
“ I want to know what is the capital of New Zealand?”
“The capital of New Zealand is Wellington,” I stated.
“ Who is Ernest Rutherford and what did he accomplish?”
“Well Ernest accomplished a lot of stuff like being a teacher and the most important thing and why be become famous is because he split the Atom.”
“ WOW ! So what is atom,” asked Gabby.”
“ Atoms are tiny particles which everything is made by.”
“ Where do you recommend Tourist who has never been to New Zealand to go to.?”
“ There are a lot of good places to go to Racheal, but I think they should try bungee jumping at the Sky Tower in Auckland City.”
“ OK.”
“ Who’s your favourite Rugby Player in the All Blacks,” Racheal Questioned.”
“ Well I really like Ma’a Nonu he preserver all the time,”Gabby commented.
“ Yes that’s right, well my favourite is Daniel Carter because he is a really good kicker and he is one of the most experience kickers and players in the All Blacks.”

Egypt

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In room 19 we had to read, write and learn about a book. We each got a book to study,we had to study, we had to summarise the reading and then put it together in a slide show. It is here on my blog so that team four can use it for reading task.

Cross- Country

BANG ! We were off . You could see that the girls were determine to win and earn points for their house colours.

At Point England School we have an annual event - Cross Country .

In the past 8 years I have did the Cross- Country run , but this years one was hard and tiring . I think the hardest part was the bush walk side. The thing that made it difficult for me was that I ran bare feet and the stones and rocks made my feet numb .

The year 8's ran 3.5km and the year 7's ran 3.km. It was good seeing mostly everyone participating and supporting each other .

The Marshall's did a really good job guiding and supporting us . And for Ms V for organising this for us . It was a lot of fun and a good exercise and experience.

Where in the World

The Rebels were given a number of names of rugby-playing nations of the world. These were some of the nations that are recognised by the world governing body of Rugby Union, the International Rugby Board (IRB), as member unions but did not qualify for RWC 2011.

We divided them up amongst our team. I was given the nations listed below:

I have decided to study Jamaica for our Immersion task.

This is what I found -

JAMAICA :

This is where Jamaica is located.

The capital City of Jamaica is Kingston

The population of Jamaica is 2,868,380

There is no National sport for Jamaica.

SOLOMON ISLAND

This is the Flag for Solomon Island .

This is where Solomon Island is Located

The capital city of Solomon Island is Honiara (on the island of Guadalcanal)

The population for Solomon Island is 550000 .

A lot of people in Solomon Island like to compete at the Olympics and other Commonwealth game.

Where the Heck is Ellersile ?

Different Auckland town centres have adopted Rugby teams from countries that qualified for the World Cup.

I found out information about :

The location in Auckland;

Something special about this place;

A 'potted' history of the place;

If it has it's own symbol of some sort.

(If we couldn't find a symbol we chose a picture that told more about the place).

Ellersile is the host town centre for the Fijian 2011Rugby World Cup . It is a suburb 4km from Auckland City .

Ellersile is well known for their Race Course.

By the end of the nineteenth century horse racing become the foremost industry in the district . The first race at Ellersile was held in1857 on land towards the end of Tecoma street , attended by Governor Gore Brown .

Keep your eye on the ball

We are using the nations of the 2011 Rugby World Cup as our inquiry path.

For this unit we are in one of four teams: Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Stormers.

My team is Rebels.

There will be a number of tasks for us to navigate to achieve our goal of an excellent result in this unit. There are a mixture of individual and team tasks to be completed. The main task that will show our learning in this unit will be a Hyperstudio presentation about one of the countries in the World Cup competition.

I think the Rugby World Cup will be a big DEAL to us New Zealander' s because this will be the last time that the world cup will be held here . I think that the All Blacks are going to win this because they have a really good team , and most of them a experienced. I wonder if the All Blacks are going to beat Australia ? My favorite player are Jimmy Cowan , Daniel Carter , Sonny Bill Williamas and Richie Mccaw .

Limericks- Nonsense

I go to Point England School
the year 8’s are really very cool
the teachers are nice
but they have lots of lice
those poor teacher at Point England School.

I would like to acknowledge this website for this Picture: clipartof.com

Lovely Old Helen

went to the market to buy her a big melon
the melon was green
and the shopkeeper was mean
poor Lovely old Helen

I would like to acknowledge this website for letting me use this picture of the Watermelon: whataboutwatermelon.com

"What If"

If I was a Trillionaire
I would give A LOT of money to a charity.
If I was a Trillionarie
I would buy each of my family a Mansion, buy them the latest cars and things.
If I was a Trillionaire
I would take them around the world where ever they would want to go.
I would buy a famous Landmark and name a star after me and my family. I would give and buy things for my church. I would buy my own company.
And I will build my own school.

Alfred J Gross

Alfred J Gross is well known for inventing the Walkie Talkie. Walkie Talkie’s other name is Handheld Transcelver. Walkie Talkies are Handheld portable Radios.

Alfred J Gross was born in 1918 in Tornoto Ontario Canada and died in 2001 age 82 Years.

AWARDS

1984:Centennial medal

1992: Fred B. Link Award

1997:Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

1998: Eta Kappa Nu's Vladimir Karapetoff

1999:Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award

2000:IEEE Millennium and Lemelson-MIT Lifetime

Achievement Award for Invention and Innovation. In 1950 he tried in vain to interest telephone companies in mobile telephony. Bell Telephone was uninterested.

Gross became working as a specialist in Microwave and other Communication System.

Alfred J Gross’s design has change the world a lot and has been a help to us all. Even though Alfred J Gross has passed away his inventiom is useful to Jobs that are important like Policemen.

I would like to Thank Wikipedia for the information!

Infinity and beyond

The Christchurch inventor Glen Martin who invented Jet Packs.

Glen Martin discovered that his own invention could be innovated.

The US military laughed about this and it made him more determine.

Glen Martin firstly said that the height of the invention could be a lot different.

First he used a Remote Control to control the jet pack for safety matters then a Crash Test Dummy then a real person. It is way better then a helicopter because it can go to places where helicopter cannot go like the sides of Cliffs, between trees and Buildings.

Inventions About Cars

Cars today are really different from 50-100 years ago, because they are made Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger. There are a lot of types of cars, there is the four wheel drive and two wheel drive, Suzuki and Holden, petrol and diesel, hybrid (petrol and electric together) and electric and many, many more innovations! People in 19th century used bicycles instead of motor cars or they will walk. There can be cars that have a lot of wheels. In some flash cars their can be T.V’s at the back of their seats and if you are lucky you can get a Cup Holder.

A Reflection about this Term and Last Term

Looking Back I thought that it wasn’t my best term I thought I could do a lot better on my learning and my attitude.
My best highlight was camp Take Charge, I got to learn how to be a leader and I learnt a lot about other people who I never hanged around with.
Technology was enjoyable to, I got to do Graphics and get to know Miss Ferguson and the skills she taught us in Graphics were amazing. I learnt a lot about colours and design. I think I did well on my project and it was a lot of fun making my Pop Corn Package.
Taonga time was something new it was good to get split up and be with others and being in Mrs Lagitupu’s class was really cool, because it was fun printing things that was
special in our life’s. The things I choose were Religious, Netball, Culture.


This Term the things I cant wait for is Sports, especially netball. I cant wait to play against other Schools that I haven’t played.
This Terms Topic Is Bigger,Better,Faster,Stronger, this topic to me wasn't so interesting at first but it seems to be a good topic since we are using Net books.

My favourite Superb Netball Player

Everyone has someone to look up to and in Netball I look up to the one and only Irene Van Dyk. Every since I first started playing Netball Irene Van Dyk was a big inspiration to me. Her shooting is phenomenal and I play the same position, Goal Shooter (GS), as her.

I enjoy watching her on the courts, the teams she plays for are the Mystics and the Silver Ferns, the New Zealand national team. She is a great role model for the little ones who have just started Netball.

I would like to THANK this website for this photo:http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/2J0Hs0uugto/Australia+v+New+Zealand+Holden+Netball+Test/FbwfljWz_t0/Irene+Van+Dyk

Come on guys "Bin It"

At class our task was to do a DLO about one of Mr Burt's (Principle) korero. The korero I choose was Bin it, because our school and the world could do this. It's good to see that some of our students at Point England school are doing this serious thing.

Hope you guys enjoy my small snippet about Bin It

My Letter Home

Dear Dad
Hope you are. I am writing this letter to give an up to date about things at school. The things that I do and enjoy at school is working on my net book. Because we can play games and do our work on Google Docs.

This year I’m planing to play sports like netball and other sports that year 8 girls can participate in.
My goal this year inside class is to stop talking when I am not suppose to and not to distract people and myself from our learning.


Thank you for letting me go Camp it was a fun experience and I got to know my class mate really well.


By Racheal

Camp is coming up, it was a shock to me knowing that I was a camp leader. My group is called the Thinkerz. After wards we had to get a group chant ready, I had no idea what group chant we were going to use. Luckily we had Kalim the singing master he thought of something from Wnnie the Pooh,


So when Mrs Nua told us to say our chant, so then Kalim lead the chant and our group just went with the flow. I didn’t know the lyrics so every one just mumbled through out the chant.

For me being a Camp leader was not easy, I thought it was easy though but the thing I enjoyed the most was getting to know them and working with Tamati. On the concert night our group came 2ND even though we weren’t prepared




AFTER CAMP

After camp


Camp was an amazing experience and I enjoyed ever single minute of it.
It was good to know every one in my group
we did a lot of activities, some we haven't done before and it was good to have Mr Barks as our camp teacher.

The camp concert day had arrived. We kind of changed some stuff and we weren’t organised. But the girls were fine because their were only 4 of us. The songs that we choose were “Forget you and Maori boy. Even though we weren’t organised we came 2ND. When Mr Jacobsen ( one of our judges) said we came 2ND I was speechless I turned around to see how my group will react. People jumping around and I saw a lot of Shocked faces. We were all Shock


I would like to Thank everyone who made this possible and to everyone who stayed up when we were still sleeping. I would like to thank Ms Hopa and her crew for cooking the best camp food ever and I would like to thank people who helped do the Hangi. It was DELICIOUS!

Day 1 at Camp Taking Charge

It's been a heck of a day ! We've done a lot of stuff today. My favourite highlight was Team Building and Kayaking. Team Building was really! We had to do diffculit tasks like signing your name on Sticky Tape but having it attached to a long pole. We had a lot of strategies that our group (Thinkerz) came up with. A lot of us had a plan to stand on each others shoulders and hold on to the pole and write their name.

I thought it was easy being the tallest girl, but even I couldn't reach the Sticky Tape. Poor Jordan, Kalim and Tamati had to left me up. I could hear them saying, "come on you're so heavy" I wrote my name quickly and jumped back down. I so felt sorry for them though.

We have just finish filming our MTV Video. And the song that our group choose was ' Love me always' By Tuita Boiz.

I can't wait until tomorrow because there are a lot more activity's to do.

All About Me

Malo e lelei my name is Racheal. I am a Year 8 student at Point England school.
I am in room 19 as you know. I enjoy playing Netball or any type of sports.
I am the youngest of five kids.I come from the beautiful place Tonga. My favourite subject at school is Writing.
My best friends are Tracey, Vaha, Mauina, Etta, Tamara and Bobbi-Grace.

SPENDING MOST OF MY CHRISTMAS EVE AT THE AIRPORT

BEEP!!!! “ Flight NZ 977 to Tonga is delayed till 10:38pm. I couldn’t believe my luck.
I quickly turn back to see how my mum react. She was fine with it, she didn’t care though.
I was astonished because we were given free vouchers 12 dollars each, for the long delayed. We were suppose to fly to Tonga at 6:30 and we got to the airport at 3:00. It was frustrating because we had to wait another 7 hours.

Finally 10:38pm had arrived, we got into the plane. 2 hours and 45 minutes later.
We reached our Destination ( Tonga). We got our plane and went and look for our bags.
We walked through the door to outside. We were looking all over for my cousins, who was picking us up. All you see are big Palm trees.