Docs4Schools Extension Trip

Last week on Friday the Extension group and a group of students from Teams 4 and 5 went to Q Theatre. This was part of the Docs4Schools programme which provided screenings of international documentaries to schools. This was a great opportunity to view films that are not often watched by many of our students.

The first movie was called 'I am Eleven' which was an award winning documentary created by Genevieve Bailey. It was a beautiful movie about a group of eleven year olds from around the world. They share their hopes, dreams, thoughts, and life in general.

Trailer for 'I Am Eleven'

The second movie was called 'Winning Girl' and was about a young girl who had hopes and dreams of becoming a world champion in the sport of wrestling as well as judo. This was an amazing and inspirational movie about setting high goals and working hard to achieve them. 

Trailer for 'Winning Girl'

We also enjoyed lunch at Aotea Centre in between watching the movies. 

Docs4Schools Trip 1 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Docs 4 Schools offers school students: year 5-13 the opportunity to attend free screenings of the latest documentaries from around the world. The documentaries have been carefully selected from the Doc Edge Festival programme to interest students and support the New Zealand school curriculum.

Samoan Language Week 2016 at Pt England School

Celebrating our different languages and cultures has been huge at our school so far this year. From our massive Fiafia event in Term 1 to this weeks focus on the Samoan Language. Samoan language videos from our archives played on PENN (Pt England News Network) throughout the week. Today at assembly it was a privilege to see our Samoan students share their beautiful language and culture with the rest of the school.

Samoan language week Makayla from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
Eden Samoan Language week speech 2016 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
Samoan Language Week Assembly item 2016 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
George Prefect mili-mili from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

And just in case you missed it, here are our Junior and Senior Samoan Group items that were performed at our school Fiafia event in Term 1.

Junior Samoan Group from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.
Samoan Group (Senior) from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Year 5 & 6 Extension Task Term 2

This term the Year 5 & 6 Extension group are focusing on narrative writing and art. They will need to write an interesting narrative based on a Polynesian warrior. They will also look at Maori and Pacific cultural tattoos, designs and art to help inspire their artwork.

Year 7 & 8 Extension Task - Term 2

This term the Year 7 & 8 Extension students will be focusing on the art of Colin Thompson who is an author and illustrator of children's books. They will need to write their own interesting narrative and then create a piece of art inspired by the style/artwork of Colin Thompson.

MTVS created by Year 5 & 6 Extension

The following movies are MTV's created by our Year 5 & 6 Extension group. Their task was to create an MTV to show what the Pt England Way is all about. They needed to show how we learn, create, and share at our school. They movies were filmed and edited by the students.

Ata Group MTV from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Richard Group MTV from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Kyron group MTV from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Simon Group MTV from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

The Pt England Way MTVs

This term our Extension classes had to work in small groups to create an MTV about the Pt England Way. The Pt England Way is all about the way we do things at our school. One of the criteria was to show how we could make kindness go viral (theme for the year). They also needed to show what 'Learn, Create, Share' looks like at our school. The learners scripted, storyboarded, filmed and edited their own movies.

Here are the movies that were created by our Year 7 & 8 Extension group:


MTV - Group - P.A.K.H from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


L.A Movie from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.


I GOT SKILLS TJZMS from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

The Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on the 6th of February in 1840. A public holiday is held to commemorate this significant event.  The following movie was created by a group of students from our school back in 2013 who were lucky enough to visit Waitangi in the Bay of Islands. This was an incredible opportunity to film on location where the original event actually took place. This was also part of 'Our Nations Children' project between the Waitangi National Trust and Westpac. The 3Ps of Protection, Partnership and Participation are an important part of the Pt England Way.

Waitangi Room 19 from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

The film was also screened at the Manaiakalani Film Festival in 2013.