Term 3 - Art Works - Immersion Movie

This term is all about the arts! The focus is on Visual art and the focus question in Team 4 is: How can we express ourselves through the arts? In the following movie, each teacher in our team focused on creating a piece of art related to dance, drama, art and music. Students will be exploring all aspects of the arts and will select one of the arts to learn, create and share with the team. This will be presented in the form of a piece of art (on paper or digital), a choreographed dance or a song. Students will be creating music using Garageband with Ms West in the Creative Space. They will be creating emojis using 3D printers with Mr Vogt in the Makerspace. 

Term 2 - We Know the Way

 This term Team 4 will be creating a mini game/animation on Scratch to show certain locations around the school. This movie was created to share what team 4s focus will be this term. This will tie in with our theme around computational thinking and coding. 

Team 4 Activity Days - Part 1

 Team 4 had an amazing two days of activities this week. Usually we have our Year 5&6 Camp around this time, but due to Covid-19 restrictions, we decided to have two activity days instead. 

Day 1: Team 4 met under Te Kapua and the group leaders were put on the spot to come up with a group chant. They did an amazing job considering they were only had a few minutes to come up with a chant, practice with their group and then perform on the spot! 

Welcome to Room 7 2022!

 Fakalofa lahi atu and Kia ora! My name is Mrs Lagitupu and I am the classroom teacher in Room 7. I have the privilege of teaching again in this amazing class of talented students. I look forward to sharing our learning and experiences on this blog throughout the year. Please take the time to leave positive comments if you like. 

'Planet Bubble' - Manaiakalani Film Festival 2021

Do you miss hanging out with your friends and family in person? Are you sick of being stuck in a lockdown? Well don't worry because many years from now you will look back and remember the time when you were affected by a global pandemic. Hopefully you will have created some good memories and will have continued to become an intelligent, resilient, resourceful and creative life long learner. Well, enough of the big words! 

Here are some facts about our movie:

1. 'Planet Bubble' was created by the teachers and students in Rooms 6, 7, & 8 (aka Room 678) in Team 4 from Pt England School. We are made up of Year 5 and Year 6 students. 

Please leave a comment on Room 6 (Ms Tuia) and Room 7 (Mr Hughes) blogs as well

2. Google Meets was a great way to include as many students from our classes as possible. 

3. It shares some of the ways that the lockdowns have impacted our lives.

4. It is kind of corny but creative - did you like the solution that the students came up with?

If you have watched our movie, thank you so much! Please leave us a positive comment. 

Term 4: Ta Tatou Korero, Ta Tatou Kowhiringa - Our Voice, Our Choice

 Our theme for Term 4 is Ta Tatou Korero, Ta Tatou Kowhiringa - Our Voice, Our Choice.

We will be focussing on understanding where we belong (family, religion, community, etc), our roles and responsibilities, and understanding the concept of "My Space, My Place". It is going to be a fun term of learning for us. It's all about identity and belonging so get ready for your learning!

Check out the video our teachers put together during the holidays for 'Tā tātou Kōrero Tā tātou Kōwhiringa - Our Voice Our Choice'.

Interview with Tupou Neiufi

 Today the students from Team 4 were so privileged to be able to join Team 5 in their online interview with Tupou Neiufi. Tupou Neiufi is a Paralympic Gold medalist who competed in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Team 4 first knew about Tupou when we started researching who some of the NZ Paralympic athletes were for the Tokyo Games. 

We knew that Tupou Neiufi was a paralympic swimmer and had participated in the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016. Today Mr Moran from Team 5 began the interview with Tupou. Many students in Team 4 were given the opportunity to ask questions. Tupou is a wonderful, talented and articulate athlete. She was happy to answer any questions that the students and teachers had. It was an absolute blessing and privilege to hear about her and her messages for our students. Thank you Tupou! Thank you Team 5!