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My time at Point England School in Team 5

Kia Orana, I’m Aliyah and today I’m going to be talking about my time at Point England School in Team five.

It started off when the new year had come by, ( 2016 ). Everyone had just gotten back from the christmas holidays, school had started again and everyone had a new year level to start the year with. Last year I started in Team five as a year seven student. I was so nervous to start my year off as a year seven student, it just felt weird. As soon as I entered the door’s to team five I felt amazing but scared. Days had gone by and I had still felt weird. I was getting use to being a year seven when the second term had come along. I started to feel apart of Team five. I got along with the year eight’s and I would always play soccer with them. I would hang out with people that I wouldn’t usually hang out with and it actually seemed alright. It was the last term and all the year sevens and I went to rainbows end. We got split up so that it would be easier for everyone to walk around, instead of being in a big group. The bus arrived and we all hopped on the bus. When we arrived at Rainbows end we waited for a while ( I can’t remember why though ). Once the teachers said that we could hop off the bus we all hopped out, sat down and waited for the Rainbows end lady to come out and give us our bands. When we saw the lady come out she started giving everyone a pink or red band to put on. Once we all had a band we all walked into rainbows end, got into our groups and went off and started having fun. The first ride my group went on was the “ invader ”,  it was pretty scary because that was the first time I had ever been on the invader. Hours went by and it was time to pack up and go back to school. Once we got back the year eight students were doing art work with the teachers that had stayed back to look after the year eights. Days, Weeks and terms went by and the end of the year was finally here. We finished the last day of school early. When we had our last assembly,  we all gave our year eights hugs and goodbyes and then went home. A new year had finally come ( 2017 ). I started off as a year eight student. I was excited because I was finally a leader for the school, I found it pretty normal being in team five, but it felt weird being a year eight because it felt like i was still a year seven. I found term one pretty normal because it felt the same as last year.  Term two came by and camp was finally here!!! I was so excited because I wanted to learn more things about going on camps and also to be with my friends and have fun. We played so much games and did so much activities. On the last day we all had to clean and pack our things because we were heading back to Auckland.  Camp was fun but when we got back I was exhausted. A few weeks after that term two finished and then term three came by. Term three felt like term one, Boring,fun,tiring and more. Moving on to term four. The last term of the year as being a year 8 at Point England School. I am now in week two and it’s going pretty well. I think I’m going to have a great term this term. To me I think Point England school is a pretty good school because the teachers take care of all of the students and its fun here in Point England. The teachers and principal provides so much trips, sports gear, basketball hoops and much more. I appreciate being in team five because if I have problems the teachers are always there to listen to them. So I have come to the end of my writing. I will continue to F.I.O.P ( Finish it off properly )for the remaining of the term. S.T.S ( Strive to succeed ) is our school motto and I intend on making this motto live within my future of learning.

Niue language week

This week is Niuean language week. Our Niuean students performed for us for the last day of Niuean Language week. This morning teams five's teacher ( Mrs Tele'a ) told us that back in the 1960's,70's and 80's, Glen Innes was mostly full of Niuean, Pakeha and cook Island people. After awhile samoans and other Pacifica and also maori's had come and joined. Having the privilege to speak other languages is like a treasure because not that much people can speak other languages. Some people can only speak one language, but others can speak more than one. Here are some photos from last year's Niuean group from fiafia.

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

WALT: Use different strategies to solve addition and subtraction word problems and to find an appropriate strategy to solve each word problem.

Listening through your teeth

In this presentation i learnt a little bit more about the keys, notes, vibration and tuning that happens with pianos. Some notes can have three strings but the others only have one string.

Table master

Today My numeracy class and I did 10 minuets of table master. We were told to pick 3 different time tables to do and I did 7 times and 8 times. I forgot to do another 1 and i also forgot to take a screenshot of my time for my 8 time tables but i think it was 51 seconds. here are my results...

Our Manaiakalani Film Festival Experiment

Most of last week room 5 and I, and some other classes from team 5 were doing our  Manaiakalani Film. My class and I had to bring a change of clothes in to class to start our film, When we were changed we all went down to Omaru Creek and filmed there. My favorite part of the movie was when I was looking in the bush searching for Rapunzel, The thing that I'm going to aim for next time if I'm in a film festival movie is to try and get into more camera actions, My most challenging moment was trying to climb the rocks and getting up after we had finished filming our scene.

Our Maniakalani film will be released at Hoyts on the big theater screen on a Wednesday morning at 10:00 am or 9:30 and our whole school and all the teachers will be attending this trip and we hope to see more interesting and catching movies good luck to all the teams especially TEAM 5!!

Multiplication Pyramid

 WALT  explain or show the steps we took to solve each word problem (Ratios & Proportions) 

Transformation: Practicing reflection

Question one was pretty hard at the I didn't really get it in the beginning but then I read it again and finally knew what it had actually meant.




However question number 2 was hard because I didn't understand a thing it was it had written for me to read. In the end I had looked at it closely and saw why I got it wrong.

So our walt (we are learning to) is, Walt: rotate, reflect and translate shapes. So that's it and I hoped this has helped you because it has certainly helped me.

Learning Geometry

Today my numeracy class and I started the session off with geometry! We had to make rockets with cubes! We then had to draw a 2D version of our 3D rocket ship! Then we had to draw the side, birds eye view, front and perspective view! We couldn't look at our buildings we just had to draw it! Here are some photo's of me building my rocket ship!

 Here is a photo from when I was building the rocket ship!

 Here is another photo from when I was building my rocket ship!! 

Speech finals

On Friday the 25th of August 2017 Team 5 had finals for people that had good speech's! Through out the past two weeks we have been doing out speech's! My speech was about the time I fell out of the tree! Others were about some funny stuff and some sad stuff! Three people were picked from each class to say their speech in front of the whole of team 5 on Friday last week!  The first person that said their speech was Amelia! Her name was pulled out of the box first! Her speech was about the time her nana was soooo happy to see her every time she did her job at her old school! She was saying that she didn't get why her nana was always happy when she had to do her job which was cleaning the school! Then after a while it came to that point where Amelia told us that her nana died! She then figured out why her nana was always happy! It was because she would always get to see her cheeky little granddaughter! The other speech's were really good but I liked Amelia's speech!!!

Number knowledge

WALT: Add and subtract negative numbers

Online Profile

Kia orana My name is Aliyah and this is my Online Profile. Today my class and I were making our Online Profiles. What I wrote is what I want to be in 10 years time and other stuff. 

12 x 12 maths grid

12 x 12 Maths grid

Today we did a 12 x 12 maths grid! We had 10 minutes to do it. 

Technological process

Today we were learning about the Technological Process. We made a jelly bean stem structure.
First we did our brainstorm, then research and then our plan and design. When we finished our plan we then created our structure. After creating our structure we then presented it.
Firstly we got given 200 tooth picks and some jellybeans. Then we put the tooth picks into the jellybeans and made our structure. When we tested our structure we thought it was gonna fail, BUT it didn't. The total of books it could hold were 7. We just needed 1 more tooth pick on the side. We also learnt that we need to work as a team and to participate. The team that won was my team. Our structure was the strongest. Our structure was strong because we put 2 tooth picks into 1 jelly bean.






Our plan was on the green paper under neath the jelly beans. Our structure turned out different. It was going to be A small structure but then we thought that it would brake straight away. So we made it wide!!!!!!!!

My Boring Holidays

During the holidays I went out with my cousin. On the second week of the holidays I went to my cousins house for her birthday. She had turned 13. She wanted to spend the day with me and one of her other cousins. We went to rainbows end and the Manukau mall. We stayed at rainbows end for 5 hours. After that we went to the mall and bought some stuff. We bought food and movies. We then got picked up by my aunty. As soon as we arrived at my aunty's house we watched movies and ate.The movies we watched were fate of the furious and 13 Reasons why. I went home the next day because it was my baby brothers birthday. He had turned three. We went out and bought him some toys and food. Then we went home and watched movies. We watched Boss baby and then fate of the furious. 

Fractions

Fractions of a number

Term 1 week 5
WALT: Find a fraction of a number

Multiplication Pyramid

WALT -  Find a fraction of a number

What a disaster!!!

WALT: Summarise information in a text

Talking Points 1

WALT: Participate in group discussion by actively speaking and listening

Tech@Tamaki

 Each week on Tuesday the year 8's walk down to Tamaki collage for tech! The groups that we go to are Cooking,Art,Hard materials and Graphics!! Each week on Thursday the year 7's go to tech!

I am in cooking for tech, and today we made mince. Next week we will be making our pastry for our pie. I have put down some photos of what we have done today and what our ingredients were!!

  

Multiplication Pyramid

WALT- Find a fraction of a number
In this task I had to use the knowledge of multiplication to solve my problems! 

Maths word problems

This presentation shows you maths problems. You will have to follow what the question asks, then solve them out on the presentation or in a book.

Kete Poster

I have learnt that if you are given something that you have to treasure it.

WALT - Make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.

Water Wise

WALT -  I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world.

The Three Kete

WALT - make connections between our prior knowledge and examples within the text in order to understand more abstract ideas in the text.

Addition Pyramid

This section was addition..WALT: Find a rule to a sequential pattern..