Celebrating 13th Jordan's Birthday

Last week we celebrated my cousin Jordan's 13th Birthday. It was held at my Nana and Papa's house @ 1:00pm with my cousins. I was so overwhelmed and excited to have a nice lunch with all my immediate family and cousins .

Arriving at my Nana and Papa's  we walked in and hugged Jordan. He was so happy and excited and just couldn't wait to eat (THE TRUTH). For lunch we had Nachos, Spring Rolls, Wedges, and Chicken Nibbles. Finally we got to eat, we then all sat on the table and each had something nice to say about Jordan. We then sang the Happy Birthday song and then ate.

We then waited a while to have dessert, so then we went outside and played around. It was a mixture of games really, we just basically made it all up. First it was Basketball on our little area, then touch, and then it ended up to be pass the ball bounce it then try. It was such an exciting game that we never really knew what it was. 

After that we headed into the house and sang the song in English and Samoan. After that I had a flashback of all the memories we shared together. It reminded me of all our fifth birthdays and how cute and little we were but then now...... I've realized we've changed so much. 

I've got to say it probably was the best birthday of the year. Just because everyone was there and there was just no drama going on at all. Happy Birthday Jordan!! Enjoy being young because this the only time you'll have fun. Hopefully you enjoy the many more years to come!

 

Cross Country: The Fight To The Finish Line

During the past few weeks Pt England School  have been training for the Cross Country run that we did yesterday. Each year we have a Cross Country run just like every other primary school/intermediate to see who are the top 3 runners of their year.Then the top 3 runners go through to inter-zones. Any-ways it all took place at 2:00pm on the field and reserve and finished at 3:00pm. 


Just before it was time to make our way to the hard courts we all made our way to the changing rooms and had something to eat.  Everyone represented their colours, Tainui (Blue), Takitimu (Yellow), Te Arawa (Red), and last but not least Mataatua (Green). Our run was about 3km but unfortunately the year eights run was just a little bit longer 3.5km.  


As I headed to the start line Mr. Burt instructed the Year 7 girls to take their place. After he demonstrated to us what and where we'd be running he told us to take our places at the start line. " On your marks, Get Set, GO". Mr Burt Yelled. We were of, zoom!!. As fast as we all could we raced, overlapping each other and shoving we all just wanted to get it over and done with.

At the end of the day the Cross Country run was really easier than I actually thought. After all our hard work of trying our best and pushing our self's to the limit it all payed of at the end. Hopefully next year the run is as fun as it was this year.  I think next year I am going to try improve on pushing myself a bit more so that next year I will improve a bit better.

Creative Strand Reflection - P.M.I

During the past 3 terms or so the senior block have been working on making movies. This week the theme was all about  "Love" we had to either make an MTV, a painting, story, or other things  that show  "Love"  in it's own way. 

Positive	Minus	Interesting
* A Lot of movies had funny endings	* Need better costumes	* Using flashbacks
* There were a lot of good actors and singers	* Some of the footage got blurry	* Actors played other actor’s parts
* People used different angles in the movies	* Some of the shots were too long and boring	*  Facial expressions
* Movies were all interesting and all had a story to it	* Camera always shaking	* Some of the movies used some olden day type theme
* Good lip sinkers	* People talking and distractions in the background	* A Lot of well known songs were used

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter

 Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, or as we all know her as Beyonce was born September 4th, 1991. She is mostly known as American singer, song - writer, and actress. To make a start in pursuing her dream, she started to enter dancing and singing competitions.  A few years later when they had finished realising what TALENT Beyonce had, they realised an album called "Dangerously In Love"  in 2003 which sold at least around about 11 mil;lion copies.

3 years later in 2006  Beyonce was a cast in the "Pink Panther" . In 2008  Beyonce was in love with Jay-Z and so he proposed and they got married.  Years later she released  "Run The World",  "Love On Top", "Listen", and many more than I haven't named. She is a well known lady all over the world. A lot of people mostly have been talking about the latest gossip actually, it was that Jay-Z and Beyonce introduced Blue Ivy Carter into the world.  Hopefully she will be  a talented person just like her mother and father.

Spoken Word

If you were to say something about the world what would it be?

Today Joshua Iosefo came to my literacy group and talked to us about spoken word. These are some of the things I learnt from him. Everyone's voice is valuable, there is absolutely no limit of writing and we are powerful.

This is some of the writing I have did during Joshua's time with us in class.

First of all Joshua had drawn something random on the board. We were to write about what we thought it was. He said it could be anything at all and so this is what I had wrote.

Scribble On The Board

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Random curving lines on the board.  Almost looking like a ribbon with a tiny hash-tag on the side of it.  He doesn't know what he was doing he just let his hand flow,  and the picture he draw actually turned out to be looking like SR#.  There must be a meaning for this!!!

Secondly we had to write about what we would like to tell the entire world. Something that is effecting us personally that we'd want the world to know about. 
Problems/ World  Peace

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A lot of people should start to look after the world. E.G stop littering and fighting and start worrying about the important problems all over the world. Problems are being caused and people are being killed/hurt. Everyone has feelings, 1 small word had hurt someone a lot.

Cinderella and the Beanstalk Narrative

In our literacy group we were given the task to remake a narrative about a traditional narrative. With the help of Mary L we finished with this piece of writing. Hope you enjoy!!

Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived a young woman named Cinderella. At the age of only 8  her mother died from a very rare sickness. Her father eventually got over Cinderella’s mum and married again. She was raised by her Father , King Mordred and her wicked old stepmother SANDYLINE. SANDYLINE had two daughters ABRID and RUBY. They were exactly like their mother, wicked, ugly, gold diggers, and most of all selfish and greedy.

One fine afternoon while Cinderella was doing her daily chores, she overheard ABRID and RUBY talking about the ball they got invited too. It was ABRID and RUBY’s dream to meet  the Prince Jack from “The kingdom of Skies”. Cinderella didn’t really care about Prince Jack because she thought he was just another poshed up boy from another rich kingdom from far away.  

Anyways as usual she had to go to the village markets to collect food for her lazy sisters to eat. While she was there she bumped into a boy. “ OMG, can’t you open your eyes!” yelled Cinderella. “Open yours, you blind LADY” replied the boy. They both looked at each other for a while and apologized and introduced themselves properly. Cinderella had no idea that it was Prince Jack. She had just yelled at him and was totally embarrassed when she found out it was him.

While Jack and Cinderella were having a romantic picnic ABRID and RUBY catched them. With jealously and anger they took a false report back to their mother. Arriving at home CINDERELLA was blasted by SANDYLINE and was sent to be punished in the dungeon. Worn out and hopeless Cinderella sat there trying to figure out how to get help. Suddenly a Flash of glitter appeared in front of her.

“Hello my dear, I am your god mother sent from above. I have come to rescue your poor soul and provide want you shall need” said Fiona to Cinderella.  Escaping out of the dungeon of doom Cinderella ran up stairs to find SANDYLINE standing there. “Where are you going young lady” yelled Sandyline, “You can’t tell me what to do, I have been obeying you, accepting all your commands and especially keeping up with you. I am absolutely sorry but I have to leave”.

As everyday passes by SANDYLINE is filled with guilt and disappointment of the way she treated her daughter in law. She was then diagnosed with depression because she regretted never treating  Cinderella as her own.  ABRID and RUBY were sent to the dungeon for all the problems they caused as years passed along with their mother. As for Cinderella and Prince Jack they had children and got married, and lived happy ever AFTER!!

SER Parents Opinions

Previously in extension we have been investigating on what people think about Self Explaining Roads. These are roads with islands and roundabouts that reduce the speed and danger level down.  I would love to know what you think about them.

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