Watch us! .... at our syndicate assembly

Yesterday we hosted senior syndicate assembly.  We gained confidence and overcame some challenges as we prepared and practised for our assembly.  We laughed a lot too!

Many thanks to our special guests who performed such stylish moves.

Easter eggs and bunny hops

Room 9 and Room 10 enjoyed some eggsellent eggsercise this morning! After an egg and spoon relay, our teams hopped to it and helped each other through some rabbit holes.

H is for homework!

Congratulations to those hard-working students who received

A-grade homework certificates for Term 4:

Timote Junior, Suliasi, Athens, Alicia, Meana, Sione and Jack Daniel (not pictured).

Prize-giving 2014

Congratulations to everyone on their achievements this year!   Year 5 Academic Excellence: Athens
Year 4-6 Principal's Trophy: Meana
Year 4-6 Most Helpful Student: Suliasi
Year 4-6 Sports Award (1): Sione
Room 10 Best All Round Student: Athens
Room 10 Most Improved Student: Jack Daniel
Room 10 Best Work Presentation: Athens

At the desk wash ...

We had some good clean fun

since our work has been done.

It is now our turn

to move on as we learn.

What an inspiring year, everyone!

Out of this world!

These are some of the places we would like to visit, or some of the sports stars we think we shall be ...

Don't drop the baton!

Samuel concentrates as he waits to take the baton during yesterday's relay running at fitness.  He also showed great speed and style winning the Year 6 Boys 75m and 100m events at our annual athletics afternoon on Wednesday.  Sione was the winner of the Year 5 Boys 75m.  Congratulations to you both and the best of luck when you run at next week's interschool athletics meeting.

A festival of film

Such excitement attending our first ever Manaiakalani Film Festival at Sylvia Park this morning!  Sitting in our luxurious "Extreme" seats, we watched films about the last apple, learning at school, a lonely dragon, battling penguins and GoPro sporting action.  Check out all of the movies at: https://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/film-festival-2011/view-films/2014.

Back from Bailey Road

It was a tough and muddy morning at Bailey Road for our cross-country runners last Wednesday.  Was there anyone who didn't fall over?

Smiles of success

The smiles say it all!  This term's A-grade homework certificates.

Congratulations Athens, Meana and Sione.

And the certificate goes to ...

Congratulations to our outstanding Room 10 runners as they were presented with their school cross-country certificates by Mr Reid today.  They will all be picking up the pace again at an inter-schools competition on Wednesday. Run, run ...

Cross-country 2014

Thank you, Nelly, for creating our audio.

Cross-country 2014

We watched the juniors run around the school field with so much energy ... and 

then it was our turn to show our speed as we ran around the road course.

Sione and Sebastian showed their amazing pace from start to finish.

Running shoulder to shoulder, Sione was the first Year 5 boy,

while Sebastian was the first Year 6 boy home.

Check out our video tomorrow ...

Crouch, touch, set ...

The Year 5/6 under 50kg rugby team enjoyed running, passing, tackling and scoring a few tries at today's interschools rugby tournament.  Mr Reid was very proud of your efforts and your positive attitude.  We enjoyed hearing your stories about the games in class this afternoon.  Well done!

Our class photographers

Such excitement!  Room 10 now has its own tablet.  Saane and Meana did a fabulous job testing out the tablet's camera while we finished off our writing.

Writing about Kahurangi

After watching the Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre, we chose how we wanted to write about this experience.  Here are some examples of our work.

Everything is awesome!

Yesterday we hosted senior syndicate assembly, sharing some of the things we have learnt and created that relate to the XX Commonwealth Games.  As well as sharing our medal artwork and mascot designs, we all performed a mime of some of the Commonwealth sports ... lawn bowls, boxing, rugby, badminton, swimming, cycling, running ...  We all looked like champions and everything was awesome!  Thank you, Isabell, for taking our photographs.

Mates Way!

Thank you, Mr Calver, for spending time talking with some Room 10 students about friendship and role models.  They really enjoyed their sessions with you and are proud of their certificates. 

Our eventful week!

Over and under, over and under

We had so much fun learning how to do some weaving.  It took a lot of patience and a buddy to tape our straws and pipe-cleaners to our frame.  Next, we used string, wool and ribbon to weave through the straws and pipe-cleaners - over and under, over and under!