Room 16's Prize Winners for 2022

Four children from room 16 received prizes at our end of year prize giving.   Cheveu and Dothan got prizes for effort, Te Hiritanga got a prize for citizenship and Tamaimon got a prize for academic promise. 

 

 

Last Day Of School

 The last day of school is always exciting with lots of things happening.  The Children got their Christmas goodie bags played with bubbles and wore their Elf hats to the last assembly of the year.  Good bye Room 16 and 18 of 2022!

Team One's Fun Day

 A Fun Day at school is great.  You get to share the fun things like water slides and bouncy castles with your friends.  Then after our big picnic lunch Santa paid a visit so it looks as if it is getting very near to Christmas.

Mareikura's Duffy Certificates

 Mareikura was a recent Room 16 Duffy Certificate winner.  I hope you enjoy your book Mareikura.

Team One's Trip To The Zoo

 Going to the zoo is always fun.  But sharing a visit with your class buddies is even better.  As the day was a bit grey,  many of the animals were quite content to watch us watching them.  We got some good views of the animals and enjoyed our day at the zoo.

Room 16 Likes To Hide In Boxes

 Some empty boxes appeared in our bay and the children decided they would be something exciting to play with.  They explored how they could squeeze into, through, over and under the boxes.  There was much laughter as they popped out of boxes or disappeared into them.  It is not only cats that like to hide in boxes!

Enjoying their Duffy Books

The children at Pt England school were fortunate to get some Duffy Books that they could take home to treasure and share with their whanau. Maia and Dion are very happy with their choices.

 

 

Engineers In Training

 Leakona and Tamaimon found some tubes and join them together to make one giant tube.  They had fun making marbles run down the tube.  Then they wanted to find a way of making the marbles run further so they problem solved with some of the car things and found the racing car slope worked the best and made the marbles run further.  They had great fun with their trial and error problem solving.

 

Sabian's Athletics Certificate

 At our recent Athletics Day Sabian participated in the Girls 50 metre sprint and came second.  She received at certificate at Assembly.

 

Kiwi Kids Charity Road Trip

 The Kiwi Kids Charity Road Trip dropped by Pt England School in their amazing cars.  They gave a cheque to the school and each child got a drink bottle or a bag.  The children enjoyed seeing the cars and the drivers dressed up and were very thankful to receive a gift too.  Thank you Kiwi Kids for your thoughtful gifts and donation.

Royston's Duffy Certificate

 Royston has been working hard with his writing.  He has learnt to use his knowledge of letter sounds to help him write unknown words in his stories.  Well done Royston.

Kairo is 6

" I am 6 today," said Kairo.  "It is my birthday today."  Kairo  is very pleased that it is finally his birthday and he was able to celebrate with all his friends.  Happy Birthday Kairo.

I Spy Kindness

 For the Manaiakalani Film Festival, Room 16 made a movie about kindness.  Did you know that you can be a Kindness Super Hero?  Room 16 found lots of ways to be kind and they share some of the ways in their movie.

Team Assembly Week 4 Term 4

 Leakona was the Room 16 certificate winner this week and he proudly shows his certificate with the other Team One members who receive certificates.

Leakona (third left)

 

Team One Film Festival Presenters

 Our fantastic Film Festival presenters all received a certificate in recognition of the effort they put in to present their class films at the recent film festival.  They gave up their lunchtimes to practise and it is not easy getting up in front of whole theatre of people and saying the lines they learnt.  Well done all of the presenters.  We are all very proud of you.

GoingTo Watch Our Movie

The whole school went to Hoyt's Theatre at Sylvia Park to watch our Manaiakalani Films.  The children were very excited about going on a bus with their buddies and to see themselves on the big screen.  Our movie - "I Spy Kindness" was also shown at night.

Good Friends

 "A friend is one of the best things you can be and the greatest thing you can have."  

                                                                                                                    Sarah Valdez

What makes a good friend?  There are many ways to be a good friend - sharing and having fun together, caring and being a good listener.  Friends are something we all need and as Raymond says in our movie "life would be boring without friends."  There would be no one to share things with or to play with.  Here are some of the ways Room 16 have thought of that you can be a good friend. 

Duffy Certificate Winner

 This weeks Room 16's Duffy Certificate was awarded to Harley.  Harley has had a good attitude towards all his learning.  Good work Harley.

 

National ShakeOut Drill

 New Zealand ShakeOut (Whakahaumaru Aotearoa) was our national earthquake drill held on Thursday 27 October.  It reminds us of the right action to take during an earthquake and like so many things we need to practise.  We even thought about what to do outside so we practised that too.

Harley and Titan practised "Drop. Cover, Hold" inside.

 "Drop and cover" outside 

 

Team Certificates For Titan and Francis

 Room 16 have been working very hard this week so it was difficult to choose just two people to get certificates.   Francis has been learning his numbers and can identify numbers up to one hundred and Titan has quiet and calm as he focused on his learning.  Well done to both boys.

Francis (left) and Titan show their certificates

Titan is third from the right and Francis is second from the right

Raymond's Duffy Certificate

 Raymond tried very hard this week with his writing this week using letter sounds to help him find words on the spelling chart.  Well done, Raymond.  You can do it.

Team Certificates Week 1 Term 4

A new term has begun and Room 16 had two children have been working extra hard this week.  Sione has been working hard practising his reading and Te Hiritanga has been trying hard to find words by herself to write in her sentence.  Keep up the good work Sione and Te Hiritangi.

Sione

Te Hiritanga

 

Sparkles Netball Certificates

 The Sparkles Netball Team had a great season and they enjoyed learning the basics of passing the ball, catching and shooting goals.  They all received a certificate during team assembly at the end of the season.

 

Art Works Exhibition

 During Term 3, Team one learnt about emotions.  We found that colour in famous paintings could also tell us about emotions, so we set about drawing a self portrait of two emotions in the cubism style.  First we made a pencil outline of our face and divided it down the middle.  Then we chose two different colour pastels to depict the emotions of happy and sad and coloured in our outline.  By drawing over the outline in black felt, it made the face come alive.  We then filled in the details.

Here is a movie about making and displaying our masterpieces at the Art Works Exhibition at the end of term 3.

Royston's Team One Certificate

 Royston received a Team One Certificate for a big improvement in his reading.  Keep up the good work, Royston.

Super Movie Making Helpers

 Mareikura and Leakona helped with making our class movie.  They were prepared to do their part until it was just right so they were both awarded a team certificate this week.  Thank you both for being so helpful.

Mareikura (left) and Leakona (right)

   

Team One Winners

 On the 16 September the school wide Cross Country was held.  Team one has been practising for the big event and they took to the field on Friday afternoon and ran like professionals, keeping going until the end.  Room 16 was well represented by two third places - Titan in the boys race and Selemana in the girls race.  Well done all the runners who participated.  You all did so well.

Titan on the left

Selemana on the left

 

Mareikura's Player of the Day Certificate

 On the last day of netball, Mareikura was awarded the player of the day certificate.  Here she is with the certificate that was awarded to her at assembly.

Duffy Certificate Winners

Francis was Room 16's Duffy Certificate for week 8

 Francis was awarded this weeks Duffy Certificate for Room 16.  Francis has been a kind friend and he has been working hard with his reading and writing.  Others to collect their certificates from previous weeks were Dion and Te Hiritanga 

Dion with his Duffy Certificate

Te Hiritanga 

 

A New Buddy For Room 16

 We have a new buddy to Room 16, Dion.  Welcome Dion to Point England School and to Room 16.

Dion is in the back row third from the right

Francis's Lucky Day

 Francis was our Duffy winner this week and he also had his name drawn out of the Snacktime Super Hero draw.

Francis with his Duffy book and certificate and his Snacktime reward

How High Can You Go?

 Cheveu enjoyed building a tower with the domino blocks.  She found that the higher up the tower got the more careful she had to be placing the next block on.  Well done Cheveu for being patient and careful and building up such a high tower.

Snacktime Super Heroes for Week 5 Term 3

Tamaimon and Cheveu had their names drawn out for being snack time super heroes this week.  Tamaimon received a coconut and Cheveu some Weet-Bix.

 

Wigs and Wacky Hair Day

Most of the children participated in our recent Wigs and Wacky Hair Day.  They enjoyed being able to wear their hair coloured and done in different ways and to make a contribution to Child Cancer.

 

Our Visit To Harold

Going to see Harold in his special classroom was very exciting for Room 16.  Here in our movie are some of the things that Harold taught us such as being a good friend, paying compliments to people, recognising emotions, where food comes from and what we need to do to be healthy and safe.

Working With Clay

 The children are enjoying working with clay at Makerspace.  They used tools to make patterns and work the clay.

Dothan and Selemana on the left with Francis and Kairo on the right

Royston with his creation

Titan at work

Training for our Cross Country

 With our Cross Country races coming up, Team one have begun their training.  After doing some warm up exercises the children enjoyed following some older leaders around the school.  

Warming up

On the way