The Surprising Voyage

Last week on wednesday PT England School and another 12 schools in Manaiakalani came down to PT England Reserve to welcome in the two va’a Hokule’a and Hikianalia to our shores. We had to practice 1 haka, and 2 waiata. Setting up took a little while and after that we saw it. The va’a arrived and started to settle upon our beach. We went wild with our haka, we had to go through it about 6 times before the crew all got to the beach. There were a lot of people!

After they all had arrived we stopped singing, the crowd went dead silent. Then one of us stood out of the crowd and spoke. By the way my grandfather was at the beach when they came and he was the one who told Mr Burt (Principal of our school) about the meaning of Manaiakalani. After that, Hawai’i and the Hokule’a Crew found out about our cluster of schools and wanted to come along and find out about Manaiakalani.

Then when we finished the long speech we sang Nga Waka. Everyone was out of time but we kept going. Then there was this whole conversation and suddenly they started singing. They sang a really cool song and then there was the captain of the Hokule’a who stood out and started talking on and on. And finally when he finished they sang another song, then Mr Burt got up and closed it off by starting up a new thing. “People said it was impossible”, he started,”to do what we are about to do”. Then he showed us what we were going to do with a demo, after that I believe why people would say that.

We had to run down a long line of people and high five them, you think it’s easy, but when you have about 2000 kids it might get a little tricky don’t you think. Since I was a kapa haka leader and I was on the beach with the others already, we had to wait until all the schools had finished. It was not very exciting. So to make it exciting we high fived them as well, problem solvers!

When the high fiving was done and out of the way all the schools went back except for us kapa leaders. We got to stay and have a hangi, mmmmm. It was delicious. Then we learnt about the stars and where they start in the sky and leave in the sky, it was an external compass. A navigator navigated us through the compass and then he showed us how the compass was embedded into the va’a.

It was a real privilege, it was a once in a lifetime opportunity, I could go on and on with the words but I think I should stop. Thanks to all the parents and helpers for your help with transportation. Thank you Hokule’a and Hikianalia for willing to come to our beach it was an amazing experience!

A Flash Mob

Walking casually toward the table in the street acting like it was a perfectly normal day, discovering that it was Mrs Telea’s Birthday we were doing a dance and believe me you don’t have to be Samoan to do so. The music started and all of room 3 out of nowhere started dancing with the sound of choo - hoo. The street was rumbling with cheers and clapping.

Everyone got up to look at what was happening, because something attracted so much attention. We all formed a circle and Mrs Tele’a did a Samoan Siva and we were supporting her. She was the star and we were dancing around here.

Mr Wiseman thought that he could match Mrs Tele’a but to be honest he wasn't that good! She was beautiful, he was ugly, they both danced and then all the students got up and danced. Some were very shy and couldn't do it, others just wanted to let it out and dance. I didn't know how to dance Samoan but at least I tried.

Holiday Highlights

Going to Christchurch for a wedding

Going to Festival One

Going for a sleepover at my friend Ryan’s house

Highlights

In the holidays I had so much fun I've got three highlights. 1 Going to Christchurch for a wedding, because at the wedding I was in a flash mob. It was awesome I had so much fun learning the dance we did a mixture of hip hop and Samoan slap dance.

The second highlight was going to an amazing festival called Festival One. There were christian bands and a lot of food I had so much fun, we stayed up till 12:00 every night! Everyday was a new adventure with everything new.

During the holidays I had the privilege of going to a birthday sleepover. It was my friend Ryan’s B Day and We stayed up all night playing Xbox and watching movies. Believe me, the next day at my church service my head was like a ping pong ball going back and forth. I should’ve went to sleep!

Polyfest 2015 First Time For Everything

For the first time ever in the history of PT England School the red shirts piled onto the four buses and traveled to Polyfest. You probably would not have known but it is the 40th anniversary of Polyfest, that’s about as long as my parents have been on this earth for! One by one each student passed a security gate with huge guards and their muscular hands.

The grass was wet and walking on it was not that comfortable. For some reason we had to sit in lines which was bizarre, sitting on wet grass… we’re seniors man! Any who, we were on the grass yapping away when a man with a green shirt turned up and started talking about rotations or something. Also there was a very special visitor who came… it was Mr John Key! The crowd went wild, there were cheers and clapping everywhere. Film crews came in from different directions, there was 3 news, and funnily enough there was Chinese TV.

We had rotations where everyone would go from one obstacle to the other. After all the rotations were done we all got goody bags which had some cool stuff. We got to meet up with Flava and that was pretty cool! The Maori stage was awesome. One school in particular stood out for me, they has the coolest costumes and they used the Taiaha and Mere Pounamu, if you know what that is. Just before we left, a group of people did a haka tautoko to support them.

Over all I would like to thank the teachers and parents for their support in helping us. Because without them we would not be able to go to polyfest in the first place. They were very helpful and also the were very fun to hang out with. I can’t wait until Polyfest 2016!

Explorers Of The Sunrise

Proportion Word Problems

Proportion Word problem: one in every.

    A. To make tins of purple paint you need to mix blue and red.        

1. If one tin in every seven is blue what proportion are red. 6 : 7
2. If there are 3 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed? 3 : 18
3. If you have 20 tins of blue paint how many red tins would you need? 20 : 120
4. Mary made 42 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use? 6 : 42

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

1. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates? 4 : 5
2. There are 10 toffees. How many chocolates? 10 : 40
3. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are chocolates? 16 : 20
4. Mary only likes toffees and Tim loves chocolate. If Mary eats all the toffees from a box containing 40 sweets. How many chocolates are left for Tim? 32 : 40

       C. The lions are fed 10kg of meat a day.

1. If the father lion eats 4kg and the mother eats 4 kg how much is left for the cub? 2kg : 10kg
2. What proportion does the cub eat? 2 : 10
3. What proportion does the mother eat? 4 : 10
4. On Saturdays the lions are given 20kg so the keeper doesn’t need to work on Sundays. How much meat will the cub have? 4kg : 20kg

         D. At the tennis club members are grouped in to adult and junior.

1. If one in every 6 is a junior what proportion are adult members? 5 : 6
2. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section? 4 : 24
3. In another section there are 36 members.
1. How many are juniors? 6 : 36
2. How many are adults? 30 : 36

   E. Barry is making a fruit cake which contains raisins, currants and cherries.

1. If one in every 10 pieces of fruit is a currant and two in every five is a cherry what proportion are raisins? 5 : 10
2. He decides that he will make some more cakes for the school summer fayre. If he has 30 raisins how many currants and cherries will he need? 6 : 24 : 30 (1 currant : 4 Cherries : 5 Raisins)
3. Martha has made 40 cakes for the summer fayre. How many of each of the following does she need
1. Raisins? 20 : 40
2. Cherries? 16 : 40
3. Currants? 4 : 40

Proportion Word problem: one in every.

    A. To make tins of purple paint you need to mix blue and red.        

5. If one in every 3 is blue what proportion are red? 2 : 3
6. If there are 2 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed? 2 : 4
7. You need to make 15 tins of purple paint. How many blue tins do you need? 5 : 15
8. Mary made 18 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use? 6 : 18

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

5. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates? 4 : 5
6. There are 10 sweets. How many are toffees? 2 : 10
7. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are toffees? 4 : 20
8. Mary only likes toffees and Tim loves chocolate. If Mary eats all the toffees from a box containing 40 sweets. How many chocolates are left for Tim? 32 : 40

       C. The lions are fed 5 kg of meat a day.

5. If the father lion eats 3kg how much is left for the cub? 2kg : 5kg
6. What proportion does the cub eat? 2kg : 5kg
7. On Saturdays the lions are given 10kg so the keeper doesn’t need to work on Sundays. How much meat will the cub have? 4kg : 10kg

         D. At the tennis club members are grouped in to adult and junior.

4. If one in every 4 is a junior what proportion are adult members? 3 : 4
5. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section? 4 : 12
6. In another section there are 24 members.
1. How many are juniors? 6 : 24
2. How many are adults? 18 : 24

Video Conference with Hawaii

This morning the year 7 and 8 extension group had a video conference with two other schools from around the world. The two schools are from Hawaii, Kea’au Elementary School and Nanakuli Elementary School. We had a big conversation about our schools and shared a bit about ourselves. Nanakuli ES speak English and Hawaiian, Kea’au ES have 870 students at their school.

Both schools don’t work on chromebooks like we do. Kea’au ES have lava flows in their everyday life! PT England School were the first to share the presentation, we just shared some information about ourselves. We were talking about the world wide voyage of the two waka, Hokule’a and Hikianalia that will come to PT England’s shore on the 24th of March 2015. All the Manaiakalani schools will be performing to them with a Haka, Chant and a Hymn.

Nanakuli ES went next, they told us a little about themselves and added an extra video to show us around their school instead of a presentation. Their school is pretty big. Their year grade goes from Preschool to grade 6. In the video we got to look around the place and in the background there was someone talking through a voice over.

The main reason why we called is because of the Hokule’a and their amazing voyage across the pacific ocean. We got to learn what it is like to go to school in another country. It was fun meeting new friends and getting to chat with them. I hope we can do it again another time.

My Add/Sub Presentation

Problem Solving wk 5

My Fraction Thinkboard

My Thinkboard

Problem Solving

Zeal Zone Going Somewhere Activity 5

This picture represents where I would like to go to in the future. It is obviously Paris, France because the Eiffel Tower. It's a really simple drawing as you can tell.

HB'day Miss Peato

It was just a fine morning when Mr Wiseman is strumming his guitar and Miss Peato is telling everyone the notices like usual. Then suddenly “Bang” goes the door, Mr Wiseman is kicking it like mad! He might have a sore foot after that. But then all it was, was him trying to open it and let the teachers out. To all of our surprise it was Miss Peato’s Birthday! All of the teachers have somthing in there hands, Miss Clarke has her Phone and a cake. Mr Wiseman has the guitar, and all the teachers have flower leis around their necks…