A Day At High School

On the 28th of April the year 8s from Pt England school went down to Tamaki College to  experience the life of high school. As we got their 2 other school were there which was Glen Innes Glen Brae. When we were sitting down more school’s started arriving then one of the teachers from Tamaki college started telling us want we are about to do.

As most of the schools arrived Miss More told all the girls to go and get our name tags then he told the boys to get it. As we all got our name tags she told us to look at our tags and see what group we and then she told all of their house colors which was Rata Kowai Puriri Totara.

When she was finished talking she all called out the groups names and we had to go to our leader.Finally we got to do our first activity meanwhile our first activity which was social studies.What we did was that we had to try and answer as much questions as we can to beat the other people.I was in groups of 1 which was Rebekah then we had to swap groups.

The next activity we done was maths with Mr Jones we played battle ships it was a really fun game to play to play the game is to have 5 ships and a number line 1 to 9 and up 7 and you have to try and hide your ships away so they don’t sink your boat if they sink all your boats then you're out.

Then we had to go back to the hall to have our interval we had a juice and a yogurt as we were eating.

At the end of the day the leaders from each group got told to pick two people from their group for a prize the small prize was a bag and the big prize was a printer then we said our thank you and we sang our waita which was nga waka e.

 

Respect

RESPECT

Respect is all about having manners and showing each and others the right way at the right time with the right attitude. Plus by using the 3 P which means protection partnership and participation.

To show respect is to listen when someone is talking and not talking well the teacher is talking. Respect is about admiring someone about what they can do.If you want to be treated well then you will have to treat others the way you wanted be treated. And show what awesome looks like.

PolyFest

On Thursday the 19th of March Pt England School seniors went all the way to manukau to the pacifica polyfest for the day.So we had to wait for the bus so we can get there  as we where there we were just waiting for Mrs tele’a and her group but they took to long to come so we just went in.

When we got in we saw Mrs Tele’a and her group sitting down so we went to them and sat down with them and the other schools.As we were sitting the laddie told us what is a dance so someone said the wormbut she didn’t know how to  do it so she did her own dance move.

She told us to stand up and do the dance move she told us to do so we did.Then she told us to sit down and she told us that someone special was coming and it was the prime minister  of New Zealand we were so happy that we got to see him but then he left.

Ployfest

Kia Ora, talofa lava, malo e lelei, faakalofa lahi atu, kia orana, bula vinaka, namaste and greetings!! My name is DJ It’s Pasifika week in Aotearoa, this means it’s a week long celebration of all things Pacific.  This includes the birthday dance we had with Mrs Tele’a!  Part of the celebration is the Polyfest!  This Thursday we are planning to travel to Manukau to take part in some workshops and then visit stages.  The two stages we will be visiting will be the Maori and Diversity stages.  Did you know that this event - the Polyfest celebrates 40 years since it’s beginning?  Awesome isn’t it!  

Why do you think young people and their whanau participate in this event?

I think all of the people from other school and whanau participate in polyfest to show of their cultures. They show of their cultures so people can see how great they love their culture. So they give more harder dance moves. They show their family proud.

What things do you think the performers had to go through to get to having the items we will see? (Make a list)

• Practise
• getting told off
• making up the moves
• to learn new moves

How does this event promote our different cultures?

to promote others for joining in to other cultures is to help them out when their suck and to courage them for joining in. To promote others for learning their culture and their dance moves is to tell the that their doing well

Conclusion: Write a short paragraph about what you are looking forward to during our visit to the Polyfest.

I am really looking forward to visiting the ASB polyfest in manukau and watching all of the good performances and the people that is in the performances and seeing the people i know in it.

Multiplication and division

Proportion word problem on in every

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.
2. If there are 3 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed?
3. If you have 20 tins of blue paint how many red tins would you need?
4. Mary made 42 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use?

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

1. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates?
2. There are 10 toffees. How many chocolates?
3. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are chocolates?
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?

       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?
2. What proportion does the cub eat?
3. What proportion does the mother eat?
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?

         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?
2. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section?
3. In another section there are 36 members.
1. How many are juniors?
2. How many are adults?

   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?
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?
3. Martha has made 40 cakes for the summer fayre. How many of each of the following does she need
1. Raisins?
2. Cherries?
3. Currants?

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?
6. If there are 2 tins of blue how many red tins would be needed?
7. You need to make 15 tins of purple paint. How many blue tins do you need?
8. Mary made 18 tins. How many tins of blue paint did she use?

       B. A box of sweets contains chocolates and toffees.

5. If one in every five sweets is a toffee, what proportion are chocolates?
6. There are 10 sweets. How many are toffees?
7. If there are 20 sweets altogether how many are toffees?
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?

       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?
6. What proportion does the cub eat?
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?

         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?
5. In one section of the club there are 4 juniors. How many adults in that section?
6. In another section there are 24 members.
1. How many are juniors?
2. How many are adults?

Using commas 2

Using commas

The boy, who was very tall, was a great basketball player.  😍

In the sentence above, the words in between the two commas give us extra information.  These words could be left out and the sentence would still make sense.

In the story below there are some sentences that give extra information. Your task is to put commas (   ) around the extra information. The first pair of commas has been put in for you.

Old Mrs MacGinty  who had lived in her house for sixty-five years was having a garage sale. She wanted to clear out some of the clutter from her house. The sale which was being held on Saturday, had been advertised in the local paper. There was also a sign on Mrs MacGinty’s front gate.     On Friday night, Mrs MacGinty went down to the garage to check that everything was in order, for the next day. The blue and white dinner set was going for a bargain, she thought at fifty-five dollars. The grandfather clock, although running a little slow did still go. The vase which she had been given, as a twenty-first birthday present, had a small crack but you'd hardly notice it. When Mrs MacGinty looked at herself in the oak-framed mirror, which used to hang in the spare bedroom, she wondered how the years had flown by so quickly.     Mrs MacGinty who by this time was beginning to feel a little shaky sat down. She looked slowly around at all her things. She thought and she thought. Suddenly she got to her feet. A gleam came into her eyes. Mrs MacGinty marched as well as a little old lady, with wobbly knees can out to the front gate and took down the garage sale sign.     "After-all," Mrs MacGinty said to herself, "you can't sell your memories."