Volcanic Facts

The largest most active volcano in the world is Mauna Loa-it is located in Hawaii.
A fissure is the crack in the earths surface through which magma leaks through and starts a volcano. Molten rock is a liquid that when is erupted from a volcano turns into a solid.
The Ring of Fire is made up of volcanoes in the South Pacific.
These are just a few facts about volcanoes this movie will tell you a couple of more facts about volcanoes, hope you enjoy!!

Back to School

In a couple of days school will be starting up again and again there will be early nights!!

My holidays haven't been the best, they've pretty much just included sleeping, playing games, and cleaning up. I think that the most exciting part of my holidays was going to the airport to pick up my auntie and uncle!! Normally that would be pretty boring for me because I get carsick.

So due to my holidays I have been looking forward to school since the third day of our break. But what I'm looking forward to the most is meeting up with my friends, teacher and getting to know and learn about our new topic.

Even though these holidays were boring it doesn't mean all the up coming holidays will be the same. After all I'm going to Tonga in the December holidays and my holidays there have always been a blast!!

The Dunker!!

The teachers lead us down to the bottom field, us (the Year Seven's) not knowing what we were doing. This was supposed to be a surprise, and it was!! ROCK UP a group of people provided us with some interesting and awesome activities which included a log joust,an archery set and the best of all - a dunking tank!!


I was quietly trying to hide but unfortunately I got caught. As I was perched upon the wooden plank my hands began to sweat a little. My stomach was full of butterflies and as Ms Tito filmed me it made my butterflies worse!! "Ready, aim and fire" Geoff would yell out, as soon as he would say that little yellow balls would be aimed and then thrown at the black targets. Please someone just get me out already, I was saying to myself. Soon enough someone did, and it was kind of funny because the person who I had dunked got me dunked. It was an awesome experience and if they come back next year I'm certainly going to be first in line to be dunked!!!!

My Pt England Acrostic Poem

Protection is guaranteed

There are friendly people here indeed

Encourage each other to do their best

No-one tries to fail a test

Growing minds is what we have here

Loosing against other schools is our fear

And here we strive to succeed

Not even one of us don't know how to read

Do as the teacher says so we won't be dead!!

This acrostic poem is just a little something to describe our school, but one of the sentences aren't true. I'm sure you can see which one of them are fake!! As you can also see all the end words had to rhyme, it was kind of hard trying to think of rhyming words but in the end it all seemed to work out. I would like to thank my group for helping me with this poem.

Tech At Tamaki College

I was filled to the top of my head with excitement because today was the day of our very first time experiencing "Tech at Tamaki College"!!

We all gathered up in the courtyard and before we left Mrs Nua explained a few rules and we were off. We had finally arrived, had a little talk and we went our separate ways, prior to that moment we were parted into 3 groups, I was in group 2. My group was sent off to the hard materials department with Mr Grundy (-sir.)

There were 2 other activities which were cooking and graphics. I think that most people would've liked to be in the cooking department!! But in hard materials we weren't so lucky because we didn't do anything exciting, we just pretty much did nothing but listen to Sir talk about safety. Of course this was all for a good cause, because if he did all the talking today then there was no need for him to talk next week.

So all in all I think I had a pretty good first time experiencing what it was like to be a year seven doing tech!!!!

Back to school in the new year of 2010

Pt England school hasn't changed except for the fact that it now has an intermediate!!!! What is so great about Pt England having an intermediate is that I am amongst the very first students of Pt England Intermediate and I don't have to go to another school.

We've got some new uniforms and even some new desks. The only thing that's missing is our classes, we're just in the rooms of 5 and 4 for now until our new classes are built.

I'm glad that we're back at school because now I can play with all of my friends. Its Like a whole new start because I've got a new teacher (Not really, I've had her before) who's name is Mrs Nua, and I'm in a new classroom (again, not really).

I look forward to the different kinds of activities we will get to do now that we're Year 7's. For example we will get to do Tech at Tamaki College and we will get to have better camps.

I can't wait until all that stuff happens!!!!

Students teaching Adults

During 2009 I was a presenter to 100s of adults who came and visited our school.

But I didn't only present to visitors; I also presented to the T.V. programme "Close Up", a famous magazine (Idealogue) and even the prime minister!!!
There were 6 of us in our presenting group and we all had different subjects to talk about.
I talked about podcasting and this is what this movie will tell and show you about...