Thank You Letter

Dear Parent Helpers,

Thank you for coming to help with the picnic. We all really appreciated your help. Your help was really important because if you didn’t come then we would have stayed at school and do work.Thanks for letting us girls have lunch with you and for letting us use your speaker.  

At the picnic we do alot of sports like Volleyball, Held, Baseball and many more. My favourite part of the day with you was just chilling under the tree with the girls and listening to music on your speaker. One of my very own favourite part of the picnic was listening to the karaoke.  

It was very hot and exhausting but really fun! My second favourite part was going for a walk with Iron and Josephine on the beach. My best memory of the picnic was playing volleyball because it was so much fun and that was the only sport I played.

A big thank you for coming!

Kind regards

Asena Valoa

Netbook Explanation

What is a netbook and how is it used?

Here at Point England school we use a device called a netbook. A netbook is a device that helps us with our learning and it is like a mini version of a laptop. The brand is also Asus. We use it alot and it is so much easier to use and our learning has improved more because of these netbooks.

There are all sorts of parts in these netbooks. The parts I know are the hinges, lid, battery, key pad, key board, charger, camera, and alot more. These netbooks are really useful, but we have to really take care of them. The hinges can break easily if you just drop it once. The battery is also dangerous because you never know someone might just come and swap your battery with theirs.

We use netbooks to do our work and go on different kind of sites. These netbooks are good for our writing and reading such as maths. We use site’s like maths whizz and xtra maths and studdyladder for reading and maths. It is really helpful!

A netbook works with a battery because it runs the netbook and it has to be charged and it will work. It also works with internet and sites like docs, mails, and you can also search some stuff you need to know.

Some more details about netbooks is that its really good to use and it can help alot of people. The sound quality is really good but the video camera is kind of slow. But other then that its really good.

Assembly.

We had assembly today. We have it every Friday, but today was an exciting and cool assembly. It was exciting and cool because there were performances from some of our students performing their hip hop dance.

There were also some professional island dancers that came and performed at assembly today. Their costumes were so pretty and white and they wore like a little flax thing. Also at assembly Mr Burt talked to us about our new korero “Is it kind?” Is it kind relates to our behaviour in school and taking care of our stuff.

After talking about our korero we moved on to sports. Sports is the part I always love because Miss Va’afusuanga is so funny and entertaining. First of all she started of with a little quiz and who ever would get the answers right would get a rugby poster. After the quiz she just told us some of her notices for training and other important stuff containing sports.

Finishing of sports Mr Burt then handed out the duffy certificates and gave our prefects, house captains, and ambassadors their badge. He then finish handing them out and we moved on to handing out book bags for the new year one students that just started school. We then finished assembly off with a Waitangi movie and after that we all left but the house captains and prefects stayed behind.

What I Think Empathy Means?

Empathy is where people are able to understand other people’s feelings. Its also when you know others people’s emotions and can imagine how they’re feeling. For example if someone tripped over and has hurt themselves a friend would probably help them out and ask them if they’re feeling alright.

Empathy also means that you can share other people’s feelings. It can also relate to friendship. True friends can tell each other how their feeling and they can also build a picture in their head of their emotions. Caring for each other can also relate to empathy.

Looking out for one another and caring about how your friends or family are feeling is what I think empathy means. Some of the words that empathy means is caring, emotions, understanding, feelings.

3 P Writing.

The Meaning Of Protection: Protecting others, Looking after gears/friends, Caring.

Protection is a defenition of looking after gears and protecting others. For example at our school our korero is caring and it relates to protection. At our school we have alot of kids and the year eights has to be a good leader and look after the little kids. Being protective can make you become a good leader and alot of people will trust you.

The Meaning Of Participation: Joining in, Participating in sports, Volunteering.

At our school we always do p.e everyday and p.e is where we play alot of games and sometimes do excersize. If we don’t participate in the games we play we would always get told to run around the field or just get in trouble. There are times when people feel left out and joining in can really help.

The Meaning Of Partnership: Working as a team, Meet the teacher, Team member.

Meet the teacher is coming up next week and it is really good to get your parents to meet your new teacher. Working together is helpful because you can make good decisions and agree on one thing. Cooperating with others and working to the best of your ability can be really good.

My Netbook Reflection!

1st writing:

Having my own netbook has really helped me in my learning and work. It has also helped me finish my work faster and in time. Ever since I got my own netbook it changed everything and everything was easier to do. My netbook has also helped at home because I can finish my unfinished work. But it sucks because I only take my netbook home on week days and weekends but not holidays.

Well our school doesn't need to use books any more because we have our own netbooks. Remembering the pain from writing in our books makes me feel glad that we now have a netbook of our own. These netbooks really changed my life and school life especially at home when I’m bored and then I remember that I have my netbook at home so then I go grab it and finish some school work off!

My work has really improved from last year I actually enjoy doing my work alot now!! I really enjoy having my own netbook! I always visit sites that I haven't visited and I sites that I've always wanted to visit and I always keep in contact with my friends at home by going on school gmail and chatting to them.

2nd writing: (Improving)

I have discovered how to use a lot of apps online and I’ve learnt how to post a presentation on my blog all by myself. Having a netbook connected to the internet helped my learning a lot this year. I've learnt heaps on line because we have been researching a lot of stuff on line like we've been researching about Nelson Mandela a lot and I have learnt a lot more about Nelson Mandela then I knew before! I've also researched about MLK (Martin Luther King) and we've been researching different kind of art works for our creative strand this year! On my netbook I have used different math's siteslike xtra maths and maths whizz and it's actually better and it helps me with my maths!

I have learnt a really special thing this year from my teacher and that is how she taught me how look after my netbook properly and carefully and she also tells me to put my netbook in the cupboard before someone just comes and stands on it or something might happen to it! I have learnt how to work apps and do heaps of stuff all by myself online.

Well if I get lost on something and I need help I always think of going to my teacher but then I’m always with my friends and then I just ask them for help and I learn alot of stuff from my friends. I’ve also learnt alot from my dad because he always encourage’s me in doing my work at home and he also taught me how to improve on my work!

I have helped heaps of kids with posting stuff and heaps of other stuff! My key competencies has really grown through using different kind of digital tools.

Christmas Story!

Christmas is nearly here and I’m really excited. At church we always celebrate christmas by getting a money from our savings at church and we always sing christmas songs. My mum and my cousin and I put up our christmas tree and decorated it with different kind of christmas decorations. At our church we also are going to perform a play to show that christmas was the day that Jesus Christ was born! But in our play I am one of the animals. Every christmas my family and I always gather up together at my cousins house and we always do secret santa.

There was this one christmas I think 2 years ago and we went to church to celebrate christmas and our minister of our church calls out our name and then we go get a envelope with money in it. When I went up to get my envelope from our minister and after the whole celebration was done there was a lollie scramble but I was just too excited to see how much money I got. So I quickly opened my envelope and then I counted all of it up and I got $325 because my parents savings goes towards christmas and it comes to ME! I was so happy but my mum told me to give it to her so I only took $20 dollars and gave the rest to her.