Thursday, December 4, 2014

Kaedince's diver story


KD the deep sea diver jumped into the deep blue sea. 

Then he saw an octopus’s eyes.  It was sitting on a treasure box.

By Kaedince

Lagi's diver story


Miss L the deep sea diver jumped into the deep blue sea.

Then she got scared because she found a twinkling treasure box.

Miss L got caught by the octopus long tentacles.  Then the octopus grabbed the treasure box.

By Lagi

Paschal's diver story


On a hot sunny day Tom jumped into the deep black sea.  Then he saw a mean octopus with black eyes.  He got caught by the octopuses long stretchy tentacles.

Then Tom went down to the octopus and said “You have eight tentacles, and your name is Santa, and you have a pumpkin head”  It made the octopus very angry.

By Paschal

Josh's diver story


Ben the deep sea diver jumped into the deep blue sea. He saw a very bad octopus with very spooky black eyes and eight long tentacles sitting on a very old treasure box.  First Ben hid in the seaweed, then he jumped out but the octopus strangled him.

By Josh

Chance's diver story


On a hot sunny day John the sea diver jumped into the sparkly blue water and swam through colourful coral.

Then he saw an octopus singing on a dusty old treasure box.  When the octopus stopped singing he got mean and angry at John.

Then as John was looking at the octopus it hid behind the beautiful coral.  Suddenly. It jumped out at John and John went “Ahh!”  John started to tease they octopus so they started to fight.  When the fight was over his heart was pounding so he went back to his boat without the treasure.

By Chance

Tayah's diver story


The diver jumped into the deep blue sea. He found the octopus and they had a fight and then the octopus swam away.

By Tayah

Levonah's diver story


On a hot sunny day Cody the deep sea diver dived into the twinkly blue waters.

When Cody dived in he got caught by an evil octopus with its long sticky tentacles.  Suddenly he saw something shining at the bottom in the sand so he went to see what it was.  It was a treasure box full of pearls, money and shiney glasses.  When he looked carefully Cody saw an octopus wrapping his gooey tentacles around the golden treasure box.

So Cody slowly sneaked behind the swirling seaweed trying to make no noise.  Then suddenly, he stepped on one piece of seaweed and the octopus looked behind and saw him.  Cody was very scared.

By Levonah

Syriah's diver story


On a hot sunny day Tom jumped into the deep blue sea.  He saw a colourful fish and tried to catch it but he missed it.

Then he saw an octopus sitting on an old treasure box. Tom was scared and wanted to go home to his family.

By Syriah

Piripi's diver story


On a stormy day Toby jumped into icey cold dangerous water and saw sharks everywhere. 

By Piripi

Jazzelles diver story


On a hot sunny day Ben jumped into the deep blue sea and saw lots of colourful fish.  On the way to the bottom of the sea he saw an octopus sitting on a golden treasure box.  He had really mean eyes.  So Ben sneaked behind the seaweed.  Then the octopus wrapped its long tentacles around Ben and tried to strangle him. They had a fight but Ben won and got the treasure box.   Then the octopus drifted off.

By Jazzelle

Marika's diver story


On a sparkling twinkling starry night Mia the deep sea diver splashed into the shimmering sea.

Then she saw a musical golden treasure box with a rainbow octopus kissing it because he loved it so much. When Mia saw the treasure box she fell in love with it too.

Then Mia started to get closer and closer until the octopus noticed she was coming towards the treasure box.  The octopus was terrified because he had found it first.  The octopus had never, ever seen a human before so he cuddled Mia so tightly that she felt like bursting like a balloon.

By Marika

Amira's diver story


On a hot sunny day Ben the deep sea diver jumped into the huge swells.  Then, Oh No! a huge wave swept him away.  Ahhhh!  He tried and tried to pop his head up so that he could breathe.  But he just couldn’t. 

Then he saw an octopus sitting on a new shiney treasure box. Ben tried to get the octopus tentacles off the treasure box but they were sticky and an ugly pink.

Just then Ben went up to the octopus and said “your ugly”.  It was just to make him mad but it didn’t go as planned.

By Amira

Caleb's diver story


On a cold rainy day Mr R jumped into some gentle rippling waves.  The waves washed him in the bright and colourful sea with fish swimming all around him. 

When he sank to the bottom he saw a huge octopus sitting on a golden treasure box.  He tried to sneak up behind the octopus but it saw him and tried to strangle him with his eight long tentacles. They had a fight but Mr R tied up the octopus tentacles with his hands and took the treasure.

By Caleb

Pisirina's diver story


On a blistering hot day Tommy the deep sea diver jumped into the twinkling sea.  Tom saw lots of seaweed swishing backwards and forwards. 

Then he saw it! An octopus with beady eyes was sitting on an old rusty treasure box.  It was filled with pearls and money. 

The octopus was so selfish he didn’t want to share.  Then suddenly the octopus wrapped its gooey tentacles around Tommy, so Tommy stretched up his arms and tied the octopus up like ‘dippity dog’

Tommy was so excited he cried “finally the treasure is mine!” and he quickly excaped from the octopus.

By Pisirina

Eden's diver story


On a stormy winter day Jack jumped into the cold water, shivering. He couldn’t see anything, not even his hand.

So he swam slowly through the deep blue sea until he saw a sparkling treasure box with a singing octopus sitting on the top.  The octopus peeked at Jack and swam away to his family.  So Jack had the treasure box after all.

By Eden

Govanni's diver story


On a black stormy day when the lightening was flashing through the sky Mr G felt scared as he jumped into the cold black sea.

In the cold black sea he could see a mean octopus with two black beady eyes and eight long tentacles sitting on a sparkling new treasure box.  Then the mean octopus began strangling Mr G. But… Finally Mr G got away from the long tentacles and got then sparkling treasure box.

By Giovanni

Tepaia's diver story


On a bright and sunny day Ben dived into the cold deep blue sea and he saw a mean octopus sitting on a box of treasure. The mean octopus had scary black eyes and long sticky tentacles.

Then the octopus wrapped Ben up in his slimy tentacles and tried to strangle Ben.  They had a fight over the golden treasure box of money.  And Ben won.

By Tepaia

Qwanelle and Toby's diver story


One stormy day, Tom the deep sea diver, jumped off the ship into the freezing cold water.  In the water there was a golden treasure box! 

Tom was so excited that he couldn’t even say a word until… he saw an octopus with 8 long sticky, gooey tentacles and beady eyes.  Tom really wanted the treasure box until the octopus wrapped its gooey tentacles around his throat.  Tom was trying to pull the tentacles off.  He used all his strength because he wanted it so much.  Suddenly, Tom got choked by the tentacles as it chased him around the grooving seaweed. 

Then after chasing Tom the octopus was tired and started to cry.  So, Tom quickly grabbed the golden treasure box and climbed back onto his boat.

By Toby and Qwanelle,
Class 16 have been learning how to make paragraphs with 3 ideas about one thing.  They have also been learning how to recraft their writing for meaning, adding juicy detail and punctuation.  They had a little help with some gifted words.  Can you spot what they are?

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Chloe's weekend story

Every week Class 16 write about our weekend story all on our own. Have a listen to see what Chloe did this week. If you like her story please leaver her a comment.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Pisrina's Spring Story

Pisirina really loves spring time. Listen and find out why. If you like her story please leave her a comment.

Pisi Spring Time from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Levonah's Spring story

Levonah loves to write and has lots of details in her stories. If you like her story please leave her a comment. Is there any advice you could give her about her recording?

Levonah Spring Time from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Manaiakalani Film Festival - Toby the Dragon

Marika wrote this story and she decided to create a movie out of it. The story teaches us about being friends with all sorts of different people. Caleb and Toby drew the pictures and some special friends were asked to do the acting.


PES Mackinlay Dragon from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Toby's Spring story

Toby loves to write, and always has lots of ideas he writes about. He really likes using comma's to join his ideas together. Is there any advice you could give him about using commas?

Toby Spring Time from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Sonnia's Spring Time Story

Sonnia loves spring time. Have a listen and find out why. If you like her story please leaver her a comment.

Sonia Spring Time from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Josh's Spring Time story

Josh is getting so much better at recording.  If you like his story and can think of something that can make him even better please leave him a comment.

Josh spring time from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Piripis spring story

Piripi added lots of details to his story. His story just got better and better as he kept listening, improving and recording. He has even got a lovely smile at the end. If you like Piripis story please leave him a comment.
Class 16 are practising how to Learn, Create, Share. We gained inspiration for Spring by walking around outside with our friends, our iPads and our whiteboards. We learned more by looking in books and on the internet. We created our own stories. Then we recorded our stories with our friends. We listened with our friends to see if it was a good story and a good recording. We reflected on it and then re-crafted our story. We love working together.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Tepaia's animation


Sonnia's animation


Pisirina's animation


Paschal's animation


Kaedince's animation


Jacob's animation


Giovannis animation and voice over


Chloe's animation


Chances flight animation


End of term animations of our theme about flight.

For the children to create these animations they have spent many hours initially ensuring a plane had the required details - engines, wings, pilot etc.  Then they learned appropriate words like runway, landing and how they four forces were required for flight to happen.  Each of these animations has at least 30 cards, some even had as many as 70!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Eden's maths strategy

Eden from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Levonah from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Caleb's Maths Strategy

My Movie 12 from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Toby's Maths Strategy

Toby from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Levonah's airplane animation

Levonah has been working hard on her animation too. If you like the detail she has on her plane please leave her a comment.

Samoan Language Week

Eden is a natural performer and loved helping with the Samoan Language week. If you like her performence please leave her a comment.

TAOFI MAU I AU MEASINA - Samoan language week 2014 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Toby's take off and landing animation

Toby has completed his amazing animation about flight.  Watch this space to see how he explains the four forces of flight.

Flying competition

Paper plane. from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Flying competition

Paper plane from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Plane competition

Class 16 have been learning the 4 forces of flight. They then had to design a plane that would either go high in the air or go a long distance. They have also been to MOTAT to see real planes. And... to finish it all off they have completed an animation showing a plane taking off and landing, complete with voice over.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Toby Tying Shoelaces

https://vimeo.com/93818427?email_id=Y2xpcF90cmFuc2NvZGVkfDlkYzEwYjkyN2MzZTNmYjgzNjg0ZDM0NjI0YWNhMDQ4MjYwfDI3NjQwNjIxfDEzOTkxODcwNzV8NzcwMQ==&utm_campaign=7701&utm_medium=clip-transcode_complete-finished-20120100&utm_source=email

Monday, June 16, 2014

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Levonah's story!

Piripi's story!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Josh's weekend news

Josh from Team 1 PES on Vimeo.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Lennox's weekend story

Lennox had fun at the weekend with his family.  Listen to his story and found out what he did.  Please leave Lennox a comment.


Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Josh's Fiafia story

Josh had great fun at the Fiafia.  Listen to his story and find out why.  Please leave him a comment.


Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Jacobs birthday story

Jacob's favourite story was about a birthday.  Listen to find out who's birthday it was and why he like it.  If you like his story please leave him a comment.


Monday, May 5, 2014

Qwanelle's pig story

Qwanelle loved learning about pigs.  He would love to know if you love pigs too.  Please leave him a comment.


Piripi's autumn story

Piripi's 2nd choice.  If you like his story please leave him a comment.

Piripi's fiafia story

Piripi found it really tricky to choose his favourite story too, so he chose two.  This is his first one about the school Fiafia.  If you like his story please leave him a message.


Sunday, May 4, 2014

Giovanni's autumn story

Giovanni loved learning about autumn too.  Listen to how he describes the red leaf using a simile.  If you like his story please leave him a message.


Saturday, May 3, 2014

Toby's autumn story

Toby couldn't make his mind up which was his favourite story so he chose two.  This is his first recorded story about autumn.  Toby has tried really hard in this recording to perform confidently in front of the camera.  If you like his recording please leave him a message.


TePaia's swimming pool story

TePaia loves the pools too.  Listen and find out why.  If you like her story please leaver her a message.


Paschal's swimming story

Paschal loves swimming.  Have a listen and find out what he is really good at.  If you really like his story please leave him a message.


Friday, May 2, 2014

Chances Ambury Farm Story

Team 2 visited Ambury Farm at the end of Term 2 so we have all learned about farm animals too.  Chance describes what she likes about pigs.  If you like her story please leave her a comment.




Thursday, May 1, 2014

Katieanne's pool story

Katieann really enjoys going to the pools and she has a very special talent.  Have a listen and find out what it is. If you like her story please leave her a comment.


Chloe building story.

Chloe really enjoyed watching the builders too.  Have a listen and see what she saw with her own eyes.


Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Levonah's building story.

Levonah really enjoyed learning about how buildings are moved from one place to another.  We were really lucky because we were able to see the process with our own eyes.  Have a listen and see what we saw.  If you like Levonah's story please leave her a comment.


Lagi's weekend story

Lagi had a fantastic weekend with someone.  Have a listen and find out who.  If you like his story please leave him a comment.


Monday, April 28, 2014

Marika's favourite story

Marika really enjoyed learning about what happened at autumn time.  She even learned how to describe what she saw using similes.  If you like her story please leave her a comment.




Jazzelles weekend story

Jazzelle had a fantastic weekend with her family.  Have a listen and found out why. Please leave her a comment if you like her story.


Pisirina's favourite story for Term 1.

Pisirina had a fantastic time with her family.  Have a listen and find out what she did.  Please leave her a comment if you enjoyed her story.
All the children looked through their writing books and decided what was their favourite piece of writing in Term 1. There is such diversity.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Giovanni's picnic story

Giovanni had a fantastic picnic, read his story and find out why.

Lennox's picnic story

Lennox loved the day at the picnic, especially when he was splashing in the sea with his friends.  Read his story and see what else he likes to do.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Jazzelle's picnic story

Jazzelle loved making sandcastles at the beach.  Read her story and find out what else she liked to do.

Piripis picnic story

Piripi had a lovely time splashing in the water at the school picnic.  Read his story and find out what else he liked to do.


Pisirina's picnic story.


Pisirina has heaps of fun at the picnic. Have a read and leave her a message if you enjoyed her story.

Levonah's picnic story

Levonah was one of the star turns at the picnic.  Read her story and find out why.  If you like her story please leave her a comment.


The Pt England School Picnic

Point England School had an amazing whole school picnic.  Have a read and see what the children really enjoyed about it.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Qwanelle is now in Class 16

Welcome Qwanelle to Class 16.

Syriah is now in Class 16.

Welcome Syriah to Class 16.

Paschal is now in Class 16.

Welcome Paschal to Room 16.

Kaedince is now in Class 16.

Welcome Kaedince to Class 16.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Winnie is now in Class 16

Welcome Winnie to Class 16.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Josh is now in Class 16.

Welcome Josh to Class 16

Levonah is now in Class 16

Welcome Levonah to Class 16.

Sonnia is now in Class 16

Welcome Sonnia to Class 16.

Chloe is now in Class 16

Welcome Chloe to Class 16.

Eden is now in Class 16

Welcome Eden to Class 16.

Piripi is now in Class 16

Welcome Piripi to Class 16.

Toby is now in Class 16

Welcome Toby to Class 16.

Lagi is now in Class 16

Welcome Lagi to Class 16.

Katieann is now in Class 16

Welcome Katieann to Class 16.

Jazelle is now in Class 16.

Welcome Jazelle to class 16.

Lennox is now in Class 16

Welcome Lennox to Class 16.

Marika is now in Class 16.

Welcome Marika to Class 16.

Giovanni is now in Class 16.

Welcome Giovanni to Class 16.

Welcome Caleb to Class 16

Welcome Caleb to Class 16.

Welcome Jacob to Class 16

Welcome Jacob to Class 16.