PB4L Matrix

Respecting is awesome!
By Dora

Malama Hounua

Malama Honua Event

On a hot sunny Wednesday Morning,Glenbrae school students walked to Pt. England beach to see the wakas Hourua Hokule’a and the Hikianalia that had come from Hawaii.  When we got there, we quickly settled down on the grass and waited first the crew to come a shore.

When the crew started coming to the shore in a small speed boat,  all the schools sang a waiata called E Oho and we kept on singing until everyone was on the shore.

Then the Kau matua welcomed all the crew to Pt. England with speech and then the children sang another waiata and did the haka.

Lastly, all the schools had to go down to the beach and hi 5 the Hawaiian crew.  Then we all got into our school lines and walked back to our schools.

2015 Cricket World Cup

2015 Cricket World Cup Finals

• It was held in Melbourne,Australia.
• It was on Sunday 30th March 2015.
• It was the first time New Zealand made it in the finals.
• Australia beat New Zealand by 7 wickets.
• 92,000 people in MCG Stadium.
• New Zealand vs Australia.
• Taylor and Elliot were good partnership.
• Australia won the World Cup five times.
• New Zealand’s first visit to Australia in six years.

Anti Bullying

Thursday 12th March 2015 

WALT: I am learning to write a Recount in Paragraphs. 

On Wednesday the 11th of March 2015 in the morning Room 10 and the year 7s in Room 9 had to lined up and walked to the School hall because we were having a  workshop about anti bullying with Petia Wilson and Leah Tuia. We were with Leah because Caroline was not here but we did not mind.

 We discussed about different cultures and the different types of cultures to which we belong, they are Samoans, Tongans, Maoris,Niueans, Africans and Cook Islanders. Then we went in to groups according to the cultures that we belong to. The Samoans in the corner and Tongans in the other corner and each culture was in a corner or in the middle.They gave us a paper one each for a group and we were asked to write about the greetings, language we speak, what important to us and so on.They told us to write it down and then we can do a dance or sing a song.The Tongan group sang a song, the Niuean did a song and were dancing at the same time,the Maori did a Pukana and Hongi and Last of all the Samoa’s did a samoan dance.

The only South African was Samuel but he spoke what he wrote on the paper, he was shy but I was happy because he was brave enough to stand up and speak. After all the Singing and Dancing Petia drew the picture of Hulk because he is a super hero. He played the music called “don’t forget your family and friends” it was very good. Petia was amazing because the picture he drew looked like the real Hulk.

After all ended we lined up and went back to class. It was very good and we all enjoyed by knowing our culture and also other cultures.

By Dora Masua

Earthquakes Poem

Emergence

After building busted

Running away

Terrible

Helpless people

Quakes

Unhappy people every where

Awful lives are lost

Kind people help the people who are trapped

Extreme earthquakes

Fraction Splat

Today I played a challenging Fractions Game Titled Fraction Splat and I scored 81 points out of 500.I had fun playing.

Paint Job

This story is about how Mark was saving his money to go and buy some sneakers which he always was using wearing. The first time he swimming in the summer, he put his sneakers under his towel but when he came back, it was gone. He looked under every ones towel that was there. He grinned and his face was red. He search for it in his class by looking through all the shoes of the other children in his class.

Next his mum told him that he had new sneakers that she bought from the second hand shop then Mark felt like his face was burning. He found out that the sneakers that his mum bought were his sneakers that were missing at the pools. When Mark got the shoes that his Mum bought from the second hand shop, he painted out the brand because he was ashamed of it.