Laser Cut Earrings Design.

 

Fiafia Earrings Design with Google Draw 

Our Year 5 and 6 students are designing earrings that reflect their culture to cut out using our laser cutter. They will have the chance not only to take them home but to sell them at our Fiafia night.

These earring ideas reflect the Muslim heritage and interests of one of our students. We can only use two colours in this design process. Red tells our machine to cut and cut, and black tells it to engrave or draw.

Heroes - Manaiakalanai Film Festival

When Covid-19 arrived in Aotearoa, communities across the country united to eliminate the virus.  

We are strong.

We are kind.

We are united.

G.I ZILLA

Those people trashing our oceans should watch out, they don’t know what’s coming to them. Remember kids, pick up your rubbish before the King of the Monsters gets grumpy…

The XChange!

Team 3 Healthy Sandwich Design!

Preparing the Garden for Active Families

This year Makerspace and Tāmaki Wrap we are partnering with Sport Auckland! 

Pt England have students and whānau taking part in Sport Auckland's Active Families programme. We are helping by sharing one of our raised garden beds and starting a Pt England Mahi Māra Gardening Club.

Our first job is to prepare the garden. Over the hot, dry summer holidays the soil dried up so we are going to replace it with healthy compost from the EcoMatters trust. 

Volunteers from Room 1 and across the school have been working every day to loosen and remove the hard soil- it's hot, hard work but together we are getting there- Kia Pai te Kotahi!

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RECYCLEMONSTER

Have you ever seen a Recyclemonster?

Well I have...

It was a bit crazy!

It was very big and very scary!

Watch out…

Because if you don’t put your rubbish in the bin…

THE RECYCLEMONSTER'S GONNA GET YOU!!!*

When the writing crew this year decided this year to make a film about recycling, we wanted to get your attention by giving you a friendly scare! You'll never think the same  about chucking your recycling on the ground again...

CREDITS

School Kids: Toni, Delijah, Laolao & Mata 

The Recyclemonster: Zaeeda & Daniella

Camera Assistant: Mata

Script: Daniella, Delijah, Laolao, Mata, Toni & Zaeeda
Choreography: Toni

Music: 'In My Feelings' by Drake

©PES MAKERSPACE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS MMXVIII

*In the making of this movie no children were harmed :)

Team 2 Raised Gardens: Strawberries!

After lots of hard work clearing the weeds and building our raised gardens, today we planted our first crop....  

 

Strawberry plants! We look forward to watering the plants, helping them grow and eating the fruit when they are ripe!

Vector EPro8 Challenge 2018

The Roots at Pt England- No Six video

It has been an amazing experience to have The Roots at Pt England this term helping us create our vertical gardens, water filters, water tanks and teach us so much about the water in our environment.  

We were also lucky to have the crew at No Six helping us, taking beautiful photos and making this awesome video.

No Six is a multi-platform digital media brand curating, developing and connecting a new generation of young content creators from the South Pacific to global audiences. They are based in Tāmaki Glen Innes.

  

Robotics Rōpū Soft Plastic Compactor Prototyping

 

 

Leilani films modifying a plastic bin

This week we started experimenting with compression  to reduce the size our soft plastics recycling bins. 
We are drilling, cutting and sliding small plastic bins as prototypes. 

Freedom compresses rubbish

As much as we compressed the soft plastics, they would expand again. Tha Zin had a 'eureka' moment when she thought of bagging up the plastic before compression.

We don't want to buy any bags. Luckily we had a roll of old plastic lying around so our new challenge was how to turn it into a compression bag.   


                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                              EUREKA!






We are writing down our ideas to record our  learning but the ZTL team had to work together to safely drill holes in their Prototype. They used their laptops to film their learning so they can review their techniques and ideas.













Leilani, Zaeeda and Tha Zin with the ZTL Prototype

Bincurity Slideshow

Robotics Rōpū Kaupapa

Robotics Rōpū begins!

Matt and Carsten from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare help our Robotics Rōpū brainstorm ideas about how we can use technology at Pt England School to reduce waste. 
Our Rōpū  had some amazing ideas and and shared them with each other instantly through shared slides and docs. We are using our blogs to share our progress with the school and the world. 

Motutapu Tree Planting

On Sunday we went travelled by ferry to Motutapu Island to help the Motutapu Restoration Trust plant native trees.

 By the end of the day we had planted 900 trees!

Thank you David, Christine and the Kiwanis group for providing this amazing opportunity for students to represent Pt England for the second year in a row. We can't wait to go back next year! 

Eels at Pt England

Bincurity!

Recycling bins have arrived at Pt England this term. We have a friendly  'Bincurity' force to help you chuck your rubbish it in the right bin. 

Tread Lightly Assembly - Soft Plastic Recycling

Domini from Tread Lightly came to Pt England today to talk to us about soft plastic and remind us to "Chuck it in the Right Bin!" when we recycle. 

Roll, marble roll!

We are studying motion and physics this term in I Like to Move it!  We started the first week learning about gravity by making marble runs! 

       

Curious Minds- Our Flounder Story so far

 Read the story of our flounder project, recorded here on the Curious Minds website

We will be hosting a new species of fish in term three... stay tuned!