My trials for Samoa

Recently a handful of us from Pt England School got the chance to try out for the Toa Samoa team on Sunday.Today is the big day for the day had come nerves were Strong I felt like I was about to puke we arrived here altogether we were just in time to register so we went and singed we are so excited .  

The kick off for the first trial me ,Jeyan,Jonty,Nathaniel,Steven and Mac we were all on the sideline watching nervously it felt like there was a boxer inside me. 20 more minutes til your trial time the final whistle blew that was it for the first game it was over I and Nathaniel were split up and I was sad, so I sucked up all the tears but I really wanted to burst out and CRY I played my game we walked on the field after the warm ups it was game ''TIME'' even though I had to verse my best friend.Out of no the 1st receiver threw me the ball I ran as hardest as I ever ran before I ran straight at my friend ''BUMP'', as I was coming in for the try Jeyan ankle taped me I fell over and lost all my skin it was cut I acted like it never hurt I hopped off the field and swapped with the other prop I watched from the sideline I cheered on my best friend like I was the sideline parent. ''COME ON BRO'' as Nathaniel was dashing off to the try line the whistle blew ''TIME'' is up it was time to come and sit down and hear if you made it Sione,Nathaniel,Jonty from Mt.Wellington Warriors please make in to the team YEAH!!! we made it in what the way to END a long day.

Immersion Assembly Movie

Netball '09

Take a look at some of the action from the Auckland Netball Courts on Thursday. There are 4 players from our class amongst this talented team. This movie was carefully created by April - see if you can spot her helping her team to victory!

Jonty the player of the day

When I heard that Jonty scored the double , I was amazed that he got two player of the days on the very same day - I was so ecstatic about it. Mr Palmer spoke out and told us the score was 51 to 7 our whole school was amazed at our rugby boys WOW but when I heard Jontys name for player of the day I was so blown away ''he must be a really good player I thought to my self."

Then Mr Jacobsen announced the SOCCER there were 5 games played Pt England drew 1 and won 4. Mr Jacobsen said the soccer player who stood out was the boy who already got Player of the Day Jonty again! My ears couldn't believe it - two 'Player of the Day' certificates WOW, soccer and rugby must a great player!
Well until the next time I write about sport - see you.
Sione.

Studio Seventeen News.........

It s news time..............Here's a few things that grabbed our attention from TVNZ this week.

Bad weather stopped efforts to reach ferry.

We were happy to see in the News that the Princess Ashika, the Tongan Ferry which sank, has finally been located and they will be able to recover it .For more information go to TVNZ.co.nz then click on to world news.

Sports......

End of year tour for Silver Ferns!

Netball New Zealand confirmed on Friday that the Silver Ferns will play England And Jamaica after the world series in Manchester this year.

I'll keep you posted
Maree

Writing Gems...

Shrek at Pt.England School

BY SIONE

Long Lean Lanky Jones!

A very strange thing happened at our Assembly last Friday. Everyone was surprised when our principal Mr Burt appeared on stage wearing a shiny long beautiful red dress with a wacky fluorescent wig, and dancing.
It was a little confusing to understand their song which was called Along Came Jones. It began with Mr Palmer one of our teachers, he came out, plonked himself down on a soft armchair and glued himself to the TV. Suddenly our assembly went wild with laughter, as our Principal pranced out in his fancy dress closely followed by the evil villain, played by Mr J. Then he tied her up and left her for dead on the railroad track"...watch and see what happened next.

We really enjoyed it and thought it was a hilarious example of our theme this term, which is called "The Art In Story Telling".

By Mauina , Etta, Maree, Gabby, Jordan, Sione and Charm.

Hypsilophodon

By Latu

Room 17 have been thinking.....

DINO-MIGHT - STEGOSAURUS

BY FEKI

Fight of the T-Rex

By Casey

The Megalosaurus

By Raven

DINOSAURS

Dinosaurs were big and mighty.

I know that some were huge and spikey.

No one knows if their teeth were sharp and shiny.

Omnivores were humongous and heavy.

Some were large and definitely bitey.

A dinosaur that I know is very big and often scary.

Unbelievable to think, that they have all become extinct.

Roar - their mouths were stink and smelly.

Some had teeth that were rotten and turned things into jelly

By Sharon

The Evil Queen

It sent a shiver down my spine as Mrs Tele'a posed with a sinister stare. She pulled out the Ox's heart from her hand bag I thought "are you for real?". In disguise as the evil queen, she was demanding proof from her mirror - "Who is the fairest of them all?"

By Raven

Immersion Assembly

We've had another great Immersion Assembly to kick off our new Term. Our teachers all dressed up as various characters from Fairytales, as this term our topic is called 'The Art in Storytelling.' We're working on writing some great sentences that describe some of the teachers costumes.


Miss Garden's dress looked frilly and frothy, a bit like candy floss but white. When she glided on to the stage she looked like a princess. Some people said Miss Garden looked sweet and demure.

By Raven

I cracked up when I saw Miss Tito clowing around.
Her costume was an oringnal and creative idea for this term.

By Gabby.

Nga Korero

Check out Silver Literacy Group's latest movie. Their task was to both share with people, and explain the reason for some of the Weekly Korero. Take a look and see what they created...

The hardest game ever!

Every Thursday night Pt England Netballers go up to the Auckland Netball Courts and play some really hard games. Last night our J1 s had another great battle against the Auckland Netball Centre (ANC) Year 6's. It was a very hard game but we played really well and never gave up chasing the ball. When the buzzer went for full time the final score was 15 to to us and 20 to them. Our player of the day was Latu she really deserved it.

By Maree.

The Coldest Day Ever!

It was exceptionally cold and there was a beautiful blanket of frost on our field the other morning. The following is a collection of our sentences that we decided were our best!!


I felt really cold, I was like a penguin in Antarctica.

By April.

The bark from the tree was slippery like ice.

By Casey.

Every time I breathed into the air it looked like fog was coming out of my mouth.

By Charm.

When I placed my hand on the wall it felt cold and wet.

By Etta.

It sent goose bumps through my hands because it was sooooo cold.

By Feki.

April and I made foot prints in the cold, icy grass.

By Gabby.

I knew it was cold because I saw a lot of fog come off the lake.

By Mauina.

I walked down to the playground, I was feeling like we Rm 17 were red and black penguins strolling to the Antarctica but it was at school.

By Nathaniel.

As Rm 17 strolled to see the ice beside the playground on the field it looked like it was an ice hockey stadium because the field was covered in sparkly ice.

By Jonty.

I could feel the breeze, it was so chilly!

By Latu.

As my class were strolling to the playground you could see ice on the field and on the playground. If you took off your shoes and played on the grass your feet got numb and you couldn't feel it.
By Zane.

It felt like I was a human ice block.

By Sione.

When I touched the grass my hand got very cold.

By Tevita.

As I swiped my hand on the cold icy grass it froze my fingers together.

By Henry.

As I was strolling on the field it was wet and it looked like a huge sheet of sugar.
By Tracey Matina Vaine.

Dino-Might!

Wow, I couldn't wait to see my teacher and my friends.
Class opened and I zoomed into class and said "good, morning" to my teacher. Everyone looked bigger and had new hair styles, like Gabrielle she had cut her hair.
The bell finally rang and I wasn't sure what we were going to do.We went to the hall and sat down.When I looked at the teachers they looked so different.Team two looked like they were going to a party. The Team three teachers looked like they were spies, they were carrying all kinds of tools like magnifying glasses and cameras. I liked team four because of their horrifying faces.
After a few minutes Mrs Tele'a came and was going to sing a new song, but then she asked Team 2 if they could help with the echo. They said "Yes". So they came up and accompanied Mrs Tele'a with her song, it was very funny. The song that they sang was about dinosaurs because our topic this term was about dinosaurs.
I SURE CAN'T WAIT TO GET INTO OUR TOPIC AND LEARN LOTS OF THINGS ABOUT THE MIGHTY DINOSAURS.

By Sharon