Kia Ora, this term for the next 4 weeks on Friday we are having swimming lessons at Massey Park pools, last week Friday we learned how to float they weren’t yet teaching us to swim they were just teaching us how to survive if you get pushed into a pool then we went to the warm pool and swam under a floaty then swimming through a hoop to then grab a sinkies also we did a little things like doing handstands then we had to find the sinkies that the instructor throws, in that session I learnt how to properly float, what to do when someone is drowning which is not to jump in because your also putting yourself in danger.

Greetings & Salutations viewers, today in this blog I will be talking about my experience in Tamatoa ( One Warriors Sponsorship ) So come with me on this rugby league journey full of skills, effort and energy!

First and foremost, our first session was during maths, and we had to prepare in separate lines. We didn’t take this opportunity for granted and our attitudes and behaviour were on point. Our learning intention was effort and energy, and we did bring the effort, 5/10 i’d say, but towards the end it was definitely a 10/10. At first glance, we were in a circle, and we had a brief conversation on the rules, the people, and the games. My main focus was effort and energy, so after the circle moment we spread out into separate teams. We started with a game called ” Shadow Box Battles ” for those who don’t know what that game is about, its in summary, where you play in consecutive teams, and start off with a game of paper, scissors, rock. And afterwards, you had to play a game of Shadow Box. In the end, I didn’t have any wins, but I tried and that was all that mattered.

Secondly, our instructors ” Casey ” ” Zavier ” and another instructor that I didn’t quite get his name. So then after that we did another game of stealing the ball from others, and my partner was ” Chris ” and another instructor. The rounds were quite easy and I won everytime, really proud of myself for that one. Then my stomach started to grumble, it felt like a global storm was forming. But i fought through it, and won the battle of stomach gurgles. Then after the battles of stealing rugby balls, we separated into two even teams, and played a game called ” Stacey Waka ” a similar game to tennis where you have two goalkeepers that guards the ball to avoid the other surrounding people to catch it. This activity was really fun, and my favourite out of every other activity, because it was energy-filling and enthusiastic within every individual that played.

Another activity that we played was like Stacey Waka, but we had to pass the ball and our aim was so that the ball could touch the grass, in order to get points. My passing skills were quite good due to past sessions of constant rugby union training. And so the game lasted 30 to 40 minutes, a perfect ending to the session. Overall we came back into a circle and did a debrief of many activities that we played and a rating from 1-10 of our energy from the start to the end. I am grateful that the Tamatoa company is able to come to our school and give us this wonderful opportunity that not many school could have. Thank you for reading my blog, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

Nga Mihi

Pantaleon Natoealofa

The reason I wrote these questions was because this week we have been planning a biography – (making a story about someone) – on day 1 we looked at a story called ‘Keith’. It was about Lee (Lee is the grandchild of Keith, but Lee was the one that wrote the story). That was our inspo through the week, and then we started planning for a family member. We started by writing what qualities our family members have, then did three columns that had Early / Life, Important / Experiences, and Strengths / Contributions. We put things that we knew about them into these subheadings. After we did that, we made questions that were going to be our biography.

1 – EL / what was it like to grow up?

Do you think that shaped who you are today? 

2 – EL /  What are some important memories you still remember?

Why do they stand out the most?

3 – EL / What made you keep pushing yourself, even when it got difficult?

What was some advice you got while going through hard times?

4 – EL / Why did you decide to take this path-way?

If you could change one thing, what would you change?

5 – EL / How did you make it through high school?

What challenges did you face and how did you overcome it?

6 – SC / Why did you want to support yourself?

Did you want to get an early feel of what growing up would be like?

7 – SC / Why is being helpful, thoughtful, good when going to school?

Could you tell me a time when you showed any of these qualities? Discbe what it felt like when showing them? 

8  – SC / Do you think doing art makes an impact on you?

In what ways do you think it does?

9  – SC / How has your Responsability made an impact on others?

Did it make you feel good that you helped others?

10 – SC / Is being smart helpful when doing new things?

If not then explain what you need, if yes then why?

11 – IE / How did it feel knowing you got a job?

And why was it that feeling?

12 – IE / How was prom for you?

What did it feel like or how could you describe the experience?

13 – IE / Was turning 16 an important experience in your life?

Do you think you had a fun time?

14 – IE / Where is your favorite place?

And why is it important to you?

15 – IE / What was it like travelling to new places?

Was it exciting or nerve wracking?

Today, we got the opportunity to have some visitors come to our school. They taught us certain values, and how to show teamwork while using a rugby ball. Our learning intention is to show effort and energy towards activites. Our instructors are people that cooperates with the Warriors team; such as Alicia, Katelyn, and 1 more. Altogether they taught us how to show teamwork in a various amount of activities, often using a rugby ball.

Therefore, the group that participated today is the girls, called tupumaia. It was exciting getting to participate in certain activites. One of my favourite activites that I got to participate with was a game called along the lines of  “Pass To Tag”, allowing you to attack the opposing team players by passing the ball to each other. The person holding the ball cannot run or move with it (though they can twist or turn). Defenders try to run, intercept, the people trying to tag them. If you get tagged you are out. And there is a timer to decide which team lasts the longest while running from the taggers.

There was many other games and discussions, and I really enjoyed them especially while using teamwork. I am grateful to the Tupu Māia foundation for providing this opportunity. Overall I am looking forward to the next session with them.

Kia Ora readers and bloggers,

This week for writing we have been writing about butter squishy.

Doing this made me super inspired in writing. We couldn’t make the butter squishy because there where to many people that where away. Our teacher that we do writing with said that we could do it next tuesday so I am supper excited.

My favourite part so far was writing about what we needed. This is all that is on my blog thanks for reading. I love blogging about squishys.

Kia Ora Bloggers,

Today I will be talking about how to make pinch pots. So what we have been doing in the afternoons is learning how to make a pinch pot we also learned how to make design on them to and we also had to put some patterns but with some of the beeds here are the steps we had to follow.

1. We had to take the air bubbles out.
2. We had to slam the clay on the table so that we can get the air bubbles out.
3. We had to roll it into a ball.
4. We had to put our thumb in the middle of the clay.
5. We had to pick the clay so that it could make a round bowl kinda of thing.
6. We had to pick a colour that had numbers on it and I picked kinda like a green and blue colour.
7. When we were done we had to put our initials and for my initials I wrote ZK because those are my two initials.

Here are some of the images.

KIA ORA

We have been learning about stop motion stop motion, it can be 3D or 2D.  3D is when you stand it up and 2D is when you put it down  flat and you can take photos and even put it up on YouTube and  get likes!

The stop motion video showed the value Kaitiakitanga. Kaitakittanga is adout gaurtianship and caring for the land.

In my story sam showed Kaitiakitanga by picking up rubbish on the playground. And he put it in the rubbish bin.

Kio ora

This term we are going to swimming every friday we have to go after morning tea then we have to wait at the park when the van come thats when my class go’s to massy pools. When we get there we get groups of 5 I think. When we are buddy up we get ready to swim. When we are in the pool we get some instructions 1 we do not put our head under the water 2 we do not jump in the deep end we have to trun on our backs and go in the water. 3 Also the reason why we do not put our head under the water so we can still hear what the instructions.

By Xaviah.

Kia Ora readers and bloggers,

Yesterday in the afternoon we made clay pinch pots. To decorate them we put beads on them and our initials, we also added patterns. The photos we took loo stunning. Here are some photos of what we made,

I like making clay pots because we can be creative.

Thank you for reading my blog.

This week year 5s have been Learning about division divisors. methods. And it is really hard for me But I try hard to do it. OK if you dont know this Its a bus stop we have been learning about it, it is like a short cut for division but I honestly  think that using the time tables method is easier. But this is how you do it.

2  divided by 24 =

1 4

2 24  like that it is not really like that but It is easier on a board.

I am really bad at it but if I try harder I will get it some of the year 5s cheat but thats not gonna help you get better.

OK so if I dont know I will work harder and try harder and I will also be strong and try to do answers.

Kia Ora all readers!

On Fridays we go to the Papakura pools starting in October for 5 weeks. We learn how

to swim and most importantly we need to learn how to float and call for help. We go to three different groups that teach

us different swimming life skills.

I’m from Papakura Edmund Hillary School and we drive to the pools in a van and drive back.If it’s sunny we can play in the park for a while. Here are photos of us at the pools!

Kia ora greetings

On Friday Me and my classmates  have been trying to make pinch pots. and its really fun we had different kinds of decorations to add  to the pinch pot I had lots and lots of fun making them my pinch pot is really bad  so to make that better I would practice everyday and try to make it perfect. and also try to  follow the instructions.

anyways I like my pinch pot but I want to change it because It looks a bit fooby so I will try to make it look better.

Kia Ora readers and bloggers,

Last Friday, we went to Massey Park pools for swimming. It was super exciting because I love swimming in water. When we went in the water we learn’t how to float on our back. Here are some photos of us swimming,

OK this is all i’m posting on my swimming blog for today update next week.

Thank you for reading my blog.

Kia Ora Bloggers And Writer,

Today I will be talking about what the year fives have been doing in writing time. So what we have been doing in writing time is that we learned how to make a paper butter squishy and when we made a paper butter squishy we had to use A5 paper and we have also been writing it in Class Companion and we also had to write our goal and our goal is to teach other people how to make a paper butter squishy. Here is my writing that I have copied into a new document in my writing.

• How to make a paper butter squishy
• My goal is to teach other people how to make a paper butter squishy.
• Firstly you will need Materials and Tools.
• You will need scissors to cut half of the paper.
• You will need A5 paper to make the paper butter squishy.
• You might want to add some colour so some colouring pencils/crayons
• You will need tape to cover the A5 paper.
• You will need stuffing/filling/cotton to fill the A5 paper to the top until it is full.

Prepare

• Thirdly you will need to Gather Materials
• Make it on the table so it does not get on the carpet
• You will need enough space to make a paper butter squishy.
• Thirdly you will need to prepare for Assemble.
• Fold A5 paper in half and then in half again
• Four equal piece
• Fold top right corner
• Fold bottom left corner

Decorate

• Colouring (yellow and blue)
• Colour whole paper yellow and for the title on the paper butter squishy use the blue colouring pencil to write salted butter on the top in bolb writing.

Stuff and Seal

• You will need to cut a piece of tape.
• Put it on the side till there is no gaps.
• Put the stuffing into the paper butter squishy until the stuffing/filling reaches to the top of the paper butter squishy.

Test

• Pick up the paper butter squishy.
• NOW SQUISH IT!

The week, Room 9 had gotten assigned a writing project. We are learning to use explanation writing so that we can research about a significant person towards our school. Our topic to write was Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Tenzing Norgay. Therefore I decided to choose Sir Edmund Hillary, considering he is the name of our school. I used many sources for my research such as “Te Ara” and simply searching on google.
Here is my writing below:

The Rise Of Sir Edmund Hillary

Early Life:
Sir Edmund Hillary came from a humble background. Born on the 20th of July 1919, in Auckland, New Zealand. He was raised in the farming town of Tuakau by his parents, Percival Augustus Hillary, who was a beekeeper and the founder of the Tuakau District News, and his mother, Gertrude Hillary, who worked as a teacher.

Throughout his younger days, he was considered a shy child with a small build; starting from his youth, he began gaining an interest in climbing mountain tops, as he read various books and studies of mountaineers. During his teenage years, his physical confidence grew as he started boxing. Then, a much deeper interest in mountain climbing started developing. His desire grew from a school trip, as he had the chance to have a trip to Mt Ruapehu in 1935. It gave him his first experience of mountain climbing, and he especially enjoyed the snow. As Sir Edmund mentioned, “I returned home with a fiery enthusiasm for the sun and the cold and the snow, especially the snow.”

Early Mountaineering:
Sir Edmund’s family decided to move to Remuera Road, Auckland. He unfortunately experienced setbacks at college. As a result, he decided to pursue full-time beekeeping, joining his father and brother.

Sir Edmund had the opportunity to attend a club that taught physical, psychological, and spiritual health. From there, his passion for the outdoors grew even more. It was the love of outdoor travels and the tendency to endure the heavy weight on his back. His beekeeping skills definitely benefited his strength and agility. He also trained in major mountain ranges along with Sir Graeme Dingle. Together they shared a profound lifelong connection, highlighted in the Southern Alps by an iconic 1970-1971 expedition up Aoraki / Mount Cook.

Hillary climbed his first 3,000-metre mountain peaks, Malte Brun and Hamilton, in the Southern Alps. Despite his ability and quality fitness, Hillary still lacked technical mountaineering proficiency. Then came along Harry Ayres, considered one of the most talented mountain guides. Together they climbed Mount Aoraki/ Mount Cook (New Zealand’s highest mountain) on the 30th of January, 1947.
Hillary did many expeditions towards the Himalayas, demonstrating mountain climbing of long distances along with Riddiford, Lowe, and others.

The Mount Everest Climb:
His hard work and dedication led up to this moment where Sir Edmund Hillary would climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on land in the world. Hillary carried about 27 kilograms of heavy mountaineering pack, including an air tank. His resource pack contained the essential survival and climbing gear required for high-altitude exploration.

Hillary and his partners persevered, arriving at each base camp until some discontinued, leaving Tenzing and Hillary on their own. Climbing beyond the horizon of the snowy weather, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary faced an unexpected steep barrier (later named “the Hillary Step”). Here, Hillary wedged himself between the frost and snow, wriggling up; thus, the way was clear to the summit. As a result, on 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay arrived at the highest ground of Mount Everest. Together they spent about 15 minutes at the peak, viewing the horizon, taking photographs, planting flags, and even burying small amounts of food into the snow as offerings. Upon their safe return, Hillary spoke a famous line to Lowe (Hillary’s close friend and climbing partner), “Well George, we knocked the bastard off!”

After Everest:
Sir Edmund Hillary’s life changed forever after his climb. More than half a century later, he prolongedly stood as the world’s most famous mountaineer. He continued a lifetime of exploration, public service, and humanitarian work.

Hillary wrote several books throughout his life about his mountaineering expeditions, especially after he climbed Everest. These include “High Adventure” and “The Crossing of Antarctica”.

On 6 June 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, shortly after he and Tenzing climbed Mount Everest. It was the formal honour given by a monarch (such as the British sovereign) to recognise Hillary for his major achievements and bravery, as he was an iconic New Zealander, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

In 1961, he started establishing and helping with building schools, his first being “Khumjung School”. He helped build 27 to 42 schools, and he supported infrastructure improvements across more than 60 schools, along with teacher training, scholarships, and medical clinics in the Solukhumbu region.

From 1985 to 1988, Hillary served as a high commissioner representing New Zealand. He was commissioned for India and Bangladesh, and concurrently as Ambassador to Nepal. This lasted about 4 years.

In 1992, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand declared Hillary as the person to be on the New Zealand $5 note to honour his historic 1953 summit of Mount Everest. During that era, Hillary was the first living person who was not a head of state to appear on a NZ banknote.

On 11 January 2008, Sir Edmund Hillary passed away due to heart failure; the majority of his ashes had been scattered in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf (Waitematā Harbour) in New Zealand, and the remaining portion was maintained in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal. Overall, he lived a life of great opportunities, each one allowing him to grow, learn, and experience things that many could dream of. Throughout his inspiring journey, he was fortunate enough to encounter countless possibilities that shaped his character, and helped him become the person he was remembered to be.

Kia Ora Swimmers,

Today I will be talking you through what we have been doing in swimming on Fridays. So what we have been doing on Fridays is going to the pools for four weeks that is apart of our school learning I wanna talk you through of what we have been doing so what we have been doing is we have been going to swimming for four weeks because it is apart of our school learning. We had to get into groups so that the groups were equal and then we would be able to go into our swimming lessons here are the things we had to do.

1. We had to get in our groups
2. We had to follow the rules that our instructor told us to do.
3. We went into the water.
4. We had to walk in a circle in the water for any sharp objects.
5. We had to walk in the pool.
6. We had to line up on the wall.
7. We had to pare up with a buddie.
8. We had to swim through a hullahoop.
9. We had to grab a stinky underneath the water.
10. We had to swim underneath a floaty and grab a stinky.

Photo’s

FROM ZULAIKHA THE END!

Kia Ora

This week we have been learning about the prefix, e. The prefix e means to get out of or from like the word eject.

Three sentences with letter E

Elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth.

Three meanings with  the prefix e

Eject means to get out.

Evict means Forced out

Enter means to go inside

Kia ora

This week in room 10 been learning about E, you might be thinking the letter E but no, its like words that start with E like Exit, Evade and other more, this is called prefix, E means out of from and other one is Ex there’s lots of words that have Ex’s but there’s different meanings for these words, phom means I or me its like talking about yourself and prefix means a letter or group of letter added to the begging of a word like un, re, mis, and other more. but I hoped you liked my Blog

This week room 10 has been working on a prefix that started with (e) and that can give you a powerful clue for reading, spelling and vocabulary.

3 sentences with (e)

A fire in a school (exit) out of your school.

To (explain) how I got 1st place in swimming.

I (explore) the world and learn new things around the world.

Kia Ora reader

This is my blog about Phom practice which we’ve been doing since week one
This weeks Prefix is about the letter E we have been learning about Prefix to help our reading, spelling and vocabulary.