ANZAC production@PES

From GI to being remembered on ANZAC...a story of a young couple from Glen Innes, hopes and dreams for their first born. Watch this movie to find out what happens next. A great big hand for Ms Muliaumasealii and her fantastic team of parent and teacher support who made this happen. Kia ora tamariki - you were all outstanding!! Pt England Performing ARTS - PEPA you rock!! Have a wonderful break with your families. See you in Term 3.

ANZAC - Pt England Performing Arts Production Term 2 2014 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

TAOFI MAU I AU MEASINA - Samoan language week launch@PES

Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Samoan Language Week: Sunday 25 – Saturday 31 May “Taofi mau i au measina: Hold fast to your treasures”. Minister of Pacific Island affairs - Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, launched the Samoan Language week in Auckland at Pt England School. This was a wonderful occasion where we shared the celebration with our local Samoan language nest - Aoga a le Teuila, based at the Tamaki Pacific Islanders Presbyterian church. Tamaki College Samoan group were also part of the celebrations, ending our time together with a beautiful song all about the beauty of Samoa, it's way, language and youth. Malo faafetai lava mo lenei avanoa taua. Ia ola pea lo tatou gagana i totonu o tatou aiga, aoga, ekalesia ma nuu o loo tatou galulue ai.

40 years for World Vision...22 years for PES!

This year marks 40 years of the 40 hour famine in NZ for World Vision. For us at Pt England it marks our 22nd years of participating in this event. Our school, whanau and community are very supportive of us and it's looking like we're going to make our goal of raising over $1,000! A special thank you to all our sponsors and the extra support we receive from world vision and their education sector. Looking forward to seeing how our funds support the children of Malawi.

World Vision PES 20 hour famine team from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Kia pai te kotahi

"Kia Pai Te Kotahi" PEPA Band from Team 3 PES on Vimeo.

This is an entry for the 2014 Manaiakalani Film Festival. Kia pai te kotahi - better together is a song and MTV produced by the students of the Pt England Performing Arts Band. This project was lead by their creative teacher Olivia Muliamasealii. It captures some of their journey that had this song captured and recorded into what you hear today. Kia pai te kotahi Manaiakalani!

Outlook for Someday Workshop

Our year 7 and 8 students had the privilege of learning from Chris and Elai from the Outlook for Someday. They learned all about sustainability in some of it's forms. The next step was learning about how to include some of these themes/ideas in a movie. Our team of students are currently working on movies to submit in this years movie competition. Check out what they made in a very short time with the guidance of Elai and Chris. Special thanks to the Outlook for Someday and their tutors Elai and Chris. It was a day of impact in terms of learning, creating and sharing for us here at PES. The way you quickly gauged the ability and understanding of this group was most impressive. You are great tutors of movies and the impact they can have. We learned very quickly about sustainability through your workshop. Our students reflected that they thoroughly enjoyed the 'how and what'of you taught. We look forward to working a lot more with the Outlook for Someday team. Kia Ora Koutou!

PEPA shows Pt England School's cultures and more Part 2

Performing Arts @ Pt England School Part 2 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

PEPA shows Pt England School's cultures and more

Term 2 saw a number of wonderful events unfold in our school. One was a brilliant performance led by Miss Muliaumasealii that saw our cultures being boldly represented in a 8 minute performance. Our community and even visitors from Google were there to witness and capture this event. This is part 1 of a two part movie that shows you this outstanding performance. Well done to all the tutors, students and parents who contributed to this event.

Going hard out for the hungry 2013!

This year our extension students went hard out for the hungry again! We went without food for 20 hours to experience in a very small way what it is to go without food. This included a sleepover on a Friday evening and early rise the following day. We had a lot of fun together - learning more about Papua New Guinea and the children we were fundraising for. We also had the privilege of the famine ambassadors - that's right the ones you've seen on television visit us. They led us through activities that had us understanding what it was to have limited food resources and how this has so many bad knock on effects in a community. There's much more that we did - please visit Josephines blog to find out more about this life saving event. We are proud to report that to date we have fundraised over $1,200 from a group of 22 students. Thanks to Devon and her team from World Vision, our parents, teachers, families and friends who have helped us to raise these funds. We look forward to finding out what this does for our friends in PNG.  Thanks to Josephine for editing the movie below.

THF from KPE TV on Vimeo.

Will.i.Am gifts Manaiakalani

Will.i.Am from the Black Eyed Peas today visited our school. He is a recording artist, song writer, performer, entertainer, philanthropist and more. He came with a big group of people that included the media, friends and family. Hallensteins clothing company helped to bring him to our school. Will presented us today with a cheque of $100,000 for Manaiakalani. That's right he gifted this to us all! He shared many important messages with us. We've included a couple of these in our movie here. We've captured his korero with us and will post more soon. Be sure to check the individual blogs of PES students to read about this wonderful experience.

WilI.I.Am visits Pt England School from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Paula Bennett visits PES

Our school usually hosts many visitors during the year. Yesterday we received a visit from the honourable Paula Bennett, Minister of Social Development. She briefly visited our class with Mr and Mrs Burt and Pat Sneddon. We were later told that she enjoyed being in our class. She was interested in what we were doing and how we used our netbooks for our learning. (3rd April 2013) Room 21 Pt England School. Thank you for visiting us Paula Bennett. We hope that what we shared with you will help you in the important role you have for Aotearoa.

Celebrate Successfully

Celebrate successfully from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

One of our recent school assemblies saw a beautiful array of Indian celebration costume and dance. It was all part of us learning and practicing how to 'Celebrate Successfully'. Watch this video to see what we mean. Make sure you listen closely to Mrs Lal explanation around the different costumes being worn by the talented dance team. Mrs Tuala, Ms Muliaumasealii, Mrs George, Mrs Lal, Jouan and Dhara you were so beautiful! Stand tall and be proud PES!

Pick a Path

Pick a Path - Manaiakalani Film Festival 2012 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Pick a path books were a hit in the 80's and still prove to be popular today. They are typically chapter books where decisions need to be made after every few pages. For example, if you would like the main character to enter the dark cave turn to page 20, if you would like the character to keep walking in the light turn to page 25. Basically - you get to pick a path for the story to follow. Earlier this year the extension group discussed, researched and presented findings around star maps. Star maps being the map travelled by celebrities, role models that include our parents and whanau in regards to careers and achievements they've made so far.

 We concluded that the paths taken can change for many reasons - but we can stick to the right ones through making the best choice possible. Everyday is an opportunity to pick out the path to success.  Which path will you take...pick a path!

Going hard for the hungry!

Members of our extension class were the leaders of our 20 hour famine team this year.  They were - Chante, Selena, Vivienne, Crusader and Toreka.  Part of the lead included a visit from Devon Davids the 40 hours famine school coordinator and Shortland St actor Ido Drent.  This was hugely motivational for those of us who fundraised.  Our annual sleepover that we've had for 21 years now was a huge success.  The leaders planned and delivered a fun filled evening that not only entertained us but taught us a lot about the children we were fundraising for.  Watch this video to find out more.  Thanks again to our leaders, our families, school and friends for sponsoring us.  We managed to raise over $1,800 dollars from a group of only 25 students.  Tino pai to mahi tamariki!

20 hour famine @ Pt England School from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Animators Apprentice

Animation is one of the most fascinating things in the world, but how did it start. Recently we have learnt, made and tested one of the tools used to start Animation, the famous Zoetrope.  We even got to use a Zoetrope with the help of three men Ali, Maka and Nils.  


To start off we watched a slideshow produced by the crew (Ali, Maka ,Nils). It showed things like the first ever moving picture and silhouettes. We had to begin simple, which was finding the middle of  two symmetrical lines. It sounds simple but as we finished one after another, the lines got more curvy and curvier. This was practise for what was planned ahead.
As the workshop went on, we were introduced to the Zoetrope. We were shown an example first, then we had the opportunity to animate a jelly fish using a Zoetrope.  It was so AWESOME! Even better than a animated movie itself.  I was blown away.
In the end I thought how could this day get any better. 

We were all rewarded with a our very own Zoetrope, that was also an awesome opportunity.
Written by Seini-Mino, Room 20.


Animators Apprentice Workshop @ Pt England School from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Olympics London 2012

There are around 36 different sports in the 2012 London Olympics. There are definitely the more popular sports in the Olympics that we know about.  This afternoon we had the task of finding out about the less popular sports that we don't know very much about. Tyla-Marie has found out about Judo. Tyla share about the sport's participants, rules and gear you need to compete in Judo.

Art Alive Exhibition

Our very own art gallery is proudly displaying our term long efforts. The artworks on display the learning, creating and sharing that took place. We hope you get the chance to visit it yourself this week. It's open tonight and tomorrow until 7pm. Friday it's open until 3pm. Don't miss out!

Transit of Venus

SchoolTV Part Two, 15th June 2012 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

The transit of Venus occurs on June 6th and the Farm Cove astronomer is giving the public the chance to witness the extraordinary event. We only see the transits of Mercury and Venus or 'inferior planets' which are between the Earth and the Sun so we don't see it very often. Venus transits in eight-year cycles so the last one was in 2004. Before that there was one in 1882 and 1874. So fingers crossed, the weather's good on that day because the next one isn't until 2117. So no-one alive today is ever going to see it again. There will be telescopes set up outside Pakuranga's Te Tuhi Centre for the arts - letting people take a peek at the planet. Written by Iisa, Room 13 The above was written by Iisa and the movie was produced by the year 5 and 6 extension class under the direction of Iisa. It was fun time where we got to learn from a peer and show it through our movie. Awesome work Iisa!

Robyn Kahukiwa - NZ artist

Our year 5 and 6 extension group have spent a few sessions looking at the artwork by Robyn Kahukiwa. Our study started with looking at a number of NZ illustrators. When then moved onto a painting titles 'Hine'. We had the opportunity to reproduce it as well as reflect about the artwork. Here's a couple of movies produced by our year 5 students.

SchoolTV Part Two, 8th June 2012 from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Van Gogh's Ear...

A group of year 4 extension students created these two movies. They share of stories that were created to explain why Van Gogh lost his ear. These students are taught by Mrs Barks. They have also made some amazing animations of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' that we will share with you soon.

Term 2 - Art Alive!

Term two is upon us already.  Our teachers went all out yet again to have us hooked, engaged and ready to learn all about Art in it's various forms.  Here's a set of highlights to show you some of the fun we had during our immersion assembly.  This takes place on the very first day of term.  We assemble immediately after the first school bell ready to be immersed.

Thanks to all our amazing teachers, we are definitely hooked and loving our learning.