Auckland Blues

Last week some of our students had the privilege of spending the day with the Auckland Blues.
Here is a clip by The New Zealand Herald about the day.

Tau, Alex, Jayden and Zyrin have been making a movie to highlight why bullying is not a good idea.


Tau, Jayden Idependent from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.


Roezala, Mary, Asena Britney and Moala have created a movie about kickboxing, cricket and netball. Check out what they have got to share with you.

Week One Movies

In  the first week of term we made movies about some of our goals and aspirations for 2013.
Here are a few of them.

Some More Poems

Some more of our poems.

By Brooklyn

By Gabriel

Here is my poem about myself. Also my self portrait I drew in hyper studio.

By James

By Kendrix

By Lukis

By Melvin

Class of 2013

Room 20 2013 have been writing poems about themselves and creating self portraits to illustrate them. Let them introduce themselves to you.

ALEX

FRANKIE

KINGSTON

LOGAN

MARTHA

RAELEEN

My Self Portrait & Poem.

TEVITA

MARY

Visit from the Minister to launch the Pasifika Education Plan.

On Thursday last week we had the minister of Education Hekia Parata come to our school to launch the Pasifika Education Plan. We had a special assembly after lunch. We were very proud that our Manaiakalani Film Festival movie got shown. Crusader and Jarna did an amazing job introducing our movie for us.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2012: I Can

Here was our entry into this year's Manaiakalani Film Festival.
Our inspiration for it came from a special visitor we had to our school, Joshua Iosefo. Joshua is a prefect at Mt Roskill grammar and a poet. He wrote a poem called Brown Brother which he recited to us. His poem said said not to listen to negative stereotypes but that you should aim to be whatever you want to be. We thought this would be a cool theme for our movie.

Thanks to Crusader, Darius, Awhina, Kingston and Jarna who were the main lyric writers, to Vivienne for the videoing and last but not least a huge thank you also to Jarna who edited it for us.





We would like to acknowledge that this song idea came from "I Can" by Nas from 2003. We took some of the original ideas in his music video and incorporated them into ours. Here is a link to his video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmRoVMfsD8