I Wonder.....

I wonder....When was school invented? Our task was to create a movie answering a question that people may ask when doing everyday activities. Gloria and I created a movie that answered the question...When was school invented?


Extension I Wonder School from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Future Aspirations

On Thursday, the intermediate group got the opportunity to meet and hear from some inspirational people that had turned their dreams into reality. We gathered into the hall for a Future Aspiration Speech with our guests, Mosa, Emma, Aysha, Tristan and Caine.

Twelve years old and heading off to university next year is the young Tristan Pang. His passion is science and maths. He believes that being nosy is good and that “Quest if Fun!”

Mosa was an amazing speaker and his words were inspiring. He was really funny and just like the other speakers he told us about his dream and how he got there. He said we were pretty lucky to have the technology we have. His dream was to become a politic so he can change the lives for Maori and Polynesian families. “Chase your dream and catch it” was his motto.

Since I love travelling, I aspire to be a travelling journalist when i’m older. Hearing from these people was amazing, I think it will help me to pursue my dream.

Weekly Diary... Monday

When I woke up on Monday morning I felt tired. I could hear an annoying sound in my head telling me to get up. Finally opening my eyes I saw my dad. It was 6:30 and he was trying to get me out of bed. Slowly dragging myself to my draw I found my uniform and put it on.

Arriving at school, I jumped out of the car and ran to class. When I got there I found my class doing writing. So I pulled out my net book and started working. At 10:30 I went to the Tusitala with Mrs Burt. We were practising our speech for our visitors coming. When the ambassadors get back it is nearly morning tea. I grabbed out my maths book and got ready for the quick 20.

Monday Mornings

I am learning to write an introduction that hooks in my audience. Here are 3 versions. Which Monday Morning introduction do you like best and why?


1.“Leave me alone!” I shouted at my brother as I slowly woke up. It was so early in the morning I could hardly open my eyes! When I finally got up, I nearly drifted back to sleep again when I sat down.


2. I was sleeping very well when suddenly the annoying sound of the alarm clock woke me up. Pretending to get up I slowly touched the ground an pulled myself up.


3. Did you know that I have to wake up approximately 40 Mondays out of 52 just for school. Also kids NEED about 9 -10 hours of sleep. That probably means kids need to go to school at 7 - 8’ o clock.

Year 5 Item

PES Senior Prize Giving - Year 5 Item from SchoolTV on Vimeo.
Here is the year 5's Prize giving item. Hope you Enjoy!!!

The School Picnic

Finally it was time to go to the reserve for our school picnic. As soon as we got there Mr Burt told us where we can play and where we can’t.
Hurrying down to the beach Jonita and I went to go fossicking for crabs. Balancing precariously I could feel myself starting to wobble, luckily I found a dry rock to hope on before I fell.We had found lots of small and big crabs so Jonita found a noodle bag for our crabs. Slowly manoeuvring around the rocks I tried to catch up to Jonita. When I caught up to her I tried to stay near her.We mostly looked underneath big sharp oyster shell rocks because that was were where we found our biggest crabs.Carefully balancing on the slippery rocks I was trying not to slip. Jonita found a big rock so we tipped it and there underneath it was a whole family of scuttling crabs plus some big ones.We showed some teachers all of the crabs, some were even trying to scuttle out. Since we had spent a lot of time hunting for crabs we decided to do something else.
Jonita, Tyla, Jorja and I went to go and make clay balls.We found a whole lot of clay so we started to shape bowls, balls, cannons and more.Me and Jorja made lots of bowl shapes and Tyla and Jonita made lots of big balls.
When we got back to our bags, we had some lunch.Sarona had some chips so we shared those.They were chicken flavored.
Our next game was Sack Races! We all found a sack and then 3,2,1 GO! Racing off Jonita and I both fell over not far from the starting line.Tyla would keep winning.When Rauf came he would keep losing.
We got to have karaoke but it was only short.Jonita had a turn and so did Mrs Vaafusuanga.
After karaoke it was time to go back to school.I sighed but I still had lots of fun!