Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Activity 2: Exploring Our Roots

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, director, actor and comedian. He has produced and/or directed a number of popular films including “Boy,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok.” As a child, Taika Waititi lived in Raukokore (a small town on the East Coast of New Zealand). When he graduated from secondary school Taika moved to Wellington to study drama at Victoria University. Despite moving away from home, he has never forgotten his family or his roots (where he comes from).

Speaking of roots, Taika comes from a culturally diverse family. His dad is Māori (Te Whānau-a-Apanui) and his mother is Russian-Jewish. I, on the other hand, am Pākeha (New Zealand European). Most of my ancestors come from England. When I talk about who I am, and introduce myself to others, I sometimes use a pepeha.

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DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

‘Lorde’ is a New Zealand singer who rose to fame in 2013 with the release of her song Royals. She currently has over 6 million followers on both Instagram and Facebook and close to 8 million followers on Twitter. Lorde has won many awards and influenced many people with her music and her original dance moves.

Lorde’s real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor and she was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. Her mother, Sonja Yelich, is Croatian and her father, Vic O’Connor, is Irish. Lorde’s parents encouraged her to read a lot as a child. They also encouraged her to follow her passion. Lorde started performing covers (other people’s songs) when she was at intermediate school and started writing her own original music as a young teen.



For this activity, we would like you to do some research and find out all that you can about Lorde. Once you have finished your research, please create a Profile Page for her. A profile page is a digital info graphic or poster that shares information about someone.

Here is an example of a profile page about Taylor Swift.

On your blog, post a copy of the profile page. Please include at least five interesting facts about Lorde on the page.

Remember to attribute any images that you borrow from the internet or from other people.

Museum trip!!

On the first of November Pt England school, Team 5 got the opportunity to visit the Auckland museum with KPWG!! This day was extremely exciting as we arrived and got split into group's. And as we arrived we we're able to have the sight of sculptures.

This day all started with a bus ride to the Auckland museum. Once we got there we meet 46 helper's from KPMG, Not to long after all the museum rules we're set we got put in our museum group's with a helper from KPMG.

During this day we visited all floors of the museum and looked at old thing's from the past. And different sculpture's that we're throughout the whole museum, My favourite part of the museum was rolling down the hill, Also the winter garden.

My favourite part in the winter garden was looking at all the different flower's. And also going on a bush walk in the winter garden with people from team 5 that I saw at the winter garden. Also from here and there on our bus ride's they we're also both amazingly clingy.

On behalf of team 5 we would like to say a big thank you to  KPMG for your help and our tour's, Thank you to all our teacher's.

Genomics fun day!!

Genomic’s fun day!!



Today Team 5 got the opportunity to have a fun day with two different school’s, Glen innes , Glen brae. You may be wondering what we we’re doing, Well keep scrolling to find out more.

The day all started of with a mihi and karake presented by , Skye and Villiami. Then our principal Mr Burt welcomed Glen innes and Glen brae. He started of with a whakapapa. Before we started our genomic fun day we sang a waiata. After we finished singing our waiata we then got instructions from our team leader Mr’s Ilaoa.

Then glen innes and glen brae got split up into our remaining classes. In the instructions we had to get into 4 groups of 6,7 or 8 people. In my group we had a number of 8 people, Maiah , Lilo/Francesca and Candice,Rosie, Leilani, Angel, Calais, And me.

As a group we did different challenges and we also got asked questions and win spot prizes. And these different challenges were quite hard actually. Our group placed 1st with the hp girl’z for questions. By the way our name was Dynamite's.

Over all the genomic fun day turned out to be a success, It’s actually quite surprising. Thanks to all the teacher's for organising this genomics day. This day was well spent.

End of term.....

Plant Cell Poster - By Lilly , Lei , Skye

Term 2 & 3 Highlight's.

Skye Tigers on the Prowl

WALT: picture what words in a text are saying

Octopus science summary

The N,E,D show

Task description : On Tuesday we got the opportunity to see a performance, A n,e,d performance by the way. 

Zebrafish science Summary

Task description -

• Today in room 5 we learnt about science. These are a few thing's that we've picked up. We also write down fact's and thing's we know about zebra-fish. We created this poster with google drawings. 

Fragile web of life...

Task description: This term we are learning about science & in science we are learning about the food chain and the fragile web of life. This blog post is information that I have learnt these past week's. Feel free to leave a positive comment.....

Skye T3W2 Area

WALT: Find the area and perimeter of shapes

Team 2 animation!

This term we learnt about the 7 continents. We have been learning about the longitude and latitude. And we also had to find some information about the three country's we have picked for this project. This is a short Video of the 7 continent's.

Skye T2W5/6 Multi-choice word problems

WALT: Explain the steps we took to solve each problem.

Skye T2W9/10 Fractions word problems

WALT: Solve problems with fractions, decimals and percentages

Skye T2W7 Adding and subtracting decimals

WALT: Use various strategies to solve decimal word problems.

7 Contnites

This week we had the opportunity to pick between 7 continents.

Skye How the Turtle Got its Shell!

Skye T2W4 Word problems