PHS SENIOR TEAM NEWS

Talented Musicians

2009-12-07T19:09:00.003+13:00

At Pakuranga Heights School we are all blessed to have such a kind, talented music teacher who has taught the school about volume, tempo, rounds and instruments. This teacher is named "Mr Ramsey".

Mr Ramsey is a very good tutor and has been teaching rooms 12,15 and 16 about rounds and how to control instruments in a proper manner. In this short clip room 15 is playing "the rainforest song". This song is played using the chime bars, the matellephones, the glockenshpeales and instruments commonly known as "wood instruments". Pakuranga Heights kids are super enthusiastic about music and are very happy to have a musician like Mr Ramsey to teach our school all about music.

By Korrey L
Room 15

Book parade

2009-11-29T19:56:00.004+13:00

Who loves books?
We love books!

What is your favourite book character?
Can you spot our favourite book characters that we dressed up as?

We read lots of books on our own, with our friends and with other students around the school. We made reading fun by exploring books with drama, creating art work and reading around the school. Reading under the trees is lots of fun. Where do you like reading?

BP technology challenge day

2009-10-11T22:20:00.001+13:00

Our school had a fun filled day of challenging tasks. The students were separated into mixed level groups from year 0 to year 6 in their house groups, tui, weka, fantail and kea.

The focus of the day was team work and building the house spirit. Each challenge was scored out of 30 with points given for team work, design and construction.

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Have you tried a BP technology challenge? How did you find the challenges? We found they were all fun and challenge although some were easier than others.

Teachers vs Year 6's Netball

2009-09-24T21:16:00.006+12:00

Move over Irene Van Dyke! Mr Van has a GS bib on and he's not taking any prisoners!
On Thursday 24th Sep the teachers bravely faced some of our best Year 6 netball players on the court at lunchtime for an end of term showdown. It was a real battle to the bitter end with both teams doing some extremely tactical defending and attacking. Above the deafening roar of most Pakuranga Heights students the teachers valiantly moved their less than agile frames around the court as the flexible and energetic students barely got a sweat up. It's amazing what 20 years will do to a body!
Fun was had by all and their was only a 2 point difference in the final score to the teachers... just.
Well done to all Year 6 students who played, and all the other students who turned out to cheer them and support them.
Wishing all students a safe and fun holiday break from the Senior team.

Mr Madden's Visit

2009-09-01T19:10:00.022+12:00

On Wednesday 26th August the students of Rooms 12, 15 and 16 were very lucky to have Bruce Madden come and talk to us for our inquiry topic. We are researching 'Careers' and the pathways and skills that are needed for lots of different careers. Mr Madden is an illustrator who has published two children's books. He read us his latest book called "Jack" and showed us lots of his artwork. He explained to us how he became an illustrator and what skills are needed and tools are used.
We were able to ask Mr Madden lots of questions about his career which helped us with our inquiry. After we asked him questions he taught us how to draw our own "Jack" bird and then he judged the styles that he thought were most creative. Three people were chosen as the winners and they each got a prize. We all really enjoyed the visit and learned a lot from Mr Madden.

Jack 101 - The "Finalists"

Dance Festival

2009-08-11T20:53:00.006+12:00

The Howick and Pakuranga Dance Festival celebrated dance with a range of local schools and students from year 1 to year 13 participating with their best dance moves.

Take a look at the videos to see all the energy, effort and fun that all the students put into their dances.

A group of our energetic junior girls got their groove on to Miley Cyrus’s song, see you again. The Junior girls will dazzle you with their dance... you will want to see them again... See you again.

The beat, rhythm and moves of Bollywood Bonanza performed by the enthusiastic Year 4-6 dancers of Pakuranga Heights School is a colourful medley of three songs. So hold on to your seat and enjoy the beat.

Bollywood Bonanza music collected from 'Move your body now' from Kismat Konnection sung by Shaan, Suhail, Hard Kaur and Aakriti Kaickar. 'Desi girl' from Dostana sung by Shankar Mahadevan, Vishal Dadlani. 'Jai ho' By The Pussy Cat Dolls sung by A.R. Rahman and Nicole Scherzinger.

Marae Sleepover

2009-03-16T15:21:00.014+13:00

10th March, 2009

Yay! School is finished! Mrs. Yang told us to line up outside our classroom. We know what you are wondering. Why did we have to line up after school? It was time for Year 5 students' Marae Sleepover.

Be with us, and we will tell you about our exciting trip!

Gateway to the Marae

Maori Carvings

We were learning Waiata (Maori songs)

Time to sleep

Time to play

Time to say goodbye

Thanks to all teachers and parent helpers who gave up their spare time and came to our sleepover! Thanks to all staff who worked at the Te Tahawai Marae.

Would you like to learn some Maori words? Here are some for you!

Ka pai (good)

tino pai (very good)

pouri (sad)

ngenge (Tired)

riri (Angry)

Room 13

Year 6 Cake Stall

2009-02-18T14:37:00.004+13:00

Children came from far and wide to school with mountains of cakes, muffins, biscuits and other sugary delights. Desks were placed in a cirlce to allow for easy access of running students to get thier fill of fudge, brownies, muffins and other such 'occasional' foods. I must admit the shocking truth, I even saw Watermelon on a stick and toffee apples for a healthy choice!

We had a scare looking up at the clouds, wondering if there would be a sudden down pour. Luckily, much to the excitment of PHS we all managed to stay dry, infact by 11am you would've never guessed it was even tempting to rain earlier.

Totals have been calculated and $460 was raised in just one morning! The only thing bigger than the amount raised was the smiles on the faces of the students as they left the cake stalls.
A big thank you to all the parents for the donations, cakes, and time to help create an amazing fund raising event. It was only a huge success because of all the assistance of parents, teachers and well mannered PHS students.

Mr Warn thoroughly enjoyed himself, so thank you for the opportunity to be involved in your fantasticly well bee-haved school event.

Below are some photos taken by students showing just how successful the morning was.

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Welcome

2008-12-29T17:22:00.001+13:00

Welcome to our senior team space online in the blogosphere. Each week one of our fantastic classes will share their learning, successes and celebrations. Subscribe to our blog so that you get reminders sent directly to you when this blog has been updated. We look forward to your comments, contributing to a wonderful 2009 learning community that will be not only for our local community, but we hope will attract some global connections too.