Extension Election

With the recent election, the extension group were learning about all of the different parties. We chose one party to answer some questions about, like what kind of NZ are they keen on developing?  As you can see I chose the NZ First party, and then made a billboard as if I was a candidate for this area. You probably already know that it was the National party and John Key who won the election, but I thought and hoped that Labour would win.

My Autobiography

Litia's Digital Story from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

Litia's Digital Story from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

This is a movie that I made in extension, about my and Maia's, my best friends, family. It is an autobiography that Erin and Dr. Barrett from the USA helped me create.

ENJOY!

Ext Year 5 Girls"Rewind"

Recently we had the manaiakalani film festival. One of the amazing movies that was showed was one called "Rewind" from room 6 at St. Pius. It was a very clever movie that needed a lot of practice. They had to film and do everything in reverse! The extension group at Pt. England, with the inspiration from St. Pius, decided to make a "Rewind" movie of their own. We all got in to groups of 3 or 4 and had to choose one of our korero's and make a movie in reverse. My group was made up of Vivienne, Rita, Shoal and myself. We chose the korero Purua to Potae. Because we wear hats at our school this korero is very important.

Our movie was extremely easy compared to St. Pius. What makes it even more difficult is that you have to do it all in ONE take! We took ages just to make a 30 second movie and St. Pius's one was about 3 minutes. Rita and Vivienne, who are the main actors in our movie, look very funny in our movie because remember they are actually walking backwards.

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Year 5 & 6 Extension:Mt. Tarawera Project Reflection

This term at Pt. England School our topic is Active Earth. Active Earth is all about volcanoes,earthquakes,tsunamis and other natural disasters. For the last couple of weeks the year 5&6 extension group have been working in groups, learning about the eruption of Mt. Tarawera that destroyed the beautiful pink and white terraces. Here is my reflection of this project.

Purpose


.I think one of the purposes for this project was to see how well we worked in a team and what one person did to contribute to the group.

.One of the other purposes I think was to show the rest of the school what we do in extension and see what they think.

.Another purpose was that it was quite important for us to learn about this eruption because it was in New Zealand and effected kiwis,and we are kiwis to.

Brick wall

The thing that held me back in this project was that I put alot of pressure on myself about the time limit and that stressed me out and stopped me from just getting on with doing my work and helping my group.

Rock our World Row12 WOW

During the weekend the year 5&6 extension group had a family night to finish off this fantastic round of Rock our World. This is the fifth round of ROW that Pt. England has been apart of. This round was called Walk our World(WOW).It was all about designing a shoe based on the theme change. We also had to get into groups, design another shoe and do a little advertisement to try and sell the it.In my group it was only Mubasshira and I. The whole extension group also had to had to make an ad as well. This is what we showed at the family night to everyone else that took part in Rock our World. Here are my my reflections for ROW12

1. What did I do well?

In ROW I think I did a good job designing my shoe.

2. How could I have improved on what I did?

I could have designed my shoe based more on the theme of "change".

Brick Wall

3. What held you back from doing better?

What held me back was being really shy and not standing up and taking all of the oppurtunities that I should have.

Purpose

4.What is the purpose in taking part of ROW?

.Connecting with people around the world.

.Learning from other people who have been successful since they were children like us.

.Meeting world famous people.

.Getting good oppurtunities all through life.