Flounder catching at Pes!

Flounders, When that word comes to my mind I think of it as food. But not today, Pt England school is catching flounders not to eat but to farm for our own little flounder pack. In partnership with another school, Kauri Flats. As they only caught 4.

Today, The whole of Pt England school walked down to Riverside ave  to watch some of our students catch flounders. Of course, We had a limit to catch which was either 20 - 25 small baby flounders. We had up to 10 students participating down at the beach, Dragging nets and carrying big buckets to place the flounders in. As they were busy catching flounders, We were given a job to sing 3 of our school himene’s and end it with a karakia to basically show our support and Aroha.

We have just returned and according to one of our students who participated in the flounder fishing we’ve caught over 20 small baby flounders. They’re so tiny, Not even the size of my pinky yet. From my calculations I’ve got to say that they’re about 2 - 3 cm wide. Now from what I’m thinking it’ll take a lot of time for it to grow.

We look forward on seeing our baby flounder grow and hopefully some don’t pass out. Congratulations to those who did catch some, You were amazing!

Elections 2017 - Week 7&8

WALT: Reflecting - Understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.


Throughout the last few weeks of school, We've been learning about politics and the elections. We decided to create our own game with limited stuff with One ball, Two hoops and a skipping. Our class was divided into 3 groups. Read the presentation above and see what we come up with.

Manaiakalani Film Festival - Experience.

In term 4 one of our main events are coming up! An annual event we usually do once a year, From schools across Glen Innes area joining to share their experience of what they've done in term 3. Each school has the opportunity to entertain us about anything they think that's funny, educational or motivational. It could be literally anything!

Well at Pt England school, Room 4 students decided to take on a taste test, We had a variety of food that we had to eat and guess what it was. From my experience I wasn't very good at all! I was so scared about what was gonna go in my mouth, I even had the feeling that it was going to be insects. But we're lucky our teacher Mrs Judd is nothing like that, I think. Most of the food we tried was a HUGE surprise! Turns out it wasn't even what we thought. The food was literally unexpected! Horrible tastes left in my mouth and obviously we didn't know what to say, well we never do. It was hilarious at times where we all just said random things, It was like we were clueless with no thoughts at all. Well I better keep it on the low with what the food is, I'll just keep it as a surprise.

If you want to know how we did and what the food was, Keep in tune as our Manaiakalani Film is almost out!

Cross Country!!

WALT: Write a recount about the following event you had.

Tongan language week!

WALT: Review explanation writing: Identify the structural features of an explanation text.