My Music Career Begins......soon

A few years or months from now, being a lead guitarist, I will participate in bands that contains these genres - Blues, rock, electric blues. Maybe a few others but these specific genres are my main types I’d like to perform.

While being a college student, the best place to begin my music career.

Not only is it somewhere to begin somewhere to learn more skills and more knowledge.

My goal is to go to the next level and surpass my mentor which is my father, and perform in a live audience jamming with guitar gods then maybe become a guitar god

Future Aspiration

Paula:

Paula Fakalata is a presenter of Attitude, has spoken to over 35,000, and is considerably tall students over the years. He’s a funny story teller, and is well recognized by many schools all around New Zealand. It was always his dream to push young student to their full or fullest potential.

The funny fact is, most people usually mistaken his name for ‘Ebola’ because it rhymes with how his name is pronounced. He shared a childhood story with us. It was mainly about swimming. The swimming incident was one of his most embarrassing moments because he almost drowned.

Anthony:

Anthony Samuels is very known in New Zealand considering the fact that he was once a host for one of the most longest running shows, What Now. He is now a husband of a woman named Shannon and father of 4 boys. Levi is his oldest son and is a part of Pt England school.

Anthony mainly talked about his work history. He used to be a presenter on the TV show ‘What Now’. His first phrase was ‘to miharo hoki’ which means ‘you are amazing’. Then he said that ‘the past does not have to determine the future’.

Amelia:

Amelia Unufe is a fashion designer of all kinds. She studied at AUT university and participates in ‘I Have A Dream’. Her fashion is very unique in many ways, she has just finished designing and making a jacket.

Thanks year 8 camp helpers

Dear JK and Ms V

A big thanks goes to our adults for Ruakaka B, J.K (Tyla Marie's father)

and Miss V (Daisy) for their commitment in helping us through hard obstacles and activities. Thank you JK! You have been a big help in every way and everything.   

Year 8 camp wouldn't have happened if you adults hadn’t come along. Because of you, camp was successful, most of the activities were organized by the adults. If the adults weren’t with us (like you two) then who knows where we would be.

Neo (Class 2)

Athletics - Term 4 2014

Athletics, a time of sport and a day of fun always happens yearly. Usually its unlikely it would rain on athletics day. If it does the chart will be changed. On that day, the exact opposite of a good day happened.

It rained right before athletics started. The grass was extremely wet and slippery. For a time, people started to think athletics was going to be postponed to another day.

Mr Burt decided to do half of athletics and set the rest till another day.

It wasn’t as fun as a normal athletic day considering how wet and muddy the grass.

Surprisingly enough, the grass cleared up of its wetness. It was still a bit damp but wasn’t really slippery anymore. Javelin, shot put, sprinting,

high jump, and discus were the subjects. Javelin was one of my most favourite subjects of athletics.  

Athletics term 4 2014 was an okay day, the day just needed more sun and less wetness then the day would be just a fine day

2014 year 8 camp highlights

All the yearly camps that students at Pt England School have had, were a blast. Maybe some weren't as exciting as actually being sent to other places, meaning the camps that were held in the school itself were less exciting.

On the other hand, the Year 8 camp we recently had was at a scale of above average (80% - great!).

Marsden Bay Christian Camp was a beautiful site overlooking a farm.

The camp had a variety of activities, meaning the manager must have been busy organizing the camp from the start of the year.

We were already heavily excited from the first sightings of the activities. When we first arrived, just getting out of the bus, some of us went straight to the volleyball area.

But volleyball was just the start of the fun. All the activities included kayaking, archery, cooking, and swimming at the pools at Waiwera. My most favourite highlight would have to be the campfire. We all sang many songs during the camp fire.

We stayed for a minimum of four days at the camp. These few days will be a memory that will last for a lifetime. Needless to say, our parents would be dying to know the highlights of our final camp.

Why school rules are improtant

If anything were to be banned from the school, It should never be school or class rules. Like jobs or business building, They would have

rules Either inside or out.

All rules may start when you’ve just arrived to school. Some schools might not have the same rules, but rules are rules. Changing the rules might lead to destruction, not only to the people, but to the school.

Without school rules, the kind of things that will happen won't be the kind of thing you’d want at home. No rules would mean, graffiti on the walls and students smoking.

If the rules weren’t going to change, then the best advice would be to move to another school or try and convince the principal to make rules.

Right now, the rules we have now are very helpful, the rules should be able to keep thieves off the school property, graffiti will not be likely to happen, and There won’t be any drugs around

Immersion 2014 - Term 4

As weeks of school holiday pass by, the time for learning have come once again. Good bye school Holidays, Hello again Pt England school.

As terms change, topics do so as well.

“Art attack” Mr Burt shouted. It looks like our school is going to have a good term considering this whole term will be all about art.

Team 1 held the first item showed an interesting performance. What they have performed might be a bit hard to understand but was something good to watch.

Team 1 performed and reenacted having a good time at places like the Beach, River and Picnic. The team 1 item was nothing compared to the item team 5.

Team 5 performed by painting 3 portraits of Mrs Jarman, Mr Jacobson, and Mr Burt. Their amazing art work was magnificent and hardly fake. Apparently, the painting was traced. Other than that, the Immersion assembly was great as always.

                                          

                                             

Game on

This is a picture I draw for game on

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan, is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who originates fro
m Texas, USA. Of all the guitar gods and guitar professionals, Stevie Ray Vaughan is the 8th best guitarist of all time.

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s specialty of the guitar are Texas blues, blues rock, and electric blues. As you can see, Stevie is a blues man. Stevie Ray Vaughan also has an older brother named Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan.

Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan also can play the guitar, but can not match the skill of his younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie was raised in Dallas and began playing the guitar at the age of seven. Stevie Ray Vaughan was inspired by his older brother Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan shockingly, considering Stevie is now better than Jimmie, his own brother.

Stevie Ray Vaughan grew bigger and started performing with Double Trouble (Band). Stevie Ray Vaughan died a tragic death, caused by a helicopter crash in 1990. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s life may have ended, but his music will not end thanks to the work of Double Trouble.

Giving it a shot - story

Giving it a Shot (SJ/P3/N1/2006)

Task 1: Create at least 8 questions about the story that others could answer.

1. What was the story all about?
2. Why didn’t Lauren take running seriously?
3. What did Lauren want to watch on TV?
4. Why did Lauren choose to eat the biscuits?
5. Why did Lauren sink into the couch?
6. What do you think would happen if she ate biscuits her whole life?

Then create a form and include these questions on the form with possible answers (multi-choice option). Share form with teacher.

Task 2: Give 3 examples of simple, compound and complex sentences from the story

Simple sentences:

1. Lauren ate some biscuits
2. Lauren watched TV

Compound sentences:

1. Lauren ate some biscuits, and watched TV
2. Lauren ate some biscuits, while her little sister asked for some

Complex sentences:

1. Lauren ate some biscuits, and watched TV, although it will make her fat
2. As Lauren’s little sister asked for some biscuits, Lauren watched TV, and ate her biscuits

Cross country 2014

Jealousy stalking the other house students, I could see that they had trained harder than me. Most of the students had brought matching clothes for their house colours: Takitimu (yellow), Te Arawa (red), Matatua (green), and Tainui (blue).

Last week everyone at Pt England school attended the annual cross country event.  

The sun shone at its best and grew hotter every minute. The year 8 boys lined up on the line waiting for Mr Burt to start the race. *CLAP*!!

We all accelerated until the first 20 metres went by.

Many have trained and others should have trained because cross country was not easy to overcome. Many grew fatigued, as if they were about to faint and fall to the ground, but others kept their composure and ran for the finish line.

The obstacles ahead weren’t easy, especially the over grown grass just over the farm fence. The grass was hard to run in, and the fact that the grass was very muddy didn’t help.

As soon as most of us crossed the finish line breathless, we went straight for the water fountain to hydrate ourselves.

Some of us managed to take the top 3 spots, which means they get to go to the Interzone competition and race against fast students from other schools. Racing other schools will be much harder than our school cross country.

Kogikogi ga i'a presentation

This is a presentation of the sport Kogikogi ga i'a

Kogikogi ga i'a

James, Neo, Brandon from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This is a short film of the sport Kogikogi ga i'a (samoan dodge ball)

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi hendrix, an african american musician from Seattle, Washington. Jimi Hendrix is the number one greatest guitarist. Although Jimi hendrix’s career was short, he has given a great influence to many other guitarist.

Hendrix started his life as a guitarist at the age of 15. He was also enlisted for the US army in 1961. Then got an honorable discharge.

He moved to Tennessee in Clarksville.

Hendrix was inspired by electric blues and rock and roll. Hendrix’s ancestry included 3 different colches, Cherokee, Irish and African American.

He began his gigs at Chitlin’ Circuit. Hendrix struggled to get a living wage, and this is when Hendrix formed a band. He met a guitarist/bassist named Noel Redding in London.

Soon after, a drummer named Mitch Mitchell joined Hendrix’s band. They named their band The Experience. Jimi Hendrix’s was very energetic during his gigs and performed extremely insane.

Hendrix then died at the age of 27 in 1970. Hendrix was unconscious during his sleep. His death was caused by a mixture of alcohol and sleeping pills

Plastic bag ban

Dear Prime Minister

My letter to you is based on the impact of the damage and pollution plastic materials have caused. Plastics have caused disturbing destruction not only to the sea but to animals and other living things.

Over a million sea birds and marine mammals suffocate and die from plastic material. In any moment, many species will be close to extinction. Sea birds and marine mammals mistake the plastic material for prey or food.

Plastic pollution could be worse than climate change. 86% of ocean debris is caused by plastic pollution and many beaches are infested with plastic material.

Plastic does not sink, it floats on the seas surface. The plastic comes from many food sources so it attracts many sea life and sea birds.

Plastic will not be easy to digest. It could take hundreds of years to break down. It’s not safe to leave children around plastic material. Children could accidentally eat it or have a plastic bag on top of their head. Either way, it won’t end well for children.

My main point is that we should ban plastic bags forever and start using cloth bags. We should also try to clean up the pollution the sea has suffered from the plastic material.

Your sincerely. Neo

The ancient romans

This is my reading task from the school journal part 3 nuber 2 2001

Why exercise is important

It is truly unnatural when you don’t see much children running around places, or many adults taking their children out for fitness. I believe that exercise is important.  Which is why exercise should be performed daily by children.

Exercise is very important especially for children. When growing up, your first or second priority should be to be fit and healthy. Then when you go to primary school, you will enjoy many sports.

Exercise can also prevent you from ever being overweight or prevent your appearance of fatness (No offence). When being fat, your chance of a long life shortens.

You won’t be able to do much when being overweight which is why you should exercise to the limit and maybe you won’t be so unfit when you grow up. If do manage to get fit, then maybe you will get a job that involves fitness.

Jobs like house building or gym advisers require fit people. If you're still a student in college, you would certainly get a scholarship for many sports such as cross country.  

The main point of this argument was to clarify why exercise is so important and to list the consequences of what would happen if you don’t exercise daily.

Why taking care of your mind and body is so important?

Why taking care of your mind and body is so important? your mind and body is one of the main things that keeps you and your life line running.

as well as other special parts of the body, the mind might be the prime part of your body.

The mind lets you do a variety of things others can’t such as read, write, think, do, run and walk. If the mind is corrupted by things like drugs, then you will not have the ability to think. The drug will take over you, yourself, and your body

The body is helpless without  the minds aid. And you will not be able to resist what ever has taken over you, and preventing a some thing like this is not easily done than said. One does not simply walk into a new world using drugs or other things

Taking care of your body and mind means e.g. eating the right things,

doing some exercise, and read as much as possible. If you like it or not, you can chose over what you want to do with your mind and body whether it means taking drugs or drinking till your death.

This is why it is so important to take care of your body. You will go far in life as long as you have a mind, just think of the things you’d do without it. Without your mind, you would simply have no existence in this world.

Life education 2014 - drugs and alcohol

Through out these few years we have past paths with Lyn and Harold.

Linn and Harald have traveled to many schools and have now come back to Pt england school.

This term the The year 7 and 8 students of Pt England have been learning about a series of drugs and alcohol lessons. The knowledge we have experienced will help us resist drugs and alcohol.

The thing that drugs does to your body affects the way you think and how you do things, whether its marijuana, methamphetamine, party pills or even glue. When a drug like weed is taken, neurotransmitters will slow down

Neurotransmitters are things that pass messages throughout the brain and through your body. If a drug like meth is taken then your neurotransmitters will speed up and be uncontrollable.

Its the same with alcohol, but alcohol is legal. But alcohol is still dangerous. The thing that alcohol can do to your body can cause

many bad especially to the brain.

'Lest we forget'

Today is the day we remember the people who fought for us and our homes. World war 1 was where it all began, where all the destruction happened. The British Empire, the Russian Empire, New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, and all the other countries were involved.

 

World War l has affected the world a lot. Most battlefields were destroyed due to world war l like in Gallipoli. There were no trees, no grass, only mere mud puddles. Everything was just obliterated.

The people who went to war came back with minor and major injuries. Many didn’t even return alive. Many came back in coffins. Today is a special day, as all schools and other locations have raised the New Zealand flag at the request of the government.

All of Pt England have gathered into the hall to wait for the New Zealand flag to rise. During the wait, Mr Burt showed photographs of the men in world war l. He also showed his grandfather and Mrs Flavelle’s grandfather’s photos.

I feel really grateful for all who had fought for us and protected us from trouble. They all should be well rewarded for their bravery, for they have chosen a risky journey, well ‘Lest we forget’.

Commonwealth countries - Wales

Wales is known as a commonwealth country and is also a country of many myths. They have played many sports in the commonwealth games.

Wales location originates just West of England and Southeast of Ireland. Wales is a part of the United Kingdom which is in Europe.

Over 3.060 million people live in wales and 324,800 people live in Cardiff the capital city. Cardiff is also known as the largest city in wales and is the ninth largest city in the UK.

The culture of wales includes their own language, holidays and music.

wales is well known for the representative of the red welsh dragon symbol.

The popular sports of Wales is rugby and football (soccer). The Welsh flag is a half white half green horizontal flag with the red welsh dragon in the middle.

The Commonwealth games

5 Facts that I already know about the Commonwealth Games:

1	The commonwealth games are a bit similar to olympic sports
2	Commonwealth games have sports of all kinds
3	The game includes weight lifting boxing and sprinting
4	The commonwealth games are being hosted in scotland
5	most of the countries that are competing in the commonwealth games are from the olympics

Useful links:

http://www.glasgow2014.com/sites/default/files/attached-files/Glasgow%202014%20Factsheet.pdf

http://www.gameonscotland.org/glasgow2014/

http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/2014/100-facts-about-the-games.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2290636/Commonwealth-Games-2014--Facts-Figures.html

10 new facts that I found out about the Commonwealth Games: (include a link to the site where you found your information. Your information needs to be in your own words)

1	Canada was the first place that the commonwealth games were played.
2	Before the commonwealth games, The British Empire games was the original name
3	No games were played because of world war II happened
4	The commonwealth youth games was created in 2000 by CGF
5	A sport shooter named Greg Yelavich won several medals from 1986 to 2010
6	The countries that attended all commonwealth games are New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England and many other countries.
7	The commonwealth games are held once every four years
8	Scotland has hosted commonwealth games twice
9	If the Queen dies, the heir of the queen may not be the head of the commonwealth
10	The youth commonwealth games will be held in Samoa in 2015

Immersion assembly 2014 term 3

Today is a new term, which means more school. As always, an Immersion assembly should start the first day of the term, as well as a new topic “Game on”.

Excitement raging from head to toe, we all wait till the immersion assembly takes place. “Now it’s time for team 1!” Mr Jacobsen

shouted.

Team one showed a video about cultures of most Commonwealth countries dressed up in many traditions.They showed islands through the oceans of Pacifica, The Queen of the United kingdom, and they showed many other countries cultures.

Team one have showed a good example of many cultures, but that is not greater than the video compared to team 5’s one. Team five teachers had actually traveled to many destinations around the world.  Miss Nua traveled to Spain and took photographs of many locations - SPAIN. So did Miss Squires - CHILE, Miss Clark - NEW YORK, Miss Paget - Atlanta.

All team five teachers had a great holiday and a great time and

I’m looking forward to the next immersion assembly in the future.