Market Day!

Before we even had our market day, I was very very nervous because we haven't
finished all of our final products. It was the very last minute until all the tables had to
get set up, so I zoomed like cheetah to my classroom and started painting all of our cooling fans. My partner Casey saved the day by baking muffins and sticking Lot's of lollie worms on them, He brought it to my table and we started decorating them.

Here is a movie on what happened at our market day,

I HOPE YOU ENJOY!!

Piri Weepu

Piri Weepu became an All Black in 2005. Putting on the black jersey for the All Blacks, Junior All Blacks and New Zealand Maori. He has lots of talent in him. Even though he stills plays for the best team in the world, I reckon he is an All Black Scrum Half legend!

Position: Halfback

Born: 07/09/1983 Lower hut

Weight: 94kg

Test debut (when he started playing pro rugby): 20/11/04 against Wales

in Cardiff.

Test Caps: 40

Test Points: 44

Rep Team: Wellington

Rep Debut: 2003 v Otago

Rep Caps: 30

Rep Points: 94 (1t, 19c, 17p)

Super 14 Team: Hurricanes

Super 14 Debut: 2004 v Bulls

Super 14 Caps: 36

Super 14 Points: 25

Ikale Tahi!

My favourite team, the 2nd best rugby team in the world are warming up, and are getting ready to get smashed by the winners of the 2011 rugby world cup team ''The All Blacks''.
Their Forwards Line up is amazing,
They have experience Tongan rugby players who had contracts signed from around Europe.
The back line formation is pretty fascinating, players like Taniela Moa and the super 15 star Fetu'u Vainikolo.

Tongan Mihimihi

Malo 'e lelei, Ko hoku hingoa ko Feki, Ko hoku fakaiku koe Taukafa.
Kou hau au mei Maufanga, Tongatapu. Kou lolotonga ako au i Pt England school, Kalasi 19 pea kohoku faiako ko Ms Tito. Ko hoku kau feleni ko Tamati, Raven, Jonty moe kau toko ua ngofulu e taha. Ko hoku apiako oku tokolahi aki e nima ngeau.

Malo pe hoo mou lau eni.

Hello, my name is Feki, and my last name is Taukafa.
I come from a little village in Tonga called Maufanga. Right now, I go to Pt England school, Room 19 and my Teacher is called Ms Tito. My friends are Tamati, Raven, Jonty and 20 to 30 others.
My school is populated of more than 500 students.

Thank for reading my Mihimihi.

Surf Life Saving Ed!

On Friday we had the privilege of being invited to Mairangi Bay for the Surf Life Saving Ed.
We had an amazing time, We were getting tips of how to survive, learning how to save people but the most important thing we learnt was rips and tides. I was cruising with my boogie board on the big huge waves.
These 10 rules we learnt from the life guards are to keep you safe in the water:

1. SWIM BETWEEN THE FLAGS!
2. HAVE AN ADULT WATCH OVER YOU.
3. LISTEN TO THE ADVICE FROM SURF LIFEGUARDS.
4. NEVER SWIM OR SURF ALONE.
5. IF IN DOUBT STAY OUT.
6. BE SUNSMART.
7. LEARN TO RECOGNISE RIP CURRENTS.
8. ALWAYS USE THE CORRECT AND SAFE EQUIPMENT.
9. NEVER SWIM WHEN TIRED OR COLD.
10 AND FINALLY CONSIDER OTHER SURF USERS.

Spider facts!!

There is a huge amount of different kinds of spiders around the world, some are as tiny as an ant and lots of spiders are as huge as a human hand.
These scary insects have tiny legs called ‘pedipalps’ that are beside the fangs.
Spiders are known as the hairiest insects in the world, spiders are covered with lots and lots of hairs. They have 48 knees and has six joints on its eight legs.

Receiving our very first netbooks!!

Yesterday we were walking to assembly full of excitement to experience the brand new netbooks.
When I receieved my netbook I was trialling I was very very ecstacic!
Today we were learning new things and had a little play around with it.
We took photos on the mini webcam, We were working on our Google docs and did
a reflection like Problems, Solutions and left comments on how the netbooks are working.

Four Nations Fan Day!

Wow Rugby League stars every where!

Our school was invited along with others to go to the 'Rugby League Four Nations Fan Day'.

I got to meet lots of stars like Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Billy Slater and even got a chance to have a photo with the legendary Darren Lockyer.

Here are 2 links to the website that shows movies of our amazing time at Eden Park.

1.http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=456619332417&ref=mf.

2.http://www.3news.co.nz/League-invades-Eden-Park-for-Four-Nations-fan-day/tabid/317/articleID/184312/Default.aspx

Experiencing Rotorua!

It was a chili morning and we were cruising on a long trip to Rotorua. I went with the Smokefree-Pacifica-Beats national champions Babylon Rhythm. During our trip we saw the beautiful farms in Matamata and we enjoyed the amazing sites of the beautiful landscapes and forest’s.

It was very long journey. When I saw the Whare, We were told that we could stay in any room so I rushed straight in and looked for the best room possible.

At Ten o’ clock in the morning, I went to the stadium with the boys and had a sound check before smoke-free-pasifica beats nationals.

After the sound check, we were all sweaty, smelly and exhausted. So we decided to go for a swim just next-door to our whare. I jumped in like a dolphin but swam like a dog because the water was so cold, I was freesing.

After the nationals finished, the next day was our final day to experience the whole of Rotorua. First up we headed past the Maori villages and ewwwwwwwwwwww it was smelly, but the carvings at the marae were amazing. Next we went to the museum and looked at some of it’s history. Our final stop was at the geyser it was the biggest, bubbliest, hottest water flow I’ve ever seen.

We said our prayers to go home safely and said our goodbyes to the owner of the house. We headed back to our hometown, Auckland.

I really enjoyed experiencing my time at Rotorua, I can’t wait until I go back!!

Touch Rugby

It was a very big day for me, My very first intermediate touch tournament.

We went to Dunkirk Reserve, Our very first game was against a pretty good team

which was Panmure District school. We beat them 6-0, Our defense was amazing along with our attack. We beat teams like Parnell, Stan Hope and Kohimarama!
We won all our games, but then we had to play our neighbours and our rivals Tamaki Intermediate, We had a draw which was 4 all. There were no semi finals or finals, It was just a round robin match so we came second, and Tamaki Intermediate came first by just one point.

Giant Burrowing Cockroaches

Did you know that the Giant Burrowing Cockroaches can live up to 10 years, compared to ordinary Cockroaches who only live up to 2 years.

Babylon Rhythm now known as ‘Babylon Riddim’ is my favourite Reggae band. The lead singers name is Charlie “Marley”, and the two vocalist names are Douglas and Mau. Their past achievement was they won the Smokefree Pacifica Beats.
Their new single ‘Reggae is my heart’ has made a huge impact on other reggae bands who wants to be a professional band.
Babylon Riddim reminds me of my favourite singer Bob Marley.

Survival tips on a Raft!

For our reading tasks we were reading a book about two guys learning how to survive on a

Life Craft.

My group called Tui, had a task to do which was to list 10 survival tips when you are on a Life Craft. My tips are:

1. You need to practice getting into the Life Craft.

2. You must learn how to swim.

3. Make sure you wear proper clothing.

4. YOU MUST NOT DRINK YOUR URINE

or else you're get thirsty.

5. Take seasick pills.

6. You definitely need your life jacket

7. Know how to release and inflate the craft.

8. You have to cuddle amongst each other to keep warm.

9. You have to believe you are going to survive.

10. Make sure you have a plastic bag in case you spew up.

This is just a movie about how we did great with the boys maori

haka teacher and some footage of our year 7 Kapa Haka group called

Tangiwai. This is a photo of a piece of Tangiwai.

Multiple Intelligence

This is one of our tasks with multiple intelligence, which was to make a quiz about the famous mighty teen mariner Jesse Martin.

Eleven years ago Jesse Martin became the youngest ever to sail around the world solo unassisted.

He started from australia headed down past New Zealand and straight to Cape Horn.

When Jesse completed his journey there were more than 25,000 people to welcome Jesse home.

Immersion Assembly

Every term our whole school will have a topic to study and find facts about. At the beginning of each term, our school runs an Immersion Assembly.

If you’re wondering what on earth is an Immersion assembly, it is when the staff members or the teachers dress up  and present an act to us.   Part of their act will always have to be about the topic we are learning about.

One of my favourite Immersion assemblies was when our topic was ‘Food Glorious Food’. When everyone sat down, people who sat up straight, Received  a Sausage with bread or a piece of B.B.Q chicken on a plate.  I could still remember Ms Garden one of our teachers at our school giving me lots of ‘Corn Chips’ with her famous ‘Guacamole’ during assembly.

Pt England is the only school I know that has the best Immersion Assembly’s.

This term we have been going to Tamaki College for our technology lessons. We have been working on our graphics projects, and as you can see, this piece of drawing was created on a brand new software called Adobe Illustrator. Ms Fergusson our teacher tought us how to use this amazing program.

My Team getting ready for the Fifa World Cup

My Top 4 players.

1. Zane Keni(fullback)

Nickname: The Niuean speed star.
Born: 21st of May 1998(age 12)
weight: 53.6 kg.

Zane Keni is a very good Rugby League player and

also an awesome Rugby union, For rugby union

he made the Auckland east team, And for League

he trialed for the Tongan league team called Hakula

and got into the team and scored 2 trys in nearly every

single game they played every Saturdays for three weeks.

Zane is player you would want in your team.


2. Akuila Uate (winger)

Nickname	The Flying Fijian
Born	6 October 1987 (1987-10-06) (age 22)
Weight	97 kg

As a junior, Uate came 3rd in the underage Australian sprinting finals. He played in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup for Fiji.


3. Gregg Inglis.(centre)

Greg Inglis is a player who plays for the Melbourne Storm. His position is center, When the half-back kicks to him he becomes a machine and usually bolls through his opponent and score's a try. He was born on the 15Th of January 1987. He has played 10 State Of Origin game's 15 test game's and has 32 State Of Origin points. Greg Inglis is well on the way of scoring the most trys in origin.

Nickname	G.I.
Born	15 January 1987 (1987-01-15) (age 23)

Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	108 kg (17 st 0 lb)

4. Israel Folau. (centre)

This is my uncle Israel Folau he played for the Queensland Maroons, Australian Kangaroos, Melbourne Storms and now
playing for the Brisbane Broncos. His position is centre and
winger but mostly wing. The commentators call him Superman
because how he flys into the ball and sometimes score but I just call him uncle.
He was injured after the Quarter-Final between the Broncos
vs HIS OLD CLUB MELBOURNE STORMS, but he rang my
dad in Australia that he recovered and might be playing
club footy this year.

I HOPE HE GIVES ME FLYING LESSONS!!

Full name	Israel Folau
Nickname	Izzy
Born	3 April 1989 (age 21)
	New South Wales, Australia
Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight	103 kg (16 st 3 lb)[2]

Our Hard Rugby Game.

We had a very tough rugby game against St Marys. They were a

hard team to beat, their defence was very hard to break. But the best thing

that I was impressed with, was our defence, because whenever they ran hard on

us boys, we would go straight to their legs and tackle hard. Even though they were bigger than us
and they scored six tries, we still used our school korero "CHAMPIONS NEVER GIVE UP".

Hopefully next year we'll be harder and stronger than any other intermediate rugby team.

We had fun!!

On Friday my teacher Ms Tito took the top three students of
last term for afternoon tea.  Ms Tito took us to the beach
that looks across to the beautiful volcano,  Rangitoto Island.
The three students were Gabrielle, April and I.  The reason
Ms Tito took Gabrielle was that she was The student of
the term.  Me,  It was because I was Beautiful, Nah It was
because I was the Basic Facts Champion.   The reason
April went with us was because her and the student of the term
Gabrielle were the first people in our class room19 to make a podcast.

At St Heliers beach we ate hotdogs, Burgers and Hot chips.

Here's a movie I made from the flip video.

Rastah lockz.

This is just a little snippet of us boys having fun. We got told that we could play around with the
new flash cameras. So we decided to add a little comedy on our 5 minute project. Here is a little fairytale twist. Hope you enjoy.

Our DLO assessment for Term One

Last term we were asked to make movies showing our understanding of some of the korero that helps our students remember the 'Pt England Way'. We worked in groups of 5 or 6 and were assessed on a number of things.
The post you are about to see is our DLO. We gained the top mark in the class. If you check the rubric (above), you will see our final assessment.

MY MUSIC POEM

MUSIC IS MY HEART.

MUSIC IS MY SOUL.

MUSIC MAKES ME LOSE CONTROL.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

ARE THE BEST THINGS

YOU COULD USE.

Fuifui Moimoi

Fuifui Moi moi is a huge strong monster. He plays for the Paramatta

eels his Former team Mate Maa Tonga and now playing for his
International team The New Zealand Kiwis. Fui makes lots of runs
and makes heaps of hit ups. His position is prop. He is over 5 foot and
weighs more than 150 pounds
that's why I will just call him the big dread lock Bulldozer.

Daniel Carter vs Matt Giteau

Daniel Carter and Matt are both really awesome

kickers but their mostly good at playmaking.
They both play for their own country
and they are both first five eights.
Carter plays for New Zealand and Giteau plays for Australia
I WANT YOU TO VOTE WHOS BETTER !!

GITEAU OR CARTER!!

MY FLYING UNCLE !!

This is my uncle Israel Folau he played for the Queensland Maroons, Australian Kangaroos, Melbourne Storms and now
playing for the Brisbane Broncos. His position is centre and
winger but mostly wing. The commentators call him Superman
because how he flys into the ball and sometimes score but I just call him uncle.
He was injured after the Quarter-Final between the Broncos
vs HIS OLD CLUB MELBOURNE STORMS, but he rang my
dad in Australia that he recovered and might be playing
club footy this year.

I HOPE HE TAKES FLING LESSONS!!

KING OF KINGS

I love Michael he is the KING OF POP he died in the year 2009 and I miss the Mr Jackson.
very very much. He is a Legend at the moon walk and he will always be rememberd as the worlds
KING OF KINGS.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE KING OF POP!!

KING OF REGGAE

I am a reggae lover I Listen to reggae music 24/7
especially to Bob Marley songs. The cool thing
about Bob Marley is that he died on Waitangi
day. I LOVE UNCLE BOB. My favourite
Bob Marley song is One love/One heart
because Reggae songs are my one love
and Bob Marley is my one heart.

I WOULD LIKE TO BE HIS SON AND CALL MY SELF FEKSTAR MARLEY

My Goals for 2010

Take a look at this...


Feki