The Design Process

In Room22 we have been learning about the design process. We were given a task to improve the street . The first thing you have to do in the Design process is to Find a need.

The second step in the Design process is to research when you research you can look at some ideas on the Internet of what you are going to make. When you find your idea you can make it more interesting and creative. When you finished your research you can reflect and improve it.

Next is Generate ideas. Generate ideas helps you design your own ideas from someones ideas. You can also improve your old idea and make it into a more creative idea.

The next step is finding solutions and making prototypes your prototypes should be as a 3d figure so you can get a better picture of what it is going to look like from all angles.

I think that using the design process is more effective when you are going to build something.

Science Roadshow

On Thursday the 9th of June the years 7 and 8 from Pt England went to Tamaki College to go to a Science Roadshow. We went to learn more about Science and more about our topic Bigger, Better, Faster Stronger.

Before we walked down to Tamaki College we got into 6 groups. When we entered the Auditorium the hosts were just finishing their show about fire and gasoline. Once all the other classes left to go back to school we were allowed to roam around and look at all of the exhibits.

We were given a task to find an exhibit and answer these questions: 1. What was the exhibits name? 2. What did it look like? 3. What was included in this exhibit? 4. What did the exhibit do? 5. What did you find out from this exhibit? 6. What Science idea did it demonstrate?

During that sessions of science I learnt many different things.

Surviving The Waters

For the past couple of weeks of Term 2 the years 7 and 8’s from Pt England have been going for swimming lessons. We have been going for swimming lessons from Monday to Thursday During lunch and after lunch.

During our swimming lessons we have been learning how to do freestyle. When we were learning how to do freestyle, we had to lift our elbows up and then drag our fingers on top of the water. During swimming we have also been doing laps in the pool. We have swimming lessons because if you fall off a boat you will know how to swim back to sore.

This terms Swimming was great because I did 875 meters during one swimming lesson.

Making Felt

In Room22 Huia Reading group have been learning about How to make felt. Felt is another name for wool and another type of wool here are a few steps on how to make felt.

Taonga Time

Every Friday the Years 7 and 8 have Taonga time. Taonga means treasure in the Maori language. We have this because it gives us an opportunity to learn more subjects with different teachers.

In Taonga time we have a number of different groups such as Kapa haka, sport, music, team building, art, science and technology. The group I am in is Kapa Haka with the fantastic teacher Ms T in kapa Haka we learn songs and mihi.


I’m glad we have Taonga time because we do things we really enjoy. That’s why we always want it to be Friday so its Taonga time.

Thursday Netball with Emma

Every Thursday Room’s 20 & 22 go out for netball sessions in the morning and afternoon to help with our netball skills. Our instructor Emma is from the Auckland Netball association.


When we First start we had to do 2 laps around the court and do some dynamic stretches we did high knees, butt kicks and the grape vine. The First thing Emma told us to do was to get into pairs then she taught us some passing skills, the first pass was a chest pass then the fly pass and the last one was the bounce pass.


Our last skill She taught us was stepping in netball, you’re not aloud to step. We had to go behind the yellow line with our partner on the other side with a ball. The person without the ball had to run across the yellow line and take to steps before getting the ball.


To end our sessions we played a game of corner ball. The aim of the game was to get the ball to your team mate in the corner surrounded by cones.

My Values DLO Term1

In room22 we have been creating DLO's about the Pt England Values