Our Emblem and Motto

This is the first week back at school and Room 3 have been discussing the Charism of our school.  We have looked at the Motto and our School emblem.

Our emblem is the Holy Faith emblem because we are a Holy Faith School.

We are Smart Learners by having Faith in ourselves and others, having hope by setting goals for ourselves and loving eachother by showing respect to everyone and everything.

Last Day of the Year

Last day of school today for the 2012 Year 5's in Room 3.  It will be sad to see them go, we have had such a great year learning together.  We wish everyone a very happy and safe holiday!

Sonya's Netbook Reflection

Getting a netbook from the start of the year was very exciting for us here in Saint Pius X school in Room three because it was our first time having our own learning tool to learn with. We were unsure of using a netbook at first, in fact some of us got apprehensive. At first our typing on a netbook wasn’t very good, some of us typed 4 words per minute. As the terms went on we started to get more and more confident and brave using a netbook. It was amazing seeing such wonderful things on the netbook and what it could do.

Now using netbooks we have improved in learning and sharing our knowledge. Using a netbook got better and better as the terms pasted by, now we are starting to finish our work faster and we are typing faster than before. Using a netbook is much easier than using a book and a pencil like before. Our netbooks made a big difference in our learning as we find learning much more fun. Now we are getting really addicted to using a netbook because we used it for everything in our classroom.

The good things about having a netbook is that ever since we started to do our work on the Netbook we have gotten independant and we get more time to finish off our work. Usually when we work in a book our hands hurt because we would write for ages, but our hands don’t hurt that much because of typing it makes it much more easier especially with having Miss G to show how to type faster. It is also easier to publish to our class blog because before we had to write down our work in a book then we had to type it onto the computer, now we just copy and paste it from our docs.

There are some negatives about having a netbook, sometimes doing your work on a netbook can distract you because you can play games or you could go on a website that you are not supposed to go on. The other thing that is negative is when you take your netbook home you have to charge it, sometimes it could be really hard to remember to charge. It also gets really slow while you are doing your work it could freeze or it could die out. The last thing that is negative for your netbook is having warranty problems, small things can go wrong with your netbook.

What I’m looking forward to next year is learning new things on the netbook and I am looking forward to learning with a new teacher.

Savelio's thoughts on Garfield's Cybersmart Movie

1 Garfield is discussing Smartfootprint. ✔

2 Nermo was excited because he wanted to see the man. ✔

3 Nermo got in contact with ComicCat12 by sending comic cat12 a message. ✔

4 Nermo shouldn't meet comic cat12 because Nermo does not know him.✔


5) Nermo needs to be careful about the information he puts online because they might come to your house and knock on your door or ring your house. ✔

6 Yappy stands for Y-your name A-address P-password and P-Phone number Y-your plans ✔

Ana's Manaiakanalani Film Festival Recount

Last Wednesday, the whole school went to the Manaiakalani Film Festival. There we watched short films made by school kids and their teachers. The films were held at Hoyts Cinemas at Sylvia Park so we had to catch the bus to get there.

First we got onto the bus at 10.00am. We got to Sylvia Park and 10.15am and waited until we were allowed inside. On the way in, I saw my Aunty who was helping with the Film Festival and was going to be there all day.

We were lucky because we were allowed to sit on the luxury chairs at the back. When the lights went out, everyone went, “Wow!” After that, Mr Coakley introduced the show and then it started. Our class was first and we screamed with excitement and encouragement to our presenters, Rachel and Sonya.

There were 5 other schools in the theatre with us. They were Glenbrae, Glen Innes, Tamaki Intermediate and Somerville. Glenbrae’s movies were all maori movies. Tamaki Intermediate were a mix of things. I can’t remember the others though.

After the Film Festival, we walked out together and saw Pt England waiting for their turn to go into the theatre for themselves. We kept on walking until we got to the bus where the bus driver was waiting for us.

Once we were all on the bus we all sat down and rested until we were back to school. I enjoyed the Film Festival this year, but I was really tired afterwards.

That night, I went to the night session where I saw other movies that I hadn’t seen in the day session. I really enjoyed the night session and I liked it better because I saw more movies and I was with my family and friends.

My favourite movie in the day session was Happy by Room 7 at our school. I liked it because it was unique to the others and no one else had done what they did. My favourite movie from the night session was The Test by Room 18 at Pt England School. I liked it because it was really funny and nobody had done anything like it before.

Film Festival Movie 2012

Room 3 were learning how to use vocabulary effectively.  We put together three words at a time to say something important.  We used these three words to make a mini music video sharing our sentences.
What three words sum up what you are thinking?

Trailor for Film Festival Movie

This week on Wednesday Room 3's awesome Film Festival movie will be shown on the Xtreme Screen at Sylvia Park Hoyts Cinema at the Manaiakalani Film Festival.  We are so excited for our first big movie we have made to by seen by all the people at the Festival :-)  Check out the trailor of our movie!