LI: To use nature to create a collaborative image of the Hunua Falls.
One of our collaborative challenges to help strengthen our group connections was to create a picture of the Hunua Falls in our activity groups using the leaves, sticks, stones that could be found on the ground. We think we did a great job!
LI: To identify and understand how descriptive language is used to create a clear picture of a setting in a text.
Following our Manaiakalani ‘Learn’ staff meeting last week with Fiona and Matt we replicated the lesson with LS2 using Adobe Express. The idea behind this task was to focus on the imagery in the text, then use those words to recreate the scene the author set using AI. We had a lot of fun doing this challenge. The general feedback was that it was a lot of fun but finding the right words to generate the images needed was the challenge. To help us get around the last part we used Word Hippo to help us unpack the vocabulary.
Congratulations to Armani and Kane, our head students for 2025. Supporting them in their role are Mareta, Melle, Brooke and Daniel, our amazing leadership team. We look forward to seeing you all shine in your new roles and know you will be great role models for our younger students.
Congratulations to Sweet-E and Rekard for making the most of their learning time. Being focused and completing work is a great way to start the year!
This year Duffy Books in Homes celebrated 30 years of helping to break the cycle of booklessness among children at schools like ours throughout New Zealand. Panmure Bridge School joined the Duffy Books in Homes programme in 1999. Since then more than 14 million books have been given to kids like us who know reading is a big part of our learning because it helps us to explore other places in our imagination through words. To celebrate this amazing milestone PBS threw Duffy a party and LS2 made a film about it!
Enjoy our movie!
Swamp Tiger
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We learned so much information today from the Google team. They’re names are Steve, Caro, Teyha and Simon. They gave us an inspiration message “don’t stop following your dream” and “it’s ok to fail”. Google was founded by Larry page and Sergay Bryn at Stanford. Colours on Google are from LEGO colours. Also Google was about to be name backrub before. But changed into Google, from Googol, a number with 1 and ends with a lot of zeros.
YouTube is also owned by Google. The first video on Youtube is called ” Me at the zoo” . The Google team also tells us that some jobs you want to do might not even exist. The Google team also said some amazing sentences to help us. They said don’t make it 10% better , make it 10 times better. An idea isn’t silly, put it forward and try and expand on that.
At the end I very enjoy this, because Google teaches us a lot of things that we don’t know and they encourage us to keep dreaming.
We used our smart searching skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed we made notes in our own words. We used these notes to help us write our information reports. Information reports give readers with information on a chosen topic by providing them with facts.
LI: to write an information report that informs the reader about the Swamp Tiger.
Not many people know that swamp tigers are nocturnal hunters. Swamp tigers, (also known as panthera tigris tigris) are glamorous animals, regardless of their beauty they are vicious beasts that are slowly coming to extinction. These tigers can be found in the mangrove forests of Sundarbans, which is in-between India and bangladesh.
Swamp tigers have an orange coat and black stripes all around their body to help them camouflage with their surroundings. These creatures have a beastly jaw and muscular bodies. They use their enormous and retractable claws to easily take out their prey. Also did you know that they weigh about 453.592kgs?
Bengal tigers are carnivorous animals (only eats meat) they can eat, and kill everything starting from tiny crabs, to human beings. These animals eat wild boars, deers, buffalos, monkeys, unlike other tigers they include marine life into their diet.
Are you aware only about 100 of the bengal swamp tigers remain today? Swamp tigers come from a continent in Asia, you will find that they live between the borderlines of India and bangladesh. They like humid places and live in mangroves forests.
Not many people know that they are unsocial animals, either way these tigers are very protective about their territory. As it says in the opening statement, they live in mangrove forests, because of this they can camouflage easily to hunt for their prey.
Not a lot of people are aware that these beautiful predator populations will decrease if we continue to expand cities.
Our challenge was to use our smart researching skills to find 5 facts about the mount wellington/maungarei. We also researched about Volcanic peak and Crater, for example: a Volcanic peak is a mountain that has a hole in the middle that could entertain lava or a volcano. As you can see we went into groups of 6. My group and I found 2 interesting photos of what it looks like.
I enjoyed doing this task because I get to experience lots of facts about them and what it looks like.
LI: To create a multi – modal DLO that tells others about swamp Tigers.
Our challenge was to research about Bengal Swamp Tigers, including their appearance, diet (what they eat), natural habitat, how they behave, and interesting facts about swamp tigers. Swamp tigers appear in stealth mode as they are camouflaged in their habit, they only meat which means they are carnivores, they are very territorial because they are territorial, and they also behave viciously as they are protecting their habitat.
I enjoyed this task because I loved researching about swamp tigers.
