Cypress And Ricky's ENERGY presentation

I worked with Ricky from Room 3. I helped him create a google presentation  about what they have learnt this term's topic - ENERGY. I enjoyed working with my partner because I got to teach him how to use a netbook. (laptop) We developed skills like reading skimming and scanning.

Wordle About Statistics

This is my Wordle about statistics and it was a new thing I learned in class.

Electricity Explanation

What is electricity

Electricity is power that can help us survive. if we didn’t have electricity there would be no buildings, no cars, no TV, no radio, no houses and no airplanes. Also children use electricity to learn.

How do we use electricity?

Electricity is used to turn on TV’s, laptops, ovens and other stuff that runs on electricity. People use it to charge things and research important information. Also builders use it to build houses, dig up dirt, make cars and to make buildings so thats why its important to have electricity because if we didn’t, life would be harder.

Have you ever wondered how electricity travels?

As strange as it may seem electricity travels really fast. First of all electricity is made from power stations then electricity is brought to the generator and so on. Do you know how electricity gets to the power plugs? Well if you cut the cord you should see little wires made of metal, inside those wires are electricity, that is how electricity travels to the plug.

What Are The Different Sources Of Electricity?

There are many types of electricity like solar energy, hydro power, nuclear energy, wind energy and more. If there were none of these sources we wouldn't be able to use electricity.

Athletics Day

Press play to watch a movie about our Athletics Day.


T.P.S NEWS- Athletics Day from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Rewinding Back To June 2012

In Term 2 our school's inquiry topic was about 'Magic Movies'. Here is a trailer of our movies we made throughout Term 2. 


Room 7 Movie Tralier from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2012 School Is Cool

In Term 2 we were learning a lot about movie magic, and how movies can influence our world. We created many movies. We started by brainstorming key messages we could include in our movies. 

We also made a movie that explains how to plant kumara. It was really fun to do. We created this movie to inspire people to learn how to grow their own kumara.


Our movie for The Manaiakalani Film Festival is called 'School Is Cool'. We made it to share all of the cool learning and fun that we have at school.

Our movie was also shown at the Tamaki Primary Academy Awards. We created a PMI about Movie Magic and shared what we liked, what was challenging and interesting.


School is Cool from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Room 7's Favourite Fruit

This column graph show's Room 7's favourite fruit 4 students like apples, 2 bananas, 2 peach. 2 students like oranges, 10 students like strawberries. 6 students like grapes. This  column chart also shows that the same amount of students like banana,peach and orange.The majority students like strawberries where no one likes pears.

Guy Fawkes

As the three egg men raced down the road, I saw them holding exotic ego fireworks
Bad Boyz, Moon Striker, Boombox, Show time, Sparkler Box and Cascades combined with roman candles.
I wondered if by the time I got to my house they’d be fireworks. I ran to my house and it was then twelve seconds to six.
10,9,8,7,6,
I zoomed across the hallway to the front yard. 3,2,1. . .

“Dring-Dring- Dring” I wondered what had happened.
“Oh.” It was the alarm for Guy Fawkes Day.
As the moon zoomed across the big wide world, I could see fireworks dancing with the stars There were Bad Boyz everywhere. The Sparkling Sparklers sparkled so high, I could even chuck it into a bucket of water and would still be sparkling.

My neighbor asked me if I could get toilet paper for him.
I arrived at the market and asked a young tall man for toilet.
“Can you get me some toilet paper please?”
“what color would you want it?” he asked (shopkeeper) “I’ll colour it myself” I replied.
I zooed out side and felt the cascades doing the “cha-cha-cha.” I still couldn’t wait because I was so excited to light the fireworks. When The fireworks were lit I heard cascades crackling, dogs barking and babies crying. I smelt ash from nits of fireworks that were all reading lit. I also smelt gunpowder and BBQ’s being used. And fruit pies for a light snack. I got ready to go to sleep and got all tucked up in bed.

Room 7 Planting Kumara

In week 3 Room 7 planted kumara in our school kai garden. We would like to say a special thank you to Koro for helping us.

Press play to watch how we planted kumara. This clip was put together by Willy and Danisha.


Room 7 Planting Kumara from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.