Manaiakalani Film Festival - The Making of

The idea for the film came as a flash... What makes us human?... Our speech? Our thinking?...Not quite. It's our emotions and the ability to control them! Psychologist Paul Ekman had a curious idea: what are the basic emotions that anyone in this world feel no matter their gender, age, culture, or religion? After a long and exhausting study, he concluded that there were six basic emotions: anger, disgusted, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

Now it came the time to find out what all these emotions represented for my students. So, I gathered the information, namely: what made them feel each emotion; what is the facial expression of each emotion; where do they feel it in their body; how do they handle the negative emotions; how would they recognise the emotions in other people; what colour would they associate to each emotion. I was pleasantly surprised and privileged that they were open and keen to share their experiences. And that was how the ideas for the scenarios for each emotion came up.

Filming was an extraordinary experience, the students were amazing. I felt lucky that I had great colleagues that helped me and that I learnt a lot from anytime I had difficulties with editing, special visual effects, or any technical information.

This film offered me the possibility to work with different students and I am grateful for that.

Hockey Experience

DMIC - working together

Room 22's movie about Mosaic Beach Art

During March, "The Block" was busy making mosaic art. If you are curious to see how and what we did, please watch our short video. Thank you!

DJ's maths

DJ was struggling with his maths today, but after a bit of rewindable learning and encouragement, he soon grasped the concept...so much so that I gave him an extra question to answer and then he wanted to look at the questions he could not answer yesterday.

Tino Pai DJ - your perseverance and attitude was certainly displaying the Point England Way!

From Paulah to Ruma Rua

Hello this is Paulah from Point England School, I'm collaborating with Mrs Collins today on this blog post . Do you have one class in your school, we have 5 classes in our school.  I used an iPad to help me with my learning for 3 years, but this year I am using a chrome book.  Its fun using a chrome book because you can do much more exciting things on a chrome book rather than an ipad like the games you can play, go on Sumo paint which is SUPER fun and cool maths games like RUN3.  I am in room 22 but we work in a shared classroom with Room 21 and 23 and we have 3 main teachers but sometimes some other teachers come and help us.  My favourite thing about our school is the park and Maths...

Smart Learners and Cybersmart - Rm 22 PES

In Room 22 we 

COLLABORATE, 

CO-CONSTRUCT, 

LEARN, 

CREATE 

and 

SHARE 

                                                  in all of our learning.  

How do you do Manaiakalani in your school?