About Mrs Siaosi

Welcome to Papatoetoe East School Mrs Siaosi!

Mrs Siaosi is enjoying our lovely environment at Papatoetoe East School, and she think that having a change is good. She used to teach at Papatoetoe North but now she's here!
Mrs Siaosi goes to church and spends a lot of time with her family. Her favourite movie is Shaw Shank Redenption.



Reported by:Xiang

About Miss. Ravji

Welcome to Papatoetoe East Primary School Miss. Ravji!

Miss. Ravji enjoys the friendly staff, learning and the fun in our school. She is looking forward to the School Fair coming up this month. Before coming to this school, she was at University studying so this is her first year teaching. P.E is her favourite subject to teach along with Maths. In the weekends, she usually catches up with her family and goes for long walks on the beach. If teaching wasn't her job, she would become and Event Planner.

 

Reported By: Elysia, C4

Welcome Miss McHugh

Welcome to Papatoetoe East School Miss McHugh.

Miss McHugh  is a new teacher at our school. She is teaching in C5, a wonderful year six class.
Miss McHugh's favourite subject is writing.The place that she really loves is Taupo. Last year she taught at Manurewa Central School. In the weekends Miss McHugh usually does the house work, looks after her beautiful, colourful garden and exercises her crazy dog Holly. The thing that she likes about our school is the lovely students and the very friendly staff and teachers.

By Rajwant

Welcome Mrs Prendergast

Welcome to Papatoetoe East School Mrs Prendergast.

 All the students and staff members wish you the very best year here. We  promise, we won't let you leave because the staff and children love having you here and we don't want to scare you away from here! It's nice to know that your last school was in Clevedon and before that Hamilton. I know that you do lots of art and gardening in your spare time. You could make a gardening team of your own, that would be entertaining for you and the kids that join. It would also make our school more sustainable, which is what we want. It's a good thing you know what you want to do if you weren't a teacher. you would run your own garden business, and even better it's your own gardening maintenance business so it's free. Bye!  

Reported by Charlotte

About Miss Henderson

Welcome to Papatoetoe East School Miss Henderson!

Miss Henderson loves our wonderful children and our very kind teachers. She loves our playground and thinks our library is amazing. In Miss Henderson's spare time she enjoys gardening, shopping and going to the movies. Before Miss Henderson was teaching here, she taught at Mangere East. If you didn't know, Miss Henderson enjoys teaching maths. She would love to be a forensic scientist if she wasn't teaching at our school.

Reported by Sopheara

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Roald Dahl remembered 100 years after birth

This year marks 100 years since famous author Roald Dahl was born.

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Dahl wrote more than 20 children’s books, including The Twits, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Roald Dahl was incredibly creative and came up with more than 500 new words and character names.
Some examples are Oompa-Loopmas and scrumdiddlyumptious from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and snozzcumbers and frobscottle from the BFG.

He called his language Gobblefunk, and loved to play around with words and invent new words or meanings.

This year Oxford University Press even created the Roald Dahl Dictionary, which features almost 8,000 real and imaginary words which he loved to use.

Roald Dahl spent around four hours every day writing stories from his garden shed! He would also only write his stories using a pencil and yellow paper.


Read some Roald Dahl stories in our school library!

Earthquake disaster

!MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE HITS NEW ZEALAND!
 

There was a huge earthquake that happened on November the 14th, 12:02am, 2016, in the South Island of NZ. It was felt from Wellington to Dunedin. It was a shocking 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Also there were a dozen aftershocks but then there was two, yes two 6.2  magnitude earthquakes near Kaikoura. The area is still in recovery, especially Wellington and Kaikoura.


There was a tsunami warning for the East Coast on both the North and South islands. You might not know this but a 2m tsunami hit Kaikoura. Numerous people were injured during and after the earthquakes.