2012 Athletics Tournament

Press play to view some of our students represent our school at this year's Athletic's tournament held at Point England Reserve. 


2012 Athletics Tournament from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Electricity Explanation by Cypress

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 we would die.

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?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.

Push Play!

The Push Play! group will show why exercising is important.

Push Play! from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

Clean and Green

The 'Clean and Green' group in Room 7 put together a movie about keeping our environment tidy.

Clean and Green from Tamaki Primary on Vimeo.

T.P.S News - Athletics Day

Press play to watch a movie about our Athletics Day.


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

Full Version of 'School is Cool'

This is the full version of 'School is Cool' which is the movie we submitted to this year's Manaiakalani film festival.


School is Cool - Full Version 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.

Room 7's Favorite Fruit by Mehi

Today we completed our first spreadsheet during our maths lesson about statistics. We learnt how to collect data, display data using different charts and graphs; and analys data. We also learnt about specific language related to statistics which we will soon show using Wordle. 

Our Data Analysis
This column shows students in Room 7's favourite fruit.Four students like apples.Two students like bananas.Two students like peaches.Two students like oranges.Ten students like Strawberries and six students like grapes.This column graph also shows that the same amount of students like bananas,peaches and oranges.The majority of students like strawberries whereas no one likes pears.

The Manaiakalani Film Festival by Cypress

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 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.

Energy by Mehi and Charday

This is a presentation that Mehi and Charday put together about different sources of energy. 

Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources by Chardonnary

This is my presentation about non-renewable and renewable energy.