18 April

See Term 1 post below for some photos and video footage from the session with the whole school on 18 April.

A message from the Whanau Group

Kia Ora, I am one of the parents from the whanau group.My name is Paula Wakefield and I am going to be helping with this blog. At our meeting on Wednesday,10th of April,we had discussions around how we could make Matariki and Maori language week special for our students.If any parents have any ideas/suggestions please feel free to contact me or add a comment to this post. Looking forward to hearing from you. You can contact me at wakefieldaj@vodafone.co.nz or catch up with me at school.

Term 1 Kapa Haka

18 April

Today the whole school attended Kapa Haka to learn a waiata and a haka. If you want to practice at home here are the words:

11 April 2013
Today it was the boys turn to have some photos placed on the blogsite. We had a great practice today with 80 students attending. We were missing a few students as Rooms 1 and 4 had Kick It and Room 16 students were on a trip to Hamilton today. Last night at the Whanau Hui it was decided that it would be a good idea to have some video footage of the waiata and accompanying actions that the students are learning. We weren't quite ready to do that today but did give it a quick try to see how it would work out if we filmed during a normal practice with no rehearsal.  See our short video clip below.

4 April 2013
Kapa Haka started in March and students were asked to complete registration forms in order to keep attending after the first two sessions. Our tutor Marewa is unable to attend at present as she has just had a baby. Koro Tini is the Kapa Haka tutor and has decided to work at this stage with the girls and boys in separate groups. The girls have been attending from 2.00 - 2.25pm and the boys from 2.25 - 2.50pm.
We currently have 104 students registered to attend.