Thank you to FOM's for the tasty Barbecue and all the classes for their entertaining performance!
Here is Tawhirimatea's performance which was 'pantomime-esq' and a lot of fun practicing! Personally I loved the Year 6 boys as the Sugar Plum Fairies! LOL!
The final assembly was also a special experience for our Year 6's. Tomorrow starts today! Here is a link to some of the items they performed.
Last Friday our 19 Year 6's performed a play to the school!
We had been practicing and learning about it during Friday Programme this term. This was a play set in Medieval times about Kings and Queens! Written in melodrama style we had a lot of fun over acting and doing big actions. This made it really funny and the audience loved it!
We are looking forward to more performances at Makaraka has Talent and the Final Assembly!
Tawhirimatea loved having Lord Nelson in class today! He is a special dog who belongs to Sam. Sam is working on a project where he and Charlie are making a movie to show how pets can enhance your happiness and help you through your life.
Nelson loved our class and certainly visited all the students in the school. He is a very well trained dog and even had a shower before he came in!
We can't wait to see Sam and Charlie's movie and the response they get from others about the happiness animals bring. To quote Sam: "Nelson cheers me up! He is always there for me and I love how he plays!"
Last week on Wednesday Nov 7 a group of students from Tawhirimatea travelled to Tauranga to perform in the Marimba Festival. This is the first time that the festival has been held outside of Auckland and so we thought we'd better support it!
The festival was held at Our Place in the centre of Tauranga City and is a community container mall type place. It is perfect for small performances and events like this! We had a great time and learnt all the songs before we went. Gisborne students were certainly able to hold our own! All that hard work paid off!
We stayed at Papamoa and managed to squeeze in a swim in the sea before returning home. What a great opportunity to learn some new songs all about the sea and perform with other students from the Bay of Plenty! Everyone had a ball and we sincerely thank the parents and Jeremy for enabling us to be creative, have fun and show off some new skills!
We have been practicing for our athletics day. High Jump, Long Jump and just for fun discus and shotput. It is so great having Mr Hocquard to help with his expertise!
We will be selecting the team to go to the inter-school competition in a couple of weeks. People can only enter 3 events so combinations will be looked at.
Remember for High Jump:
Scissors only
Elevation
Speed
Angle of running.
Long Jump:
Speed
Propulsion
Fall forward not backward!
Looking forward to the cricket ball throw coming up!
We are a fruit salad because we all like to do different things and have a different personality flavour. We need this in our life to make things interesting and we can learn more off each other! Celebrating our diversity is important to help everyone feel accepted!
What a great time we had with Jeremy today! Yes these students gave up their holidays to attend this ONZA funded workshop! Wahoo to all of you! Jeremy played recorder, drums, ukulele and helped us to sound awesome! We have now played all the repertoire for the festival and only need to practice!
Jeremy was really impressed by the Gizzy attitude and the can do mindset! We played for 3 hours and it didn't even feel like it! What cool kids we have at Makaraka School!
For those who couldn't make it we will catch you up next term!
Thank you Jeremy!
Some cool snippets of the songs we have been learning:
The Ocean Refuses No River
Ocean
Tulevai - from the book in our library. Watch the solo improv by Angus!
How lucky were we to be invited to Central School's Production - This is Us. We thought it was fabulous. They had narrators and lots of interesting costumes and props. Everything looked just stunning.
The story was about their journey from the creation of Earth to present day and beyond. The dancers in the creation did really well and performed to Holst's Jupiter! A powerful piece of music.
The giant sized puppets really show cased the European and Maori descendants and the make up of our culture. It is no mean feat putting over 400 students on the stage and Central did a great job!
I loved seeing Tim be a part of the show also! He is often behind the scenes and he would have loved helping his old school!
It was great to watch and we hope we can return the hospitality next year for our production!
On September 1 Makaraka School performed our Atua bracket at the Tamararo competition. It was a great performance and very polished. These Waiata are named after our school classroom names and are about the Atua and the essence of what they stand for in Maoridom.
Our class names in the order performed are:
Tangaroa - God of the ocean (a moteatea)
Tanemahuta - God of the forest (Waiata-a-ringa)
Tawhimatea - God of wind and storms ((Waiata Poi)
Ruaumoko - God of the underground and volcanic action (Haka)
Rongomatane - God of peace and land (Waiata-a-ringa)
Here is the video of us performing. We hope you enjoy it!
This week we have been getting out and enjoying the spring weather! Our class PE Monitors have been super organised, suggesting games and making sure they are set up ready for us. This is Tawhirimatea playing Bench Ball. It is a game where you have to tag everyone with soft balls and the team with no one left standing looses! The hard bit is when you are out you go to the bench and then can tag from behind!
Watch out the balls come at you from everywhere! It was fun and we were actually pretty even teams!
The other games we played was capture the flag. This is a fun tag game and you have to get the 'flag' back through the taggers over your line! Well done to all the risk takers who powered through the lines! They got super fit in the jail! Press ups, star jumps and shuttle runs were the punishment for being tagged! Again we were pretty even! 4 points to 5!
The grand finale to our Planet Sunshine fundraiser was a huge success today! Makaraka School Community is a fantastic supportive bunch and we have really outdone ourselves.
Here is the rundown of the fundraising:
Pyjama Movie: $435.90
Bake Sale: $300.10
Disco: $490.70
Making a grand total of $1226.71!!!!!!
Wow the sick children of Gisborne are going to really benefit from this and Georgia and Tom are truely proud to be taking this giant cheque with them next week to their Aurora meeting.
I wonder who will win the guess the lollies competition? To be announced at assembly tomorrow... Some lucky person will be getting 480 lollies! From the bottom of our hearts - Thank You!
We had our second fundraiser on Thursday last week - a delicious bake sale! Tawhirimatea out did themselves and baked up a storm!
There were some delicious items such as fudge and lolly cake. We also had popcorn and many types of slices and cakes! Well done to the whole school who supported this worthy cause and bought some money for their morning tea! We made over $300. Makaraka School is awesome!
Don't forget our finale FUNdraiser this Thursday - a lunchtime disco! Lots of glow products for sale as well as drinks and lollies.
What a fantastic time we all had in Napier! After loading the bus with all our food and gear we were excited to be off performing in a big Stage in Napier our Whirikoka performance.
Travelling on the bus was fun watching DVD's! We stayed at Kennedy Park and did loads of things:
Sunday 5 August: When we arrived at Kennedy Park, we set up our cabins ready for bed. After lunch we headed off to Laser Strike. This was awesome! Even the adults had a go!
That evening, after dinner and singing to Jahdin (whose birthday it was), we went off to bowling in Hastings! This was awesome. Some of us had never bowled before and we really enjoyed it!
Bowling was awesome! We were tired by 9pm though! We were straight home to bed! After all there was a big day on Monday at the Theatre!
Monday August 6:
We arrived at the Napier Municipal Theatre. This is a really cool Art Deco Theatre in the middle of Napier. We got straight into a warm up and workshops. Here are some videos of our first 2 workshops:
After a break from dancing and a walk on the beach we began to get ready for the big performance. We were first up! Lots of us were nervous but we had done it before so that helped us to know what we were doing!
Our parent helpers were amazing at hair and make-up and we really enjoyed the hype of getting dressed up for a performance.
Here is our performance:
It was really neat to see Gisborne intermediate School's performance also. They performed the Wizard of Oz. Theirs was different to ours but that's what live theatre is all about - seeing different things!
We got a certificate for our Year 3-6 Entry.
Tuesday August 7:
Another birthday on camp! Happy birthday Levi!
Our last day was spent at the chocolate factory having a treat and then the playground for lunch. We were all so tired and Mrs Hall lost her voice! What a great experience - something we will never forget!
We started our fundraising with a whole school Pyjama Day! We had to dress in PJ's because that's what kids in hospital have to wear all day!
We had a great time making the most giant tub of popcorn thanks to Mrs Alan's water trough! We also put the lollies out and then we were ready for the rest of the school!
The tub of popcorn was gone before half way through the movie! We were all so amazed at the huge tub! Some people exclaimed that they had never seen so much popcorn!
We were really relaxed and enjoyed watching "The Secret Life of Pets". It was really funny!
What an enjoyable fundraiser! We raised over $400 for Planet Sunshine! We can't wait till the next fundraiser on Thursday the 16th - A bake sale! Yum!!!!
