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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Warming up for Athletics!

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!

Monday, October 15, 2018

Our fruit salad class groups!


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!  

We love being a fruit salad class! 



Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Marimba Festival Fun!

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!