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!

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! 

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!  

Central School's Amazing Production

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! 

Arohanui Central - Terrific effort!

Tamararo 2018

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!  

Te Wiki 0 Te Reo Maori

Lily has created a slide for us on the Kopu we learnt today at Te Reo.  Please add in some of your own.

Class Game time!

 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!