Film Festival 2019

Today is a special day - the annual film festival.  Below is a short movie of the two students from our class who will be presenting our movie.  So while you are reading this post, it is entirely possible that our class will be screening our movie.



This year we have found that the make-up of our class meant that we were having so many conflicts with each other.  We had started to try different ways to stop the class being upset.  We have been working on avoiding the things that upset or minimizing the effects of the different things that upset us.  Here is a short movie on what you could do when there is a situation that could be very explosive and what you could do to stop that from happening.





The whole class participated and while only half of the class had speaking or acting parts, it was a combined effort.  Below you will find the take out reel or blooper reel for this movie.  We discussed how we managed to complete the film in a short time and how it was so easy.  Everyone agreed until we saw the blooper reel.  The truth is there were many practices, re-shoots, and so many opportunities for learning to happen.




We were fortunate to have a talented set of students because we actually made 4 movies.  Each group has blogged their movie and their blooper reel.  Feel free to visit their blogs to see what story they wanted to tell.

The Forge Of Weapons

Over this term room 8A has been working on creating poems.  The focus was to tell a story and allow the reader to be moved by emotion through poetry.  They also added simile or metaphor to their poem.  Below are the poetry recitalist from our class.

Militina's poem

The Forge Of Weapons

The sound of a hammer fills the atmosphere

As it echoes through the air.

The fire of steel made into weapons of death

For the warriors that will risk their lives today

Then the cries of war fill the battlefield

The war has started

The sounds of swords clashing can be heard miles away

The blood of warriors start to fill the area

At last though the war is done and peace is now in the land

Then one day the sound of a hammer fills the atmosphere once again.

Sunipa's poem

Ballerina

Dancing in the mist as the green leaves fall from the tree, 

looking back on the past both good and bad things. 

Leaping into the sky as the breeze passes her face, 

coming back down to the green grass to dance once again. 

She dances aggressively as her emotion takes over.

Her dress is as white as a little white snowflake. 

She is an angel shining bright with a crown as a halo. 

Waiting for her prince near a river dark and shallow.

The written format and video are slightly different because Sunipa added to the final product for the recital. If she decides to amend her current published piece then this post of her written poem will be updated.
Halasika's poem


His poem is still in the draft format and will be added to this post when completed.

Toitoi term 3

The best chance to read the latest stories and poems written by students our age around the country.  Truly unique in the material, completely NZ.

Term 3 Kiwi Can

Another great time to learn social skills.  These skills help us to become better people

Matariki

This year we created a newspaper front page using prezi to show our learning and understandings around Matariki.
Kara, Joy and Uinita
 Ocyan and Satui
 Militina and Sonny

Zootastic!!!!

The year 3 to 6 went for a zoofari trip.  We were looking at the native birds and bushes.  Our class focused on the alpine birds and plants.

Rippa Rugby - a new way to play

Term two skill training was rippa rugby