Haumia @ Waikowhai Primary School

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Production

Our school production this year was Pasifika Peter Pan (a twist on an old classic). We started rehearsing early last term and presented to an audience last week with three performances (two in the evening and one Friday matinee show). The senior syndicate had major and minor roles, both on stage and behind the scenes. The rest of the school performed cultural dances from around the Pacific. Shows were sold out and audiences were treated to a spectacular performance. An amazing end result form all our hard work! Well done!

Here are a few photos of cast and crew...

Tony, Tyson and Anuk as the taniwha

Calai as Waipunarangi (one of the Matariki stars) and Tipiloma as Treasure Hunter Malohi (a pirate)

Jacob and Karl, part of the sound crew

Skye as Tinkerbell

Cast and crew during the curtain-call dance

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Bottle Cars

At the end of Term 3 Te Waka Ako faced a technology challenge to use:

a plastic milk bottle
4 plastic milk bottle lids
a wooden skewer
3 plastic drinking straws
the use of a drill, tape and a hot glue gun

...to create a bottle car that moved down a ramp the greatest distance. Students visualised, planned, constructed, problem-solved and persevered to end up with their creations. Here are some of the end results (about to travel down one of our skateboard/scooter ramps).

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Creating Symmetry

We have been focusing on geometry on maths this term. This week we created some symmetrical art using coloured paper folded in different ways. We used a helpful website to teach us some of the ways to fold the paper (here's a link).

Here are some of the end results...they look awesome!

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Film-Making

We have been busy over the past few weeks creating short films with the theme of 'change'. After looking at some short films made by students, we looked at different types of shots we could use, created a storyboard and script and got to work on filming.

They're pretty good for our first real attempts at making movies...hope you enjoy them.

(This first film is our class finalist for the Ako Hiko Film Festival)

Monday, September 3, 2018

Technology Challenge

During the term we have had a technology rotation in the three classes of our senior syndicate. One of the sessions was a technology challenge where students were given certain materials to use to make something.

Here are the instructions:

Materials:

3 Drinking straws
4 ice block sticks
8 toothpicks
1 plastic cup
2 metres of wool
2 metres of masking tape
3 pieces of card (20x20cm)
1 marble

Challenge: In 6 groups (of about 4 students), design and build a construction that will hold a marble out from a table as far as possible, without the marble being lower than the top of the table. The group whose marble reaches the longest distance is the winner.

Students spent about 45 minutes discussing, trialling, making mistakes, fixing mistakes, feeling frustrated and feeling successful. Here are some photos of the finished products..

When we had finished we talked about the problems that we had faced along the way and some changes we could make to have greater success.

Well done to everyone who participated...remember, the journey is more important than the destination.

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Cross Country

Last week was our annual cross country. Although the weather was sunny, our field was still a little muddy. This added to the fun of the race as each year group participated in their events. We had different activities and games scheduled throughout the day, such as rakau sticks, blindfold challenges and ball relays, while each race was underway. The Year 5 and Year 6 races were the final events.