Wishes do come true

This movie was made by Ocean, Haelyn, Paris and Dakota. It is about having a wish and who knows one days they might come true, even if you are an ugly girl who dreams of becoming a beautiful princess. We hope you enjoy.

Tane

For the film festival we made a movie based around Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. We had lots of fun making this, especially coming up with funny lines to use. We hope you enjoy.

CAR POOL KARAOKE

Room 6 was on the final assembly for the term. We had some fun making this video to share. We each had 10 minutes in the car to created our little bits. We are waiting to see the bloopers version, cause there was  few. Watch this space.

Paddle Board

Everyone wants the latest toy ' the paddle board'. This was another ad for the Fair Go ad Awards by Jayda, Alisi and Tyissa.

Bubble Plastic

Bubble Plastic. We made some ads for the Fair Go Ad awards. We had to sell a product from the 70s.  This was what Haelyn, Alex and Ocean created.

Year 7/8 Ski Camp

In Week 4 the Year 7 and 8's went on an amazing ski camp to Mount Ruapehu. We visited Otorohanga to see the Kiwiana walkway on the way down. It was a long trip taking around 9 hours!
We stayed at The Crossings Backpackers in National Park and spent 2 days in perfect conditions skiing down Happy Valley. Some of us even got so good we were allowed to go up to the next level which was steeper, harder and way more exhilarating. We also visited the Waiuru Army Museum, which has awesome exhibitions with actual military equipment and weapons, hilarious staff and we participated in a fun activity where we were given a 'Rat Pack' to cook. Pretty delicious kai for packaged food!
We had such a cool time and enjoyed every minute! Back to the real world now.

Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

Aroha mai to all our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu classes. We are in the process of making ads and short movies so have not been on our blogs recently. Watch this space though, there will be some cool stuff to look at in the near future, and we are looking forward to checking out what you have all been up to next week.

Jack and Josh Goodhue came to Visit

Today we were fortunate enough to have Jack and Josh Goodhue, two former students of Kawakawa Primary and now professional rugby players, come to visit us at school. They talked about the importance of trying hard in everything at school, even if you are not the best at it, of being resilient and learning from mistakes and to work hard to become what ever you want in life. Such inspiring words from very humble men. Thank you for taking the time to come back.

Hinepau Show

On Tuesday we were fortunate to have the Hinepau production come to school. It was a show about the Maori legend, Hinepau, which highlighted the importance  of looking after Papatuanuku and celebrating differences. The show was entirely in Te Reo which was a first for many of us, but we got the concept of the story from the amazing actors, captivating waiata, and stunning costumes and props. Very cool show!

Cross Country

Today we had our annual school cross country. We all had a blast! Lots of mud, mud fights and heaps of laughs. Perfect day! We even got to travel there and back on the train!

Sir Peter Blake young Leader

Congratulations to Tyissa who was awarded the Sir Peter Blake young leaders award at school. She continually shows leadership in the classroom, in the playground, at school events and on the netball court. Well done Tyissa.

Waiata at Waiuru Army Museum

Haka at the Waiuru Army Museum

After our lessons and tour around the Waiuru Army Museum the boys wanted to say thank you to our leaders and show their respect in such a special place..They performed a haka in the place at the museum, where soldiers are sworn into the army after their training.  Everyone felt the goosebumps during this.

Senior Syndicate at the Cultural Festival

On Friday Kawakawa Primary hosted the first Southern Bay of Islands Cultural Festival. It was a fantastic day with schools showing their talents. Here is the senior Syndicate performing. 

Zaytaleah

When we went to the top of the mountain to have a look at the amazing view we found a great slope to slide down. We all had a go. Here is a video of Zaytaleah sliding down the slope. It was lots of fun.

Alex Skiing

Ashton skiing

Ashton enjoying the amazing day up the mountain.

YEAR 7 AND 8 SKI CAMP

Wow what a week at the snow we have had. The year 7 and 8 students have just returned from an amazing week at the snow. We travelled to National Park on the Monday, an 8 hour bus trip.  On Tuesday we had our first day up Whakapapa Ski Field. Everyone had a lesson and quickly got he hang of skiing. We skied for the next 2 days. We did a ride up to the top of the maunga to enjoy the amazing view. On the Thursday we went to the National Army Museum. We had the best week. Here are some photos from the week.

Tuna Zentangle

We have finally finished our tuna zentangle art and are pretty proud of how they look. We did this for art as part of our tuna study last term but our manu taratahi took so long to make that we ran out of time to finish the zentangle.

First, we learnt what zentangle is. It is a type of doodling that was designed to help relax and calm the mind. We then drew a basic outline of a tuna on white paper. Next, we added our zentangle designs with pencil and when we were happy with them we went over them with black vivid. Finally, we cut out the tuna, glued it onto tin foil, cut that out and pasted it onto coloured paper. We hope you enjoy our work!

Hinaki Week

So at the end of last term we had a Tuna and Takakau week at school. In room 5 and 6 we designed and made our own hinaki in a hope of catching a tuna. When we had made them we walked to the local farm and set our hinaki. The next day we returned hopeful to have a tuna in them. Unfortunately they were empty. Here are some pictures of our hinaki.

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu

This term Room 5 have joined the Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu blogging program and we have been connected with Room 8 at Glenbrae Primary School, Room 21 at Owairaka Primary School and Mamaku 3 at Grey Main Primary School. We have begun our blogging journey but are still learning how to make quality blog posts and blog comments. We are looking forward to seeing what these 3 classes are learning about and how they share this through their blogs. Here is an introduction to most of the students from Room 5 (we are missing a few who have been away). We hope you enjoy reading about who we are. Happy Blogging!

Recycling at Kawakawa

Here is a piece of writing from Te Aroha about recycling at school. She used great language to persuade her audience. She has some strong reasons to support her opinion. Well done Te Aroha.

WE SHOULD RECYCLE AT KAWAKAWA PRIMARY?

Do you want to stop pollution? Recycling is a great way to help the environment and save it from things such as pollution, Global warming and climate change. I strongly believe that we should recycle our rubbish at Kawakawa primary school. When you recycle your helping your community, school and the world to make it a safer and cleaner place. People are causing massive problems that are damaging our planet that’s why i think we need to recycle at Kawakawa primary school.

Firstly Do you want to make our environment more cleaner? i think that recycling would be a great way to help the environment to stop it from global warming and pollution. Recycling will improve our chances of climate change and save our animals from pollution. It’s vital for us to have clean air when your recycling it helps us lower the amount of rubbish that we throw into our bins. When you don’t recycle your rubbish ends up into the landfill going into the earth.

Secondly it’s a great way to teach the younger students about how to look after Papatuanuku and the animals. When they grow up they can learn to recycle their rubbish to help save our environment and teach their children to recycle. If we recycle at Kawakawa primary we will teach other students how to recycle and what to do to keep our school clean. Recycling can make our school cleaner and might influence other schools to recycle as well.

Finally all schools around New Zealand and the world need to learn how to take care of the earth and their communities as well as their school to help our chances of pollution, climate change and global warming slimmer. Scientists believe that the main cause for global warming is humans and all the oils and gases that are going into the atmosphere also destroying the ozone layer which is protecting us from the heat of the sun.

Kawakawa primary school needs to recycle to stop pollution and other events happening around earth. It will influence other schools as well to recycle and will teach younger students to look after our planet. I am adamant that we should recycle at Kawakawa primary school to save our planet and influence other schools to do the same.

Manu Taratahi

Today we are working hard to complete our Manu taratahi. When we work together we get a lot more done. We are in the rhythm now and are finding it easy to attach te raupo but it does take a bit of time.