Wednesday 6th July

Hui Ako costumes. 

The Middle Room had the task of creating their own costumes for the Hui Ako performance on Monday. The students had a lot of input into the design and making of these costumes. Every child had to have a set of wings and a bird mask. Everyone's creativity shone through when designing their bird masks. They all looked fantastic. We all ran into a bit of trouble when making our wings. This made us do a lot of problem-solving about how we were going to make them and then attach them for our dance. In the end, they turned out really well and we received many comments about how great and colourful they were.

Check out some photos of us creating our costumes!

Cutting out our wings from frost cloth.

Big job putting paper feathers on and painting them. 

Gluing on our straps so we can wear them.

Creating our masks.

The final result!

They look fantastic!

Monday 4th July

Hui Ako

Today was our performance at the South Otago Hui Ako in Balclutha. Over the past term we have been working hard to prepare for this. We performed a drama based on the Maori legend, Hatupatu and the Birdwoman. It was the students responsibility to create the script, costumes and dance routines. This gave all the children great ownership. It was a big crowd today and quite daunting for the students but they all performed outstandingly. Everybody should be very proud of themselves.

Below are some of the photos from our performance today.

Junior Room doing their tree dance.

Middle Room with their colourful bird dance. 

What a fantastic birdwoman!

Senior Room and their fire dance. 

Senior Room acting out one of the scenes. 

Wednesday 11th May

Inquiry

This term for inquiry the focus is Hui-Ako- a performance which will be held in Balclutha at the end of the term. We have been looking into Myths and Legends. We have focused on one book called Hatupatu and the Birdwoman. In groups, we were working on re-telling this story. This helped us work on our key competency of participating and contributing. We have also been experimenting with some drama and practicing our freeze frames which were quite tricky for some of us. We also had to draw a picture of our interpretations of the bird woman. It was interesting to see everyone's different ideas and imaginations coming through in the drawings.