Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Māori Language Week


 Tēnā koutou - hello to all

rangaranga - to weave

Today we practice:-



We are working to master our raranga (weaving) ready to lead the younger students tomorrow.

Wednesday - a day of Hāngi preparation







Does the basket fit?

Thursday - 7.15a.m. An early start for some...









The Hāngi is lifted and now we enjoy...



Friday, 24 June 2016

The Bullet Time Exhibition Workshop


The Year 8s use their creative skills to create a sequence of frames for the zoetrope.
Claire shows us first...
Then we give it a go....



The Year Sevens beside the inspiration
For our art - Eadweard Muybridge's work
The Year Sevens create their sequence of frames...




Thursday, 16 June 2016

Learning About Process Engineering

Today we were fortunate to have Tessa Noakes talk to us about engineering. Share with us what you learnt and what interested you the most.....



Saturday, 21 May 2016

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Crete


Year Eights watching the Airforce Band practice.

Year Sevens watch the ceremony


Friday, 20 May 2016

Netball at the ASB

We were fortunate to be at the ASB for Eastern Zone Netball this week which meant there was no cancellation!! Here are some of us in action....






Thursday, 12 May 2016

Learning Self Defence


Tui has been fortunate enough to spend the day with Phil from GSW Club.
His warm up was a series of stretches and then we played the cool game of knee tag.

Next we learnt how to have a strong posture.


We learnt that a strong base helps us from being pushed or pulled.

We then learnt techniques to help us escape.

After break it was time to learn the technical "get up."


Defend myself by "using my voice." This means I need to also use a frame as I attempt to fend off the attacker and yell stop.
We have our framework so now we need to learn how to cope when we are taken by surprise.


After lunch we learnt what to do when we are attacked from behind


Thanks Phil for some amazing learning😄
Please comment on what you have learnt. Talk about techniques that really clicked with you; what the philosophy of Brazilian Jiujitsu is; what you thought of the learning for the day; what Phil meant by creating a frame; a break fall etc