Squawk Squad Assembly

Over the past 6 weeks in Squawk Squad, we have learnt some many new things, which we wanted to share with our whanau in the form of a class assembly.

The students chose topics, which were part of Squawk Squad - Predator Free, Native Birds, NZ Bird of Prey, Whio, Kauri Dieback, Marine Conservation and Kaitiakitanga.  Once the students chose which topic they want to focus on, they wrote their own script and decided on how this may look in our assembly.

The students did extremely well to write their own parts, and to decide for themselves how they were going to present their information.

Have a look at our amazing assembly.  (Please excuse the video editing. I have recorded our practice assembly and the real assembly, and tried to mash the two together to get the best out of both.)
 

Term 2 Assembly - The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

The students did an amazing job retelling the wolf's side of the story of the Three Little Pigs.  They were very nervous but excited to see how many people were in the hall to support them.

We had a few people absent today, so a couple of our students had to learn extra lines last minute! Well done Te Kauru, you are amazing!

Our lovely narrators did a fantastic job retelling the story.

Our three (two) little pigs. Jake played pig 1 and 2, and Paige played pig 3.

Leah our wolf, and Bailey as Granny.

Aria and Isabella are the police arresting Mr. Wolf.

Izaak and June played the two reporters.

This video has excellent sound, but the angles are wrong as some of the children are chopped out.
This video has a better angle, and all the characters can be seen. Volume may not be great as this video was taken from the back of the room.

Please leave us a positive, helpful, thoughtful comment! We would love to know what you thought about our assembly and our performance.

Term 3 Assembly - Akomanga

This term we have been learning te reo with Whaea Lisa focusing on akomanga (classroom). The students learned the kupu of most the items in our akomanga. They used this knowledge to create simple sentence structures - questions and answers.

Where is ____?
Who has ____?

The students showcased their new learning in a fun and interactive assembly.

Students entering the hall dancing to the song - Poi E.

Jodee introducing our assembly.

Wiremu, our kaiako, is searching for his stationary - toa pukapuka.

After Wiremu, our kaiako, exits the room looking for his toa pukapuka, the toa pukapuka enters, sneakily.

The following video tries to capture the whole assembly. Sorry about the movement, this was recorded by a year 4 student.

Te Kauru's Assembly - Term 2, 2018

Tarakura of the Rangitaiki Plains

Retold by Te Kauru

Warriors

Villagers - Gardeners

Villagers - Titi Torea

Villagers - Poi

Tohunga (Fortune Tellers)

Carvers

Taniwha

Narrators

Sound and special effects

To view more photos and the video taken, please click here.  A huge shout out to Mrs Davan's son - Bradley, who videod the assembly for us. The video is in two sections as he accidently stopped the first video.  Enjoy.