Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 First Movie Festival

This year has been our first Te Hiku Movie Festival, the movies have been played on the big screen at the Te Ahu Cinema in Kaitaia on Thursday 7 November. This is one of the lucky movies to be chosen from our school. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of this movie.
Please enjoy and feel free to leave a comment below for the students.

 

Some very excited children that can't wait to watch their movie on the big screen.

Afterwards, we made sure we got a photo with our lovely group on the red carpet. Can you believe it, Red Carpet! The students felt like stars!

Then we awarded them to a lovely Ice Cream or Frozen Coke for their amazing efforts! Ka Pai future film makers!

Squawk Squad Kaitiakitanga Week

We won!!!

Each week for Squawk Squad we send in a video of our students completing the activities set for us by Squawk Squad.  Every week they choose winners, who have shown high enthusiasm for their learning and sharing their learning with others.

This week, we sent through our class assembly on Squawk Squad and won a months supply of Pic's Peanut Butter for our class.

How exciting!

Thank you Squawk Squad!

Movie Making

Today we learnt about movie making with Harley Alexander. Harley is a director and producer and has created many short films.

This is one of his films, which he shared with our class.

Harley taught us about the equipment we would need to make our own short films and demonstrated how to use the equipment. 

We learnt about the different shots that would be required:

1. Establishing shot - setting the scene for the film

2. Wide shot - this is where you introduce your characters in the background.

3. Medium close up - from the waist up.

4. Close up - Shoulders up. This is where the students realise their classroom was overrun by rats.

5. Extreme close up - chin up. Looking mainly at the eyes. 

Here are some of the students' shots.

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.