Term 4 and whole year recount!

I think the past year has been one of my best. My time as a student at Wainui Beach School is drawing to a close, but I have had a rich six years as a student of this school. I feel I am ready to transition to Gis int and I want to end the year on a high.

I think one of the best experiences from this year has been Camp Kaitawa and the Google Summit in Auckland. They were both out of Gisborne and were both well worth the trip. I have had lots of experiences this year, such as Inter School rugby, School Patrols, House Captains, and many many more. I have achieved lots this year and I hope to achieve more and new things at intermediate. I hope to achieve my goal for the end of the year, which is to win the Kohn cup, which would be the best possible way to end the year for me. For those who do not know, the Kohn cup is a cup presented to a year six boy and the winner gets their name placed on the wooden board at the back of the hall. There is also the Collier cup for year six girls.

Again, I think I have had an awesome time this year and in my time at WBS and I will be content when I leave this school. I learnt so much and will learn more in my new school. Some of my friends are going to different intermediates and I will have the opportunity to make new friends, while retaining some friends from WBS. Please leave a comment.

Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival recount!!!

Marching proudly up the steps to the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival, Nui Syndicate stepped onto the stage. This was it. This was the moment we practised terms for. The silence was nerve racking. I waited for the guitar to start and I started singing. I strode forwards, confident and strong, and stopped once I got to the front of the stage. I sang for a moment longer, finished, and waited for the rest of us to join in. We started singing as one, our voices being projected across the hall, resounding off the walls and filling the air, and this was only the first song.

So, as you can probably tell from the first paragraph and the title this was at the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival. The whole school did this yesterday (20/11/19), and we have been practising since the start of this year. I was so proud one of the kaias (leaders) for the performance and I think we did a fantastic job of performing the routine. Although I did find the haka and haramai a paoa were very fast. The people who did our ta moko did an excellent job at putting them on and I thank them for doing a very good job. The kaias for the haka had a full face and the rest of the boys only had them on their cheeks.

Our order of songs go like this: Tu Mai Ra, Haramai A Paoa, Ka Pioioi, Puria Nei, Utaina, The Wainui Haka, Ka Mate, Wainui e, and He Honore. Again, I think that we did a good job at the festival and I think that that was one of our best performances. I hope that the opportunity arises to do this again next year at Gis Int.

Tu Mai Ra

Tu Mai Ra

Tu Mai Ra

Utaina

Haramai a Paoa

Wainui E

Culture city!

In the past three weeks of term 4 in MLH we have had new priorities introduced to us. So, each week we have two cultures and we have to choose one and write information on a readymade sheet. It has been harder than I thought but it has been fun learning about new cultures and their rituals and stories. I think it's funner than the other priorities that we have done. But, I think it takes more time to do it, as we have to do a plan, then put the plan onto the paper, a national costume, AND basic facts. But I think I will get used to it and get it done quicker. I know that it takes more time because I used to get all my priorities done on wednesday, but now I get them done on a thursday. Please leave a comment.

Tabloids day! :D

Last term in the last week before the holidays Moana Learning Hub organised and set up a tabloids day for the whole school. I forgot to do a blog post about last tem so I am doing one now. My buzz group and I organised gumboot throwing and I think it ran reasonably smoothly and I went very well. I remember tabloids day when I was little and I remember it being super fun. Hopefully it was super fun for everyone and they all enjoyed playing. The other stations that the other buzz groups organised looked super fun as well and I think everyone had a blast. (although i did get a bit bored at one stage because I was just lying down and keeping the score. please leave a comment.

MARAE NOHO!!!!!! :D

Last Thursday and Friday the school went in a visit to Te-Poho-a-Rawiri marae for a overnight stay. We did activities on both days. On the Thursday night nui did our kapa-haka routine, so we could get some feedback on it. I thought it awesome and we smashed it out of the park but that's my opinion. I fin kapa-haka really fun and the activities were fun also. On the first day the activities that I did were: Handball, walking, and these log hand-eye coordination games. On the second day I wasn't feeling well so I don't know what activities my group did. Over all the marae noho was fun and it sucked that I spent most of the second day lying in the shade. Please leave a comment

EL4 PICK-A-PATH WRITING!!

A couple of weeks back in a EL4 writing group we were assigned a task to make pick-a-path stories. I have already done a post on this and this one is about the finished product. It wasn't hard to do it but it was quite hard to keep track of all the different parts of the story. It is supposed to be for years 2-3 and I will link the pick-a-path to the post. please give me feedback so I will have time to change it before it is shared with anyone else. The criteria for the pick-a-path writing was:

• Construct a text that shows an awareness of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form.
• Uses a range of text conventions, including grammatical conventions, appropriately, effectively, and with increasing accuracy.

(I don't even know what conventions are/mean) Here is the link to my google form: My amazing pick-a-path!

Speeches!

Today and in the following weeks MLH will be focusing on writing and sharing speeches! I was in the finals last year but just missed the win. Hopefully I will be able to take it out this year. The topic for speeches is 'Hauora', which is the four parts of our wellbeing. So that covers a LOT of stuff. You can pretty much relate anything to that topic so it will be easy to think of a topic! I have thought about it, and my speech will be about why children should participate in at least 1 sport. I think that because it keeps you active and healthy. It also might change the obesity rates in New Zealand. I haven't started yet but I have lots of ideas for it. It will (hopefully) be AMAZING!!! I hope I win!!! Wish me luck.