Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Passion projects Round 2

Samson teaching the moon walk

Cullem showing his group how to draw some cartoon characters

Charlotte demonstrating how to draw one line pictures

Abby teaching German

Vanessa giving her group a trumpet lesson

Annameika showing her students how to play a song on the keyboards

Ken sharing his language - Thai

Asha getting the girls singing

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Passion Projects Started

The students are started to teach other students something that they feel passionate about. Here are some photos from yesterday...
Maia and Paris teaching some dribbling skills

Liam teaching some squash skills

Jesse giving directions to make an origami crane

Seth helping his students to make a paper creation

Summer teaching her students how to pronounce their own mihi

Charlie showing his students the cords for a Green Day song

Max and Sam leading their teams in a game of football

Emily, Brooke and Olivia showing the girls some netball skills

Lit Quiz Winners

On Thursday, Olivia, Annameika, Lilly and Charlotte participated in the class Literature Quiz. They had to answer questions about lots of different books. Congratulations to the girls as they won!!
Annameika and Olivia had fantastic scores and will now represent the school in the interschool Lit Quiz next term. Well done girls.

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Passion Projects

Finally next week you will be teaching your passion to a small group of students, so be prepared!!
You may select the from the choices of the passion projects, and I will try and give you at least 1-2 of your choices.
Complete the survey below and don't forget to write your name correctly in the first question

Monday, 3 April 2017

Stimela ‘The Gumboot’ Musical

Today we were lucky enough to watch a performance from Stimela.

"Gumboot dancing was born out of the oppressive gold mines of South Africa. Forbidden to speak and in almost complete darkness, the slave laborers developed their own language by slapping their gumboots and rattling their ankle chains. In time it has developed into a truly unique dance form …"
Theatre Royal Nelson






Here is what our students had to say about the show...