Kapa Haka

On Friday 19th October people from Room 2 and Room1 did their first Kapa Haka lesson. We learnt actions and Maori songs, with a lady called Mawera. We are learning songs for an end of year production.
The boys have also learnt the Haka. We learnt that a Maori, who was about to be killed, made the Haka. He asked a man if he could hide in his kumara pit because he was hiding from another tribe who was trying to kill him. A few days later when the enemy tribe returned he said under his breath, “Ka mate, ka mate, ka ora, ka ora”, which means “tis death, tis death, tis life, tis life.” He eventually escaped and he thought those words gave him strength and saved him.
Some comments from the class:
Amy-It was fun to learn a different culture.
Ethan-We had to practise the haka a lot.
Tessa-We learnt the words and actions quickly.
Megan-It was fun to learn all the actions and the words.
Holly-It was a different experience.

School Choir

This term we have been learning the music festival songs. Some of the songs are God of Nations, Let Me Sing And I'm Happy, Born Free, It Don't Mean A Thing, Let There Be A Voice, Yo Vivo Cantando, The New Zealand Song, Clowns and Ode To Joy. On Monday 20th August all the people doing the choir went to Christ's College to have our first practice and it was a lot of fun going through all the songs with the conductor. When we started to sound bad the conductor would stop us and say ''you're sounding like the telly tubbies.'' To stop this happening we had to have a north-south mouth instead of a east-west mouth so our voice would sound better.
by Megan and Andie