Ka Pai Kai - Smoothies

Today our fourth group had the opportunity to cook with Whaea Anna as part of our Ka Pai Kai learning.The students made delicious and nutritious berry smoothies, crammed full of goodness! We were all licking our lips for more, thank you Arahia, Awhi, Zaviah and Cleo!

Football Fun with James Coleman (Northern Football Federation)

James Coleman from the Northern Football Association visited school last week to take the students through a range of football skills and activities. The students were so engaged throughout the whole session as they negotiated their way around the pitch, whilst dribbling the ball and trying to avoid tripping over others. There was certainly a lot of skills on display from the students and James too! We look forward to James visiting Paparore School again next term!!!

Seaside Village Art with Glorious Gloria aka Mrs Seddon!

Mrs Seddon is a fabulous art teacher who loved teaching in Te Manga when Whaea Deb was at her Digital Fluency Professional Development Course. She introduced the concept of hot and cold colours to the class using a seaside village concept.

Seaside Village
Starting with a freehand drawing of the water using cold colours and patterns, the students developed their artwork by adding simple buildings with patterns if they chose to. Textured sand was added next using light and dark brown pastel and finally everything was outline in black except for the sea.

The students did a marvellous job and their art work is currently being admired on our Te Manga walls.

Water Theme Art with Glorious Gloria aka Mrs Seddon!

Mrs Seddon is a fabulous art teacher who loved teaching in Te Manga when Whaea Deb was at her Digital Fluency Professional Development Course. She introduced the concept of hot and cold colours to the class using a water theme.

Water Theme
The students had to choose cold colours to represent water and also had to think about light and dark to show depth. Then they had to design their own water pattern. Next they chose hot colour for their koi fish, starting with a simple S the students developed their artwork by adding features and details. They had to focus on light and dark hot colours and patterns.

The students did a fabulous job and their art work is currently being admired on our staff room and admin area walls.

Term 3 Assembly - The Great Te Manga and Te Tinana Reading Adventure

Today Te Whare Tui performed a Duffy Assembly called 'The Great Reading Adventure' to celebrate Book Week. Our main character Duffy (aka Arahia) loves reading but her sister Scruffy (aka Kaydee) thinks reading is soooooooo boring. To encourage Scruffy to read, Duffy and her friends take Scruffy on the 'Great Reading Adventure' through stories such as The Cat in the Hat, Maui and the Sun, comic book heroes, non-fiction books and the Harry Potter series. Each of the students performed with enthusiasm and had a lot of fun during the performance. You can check out the script by clicking this link: The Great Reading Adventure Script

Here is our assembly video. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as the students enjoyed performing it.

Central Zone Cross Country

All our students took part in the Central Zone Cross Country today with a positive attitude. The students took part and gave it their best effort. Each of the students completed their run and were well supported by all our Paparore students.

Congratulations to the following students who made the top 10 in their age group:

6 Year Old Girls - Koda 

7 Year Old Girls - Lara and Arahia

7 Year Old Boys - Mason T, Kevin, Kiarn, Riley

Our canteen for camp was a huge success. Thank you to all the whanau who contributed to and helped on our Te Tinana and Te Manga canteen at Cross Country today. With your combined efforts we raised $1650 towards our end of year camp to Coopers Beach! Outstanding!!!!!!!

Film Making with Harley - Session 2

Today we recapped our learning from our last session with Harley and definitely stepped it up. When we discussed our learning as a group, we realised we have already learnt so much about film making! 

These are some of the things that we now know.

• The different roles in a film crew
• Director
• Camera Person
• Sound Operator
• Clipper Clapper Person
• Actors

• Things that each person says
• Director - Turn Over, Action, Cut
• Camera Person - Camera Speed
• Sound Operator - Sound Speed
• Clipper Clapper Person - Shot __, Take ___

• Different types of shots that are filmed
• Establishing shot
• Wide Shot
• Medium Shot
• Close Up Shot
• Extreme close up shot 

• Equipment that a film crew needs
• boom pole - sound pole
• Camera - Ipad - use the grid lines
• tripod
• clipper clapper
• clip board
• megaphone (huge film set)
• script

Our school has purchased tripods and boom poles with small smart phones so we actually can really start making movies!!! We can hardly wait until Harley comes back! Check out the students blogging about their experience!