Cultural Festival: Kapa Haka

Our Junior students (Year 1 - 3) learned some new waiata and movements for this years Cultural Festival.

They used the Key Competencies of 'Participating and Contributing' and 'Managing Self' as well as the virtues of 'Excellence', Confidence and 'Courage' when performing their waiata on stage.

Well done to you all, you performed awesomely well and made us proud!

Thank you to all our parents / whānau who came to support us and to Matua Grant and Matua Mel who helped us during our weekly practices.

Hydropower

This week students learned about hydro electric power, which is a big concept to understand. We watched an episode of 'The Magic School bus rides again' called 'Monster Power' that showed the students how we could use water to generate electricity. They also learned that hydropower uses a dam (which students are busy making) to make hydro electricity.

How do we use water in the dam to make hydropower? It goes down a pipe. The water that goes down the pipe cause the waterwheel/turbine to turn. The turbine makes the generator work and the generator gives us electricity.

A five year old explains what she knows about how we use water to make power..

A six year old explains...