Everyone

Yay! Our new xylophones arrived today. We now have a bass xylophone and 2 more alto xylophones. The sopranos should arrive by the end of July.

Juniors

Today a group from the library came to present "Storytime" to our school.

Juniors

Room 1 wrote dance reflections for term 2. Read them to see what they have been up to.

Performance Groups

Congratulations to Jericho and Jorja who auditioned for soloist parts in choir and were successful.

Seniors

In dance today room 9 were create group sculptures based on one of the brothers from "In the beginning". They then created a dance that made a class sculpture.

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Performance Groups

Hey my budding ukulele players. Angari sent me this and I thought you all would like it too.

Seniors

This week the senior's dance has been motivated by the brothers from "In the beginning". Individually they needed to create four shapes based on one of the brothers. Their shapes needed to be angular, curved, stretched and twisted. They then mirrored a partner to learn each other's sequence. The pairs then needed to choose four of their favourite moves and add transitions between each shape. Here are the videos of their sequences.

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Juniors

This week the juniors have used a field of poppies as their inspiration for dance. They pretended to be the seed of the poppy blowing somewhere new and then explored different movements of growing into the poppy. They then created their own poppy shapes. The curve of the seeds in the middle of the poppy. The stretched petals. And twisted and angular leaves. Can you see those shapes in their poppies.

Everyone

Check this out! What do you think?

Everyone

Today was our second singing assembly. We had a great time singing lots of songs. Here is the senior and junior choir (PBS Voices and Singing Squad), room 7's item and the whole school singing Belle Mama.

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Everyone

Room 4 with Mrs Taylor learnt a song today which they shared with and taught room 7.

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Seniors

Mele and Juliet have been practising the Snail Riddle Song on a virtual keyboard.

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Seniors

The Seniors have been using images of Kowhaiwhai patterns to motivate movement. They began with a hand dance. Then used the Kowhaiwhai patterns to make shapes and movements using their hands and arms. They explored the movements through mirroring and shadowing. Then they made group Kowhaiwhai shapes through kaleidoscope.

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Juniors

The juniors have been exploring locomotor and non locomotor movement. They have also been creating twisted, curved, stretched and angular shapes. They used the Anzac 100 Logo for inspiration.

Everyone

Room 1 have been writing reflections about their music lessons for this term.

Everyone

Last week was our final music lesson for term 2. We will be focusing on dance for the next few weeks. Room 7 have been reflecting on what they have learnt.