Te Māra Hūpara trip

Kia Ora,

On Wednesday in Week 6 Hay Park School went on a trip to the Te Māra Hūpara playground. We all had to get on buses and take a short journey to the park.

When we got there we got to play on all the equipment. We stayed at the park for half the day. We headed back to school around 12pm, lunch time.

We enjoyed:

  • playing games with my friends
  • walking along the stepping logs
  • climbing different things
  • climbing trees
  • walking to the park and back to the bus
  • playing tag
  • sitting on the logs and sliding to the end
  • relaxing with my friends
  • jumping off the logs
  • watching the eels and ducks from the bridge
  • balancing on the tree trunks

Our challenges:

  • dealing with injuries
  • balancing on the tree trunks
  • trying not to sit on bird poop
  • trying not to slip
  • being calm while walking on the tall logs
  • making sure we don’t go too close to the stream
  • sitting on the hard damp wooden logs

HPS cultural show

Term 3 was a very busy term for everyone at Hay Park school.

For 2 terms we have been practicing and preparing for your cultural showcase. Our school has over 7 different cultures. We are very lucky to be able to share our cultures with each other and our whānau.

After all the hard work it was finally time for lights, camera, and showtime!

Hall & stage all ready for showtime.

Check out our photos below of some special moments.

 

Hay Park School Film Festival – The Kidnap

Hi bloggers,

Below you will find the film The Kidnap from the Hay Park School Film Festival.

Well done to the group involved for their hard work throughout the process. You can follow the links to some of their individual blog posts where they share more about their film festival experience: Asmah, Angel, Afsoon, Effat and Pita.

Leave a comment below telling us your favourite part of their film.

Hay Park School Film Festival – The Missing Girl

Hi bloggers,

Below you will find the film The Missing Girl from the Hay Park School Film Festival.

Well done to the group involved for their hard work throughout the process. You can follow the links to some of their individual blog posts where they share more about their film festival experience: Renesmee, Crystal, Khadeeja, Farangis, Eliezer and Riyad.

Leave a comment below telling us your favourite part of their film.

Hay Park School Film Festival – The Big Treasure Hunt

Hi bloggers,

Below you will find the film The Big Treasure Hunt from the Hay Park School Film Festival.

Well done to the group involved for their hard work throughout the process. You can follow the links to some of their individual blog posts where they share more about their film festival experience: Sione, Mo’unga, Utu and Lorenzo.

Leave a comment below telling us your favourite part of their film.

Hay Park School Film Festival – The Naughty Kids

Hi bloggers,

Below you will find the film The Naughty Kids from the Hay Park School Film Festival.

Well done to the group involved for their hard work throughout the process. You can follow the links to some of their individual blog posts where they share more about their film festival experience: Loiloi, Layla S, Vienna, Ranchen, Steven, Ayyan and Riduan,

Leave a comment below telling us your favourite part of their film.

HPS Film Festival Finals – True Friendship Forever

Kia Ora,

Below you will find 1 of the films from Hay Park School that was chosen for the Ako Hiko Film Festival.

Well done to the group involved for their hard work throughout the process. You can follow the links to some of their individual blog posts where they share more about their film festival experience: Eva, Krisha, Hamdha, Eyvana-Li, So’o, Hadassah & Sariyah.

Leave a comment below telling us your favourite part of their film.

Comic story

Today we reflected on last terms learning by creating comic stories. We had to think of a storyline to show how to have a smart footprint.

It was very handy having some characters available on some hidden slides to add to our story. We had to think really hard about how we can incorporate the Smart Footprint values into a story.

Check out some of our work: (you might need to click to view them up close)

Ifalemi

Krisha

 

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Flash back to May

Hi bloggers,

Last month we were lucky to have Book Quest come in to do a drama performance. It was amazing! There was an actress and an actor who were very energetic and super fast at changing. The performance was interactive meaning some children got to go up and be a part of the performance and in some sections the whole school had to participate.

We learnt about different books and some characters in the books.

We hope they can come back again in the future!

Corban art trip

Kia Ora,

In week 5 Hay Park went to the Corban art centre in West Auckland for an art session. Our class session was called tupuarangi-kai-in-the-sky. We learnt about the Matariki star cluster, focusing on Tupuārangi, the star associated with kai (food) that comes from the sky, primarily fruits and berries and ngā manu (the birds) that feed upon them.

We used caran-d’ache pastel for our manu sitting amongst its native berry food source. We loved the vibrate colours! We finish by learning about whenua paint (natural clay pigments) and will use this to reveal the Matariki night sky around their manu.

We loved this experience and can’t wait to go back again.

See if you can name all the Manu in our work?

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– Andrews Class