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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Culture and Cook Offs

The cultural festival is in full swing and today we celebrate PACIFIC CULTURE!







The extension trialling and cook off continues each Tuesday!






Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Like this!

Ofaloto (Room 6), Shekinah (Room 16), Tomai (Room 15), Jayden (Room 20), Creshanda (Room 16), and Dante (Room 16) were filmed for the Ignite Talent Competition last week. Please visit the following Youtube links and 'like' them. They need lots of likes to get them through to the next stage of the competition.

Dancing to their own tune for Inquiry

These students have done an awesome job creating their own music tracks and exercise routines to help keep us fit and active in an exciting and fun way. Check out their sweet dance moves!


Monday, 24 March 2014

Progress in Music Extension


Choir – We started working on “Let It Go”, “Love Is An Open Door”, “Kia Orana”, “Somewhere Out There” and “Haere Mai” on Monday of Week 7. We had lots of fun!

Jazz Group – Our guitarists and bass player did a great job with learning the Blues Scales and “Doxy” on Week 7.

Bands – Band 1started practising “Stand By Me” on Week 6. Band 2 practised with “Lean On Me” on Week 7. All band members have chosen their favourite songs and we will work on the most popular ones in the future.    

Orchestra – We started learning music at 1.30pm on Wednesday of Week 7. We are learning to play on time with each other.    

Ukulele Group – We practised “Pokarekareana” and “Haere mai” on Week 6 then we worked on “The National Anthem”, “Kiwi Ukulele” and “Malimali Mai” on Week 7.     

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Bush tucker

What kind of food could we take on camp to cook up in the bush? Something to keep us cosy on a damp night in a tent?





 

Chalking it in Art Extension

To get to know each other and find out a bit more about the students in the Year 7 and 8 art extension groups, they drew self-portraits with a twist. Students used chalk to outline their heads on the concrete outside the art room, then filled the area around their heads with things that they love doing and a part of who they are.



Art Extension by Slidely Slideshow

Amo La Pizza

Wow! We’ve come back from fitness to Big Pizza Pies. It’s Amore ( To quote DEAN MARTIN ) They are so delicious our mouths are watering in anticipation!!!






A test with a splash

The Superswimmers group in Room 14 at H.I.S were out for a grand adventure, our Inquiry!  We were going to Soft Materials to create a pool noodle so we could complete our social action:  to create a swimming programme to teach beginner swimmers how to be more confident in the water.  Click, click, click went our sewing machines, and all too soon we were done.  Splash! We were testing our pool noodles in the pool Eek! The water was FREEZING, we swam around a little bit till we were warm, and the pool noodles worked perfectly, YAY!  We can’t wait till we can donate them.

Written by Hannah-May Slater                                                                                                                        Room 14




 

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Blueprint Fasion and Wearabe Art Competition

A group of students have been meeting at lunchtimes with Mrs Watson and Miss Haag to design and create entries for the Howick Blueprint Fashion and Wearable Art Competition 2014. There are three student sections, and we have students entering the Mask/Hat section, and the Recyled section. From pine needles to shopping recipts, keep and eye out for more glimpses of their creations as they develop.


 

Navigating the globe and promoting water safety through music


Jorja, Tiara, Aaliyah, Kendyl, Naashia, Ajay and Aven from Room 17 have been learning their instruments since Week 5. They plan to create a musical composition with a focus linked to teach people how to use navigation tools such as maps and a compass. We were learning about the texture of music last week, and we had a fun time creating our own percussion music using suggested formations during Week 6.    


William, Violet, Priyanka, Samantha, Jorale, Rayleina, Luke, Lorraine, Liam, Ezekiel and Jasmine from Room 14 have started learning instruments on Tuesday. Their goal is to create a musical composition that encourages people wear life jackets while being involved in water activities. We had a great time learning simple rhythm notations this week that are going to be useful for making music.

 
  

 

Update from Mrs Chang


Mrs Chang has been busy working with a number of groups this week...
Choir – We have started our first weekly practice at 1.30pm – 2.50pm for choir on 10/3. Students and I have chosen a waiata, two Samoan songs, one Cook Island Maori song and a number of English songs that they enjoy.

Jazz Group – We have started practising at 8.40am – 9.20am on 13/3 and we will run this group weekly.

Bands – We have two bands this year. Band 1 has started practising at 1.30pm on 14/3. Band 2 will start practising at 1.30pm on 21/3. Each band will have practice fortnightly.

Ukulele Group – We practise at 8.40am – 9.20am on every Friday.

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Ignite Talent Competition 2014

If you think you have got a talent worth showing, then come to the music room to register for the Ignite Talent Competition 2014. A “talent” could mean a song, a dance, a juggling act, a drama, a musical piece, magic tricks, you name it! ­ As long as it’s “G rated”, and free of foul language.

The prizes are 1st place $500 for the winner, $500 donation towards their nominated school/charity, 2nd place $300 for the winner, $300 donation towards their nominated school/charity and 3rd place $150 for the winner, $150 donation towards their nominated school/charity. The winner’s prizes will be awarded on the night and the donations will be forwarded to the schools/charity directly.
The winners of the competition will be decided by the judges and audience votes. Most Likes Video Prize: The video with the most likes on our Ignite YouTube channel will win $100.

Important Timeline for Ignite Talent 2014:
23 March (12PM)

Ignite YouTube submissions close

29 March (1PM-5PM)
Ignite contestants interviews

5 April (6PM-9PM)
Ignite full dress rehearsal, Panasonic Performing Arts Centre, Botany Downs Secondary College, 575 Chapel Road, Dannemora.

11 April (7PM-9.30PM)
Ignite talent competition 2014, Panasonic Performing Arts Centre, Botany Downs Secondary College, 575 Chapel Road, Dannemora.

Good luck to our future stars!

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Melanoma Foundation visit

A group of students from Room 7 invited representatives from the Melanoma Foundation of New Zealand to come and speak to them about skin cancer for their inquiry learning. Linda and Lyn shared some very interesting, helpful, and concerning information about melanoma. These students are aiming to create art work that helps raise awareness of skin cancer,and encourages students at H.I.S to be sun smart. Students also presented ideas they have to help raise money for the foundation on Spotty Day, which will be held on March 28th. Watch this space to see what they come up with.
 
 


Music Inquiry


We started the inquiry classes last week and Dante, Darren, Connor, Creshanda, Naomi, Shekinah & Jimmy from Room 16 have been busy making their own music tracks on the computer for their exercise routines. These will be used for School Wide Fitness.

Creshanda and Naomi

 
 
Daniel and Connor
 
 
 
Jimmy and Darren

 
 
Shekinah and Dante in action...
 

Swimming Sports

In preparation for our school swimming sports, which was held on Friday, students have been in a frenzy creating signs, banners, chants and props to support their whanau. Cale and Andre from Room 21 came to Art with an enormous old blue sheet from home and a picture of a shark. We projected the image onto the sheet so they were able to chalk the outlines in, then, with not a lot of previous painting experience between them, they worked really hard to complete this fantastic banner for whanau Mansfield. Just the sight of it would make anyone swim faster! Well done boys.




Emeka and Mujeeb from Room 9 hoped to endow whanau Cooper with the Hulk's superhuman strength to help them get through a big day of games, racing and chanting. We will hear at assembly today if it was to enough to take out enough points to be the winning whanau. It was an amazing day and we can't wait for the next sports day when we can bring these banners out again.


 

Extension Groups

Students have been auditioning for extension groups over the past few weeks for Sewing, Food, Art and Music. Groups are currently being finalised, after a huge amount of interest. Specialists will work with these groups throughout the year, producing all kinds of exciting creations.


Music Extension Groups
Students are offered a variety of music extension groups to extend their music abilities. There are lots of students who expressed their interest in participating in these groups. We have some amazing talents at school! The Music Specialist has finalised the lists for the School Choir, Jazz Group, Ukulele Group and Bands. We are currently looking for more instrumental players for orchestra. Most of the music extension groups will start running this week.

Tasters


The first weeks of the school year saw all Year 7 and new Year 8 students, along with our International students at H.I.S take part in our Taster programme.

 

In Visual Art students were introduced to the art room and given an idea about some of the things we get up to here. We looked at some previous inquiry projects, as well as the kinds of things we do in Art Extension. Then we got stuck in to a watercolour workshop, starting with some basic techniques, followed by a painting of their choice.



At Soft Materials, students sewed dot to dots and lines on paper to give them an idea of how it feels to operate a sewing machine, as this was a new experience for many of them. 



 
 



In Food Technology, students used lots of cooked vegetables to make a quick snack, encouraging the use of left overs at home. They also made our special H.I.S cookies, which have been a school favourite for some years. 




 
 

During the Music taster sessions students were introduced to various music learning opportunities. We looked at ex-students projects to provide students with ideas of how they can link music into their inquiry. Students were given hands-on time to experiment with a variety of instruments and learn about music technology.