Making Music

The children have been doing so much amazing learning in music I almost don't know where to begin to tell you about it. We have been learning to keep a beat, about the difference between beat and rhythm, what an ostinato is and about playing melodies using the pentatonic scale! Wow! Today we each took a line of the poem we have been learning and created a melody to go with the words using the notes in the pentatonic scale. It was pretty tricky but we found that if we listened carefully and worked together we could do it!

Super Student

This week our assembly award went to Jazz. Our college teachers, Miss Wright and Miss Waddell, loved the way Jazz moved and grooved to the beat in music and dance. She was sensational!

Rhythm Interactive

 
 












Today NEVNS was lucky enough to attend an amazing interactive drumming performance at the Opoho Church with the fabulous Julian and Anton. We were amazed to find out when we got there that all the children were going to be part of the performance, they all had a drum to play. Anton led the children by demonstrating patterns on his drum for them to follow. It was so much fun, but very noisy. By the end of the show we all had sore, pink hands.

Poly Fest 09

 

We have just got back from lunch after a fantastic Kapa Haka performance at this years Poly Fest. We were so excited to be on the stage in front of our friends and family. We were proud to perform and represent our school. Mr McKenzie and Mrs Staynes were in the audience and they said we were brilliant!

Artists in Schools

We are working with 3 artists at our school this term, Kaitrin and Drew are helping us to make puppets. Today we worked with Anna on some music. She is going to be teaching us how to sing with our puppets for a performance.