Ofa 2010

The Three Bears and their Mama

The Year 6's have worked very hard on their drama this term. Here is their final product. Not bad seeings as all the equipment used was brand new and the first time any of us had ever used imovie :-)

The Lost Watch

Over the next couple of days you will be seeing our Stories we wrote from the inspiration pictures that we were given.....we hope you enjoy them.

In a far away place in Knotting Gham there lived a king called Simon and his intelligent daughter Sarah.
They lived in a castle full of gold and silver and a magical watch. The watch was 2 million pieces of gold. It had to be safe in a dark dungeon. One knight named Spike opened the dungeon, but there was nothing there. The king was angry so he sent Spike on a mission.
One night Spike found the watch when boom! A stranger strapped the watch off Spike.

Do you know who took the watch?

The Dance of Anger

In Media Studies a couple of weeks ago we choreographed another fantastic music routine. We used an old song called 'We're Not Gonna Take It' which is very heavy metal......great for head banging!!
We had to show the emotion of 'Anger' and 'Frustration'. We feel that this worked out better than our last attempt with the 'Muse' song. This was also our first opportunity to have a play with our brand new video camera and tripod :-).

Cluster Cross Country

Heart pounding, legs shaking........”Twoooooot” went the whistle as loud as it could blow. I was standing on the starting line and I felt glad to be at the cross country.
Boom, Boom, Boom was the beat of my heart. I could feel it pumping out of my chest. I stopped for a second to catch my breath and then continued on to try and catch up with the person in front of me.
As I ran there was an army of boys racing next to me so I sprinted but they were too fast for me.
Stomp, stomp went my feet as laughter came out because I heard someone say from our school “I need meat!” (obviously Iron Brian’s message the other day got through to them!).
Huffing and puffing I was so tired and I had a sore leg, I had never ever been so tired in my whole life. My stomach was sore and I was nervous that I wouldn’t finish the race.
“Go”, the lady yelled as I speed down the pathway. As I arrived at the finish line I was tired and sweaty.
Proud of ourselves we all had an awesome time and represented the school really well.

100% NZ Radio Station

A Bit Of Eclipse

During our dance time today we put together a dance routine to Miss G's favourite 'Muse' song. We worked together as a whole class and in groups. It was a lot of fun but a bit tough with the time constraints. Not polished at all but here is what we got done in an 45 minutes.

Our Mini Music Video

We had 30 minutes to practise our rhythm work. We used that time trying to work with the rhythm of a favourite song. We struggled a lot at first and didn't get it totally perfect, but we didn't do to badly! Here's one of the takes that we did......

The Injection Poem

I had an injection,
But on one condition.

Moving and shouting,
Crying and lying.

The doctor said "It soon should go away,"
"But it will come again another day".

Moving and shouting,
Crying and lying.

Let's Rock 'n' Roll

This week for dance we learnt some Rock 'n' Roll moves from Miss G and then had to put them into a Rock 'n' Roll routine to the song 'Keep a-Knockin' by Little Richard. Here's what we came up with......

Our Lady Gaga Choreography

We have started this term doing some dance. We were given 15 minutes to choreograph a short routine to a snippet of Lady Gaga music. We had to ensure that we took careful notice of incorporating shape and timing. This is how we did.........

Yummy Bonbons Mmmmmmm

We had to film our whole movie in French. This was hard but helped us to show all that we have learnt so far this year, especially our movie making skills.

Our Skype Experience

In room 6 on Friday 5th June 2010 we had an experience with Skyping. All the students sat on the mat, watching the electronic whiteboard, except for Dorothy and Siliva who were representing room 6 on the webcam.

At first we couldn’t see Mr Ballew because his webcam wasn’t working for us, but suddenly it appeared. The class all greeted Mr Ballew from Seattle, Washington, USA. The presenters then asked our questions which we wanted answered because we needed information on how to film something backwards.

Room 6 are now going to use the information that Mr Ballew kindly gave us and try to attempt to make our own movie that looks backwards.
Agnes – This experience was fun, because we got to talk to someone from the other side of the world.

Lavinia – I felt scared because I thought we would have to postpone it again because his webcam wasn’t working.

Siliva – At first when I sat on the chair I felt really nervous talking to Mr Ballew on the webcam.

Phoenix – We had a wonderful experience with Mr Ballew from America.

Angelica – I felt excited because it was my first time skyping with my class.

Robertanna – I felt happy because our questions were answered to make our movie.

Nita – I felt happy because Mr Ballew was compassionate and gave us great answers.

Ofa – It felt quite unexpected for me to hear from someone from a different city.

Zephaniah – I felt excited when he contacted us for the first time through email.

Macjeva – It was cool listening to his voice because he has a different accent.

Daniel – I felt excited because he was telling us information of how to film backwards.

Emmanuel – I felt very shocked because it was my first time seeing someone from the other side of the world on a webcam.

A’Leina – Mr Ballew was patient with the webcam to work for us to see him.

Dorothy – I was shocked when Miss G emailed him because he might not have emailed back……..but he did.

Anasitasia – I was surprised that we actually could film backwards…….I didn’t think that you could, but you can.

Ilaisaane – I felt happy because he got in contact with us.

Sia – I felt disappointed at first because the webcam wasn’t working and then it appeared infront of us.

Miss G – I enjoyed seeing all the students getting the answers to their questions. Mr Ballew was very helpful and hopefully we can now make OUR movie.

Glen Innes News Report

We worked really well together on our presentation and we think we produced a great News Report. We hope you enjoy it too.

The Presentation



Our Reflection

The Powershots First Movie

We are extremely proud of what we have produced here. We have been learning about how to use the digital camera and how to edit movies in our Media Studies groups. Our group worked really well together and we ended up with a great movie about St. Pius X School