Percussion playing to a theme

It was pouring with rain, and so using the weather as an inspiration, we created small performances using a range of percussion instruments. The main criteria was that we had to begin at different times, there had to be a beat master that we followed and that we tried to play different rhythms, keeping to the beat. One group focussed on "sunshine" as the theme, so their composition was very relaxed and melodic, another on "rain and hail", another on "after the rain" and one on "hail". All in all, we had 30 minutes to explore the different instruments, decide on our theme, work out our jobs as a group and when we were coming in, practice and present them back to the rest of the group. This is what we came up with!

Clay Art Group

We are very lucky to have Anna and Meghan, two art students from Albany Senior High School, come through and work with 30 year 5 and 6 students on creating clay models and sharing their knowledge and skills.

Thank you Anna and Meghan, we are having sooo much fun and learning heaps!! We look forward to seeing you next week!

Korean Speech Competition Results - With Update

Thank you to all those who came to watch our awesome and talented students compete in our annual UHPS Korean Speech Competition. You all did very well and should be very proud!

A big congratulations to our winners - Michelle (1st) Clare (2nd) and Susannah (3rd). Michelle will be representing UHPS at the Interschool speech comp in Pakuranga on August 11th. Best of luck!

A huge thank you to Mrs Heeja Noh and Mrs Youngsook Choi from the Koean School for judging our competition.

Best of luck Michelle!

Updated Results:

Michelle represented UHPS at the inter school Korean speech competition, and........ WON!!

Congratulations Michelle - we are so proud!

PrEP

We were all soooooo excited when we arrived back to receive letters from the PrEP Government offering us jobs! Our CV's and letters of applications must have been pretty good!

We met with our business types (Gardening, Arts and Crafts, Travel and Tourism, Bank, The Warehouse, Food, Health and Fitness etc) and met the other students who had been employed also.

We shared our ideas and started to create small businesses. We came up with lots of ideas, then chose our 5 favourites and then put them against criteria to finally decide on our top 3. Then we began surveying our potential customers to see if they would be happy to buy our products and what they would be happy to pay. The winners of the currency competition had their currency design turned into our PrEP currency for this year. Last year it was Paua, this year it is Tio's.

The bank has been printing the money and making our bank books and we have been researching and creating our products. We also had to attend an accounting course to manage our cash books and now we will receive certificates in Business Account and Transactions Management. Next step, making our prototypes!

Results of Buddy Class Colouring Competition

Well it was a tough competition, but the winners were found!

Congratulations Paris, Isabella and Casey, Clare, Hafsa and Amy, Casey A, Steven S and David P, Sherise and Aurelia!

Wearing our PJ's to school!??

GPK day was great! What a great way to end our term, celebrating making good choices as we Grow to be Positive Kiwis. We were able to wear our PJ's to school, bring a pillow, and chill out and watch a movie in the hall during the middle block. Great fun!

Applying for a Job... I hope we get one!

We have started to apply for jobs for PrEP next term. PrEP stands for Primary Enterprise Programme, and we learn to manage ourselves, work with others, manage money and run a small business, where we make and sell products using our own currency at a real market day!

We have written our CV's and our letters of application and posted them to the PrEP Government. We can't wait until after the holidays to see if we get a letter back accepting us for a job. We hope we don't get rejected!!

Here we are thinking hard about what jobs we could apply for and writing our CV's and covering letters;