STOMP Dance

Today we had the girls from STOMP visit Hay Park School. Keep reading to get an insight into how Jamal and Rhia felt about their lesson.

Jamal: Today we had STOMP - but as you know there are two kinds of STOMP - we had the dancing STOMP not the group with rubbish cans, percussion and more.

We danced with a mixup of songs. For every single song we had at least one action and the instructors names were Ange and Sienna. They came to Hay Park School to teach us some cool dancing moves and to see our groove.

When we started, we started with simple moves then it got harder and harder and harder. We had fun then… IT GOT REALLY FUN LIKE IT WAS A PARTY!. There was songs like "Kei Kei do you love me" and more but my favourite song was Rolex and Kei Kei. I liked all of the songs that they did.

Rhia: Have you ever heard of the Dance Company STOMP?

If you haven’t then here is some information about them. Their names are Ange and Sienna, they taught us some cool dance moves and also some skills to make it more extreme. They are really good dancers, I learned a lot from them.

We danced to 4 songs, they were "Kiki do you love me" from Drake, "Undecided" from Chris Brown, "Rolex" from Ayo and Teo and "I like it like that" from Cardi B. Some of those songs I sometimes listen to on YouTube only if I want to dance or listen to music. We also learnt and did some dance moves like the Hype, Wrist showoff, Under the fence, Rolling your hands, sidewalk, swimming waves and the dab.

How did we come to be Williams Class?

Kia ora bloggers!

You may be wondering where the names "Williams Class" came from! Hay Park School has a long standing tradition where the classes are named after NZ artists.

This year, the children in Room 6 had 3 fantastic artists to choose from.
1. Tracey Tawhiao
2. Charles & Janine Williams
3. Blake Beckford




Room 6 discussed their likes and dislikes about each artwork, before voting on their favourite artist and works.

Our winner, with the majority of votes was Charles and Janine Williams! and that's how Room 6 came to be "Williams Class".

New year, new class, new name!

Kia ora bloggers,

We can't believe it's 2019 already! Week 2 is nearly finished and 29 Year 4, 5 and 6 students have joined forces in Room 6. We have chosen Williams Class as our name for 2019, named after NZ artists Charles & Janine Williams.

Stay tuned to find out more about them, but for now check out the new faces that make up our new class!

All about Mohamad, Gabriel, Norman & Tania

Kia ora bloggers,

Today our experienced senior students have been teaching our new students and learners in Year 3 how to use google drawing.

Mohamad from Room 9 worked with Mohit from Room 6. Mohamad was the student, and Mohit was the teacher. Here is the drawing that Mohamad created.

Gabriel worked with Miraj (also from Room 8). Miraj was the teacher and Gabriel was the student. Here is Gabriel's completed drawing.

Norman worked with his expert buddy Rigg. Below is his google drawing.




Tania worked with Nevaeh to create a very colourful drawing about herself.

There was lots of different skills involved with creating these google drawings, but our experts did a great job at teaching and not taking over! They have to be very patient and understanding!!

 What is your favourite google drawing feature?

Chinese Language Week

Ni hao bloggers,

Did you know this week is Chinese Language Week? As you know, we have been really busy with production, so today we did a little bit of learning about The Great Wall of China! We even got to explore some of the wall using goggle maps.

Mohamad learnt that there are lots of people in China. He also learnt that people built the wall, not expensive machines.

Tania learnt The Great Wall of China is very long.

Litia learnt that The Great Wall of China is in China.

Gabriel learnt The Great Wall of China was built more than 2000 years ago, and that you can't see it from the moon. People struggled to build it because they made it big and strong.


Gabriel would now like to know if someone tried to break through it, what would happen?
Gabriel is also wondering how many people can fit on The Great Wall of China.

Miss Percy would like to know what it is built from and how do they keep it together?