Category: Hanga | Create

Matariki Star

LI: To plan, design and create a class star for Matariki that tells a story

For this task, I had to create a class star design for Matariki. For this design, I decided to the night with the 9 stars representing the Maori Constellation. The little designs around it represents the Maori tools like the Hook, the Whale Tail, Pounamu know as the Greentone and the Pikorua. The Hook represents Strength and Prosperity. The Whale Tail represents Family Love and Harmony. The Pounamu represents Peace and Spiritual. Lastly, the Pikorua represents the Friendship and Loyalty.

I found this activity amusing because I enjoyed planning my own star design and writing the meaning on the designs.

Vision Board 2024

This is my Vision Board for 2024. I’m inspired by a women named “Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows”. She is from Tonga who makes beautiful Tapa Cloth in Auckland, she is really talented and creative with her work and she’s hardworking and manages herself well. My goal for this year is to take risks and try new things. Doing this could make me feel confidence of myself. To achieve this, I have to stay focused, work hard, and take responsibility for my belongings. My other goal for the future is to have more knowledge about the subjects that relates to my dream job.

I found this activity helpful because this could help us set up our goal for the future.

PBS Brochure – Respect Care Awards

I’m currently working on achieving a Silver Respect Badge. For me to achieve this, I need to complete 5 tasks therefore it could help me strenghthen my leadership skills and connections to the CARE values. For this task, I need to design a Brochure about Panmure Bridge School.

I found this activity helpful because this DLO could help to encourage parents to bring their kids to Panmure Bridge School.

Life in PBS – Respect Care Awards

I’m currently working on achieving a Silver Respect Badge. For me to achieve this, I need to complete 5 tasks therefore it could help me strenghthen my leadership skills and connections to the CARE values. For this task I had to create a Collage, showcasing our life being a student at Panmure Bridge School.

I found this activity helpful and enjoyable because it helps the school show the people around New Zealand see how it feels like being a student in Panmure Bridge School.

My Pepeha

LI: To write and say our Pepeha.

A Pepeha is introducing yourself in Maori. You introduce others who you are by sharing people, who your grandparents are, where they are from, and what year they came to New Zealand. For example, my ancestors are from Tonga, Ha’apai, my grandparents are Sela and Alamoti, and my ancestors came to New Zealand in the year, 1950. Writing a Pepeha could help us get to know more about each other, when getting to know others is helpful because it could help us strengthen our connections with others, create a sense of trust and make new friends.

I found this activity helpful because this could help us know more about each other and form friendships.

Tongan Kiekie

I completed a Kick-Start task from the Summer Learning Journey, for this actitivty I had to create my own kiekie.

A kiekie is a traditional clothing in the Tongan culture, its a type of clothing wrapped around your waist. People often wear their kiekie on formal events, like birthday parties, funerals, church, weddings, graduations and other special occasions. Wearing a kiekie and/or ta’ovala is an important way of showing respect and honour to others towards one another. A kiekie is really important to me and my family because it represents our culture.

This activity was enjoyable because it was about my culture, and I enjoy doing activities that are related to the Polynesian culture, especially my culture. 

ComicQuest

As pair we completed a kick start activity from the summer learning journey.

The activity was to create a comic and tell a story about some characters at the beach. Our comic was about 2 friends on a trip to the beach. A girl named Siniva picked up a random ball on the ground, not knowing what to do. Until she got the idea, she decided to play volleyball. She asked her friend Bethany to play, and she gladly accepted. In the first round, Siniva served the ball and Bethany jumped trying to strike the ball but missed making Siniva win the first round. Siniva was celebrating her win and Bethany became devastated that she lost and wanted a rematch. In the second round the game was going well until Siniva hit the ball too hard, hitting Bethany in the face causing her to fall on the floor. With no chance of beating Siniva, she wanted to stop playing and offered Siniva to have ice cream with her. Siniva accepts the offer knowing that Bethany doesn’t want to play.

This activity was amusing because we got to use our ideas, Imagination, and creativity to create a comic.

Collaborative Art

LI:  To use different types of warm and cool colours to recreate a world-known painting from Van Gogh.

This week’s art is about Van Gogh and his famous art piece “The Starry Night”. The Class was divided into 2 groups of 16 people, 1 of each group remade “The Starry Night” in warm colours and cool colours digitally. Each group divided 16 pieces of the Starry Night with each person in the group. Working as a collaborative team we gathered all or pieces to 1 DLO to finally reach our desired outcome.

I found this activity fun and helpful because it helps us collaborate together as a team and get used to talking with different people.

Moko-Ika-Hikuwaru

Moka Ika Waru is a Taniwha that has 8 tails and it’s a Water Maori Legend. We had to use our imagination and our own skills to create our own taniwha  without tracing.  It lives in deep oceans with dangerous currents. This myth makes the Moka Ika Waru a special creature in panmure.

I found this activity fun because it helps me use my own skills and imagination on creating things.

Brochure

LI: To remember and give information about Kokako Lodge.

After camp, we created a brochure about information and highlights about our experiences at Kokako Lodge. We used our persuasive skills and gave reasons to why our audience would want to go. We used pictures to show what it is like at Kokako Lodge and what they have to offer.

I found this activity entertaining because we explained our audiences why they should go to Kokako Lodge so they could have a fun time there.