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Longburn primary schoolTerm 2-3, 2009

Participating & Contributing

The role you have in a group and how you interact

with others affect all of people in the group.

Thinking

Reflective thinking helps us make connections about

who we are

Relating to Others

We need to appreciate and support others and find unity through diversity.

Managing Self

Perseverance and commitment is needed to

complete projects.

Using language, symbols & texts

We can use language to communicate and inform

an audience about our ideas with impact.

Deeper understandings

How am I unique?

Our learning journey…

In the beginning…First we looked at what we had to focus on in our learning –

our deeperunderstandings. We experimented and investigated what

these meant to us.We knew that the key things we were working on through all

our learning were: Perseverance Commitment Motivation Communication Taking on roles Accepting Differences Reflective Thinking

In the beginning…Next we looked at all the different things that

are special to us and toNew Zealand – what makes us who we are!

We looked at New Zealandicons like Kiwiana, we looked at ourselves

and our families, we looked atour community and our cultures.

All of this helped us to understand more about our uniqueness and got us

thinking about how we could share this with each other and our

community…

How am I unique?

We decided to share our learning through performing with the arts…

So next we had arts exploration days to help set us up for creating a performance. Take a look…

Daring Dancing…

We all looked at the key elements of dance with Ms Burtenshaw and how we could use this to communicate our ideas…

Making music…

Mr Rickard took us through the key elements of music like beat, rhythm, tone and how we could use this to communicate…

Dynamite drama…

Mr Rea got us to experiment with different ways to use drama …

Alluring art…

In visual arts we looked at colour, shading, tone and blending with Miss Matangi…

How am I unique?

All these things helped us decide what we would specialise in for creating our performance…

So we chose whether we would be in creating music, dance, props, scenery, costumes, or front of house…

But we still didn’t even have a script so…

We got two people from each class to meet with Miss Matangi andMs Burtenshaw to come up with ideas for our performance based

onour learning about what makes us unique…

After that we selected a group of script writers to write the scriptusing our ideas (Ms Burtenshaw & Miss Matangi helped) and then

wewere able to hold auditions and get started on creating ourperformance! Apart from the main actors who were always

working ontheir acting, everyone helped contribute in their different specialtygroups!

How am I unique?

Our performance was about two NZ superheroes and one had losthis memory because of an attack by an evil Aussie villain. The

NZsuperheroes had to go on a journey to get back his powers andmemory so they could defeat the Aussie villain!

All the powers and memories he had to get and the challenges hefaced were to do with the key things from our deeperUnderstandings: Perseverance, commitment, motivation,communication, taking roles, accepting difference and being a

reflectivethinker

How am I unique?

Presenting our learning…

Take a look at our how ourperformance went…

The best bit was – we created it all

ourselves!

Rehearsing…

Getting ready…

The big night…

At the end…One of the things we were focusing on was

being a reflective thinkerso we had to reflect on our learning of

course!

Here’s some clips showing some reflections…

Reflecting… click on the links