Tamaki Int. - Learn to Speak Maori 3

This is one from our new series. This is presented by Sidena who wanted to share a waiata that she learnt at Point England (Primary School). The waiata (song) has the basic body parts in Maori sung to the tune of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". The Maori parts of the body are as follows:

• Mahunga - head
• Pakahiwi - shoulders
• Puku - stomach
• Hope - hips
• Waewae - legs

This video was filmed at Tamaki Intermediate on Thursday 7th July 2008 in our resource room by Brooke from Room Five.

Tamaki Int. - Quest Matinee Performance

In this video Moli and Sabrina edited together some of the brief highlights of 'the Quest' performance from Tuesday 5th August. After over a terms work this was our first run through in full make up and costume, although the electronics were a little hard to sort through the students gave it their best efforts. This video was put together by Moli and Sabrina. It was filmed by Victor, Evandah, Meliame and Mary and Edited and Produced by Moli and Sabrina. Our first big performance is tonight and everyone is very nervous! This is also the first musical that our school has attempted in a very long time.

AIMS Games Basketball Update

AIMS GAMES UPDATE! Those of you who have been regularly following our school blog would be aware of the over year and a half build up for the Association Intermediate Middle School Games which are our National finals in Tauranga. They are being held in September 7th-12th and the team has been fund-raising and practising since last year.

Finally our schedule of games for 2008 has been released! Our 2008 team is has games on Monday 8th September against Murrays Bay Intermediate and Bethlehem College. On Tuesday we meet Bruce McClaren Intermediate and Te Kuru O te Kotu. Finally on the Wednesday we compete against hosts Tauranga Intermediate School. We follow all these games with play off's on Thursday! We'll be posting live from the event next month and the team can't wait! Our regular Thursday night competition finishes in three weeks times after a final pool game tomorrow against Bucklands Beach Intermediate School with two weeks of finals.

Those of you wishing to check out information on the AIMS Games can so by clicking on the link.

Tamaki Intermediate - Quest Musicial Preview

Today (Tuesday) we have two special performances of "the Quest" musical. In the first outside primary schools get to view the show, while in the second our own school gets the chance to see what the students and staff have been working on since term one. While we realise some of you can't be there to check out these shows before the big Thursday/Friday night performances here today is special footage of the final rehearsals... tune in later in the week for more!

Tamaki Int. - Mrs Burt from Point England

Those of you who have been regularly following this blog will know that we're part of a group of schools that is part of the the Manaiakalani Cluster. We are incredibly fortunate to have as part of the Group Mrs Burt from Point England School steering the ship at the helm. Point England School have being doing some amazing podcast work as part of their KPE series. Mrs Burt has recently spent some time in USA as part of her professional work. This week Zecillia who also presents our Samoan videos was able to interview Mrs Burt about her trip and ask her some questions. Filmed at School by Mereana on Monday 4th August. Produced and directed by Zecillia.

Tamaki Int.. - Learn to Speak Maori Lesson 2

This is lesson two in our Learn to Speak Maori Series. In this lesson Mikeala and Anna-May go through some words for you to practise. We've written the words below so that you can practise them, then Mikeala will say them in Maori followed by Anna-May in English. This was written, produced and filmed (in one take!) by the students themselves!
The words are

• Tangata Whenua - People of the Land
• Whare - house
• Whare nui - meeting house
• Whare kai - kitchen
• Marae - Church
• Patu - weapon, like a club that could be made from Greenstone
• Mana - pride
• korero - talk or conversation
• kohangareo - kindergarten
• kura kaupapa - Maori School
  

this series will be continuing! Stay tuned!

Tamaki Int. - Week 3, Term 3, 2008

This week at Tamaki Intermediate School we've some pretty significant events occurring.
Tuesday - Our School Musical "the Quest" has our first full performance for outside schools in our school hall at 11:00am. We then follow that up with a performance for our students in the hall that afternoon at 1:30pm Of course you don't need to ask, we'll be filming it and posting some of the highlights on tamakitoday! That same night our Netball teams again compete at Morrin Road in Panmure for their Tuesday night competition.
Wednesday - We have parent teacher interviews. Students will be released to go home at 2:00pm, and interviews will be conducted in the school hall form 2:00pm-6:00pm.
Thursday - Our Basketball Girls have their second to last game before the semi-finals when they take on the red hot favourites for the 2008 Eastern Zone Finals, Bucklands Beach Intermediate. That same evening we have our first night time musical performance, with the Quest at 7:00pm. This is the night that everyone has been building for since term one!
Friday - the Y8 students are off to the Careers Expo at Greenlane from 10am-1pm. Later in the evening we have the second night time performance of the Quest again from 7pm at our Hall!

Finally - we've now clocked over 5,000 views for our material on teachertube! Well done students! I also promised to bake a cake for the first video to hit 1,000 individual views (really I have no idea why I promised this...) and our leading video for hits on teachertube is 'Learn to Speak Samoan 2' which has currently 812 views and closing quickly on that magic mark!

TV3 Meets Manaiakalani Part 3

This is the second part of Claire Robbie talking to students from the Manaiakalani Cluster about her role as a reporter and her job. Students were present at this talk at St Pius X School from St Pius School, St Patricks School, Tamaki Primary School, Point England School, Glenbrae, Tamaki College and of course Tamaki Intermediate School. You can click on the link to see the work of everyone in our group by clicking on the Manaiakalani link. This was filmed on Friday at the event.

TV3 Meets Manaiakalani - Part 2

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Tamaki Int. - TV3's Claire Robbie Interview

"Today we went to St Pius to go and meet Claire Robbie. She is a reporter for TV3. She gave us tips about presenting and reporting. She spoke clearly and we could understand her. There were students from Tamaki College, St Pius, St Patricks, Glenbrae, Point England and Tamaki Primary. This was filmed by Mrs Burt from Point England! Edited by Victor." Produced by Moli and Zecillia, who wrote the above description.

As you should know Tamaki Intermediate School is part of the Manaiakalani Cluster which includes the schools listed above (you can check out any of the schools on our blogroll or on the link above). As part of this we've been able to attend special meetings and have some exciting events happen. One of these was today at St Pius X School here the students were given a talk by Claire Robbie. She is a TV presenter in New Zealand who presents on TV3 Shows like Nightline. She talked to the students about presenting on the news. Moli interviewed her, in front of all the students and filed this report!