Site Update

Thank you for your visit.  A few bits of brief house keeping.   This original blog ran for the 2008 school year.   It was the teachers first attempt at blogging (and the students as well) which is reflected in the charming nature of some of the posts, including small details like having a single camera to record everything (which was completed by students)

Following the teacher leaving Tamaki Intermediate it was decided to keep the blog as an document of the school year, especially with the school eventually closing.    

The teacher followed up with additional blogs at Melville Intermediate in Hamilton and then Auroa Primary School in Taranaki.

In April 2022 posts were removed from this blog that had used third party sites that were no longer operational (such as bubble share and flash player using programs) which meant that the posts did not play properly or display as intended creating gaps on the site).

The school, the community and the students of the school are still very dear to the teachers heart, and he misses those days very much.   He is currently still teaching having relocated to Hamilton and then Taranaki since 2014.   He can be contacted via: myles.webb@gmail.com

Tamak Int - Tamaki Idol Highlights 2008

This is the final set of highlights from our end of year talent quest called "Tamaki Idol" that was held on the last day of school for 2008. This is footage of three students singing the song "Stronger". The featured students are Jasmiine from Room Six, Rochelle from Room Sixteen and Mikeala from Room Six. This is the final video highlight for 2008 as this site is technically inactive. All the students are from 2009 onwards scheduled to be students at Tamaki College a These singing highlights were filmed by Mereana on December 20th at Tamaki Intermeidate School Hall.

Tamaki Int - Cook Island Solo Dance

This is our second to last highlight from our 2008 Cultural Show - this dance is one of the solo items and its Latrell's performance from Calliope House. All of the four school houses had to have an individual dance act that represented the cutlures of the students at Tamaki Intermediate School. This is a traditional solo Cook Island dance. Latrell also performed a version of this on our schools trip to the Cook Islands in 2008. Filmed by Victor at Tamaki Intermediate School on Friday 5th December at the Tamaki Intermediate School Hall.

Tamaki Int. - Indian Girls Group Dance

As part of our Tamaki Intermediate Haka Waiata Festival 2008 our students had to perform five acts in total that represented some of the different cultures at Tamaki Intermediate School. This act is the Girls Indian Group from Calliope House (Red - hence the uniforms). The students were taught this traditional Indian Dance by one of the Calliope House Teachers who was Mrs Sigamoney. They practised themsevles leading up to the competition. Regular followers of this site may recognise some of the students in this act! Filmed during the festival by Victor on Friday 5th December 2008 at Tamaki Intermediate School Hall.

Students in New Zealand have another two weeks of holidays before the end of our summer holidays with students back in early February in most places. A reminder that this site is being maintained as a static site - new posts (2009) relating to the work of the teacher will be posted on our new site opening in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your visit.

Tamaki Int - Maori Boys Haka Highlights

This is the Calliope (Red) House's Boys performing a Haka at our School Cultural Festival. This Haka is called 'Ka Mate' and is the famous Haka that the New Zealand Rugby team 'the All Blacks' perform as a challenge to the other teams before every rugby international. It was filmed at the Tamaki Intermediate School Hall on Friday 5th December 2008.

Tamaki Int - Tamaki Idol Highlights

On the final day of the school year Tamaki Intermediate held their annual talent quest called "Tamaki Idol". Students volunteered to perform an act for the students enjoyment. This is footage of Maasi and Miss Dekker performing a clarinet and flute combination. Filmed by Mereana at Tamaki Intermediate School on December 9th 2008.

Tamak Int - Maori Haka

Another Highlight from the 2008 Tamaki Idol Cultural Festival. This is Leander House's Boys Haka, lead by Wiremu from Room 14. This is a Tainui Haka. It was filmed during the schools Cultural Festival on December 5th at Tamaki Intermediate School Hall. It was filmed by Victor.

Tamaki Int - Samoan Girls Solo

This is another in the continuing series of Haka/Waiata Cultural Festival 2008 Highlights. This is the Solo Act from Leander House, whose students wear the Green co loured uniforms at Tamaki Intermediate School. Look carefully at the Girl doing the dance and see whether you recognise her from our langauge video... of couse its Gaifo from the 'Learn to Speak Samoan Video's!'. She was performing a traditional Samoan Dance for the contest. From Tamaki Intermediate School on Friday 5th December 2008 by Victor.

Tamaki Int- Cook Island Dancing Individual.

This footage is additional footage from our 2008 school cultural festival - Haka/Waiata. This is one of the solo acts that was compulsory for each of the four houses to have. This is Katrina's solo Cook Island Dance. Katrina was a member of our schools Cook Island group that took part in the School trip to Raratonga in 2008 (and are scheduled to go again in 2009). Filmed at the 2008 Tamaki Intermediate Haka Waiata Festival which was held at our School Hall on Friday 5th December 2008. Filmed by Victor.

Tamaki Int - Karanaga

A Karanga is a Maori welcome. This footage from our cultural festival is of the Karanga performed by Orpheus House. Moli and Keliah won best Girls performer as a result of this effort.

Tamaki Int. - Merry Christmas From Tamaki Today

After over three hundred posts, nearly 5,000 visits to this blog - over 23,000 views of material related to this blog.... THIS... THIS IS THE FINAL 'OFFICIAL' POST of tamakitoday.blogspot.com for 2008!

On the final day of school I grabbed the camera and a group of students who have been heavily involved in our 2008 Tamakitoday work - Sabrina, Moli, Zecillia, Sosaia, Gaifo, and Joshua wanted to say an impromptu goodbye to all the viewers and thank you all for the contribution that you have made to the success of this blog.

So all the students of Room Six from Tamaki Intermediate School in Auckland, New Zealand wish each and everyone one of you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

Tamaki Int - Indian Girls Dance

These highlights are from our 2008 Cultural Festival. This is Leander House's Girls Group. It was led by Emma from Room Seven. The students rehearsed for this act extensively by themselves. The group was performing a traditional Indian Dance. It was filmed by Victor on Friday December 5th 2008.

Tamaki Int - Blog Year in Review

Now that we've just broken for the holiday we'd thought we'd take some time to review some of the highlights from tamakitoday and the 2008 Room Six class blog. This blog was started as part of our schools involvement in the EHSAS project (Extending High Standards Across Schools). Our school is part of the Tamaki Cluster of Schools in Auckland New Zealand. You can visit our offical cluster site by clicking here.

Our literacy cycle which is in the left hand side bar, is an example of some of the collaborative work that we've completed. Although the academic year in New Zealand starts in late Janurary we didn't post our first 2008 online work until mid March 2008 with our Virtual Tour of School Video... March saw the premier of our 'Learn to Speak Samoan' Series of Language lessons. These started as a vechile to get ESOL (English as a Second Language) students involved in our online work and have expanded into Learn to Speak Maori, Learn to Speak Tongan and Learn to Speak Fijian.

Our most popular video at this point was 'Learn to Speak Samoan Lesson Two'. This was featured on a Professional development site as an example of intergrating ICT in the Classroom, and this was our first recoginiton of our site. We were very excited by this first recoginition. We've also been featured on other sites such as this Massey Tech.

By May we were publishing 'full steam' as we were constantly brainstorming ideas relating our students culture and material that we could publish online. We were also very happy with the numbers of visitors that we were starting to have. By June we'd had 820 visitors to this site, which was just over three months into our existance. This is when we created our 'Best Rugby Girls Tackles' video which is now our number one viewed material... this has had our 3,000 views and continues to climb all the time...

By August the Rugby season may have finished but we were working hard at our Quest Production which we were able to post material of online. The Y8 students went to Camp on Camp Bentzon, Kawau Island. Although not everyone could attend the brilliant thing was by going with our cameras meant we could share the experience with those who couldnt make it.

September saw our Science Fair, the big AIMS Tournament Trip to Tauranga for our Girls Basketball team competing in the National Finals. Tamaktitoday saw our 2,000 visitor come through the door and our 8,000 view of our teachertube material (six months after our start!)
October saw our 2,500 visitor and Learn to Speak Samoan saw its 20th Episode...

October saw our Learn to Sasa/International Sasa work that involved Mister P Class in the UK, Grey Lynn Primary School and Mr C's Page in the USA. The final product was produced for the Cluster Film Festival which was an absolute highlight of the year.

We celebrated 4,000 visits as of December 1st - nine months after we have started. The massive cultural festival Haka Waiata took place, as we celebrated a major achievement with our 2008 Edublog nomination for best use of Video/Visual. We finished the year with our 2008 Tamaki Idol Talent Quest... as well as having our 4,800 visitor on December 20th. Its been an absolutely amazing 2008 and its not finished yet!

Tamak Int - Tamaki Idol 2008 R1 Band

On the last day of School for 2008 students of Tamaki Intermediate had their 2008 talent quest which is called 'Tamak Idol'. Students had to volunteer to perform an act with some degree of talent. The students in this group were the R1 Band students who performed "Aint No Mountain High Enough". The band includes Laura and Ma'ata who are the singers, Kuapquashe on gituar and Lem is the amazing drummer! The act went down really well on the day and was a great way for students of Tamaki Intermediate School to bid farewell to the year!

Tamaki Int - Tamaki Idol Highlights - R6 Boys

This was one of the star acts of the 2008 Tamaki Idol Competition, a group of Boys from Room Six, Heke, John, Douglas and Alex singing. Filmed by Mereana on the last day of School Tuesday 16th December 2008.

Tamaki Int - Calliope Karanga

Calliope Karanga. This is Calliope House's Opening Karanga (Maori Welcome) for the 2008 Haka Waiata Competition. The Karanga is performed mainly by Laura who is featured also significantly on our Y7 Tamaki Intermediate School blog - tamakitales. Again with all the other footage from our Cultural Show this is from December 5th. Calliope is the 'Red' house from our school hence the colours of the uniforms. Filmed by Victor. Happy Holidays to you all!

Tamaki Int- Samoan Sasa Cultural Festival

This is the Samoan Sasa from Achilles House (Yellow) in the 2008 Tamaki Intermediate School Haka/Waiata Festival. Each house had to have a mass item that included all members of the house participating. In the Sasa everyone has to follow the beat or commands of the leaders. The Sasa is being co-lead by John from Room Six who also won the award for best male at the cultural festival. A Sasa is basically a slap dance where students use their hands to create a beat. The students themselves created the Sasa for this competition and taught themselves with the teachers supervising. Filmed by Victor at Tamaki Intermediate School Hall on Friday 5th December 2008.

Tamak Intermediate - Maori Haka

This footage from our 2008 Haka/Waiata Cultural Festival is footage of the Achilles Boys Haka but also includes the Best Male Performer for 2008, John from Room Six. This was filmed on Friday 5th December 2008 at Tamaki Intermediate School by Victor. The Haka is a Maori Haka.

Tamaki Int - Prize Giving Report

Yesterday Tamaki Intermediate School had our 2008 Prize Giving. During the Assembly we have all the major awards given for the year. Victor was on hand to record the event, and a full video of the event will be shown later. Congratulations to all the winners on the day.

Today we have a special event in that we have the 2008 Tamaki Idol Competition. Our talent quest is taking place in the School Hall from 11:00am today. A full schedule of the acts and footage of all acts will be online shortly.

Some Tamakitoday presenters received significant recognition at the School Prize Giving. Sosaia who presented Netball reports earlier in the Year was named as Netballer of the Year. The Rugby Cup for player of the year went to Meliame (who'se tackle was rated best from our 'Best 8 hits of the year video). Cecelia who was our Basketball correspondent won both the Classroom Prize and Involvement in Sport Cup. Moli won the Senior Teachers Trophy for Sportsmanship and Lasini won the Outstanding Achievement in Sports Award.

Tamaki Int - Haka/Waiata Best Solo Female

This is Christine from Achilles House with her combination Tongan/Samoan dance. This was judged best individual act at the 2008 Tamaki Intermediate School Haka/Waiata Festival. Filmed at School on Friday 5th December 2008. Students are preparing a detailed description of this act as part of their recount writing and this description will be updated when completed.