Manaiakalani Film Festival - 3rd September 2025
As part of the Manaiakalani Film Festival, we learnt how to plan, script, and create a 3-minute short film by developing our ideas and working together on brainstorming, writing, and filming, to share our creativity at the Manaiakalani Film Festival. Our class completed four films.
Tags - Community and Partnership, Porihanga, Film Making, Manaiakalani Film Festival, Writing, Perfoming Arts
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Click on the links to watch all the films and check out the photos from the film festival - Papaparore School Film Festival, Manaiakalani Film Festival and Manaiakalani Film Festival PHOTO links
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My Sea Creature Study
I researched a sea creature and created a google slide deck to share my learning. This is the link to my learning.
Tags - Inquiry, Topic, Sea Week, Plastic, Kaitiakitanga
Write 3-5 sentences about your learning? What did you learn to do? What part did you enjoy the most? What did you find tricky?
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Seaweek – Kaupapa Moana - is New Zealand’s annual week celebrating the sea.
Seaweek is an opportunity for all ages to discover the ways our lives are connected to the sea.
It is also an opportunity to raise awareness about human impact and what we can do to look after and protect our seas.
Our class will be taking part in the 21 Day Challenge starting on 28th February.
Click on the slide decks to find out more about how to be a Young Ocean Explorer!
Healthy Oceans
2. Our Moana in Aotearoa
3. Kaitiakitanga
4. Making a Difference
2. Now for your first action.
Go outside and look around - try to find at least one piece of plastic rubbish each.
Collect it and take it back to class. Look at your rubbish and count it.
(You may decide to pick up plastic before or after school so you’re helping keep your community clean!)
Sea Week - choose a sea creature that you are interested in.
Learn - research this sea creature to find out the following information (on sheet)
Once you have answered each question, take this to Whaea Deb.
Create a presentation on google slides using your information.
Share your presentation on your Edublog.
Lets learn about our local ika (fish/ika/ngohi). Complete the Fish of the Year booklet at school and home.
Waitangi Day marks the significance of the initial signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi to Aotearoa New Zealand. We recall what happened at Waitangi at the time of the signing and who was there. This helps us understand why we have a holiday.
CLICK ON THE BELOW LINK and scroll down TO WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT TE TIRITI O WAITANGI
In my learning in Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories, I can:
• retell a story from the past and talk about how other people might tell it differently
• make observations about how people have acted in the past and how they act today.