Graduation Farewells

Last Thursday, room 2 and the rest of our Richmond Whanau celebrated a year's learning at our graduation ceremony. We reflected on each term's achievements, preformed our favourite Ukelele tunes and celebrated each student with a certificate and a pounamu necklace as a piece of taonga to remember their time at Richmond School.

I have enjoyed teaching and learning in Room 2 this year. We have achieved so much and RISEN to be better friends, better citizens and better learners. Thank you to all our Whanau around New Zealand and the World.

Kia Kaha

Te RITO 2's Graduation Reflection

Here is the video that Whaea Alice and Room 2 presented at Graduation last week. So many good memories and a lovely celebration of our Richmond Whanau.

Arohanui


Term 2 2013 Graduation - Final.m4v from Alice Keeling on Vimeo.

Flick It On

This term, Richmond School has been involved with the Flick It on movie making challenge. The seniors in room 3 made their own silent movie and then swapped it with another silient movie made my students at a school in the USA.

We had a go at adding the voice and foley (sound effects) to this movie. IT took a lot of working together but it was easy when we turned our classroom into a recording studio!

Here is the finished product!



Flick It On - Medium 1.m4v from Alice Keeling on Vimeo.

The Jolly Roger

This Term, room 2 have been learning about measuring and estimating. Today they put their learning to the test and designed and created a fantastic Pirate ship. Riley told me the mast is 5m tall and Alize told it is 10metres long. I like the metre-long plank also!

 Thanks Whaea Rachael for your wonderful lessons!

Cat Rap

This term we are engaging with (getting excited about) poetry. Click on the link below to hear our Class Cat Rap that we transformed using the autorap app on Whaea's iPad! We think we sound pretty cool!

http://goo.gl/AGHTkp


Today we worked it pairs to create our own raps:

Briana and Pafuti's Cat Rap = http://goo.gl/NtJBc0

Seth and Riley's Food Rap = http://goo.gl/Op1UQT

Ngaikiha and Alize's Dag Rap = http://goo.gl/TVib50

Avebury House Celebrations (past and present)

Today, on the last day of term, the children of Richmond School got to share and celebrate with the people of Avebury House, before their official re-opening tomorrow (Saturday). Just like Richmond School, Avebury House is an important part of our community. It was built by a man who was instrumental in the opening of Richmond School over 100 years ago.

Today we celebrated the past and present of Richomnd School. We presented Avebury House with the old school bell (past) as well as our Tapa-inspired Quilt made by the (present) students of Te Rito o te Harakeke, Richmond School.

It was a special morning, with beautiful singing and ukulele playing by Richmond tamariki surrounded by the lovely flowers, trees and garden in full spring bloom! Ka pai and as Matua Pete said "tu meke!"

Strum, Strike, Blow - Ukulele Festival

Wow what a night! Last night 800+ Tamariki and their whanau filled the CBS arena. 23 Te RITO kids were are part of that and we even got a special mention by the MC for our fun-filled smiles and awesome attitude. I was so proud of te RITO kids as they listened carefully and danced in their seats to the ukulele (strum), marimbas (strike), and recorders (blow) during the night. We loved being a part of the massed items and the big ukulele pieces - we even shared our new talent by signing one of our favourite songs of the evening 'Paradise.'

A big thank you to all the parents who joined us - it was very special for the children to share their hard work with you on such a professional stage (even if it was past our bedtime!)

We plan on continuing our ukulele learning and sharing our love of playing and singing with more people in our community, starting with the pre-opening of Avebury House next friday morning.

Here are a few photos from the rehearsal and evening performance, hopefully there will be some video to share at some point also.   Strum, Strike, Blow on PhotoPeach