MOA Awards - Highlighting Kaiah's Amazing Work

MOA Awards Supreme Award Winner 2016

MOA Awards: Grand Final Winner

This morning in class we had a special guest from within our own School, Kaiah from Room One.  Kaiah from our school was nominated more than any other student in the MOA Kluster for her work.  She worked on the 'Bum Race 2' a stop animation movie with her brother, Durann, and this was judged the supreme winner at the 2015 MOA Awards.  Kaiah took time this morning to talk about the project, how she made it (it took two and a half days to film!) how many pictures she took (thousands!)  You can see her amazing work here:

Robotics 2015 Highlights Video

Kaiah from Room One has produced this fantastic video with highlights from the 2015 Robotics Finals at Wanganui Intermediate held on last Saturday.

Student Explanation of the DPE Program

We've had some fantastic feedback from so many people with the details of Auroa Primary School's DPE (Technology) program. This video is from a students perspective which details the process that you go from, from start to finish, was produced by Kaiah from Room One.

Best Senior Blog Post: Week Nine - Kaiah Rm1

This week at assembly we were able to recognise the Best Senior Blog Post for Week Nine. It went to Kaiah from Room One for her excellent post about meeting Miranda Sings, who is a Youtube sensation. You can read Kaiahs excellent recount about the event here. Kaiah was also one of the MOA Kluster Finalists in Best Blog for 2014 at the MOA Awards.

MOA Awards 2014: Sonic Studios Highlights

On November 11th there was a special event for the Schools that comprise the MOA Cluster - thats Matapu, Opunake and Auroa Primary School. A special awards ceremony was held at the Opunake Events Centre to recognise Digital Excellence from our Schools. Mr Bloor produced the following highlights video of the evening. He always does an incredible job with his work and yet again this is another amazing example of his fantastic work. Emily, Kaiah and Room One were all recognised for their fantastic work during the year.

Procedural Writing: Making a Sandwich

Kaiah - Dark Horse: Best MOA Awards Music Video

In the 2014 MOA Awards we had some students from Room One who did exceptionally well.  Emily as you know was one of four Room One Finalists for 'Senior Student Blog of the Year' and the eventual winner.  We also had Kaiah as a finalist in that catergory, and also for Best Senior Music Video - a catergory that she won against some great competition.   This is the award winning entry that she created and starred in, which qualified her for the grand prize.

Dark Horse - Kaiah from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

MOA Awards 2014

Last night in Opunake the MOA Cluster (Matapu, Opuknake and Auroa Schools) held their first annual MOA Awards to recognise digital excellence. The awards ceremony was an amazing night with students from throughout the area recognised for digital excellence. Room One from Auroa Primary School featured in the awards with Tom, Tahana, Kaiah and Emily featured in best Senior Blog Awards, with Emily taking the win. Kaiah was featured in Best Music Video (Senior) which she won, putting her in the Supreme Award Winner Catergory. Room One also managed to take the award for Best School Blog. These pictures were taken at the Opunake Events Centre on a fantastic night.

MoaAwards2014 - Video Maker

Character Book Day: Cat in the Hat

Character Book Day at Auroa Primary School saw lots of different characters from literacy present in many forms. One of these was the Dr Seuss creation, the Cat in the Hat, from the story of the same name. Alice and Kaiah choose this character as their topic for their Character Book Assignment and this is their slideshow

Edu Amazing Race Demo

Two fantastic online teachers, Mr Will Chamberlain and Mr Craig Kemp have created an 'Edu Amazing Race' site and were looking for ideas. We thought that this was a great idea at school and we entrusted Kaiah and Brylee from Room One to take care of the details. They came up with a format, we didn't identify where we were in our video so their were some clues: the biggest geographic feature in our area, which is a Mountain (Mount Taranaki) which you can see clearly in the background of our video. A clue about rugby and also we are a country based school (we also thought that our accents would be a clue when we did the video and looked back at it afterwards). Because their idea is based on the amazing race we wanted to have a challenge that could easily be replicated by people watching the video so we came up with kicking a rugby ball from one end of the field to the other in under 2 minutes. The ball has to be caught on the full by the person that is catching and then the second person can run around and repeat the process. We weren't sure how hard this would be if someone didn't know how to catch a rugby ball, so we had to guess about the timing. This video was created, edited and produced by Kaiah and Brylee from Room One on Tuesday 28th October 2014.

Edu Amazing Race - Episode One from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School: Mr Toft's Cup Challenge!

As we mentioned earlier in the week we saw a challenge from Mr Toft in Canada involving rubber bands, string and cups.  You can click on the link to the original post here.  We didn't see the video original video in Canada, it came through Mrs Monaghans A Room With a View site and she posted about it when a class in India competed the challenge.   A great idea that started in one country and now four different countries have completed it at the very least.   Thanks to Mr Toft, Mrs Mongahan for the great idea! Filmed at Auroa Primary School on Wednesday 17th September 2014.

The Cup Challenge 17/9 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Methanex Mathematics Competition 2014

Last night in New Plymouth Auroa Primary School competed in the 2014 Methanex Mathematics Competition Quiz.   We had two teams competing in the Y7 and Y8 section.   The Y7 team consisted of Meg, Kaiah and Keifer from Room One and Joe from Room Two.  The team were running second for parts of the competition, before finishing 10th out of 22 teams.  You can read Kaiah recount about the event on her blog here.

Following this competition the Y8 team then took up the challenge.  The Y8 team consisted of Thomas, Tom, Izzy and Michael.  The team managed to finish tenth in the competition, out of twenty nine teams.

Special mention must go to Mr Gibson and Mr Bloor who stepped up for the parents team in the Y7 competition, who were runners up against an amazing Devon Intermediate team.

Auroa Primary School Vs. Oakura

On Friday 22nd August the second to last round of Taranaki Trophy (Y7/8 Sports) Competition took place at Auroa Primary School.   Auroa hosted Oakura in Netball, Football and Rugby.   Football was a tight game, with scores being tied at 1-1 at half time before Auroa were able to take a win 3-1.

In the rugby Auroa were looking for another strong performance prior to the arrival of St Josephs Stratford on Monday, their final home game.   These highlights, filmed by Kaiah, are of that game.  Oakura are in the red and black and Auroa are in the dark blue with orange.   The game ended up being 85-0 to Auroa Primary School

Oakura vs Auroa from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The other action of the day centred around the Netball.  In it, Auroa were looking for another win to continue their good run of form in the competition, as to date their only defeat had been against St Josephs Hawera in the second round.    Auroa are in the Dark Blue with Orange and Oakura are in the red and black.   The game swung Auroas way early and Auroa were able to claim a convincing 37-5 victory.  

Netball vs. Oakura 22/8/14 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Maori Hand Game: Kaiah

Maori Hand Game from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
This is a maori hand game some students have been learning during kapahaka. The actions are... Whew which means to move to the next person, Patu which is a rebound or change direction, Peke which means to jump or jump one person and finally Peke Roa which means jump two people. This game has been demonstrated by Kaiah, Cruz, Natalie, Katelyn, Quade and the filming was done by Durann.

Photo Slides: Can you guess #2

Can you identify these locations/items/places around Auroa Primary School? Photographs taken by Kaiah around our school. Can you identify what she has taken photos of? Can you identify what Mathematical shapes that you can see in the pictures?

KaiahMWP - Video Maker

Taranaki Trophy R2 Vs. St Josephs Hawera

On Tuesday 5th August 2014 Auroa Primary School hosted St Josephs Hawera in Round Two of the Taranaki Trophy Y7/8 Sports Competition.  The two schools played against each other in the three competition sports, Rugby, Netball and Soccer.

This video, created by Kaiah and Emily from Room One, this video shows highlights of the Netball game between the two schools.   Auroa are in the blue and orange and Hawera are in the purple.   Filmed at Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand on Tuesday 5th August 2014.
Netball VS St Joes Hawera 2014 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School Disco Sneak Peek

This coming Friday the Auroa Primary School Council are holding a social occassion for the school. One of the exiciting aspects of this is going o be lazer light show. Kaiah from Room One, posted this informative and fun video sbout what the lights will look like:

Auroa Primary School Recounts about Swimming

This week for writing our students have been focussing on completing reports about the event that took place on Monday, our 2014 Auroa School Swimming Sports from Stratford.  

Students have spent the week working on a piece of writing about the event.  They planned, edited, reworked and finally published their writing.

We also focussed this week on writing an introduction or a hook that got the attention of the audience.  This came in two ways.  The first as you can see from our student blogs on the right hand side was the fact that we have 30 individual blogs.

We posed the questions to students - what is a title that they could include for their blog that would gain peoples attention.    

Some of the students work you can view from the students of Room One about the invent include:

• Swimmers Luck by Kaiah
• Swim it to win it! by Alice
• In the Water by Luke
• Every Stroke Counts by Tahana
• Under the Water by Lucas
• Fast and Past by Riley M.

Which of these titles to you think are the most effective? Which titles make you want to click on the link to the students work? Which of these are an effective 'hook?'