Our Year 5 and 6 kids were involved in an amazing performance tonight. For the last term they have been walking over to Tawa College every Wednesday for a choir practice with all the other Primary Schools (6 of them) in Tawa, as well as the Intermediate School Choir.
All this hard work, along with a band, dancers, soloists, kapahaka, and a pipe band thrown in the mix as well meant that we were in for a real treat tonight at the Town Hall- Michael Fowler Center. Dress rehearsal this morning brought it all together. Here are some photos from this morning.
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| Making sure all props are stored away in a pillow case |
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| The stage slowly filling up |
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| Full rehearsal- we are in the 4th row from the bottom. |
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| All ready to put on a show! |
And what an amazing show it was! Click on this logo below for a link to the webcast.
Your program sounds awesome! We have never heard the word kapahaka. What does it mean?
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Kapahaka is a Maori word meaning Maori performing Arts. We have a kapahaka group at school that practise every Monday morning. They learn waiata (Maori Songs), use poi, and the boys also practise doing the Haka (Like our national Rugby team - the All Blacks)
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The group performing at our festival were from Tawa College.
I was in the Tawa goes to town.
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