polyfest moment in time

MOMENT IN TIME…

NAME: EVANIA OPAL BISHOP

“Katie look at how many people are out there I feel like I am going to faint”

“It’s ok you will be fine now go and show them an amazing performance”

FLASH, the gold gleaming light beams down on us as we walk out the door towards the stage. My heart is pounding like a volcano that is about to explode. As I walk on the stage I know I can not turn back now. I can feel all the butterflies flying around in my stomach like heaps of madmen.

Just then the music turns on and I know we had just started our second song. I look to the crowd and can see their faces light up with excitement. I’m so worried that I might forget some of the moves but I tell  myself I will be fine everything will be ok. I can hear the crowd cheering for us and families encouraging their kids.

Then I take another long gaze though the crowd and I spot my family and my parents. They are waving at me like crazy trying to get my attention. They were giving me the most biggest smile ever.  

polyfest learning story

For the past term and two weeks I have been practicing for Corinna’s Polyfest. Polyfest is like a big concert where we get to perform and showcase our culture for example there was Junior Maori, Tokelau/Tuvalu, Junior Samoan & Cook Island. I was apart of the Senior Samoan and Kapa Haka group.

For Senior Samoan we had six items they were Mitamitanga which was our entrance song, Tausagi Mai Manu E a collaborative dance with the boys, E Le Matalasi a song for the girls and also danced to, the boys fafa dance to Siva Samoa Remix and then finished off with a Taualuga which is a traditional finishing song and had a Taupou (a ceremonial hostess in charge of entertaining visitors etc usually a girl in high ranks) and that girl was Leitoria Talataina.

Our practices were hard because when we had practices it would that us ages to get into our line. So we had to practice lots more then all the other groups. We also had to practice our transitions, if you don’t know what transitions means it mean how you move around on the stage and how you get into different places during the performance.

After the performance my mum and dad said that they were really proud of me dancing in the Samoan group because she has never seen me dance in the Samoan group before. My dad also said that he could see that I was trying my best and trying to do a pukana.

What I think I could work on:

I think I could work on asking more people to help me learn the moves to the song.

I think I could work on smiling when we are dancing.

I think I could work on trying to be patient when we are waiting for our turn off stage.

I got feedback from Aria and Angel and they said:

Angel: I think you were really good at learning the actions to the song and the words to the song.

Aria: you were really good at learning the actions to the songs in kapa haka.

Eva's End Of The Year Report.

  Eva’s End Of The Year Report

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievements, nothing can be done without hope and confidence”  (Helen Keller)  

I am good at being confident in Kapa Haka. I show my confidence by having sharp actions, standing proud, looking at the audience, and showing different facial expressions for different songs. I am also good at being confident when we were at polyfest. I showed my confidence by using what I had learnt from Kapa Haka to stand strong throughout all of our six items that we performed.        

Being confident is a good thing because it means you will have more opportunities to to be a leader like saying speeches to new people, like teachers and new students that come to visit our school. I participated in Polyfest, kapa haka, the broadcasting trip, girls soccer tournament and netball. I feel happy and proud of myself for participating in all those things because they gave me opportunities to learn new things. .

I think I have been really successful at finishing really important things off and taking people's advice and using it to help improve my own stories.

Throughout this year I have had some troubles at school but I tried to sort things out as quick as I can so that I can build my relationship and trust back with my teachers and Mrs. Whiting. One of the most challenging things I participated in was camp because most of us were not used to sleeping out in tents with no pillow and being freezing cold but we all managed to get through it.

A goal I have achieved this year is getting better at maths. I did this by not giving up even when the problem is really hard and trying to stay on board the waka. I think my best learning was our cool quick writes because I always tried my best to make a short but interesting story that hooks in my reader and paints a picture in their head. I think I am a successful learner because I can stay focused on my work by choosing a good place to sit and to sit next to people that are going to help me not distract me.

I think a K.C skill that I need to work on is relating to others because sometimes I can be picky with who I want to work with and I want to stop that and just be able to work with anyone. Being able to relate to others is important because it means you can work with anyone, that will help me in the future because it will give me a chance to meet new people and be able to share all of my ideas with them.

Some things I try to do to help my classroom be a safe, fun, and quality learning environment by showing respect to the teacher and the students that come to play in our classroom, and alway saying positive things to people and not putting them down.

The job that I had applied for this year was a greeter. A greeter is a person that introduces visitors and shows them around the school. I also make them feel welcome to the school. That was the only job I applied for, I wanted to apply for more but I think I was just too shy.

I think the key competency I use to support my learning the most is thinking because I had to think of different ways to explain things to my group and I had to think of what are some other ways to solve a math problem.

My favorite subjects are reading and writing because they both help me to improve my writing because in reading you can use someone else's ideas from their story and add it your own story but you could add a little twist to it to make it sound a bit more interesting.

Some things I have achieved this year was playing in the girls soccer tournament, receiving a camp award as well as a principal's award. I am happy that I got those awards but I think I could have earned some more awards by being more responsible and taking more opportunities.

Next year I want to apply for more jobs like greeter, kindergarten reader, school photographer, chromebook ambassador, and hui organiser. The reason why I what to apply for those jobs is because it can help me build up my confidence and it means that I have stepped up as a leader and I will be taking on more responsibility. But my number one goal is to be the person that kids younger than me look up to.

Eva's Athletics Learning Story

“ Success is isn’t given. It’s earned. On the track, on the field, in the gym. With blood, sweat and the occasional tears.”

The 27th of october 2017 was the most tiring day ever because we had athletics. Athletics is where you challenge yourself and not other people,. It is where you try to be the best the you can be and push yourself to the limit.

Athletics has lots of different activities. E.g Shot put, Discus, Sprints, Long Distance Run, High Jump, long jump and voltex.

The first thing we did was rest/play. While we were resting/playing we watched others to see what they did to be good. We also cheered people on and encouraged them to keep on trying.

Then we moved on to Discus I think I did really well to get a gold and it was only my first time. I had to learn how to hold the discus before I threw so I threw it in the right direction. I think I got better at throwing the Discus further and beating my last throw because I took the teacher's advice. The teacher’s advice was to bend your knees more and try to throw straight and then you will get a better and longer throw. My next steps for Discus would be put more power into my throw by bending my knees more.

Next we had sprints. Sprints is not one of my best skills but I tried. I scored a bronze because I was mucking around and not trying my best. I need to work on not getting distracted when the teacher is giving our instructions and listening to the teacher when she says who is running next, also not being picky with who I run with and not trying to beat other people a just focusing on myself.

Straight after that we had more running but this time it was long distance running. I came third and I got a silver, I tried my best I got tired along the way but I kept pushing myself to do my best. At the end I was very proud of myself because I did not stop throughout the whole run. I think I could work on trying to pace myself, that means I go the same pace until the end so that I don’t get so tired after.

Then we got into some jumping activities. Our first one was high jump. I’m not a big fan of high jump because it’s hard,  but I still gave it a go. I made it over the first one and then I didn’t want to do it anymore, so I sat down not distracting anyone else but I was encouraging them to keep trying and giving them helpful advice that could help the to improve their next jump. I think I could work on trying to give it a go and not just trying out the little bar but setting a new record of how high I can jump over the bar and not how high anyone else can jump.

Our next jumping activity was long jump. Most of us got bronze . I found out that they measure from where your heel lands not where the top of your foot lands. I think I could work on trying to get a better run up, learning how to time my jump and jumping right at the top of the red mat.

Now for my favorite activity of all voltex. I think I did really well in voltex I got a gold. I learned how to throw a voltex when I was 9 and then I just got better and better when I kept trying. I think I did really well because of my stance and because I throw it straight and not too high. I think I could work on not wasting all my power in the practice throw and just throwing it softly and then when we have the real throw I could try to throw as hard as I could.

 

Now for our last Activity shot put. I think I did alright for my first time ever throwing a shot put. I got a silver for shot put. I Think I could work on getting people to teach me how to hold the shot put and how to throw the shot put.

Throughout that whole day it think I did really well because I gave everything a go, but I did not try my hardest on everything and that is one thing I want to work on.