Hoon Hay School presents "The Journey"

What a week of celebrating the Arts with every child in our school having their moment on the stage. We were taken on a journey by our very own Dr Who and his assistant Hayley Hay who helped our martian friends Boonie Hoonie find mischievous Zoonie and Goonie. From Antarctica to Argentina, South Africa to Spain - "The Journey" was a spectacle of colour and culture.
Around the world in 90mins - an awesome effort from the team and, as usual, our tamariki at Hoon Hay School absolutely shone in the spotlight! Special thanks to everyone who did their little bit to bring it all together!

Spaceship Art in Room 7

Room 7 has been very busy in Term 2, learning about space. We have created lots of different space artworks and even have a solar system that we've painted, up on our walls. Check out these awesome spaceships that we have designed. We made them using paper bowls and cups!

Year 4 Choir Visit George Manning Rest Home

The Year 4 choir had a wonderful visit to George Manning Rest Home on Thursday 5 July. The children were beautifully behaved and sang their hearts out, and they even had a standing ovation! Our friends at the Rest Home just loved the singing and smiles that the children brought to them. The crazy hair also brought a few smiles to their faces!

Love to play the ukulele

The Mighty Minnows and Team Harakeke love moving to music and learning the ukulele. Mrs Peterson has taken each class for a series of lessons learning about beat, rhythm, moving, and singing. She thinks it's a great way to spend an afternoon!

Hoon Hay's Got Talent

It was another fantastic year with Hoon Hay's Got Talent 2018, ably led by Mrs Dent and her crew. So many wonderful acts and the judges had a hard time deciding who to put through to the final. The whole school turned out to support their favourite acts and a past pupil, Min Bin came along to perform his amazing dance routine then encouraged the children to dream big and stay focused to that dream. Min did admit that he was sometimes a little bit of a challenge for some of his teachers, but he has found his passion in dance and he is doing amazing things now in America. Thanks Min for your inspiring words. 

Lots happening in the Arts at Hoon Hay School!

2018 is in full swing and the children at school are enjoying many activities and opportunities in the Arts. From choir, drama, ukulele, and art - our children get stuck in and have a lot of fun with what is going on around the school. Classroom programmes include Rad Rhythm, music and movement, recorder and ukulele. There's lots going on!

Rad Rhythm is an online drumming tutorial using plastic rubbish bins!

Legends Choir 2018

We love to sing

Mrs Andrews brought Gilbert to school for the day. Isn't he gorgeous!

A close up

Olie's art and his shoes are taking him places!

Room 13 art works

Please feel free to send any arts photos to any of the Arts team (Mrs Peterson, Ms Stayt, Mr Carson, Miss Forsthye, Mrs Young, or Mrs Coates) It's great to be able to capture all the events here at school. 

Music Festival

What a wonderful night of music we had with the Legends choir performing beautifully at the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival last week. Our students always present very well not only in their gorgeous uniforms, but they conduct themselves very well showing respect to those around them. Great job! You can see them in action again at the Twilight Mega Fair on 24 November.