Friday, April 14, 2017

Jolt Dance Session

On Tuesday 11th of April, Jolt Dance came to our school to do an hour session of dance with us (Rm 13). The people who were teaching us were  training to be teachers at Jolt Dance. Jolt is based on the belief that everyone has the right to dance and find their own creative voice, they also believe their /our communities are strengthened by the beauty of diversity. That means Jolt has lots of disabled people and people in wheelchairs.

The reason Jolt Dance came was because Joe's mum Lyn was the founder. 

The first thing they did was introduce themselves. There was Janelle, Rochelle, Josie, Cameron, Biddy, Sam and Michael. 
Then all the teachers took turns to give us instructions. They each had different activities for us to do and they took turns to give them to us, then we had to do them. My favourite was the one where everyone sits in a circle then 4 of the teachers stood in a square and the teacher who was teaching us chose 4 people from our class and they had to go stand in front of one of the teachers and then they needed to start dancing. To stop dancing they needed to be tapped on the shoulder by someone, then once you were tapped you had to go and sit down and the person who tapped them had to dance instead. Lastly, we had questions and Torion said thank you, then the bell rung and we went home.

By Devon



Cross Country

On Monday the 10th of April, Ōpāwa School ran its cross country champs. Here are the results.                                                                                      


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By Rydan