Move over Katy Perry, Hub 1 are the new rising stars.

This term for our integrated topic we have been looking at learning the lyrics to a song, adding dance moves and performing to others. This took lots of hard work, co-ordination and perseverance. 

We began our journey by looking at who we are, where we come from and our culture. From here we looked at different cultural dances and how we could interrupt them into one dance. With the help of one of our parents we explored a traditional Samoan dance.  This dance had different dance moves for the boys and girls. This tested our dance skills as we had to think about our own dance moves, what was happening around us and staying in time to the music. We enjoyed exploring this type of song and dance. 

Next we looked at what our favourite songs were, the good old car song, school disco song, talent quest song, clean up song, what our older brothers and sisters listened to. We then reached a decision, for the Gala we would perform Roar. For this we needed to call on our inner lion to help us look the part. First we needed to learn the dance moves, we already new the lyrics as this had been our clean up song last term. We worked hard learning the dance moves, practising every day, every week, singing in the car on the way to school with our Mums and Dads and even practising the song and dance moves at home before school, after school and in the weekends. The highlight for us was coming together as a Hub in the afternoons to practice. Working out where we were going to stand, who would roar and when, which way we would go and how could we all stay in time. 

Finally the moment we had been working for all term, the school Gala. The students got on stage and they blew us away with their performance. They knew all the moves and we could hear them roar!

Here is the link to our video- Roar

Here are a few thoughts of the Gala performance for the tamariki:

I liked it because everyone was doing the actions- Toby

I liked it because my Mum was scared at the end- Jake

My Mum watched me- Alec

I liked getting down in the dance- Jayden

I liked when everyone did the dance- Nadia

I liked it because everyone was respectful for us- Meadow

I liked it because everyone had a smile on their face- Aanya