Today, the children has been consolidating their learning about the haka by talking about the different poses. They worked in their groups to share ideas of what a haka should look like, using the ideas of different themes to help them (e.g. shapes, animals).
It has been great to see most children present their work at the end!

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3SG had great fun working in groups to create their own Haka (a ceremonial dance of the Maori people) as part of our dance module in PE.

It was great to see your ideas and scary faces!

Today, year 4 watched videos of how a professional player would do the haka dance with his arms and hands, before attempting it themselves in steps. They worked in pairs to critique and provide feedback on how to improve the performance and in the end, the children all performed together with facial expressions. It resulted in a terrifying but amusing performance!

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The new term meant a new PE scheme; the children have started on dance. Today the children had learnt about what the Haka dance was all about. We discussed the use of emotion and expression, levels, and movements that were involved in the dance, before incorporating stance, facial expression, voice and moving towards positions into their own dance with a partner. Year 3 had so much fun with this lesson!

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