Melville Intermediate - Hongi Ihu Tutorial

Some of the visitors that come to our class page find our work in other locations. We've a Youtube channel where we share various examples of our work, than channel has just had its 200,000 view. One of the newest videos that we've posted is our 'Hongi Ihu' tutorial. You can read the original post on our class page here. This video is the version that we've posted on our youtube account. It was created by students who were working in Room Two with Matua Pete and filmed by Daniel and Wattana from Room Five.

Hongi Ihu - slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Matariki Summary by Owen and Josh

Matariki is a constellation of seven stars that represent the Maori New Year which takes place in late May or early June. It occurs just prior to sunrise. In tradition Matariki was a season to celebrate and prepare for the New Year coming. 

A lot of the produce of the preparation was given to the god of food Rongo. 

The constellation was important for navigating and timing the seasons. Matariki has an English name: Pleiades star cluster.

The constellation Matariki has seven sisters their names are: Electra, Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Asterope and Merope.

Matariki is featured often you just don’t notice it for instance does anyone know the Subaru logo, well it has seven stars and those stars are the one (seven) and only Matariki stars. There are many paintings of them in museums (and even more not so great attempts).

Melville Intermediate - Maori Cultural Group

This video is from Saturday 27th June 2009 and is of the School CPA (Cultural Performing Arts) Group at the Frankton Markets. Students were busking to raise money for our cultural groups trip to Australia later in the year.