APRA Uke Can Do It Competition

Last week our movie “Best Friends” played at The Manaiakalani Film Festival.  The idea for our movie came from a song we had written for the APRA Uke Can Do It Competition.  We were very excited to hear this week that our song had been placed second.  The following is the application we sent in with our song. 

This group is from Room 6 St Pius X Catholic School.
We are Pacific Islanders and love to play the ukes.
We also love to make up songs and perform to others by showing our talents.
We hope our song inspires you to never turn away from your best friend.
Never forget that your friends will always be there for you.
                       ST PIUS X LEGENDS!

Read the results and comments from the judges.

Listen to our entry for the NZ Ukelele Festival Competition.

Here is our movie featuring the song “Best Friends”. See more of our movies on our class blog.

Manaiakalani Film Festival

This year Room 6 have three movies playing at The Manaiakalani Film Festival. Our movies were created to share our learning about virtues that are important to us. The virtues help guide us every day to be the best we can be. They help us with our learning and support us to make the right decisions. 

Each of our movies represents one of these virtues: hope, perseverance and courage.

The Sacrifice by Ascot, Viliami and Sefesi


Ascott and Viliami from St Pius X on Vimeo.


Perseverance by Julia, Desiree, Salome


Julia from St Pius X on Vimeo.


Best Friends by Deja, Lose, Zheiyna

Best Friends from Preba Moodley on Vimeo.

Dawn - My Super Hero

This term we have been studying the work of a New Zealand artist, Robyn Kahukiwa. She taught us that everyone has a Super Hero inside them.

My super hero is 3 people who inspire me.
The hair represents my cousin Olalini.
The rosary represents god the father.
The pule tasi represents my awesome Mum.
I love and thank all these people.

Dawn - Music Evening

“Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Malo lelei, Bula Vinaka and Good Evening”, Lavinia said in a cheerful voice. Later on Room 2 lead us with a prayer, “In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit...Amen...”.  After they had finished Room 1 and 2 did their item. We gave them a big round of applause. I heard a lot of the audience shouting comments such as “Aww, cute!”. Not long after their items the crowd sat down and it was Room 7’s turn. They welcomed everyone with a Maori song.

Mrs. Carter talked to her “gophers” and said “After them you have to bring the instruments forward please”, Room 5 done their item, it was beautiful. Then Room 4 performed their Boogie!. Room 4 had a lot of energy for their item. Next up is Fresh Vibration!. Fresh Vibration was Awesome with their original song “Happy”. Now it’s time for NOIZY BOIZ!. St. Pius X screamed “Ahhh!! WOW! NOIZY BOIZ! You were all AWESOME!” . For Room 3’s item they sang “Puppet on the Street”, it was lovely. Finally it was our turn. Lavinia welcomed us in and said “Next up is Room 6, come on Room 6 show us what you got!”.

We had finished our performance and it was PHENOMENAL!. After our performance the Room 7 boys done a Fijian dance called the “Meke”.The night was finished off with a song lead by  A’leina. The song was from the  movie “Sister Act.”.

                                                      

Ascott - Music Evening

Music Evening
“Mum hurry up we need to go oh man I’ll be late”. “Bye I need to go” so I ran to class. Some people were already there, but not everyone. Mrs Modley’s daughter took pictures of the boys and the girls in room 6. Mrs Tui rang the bell for the classes to lined up.

The most of school walked inside the hall. But my class had to wait for Lezabelle. Room 2 started first with a prayer. Alia was singing “God is love and God’s love is everlasting”. After that the room 7 girls did a maori dance to say welcome the audience.

Room 1 did a stick dance it was cool. Then room 2 and 1 did a dance together. Next it was room 5 they played two songs with their recorders. They played and walked all around the stage. Room 4 did a dance called the beat box boogie. When they danced everyone started to boogie, even I tried to boogie.

Room 3 was singing but we were next, I felt scared. When they finished we walked to the stage and played our first song “oh when the saints”. When played it a second time, Leone was singing and clapping all over the place. Lastly we played “twinkle, twinkle little star”. Room 1 and 2 were singing along when we were playing.

Room 7 boys did a Fijian dance called the Meke, it was scary. Aleina standed up, and the whole school was singing. Then we started to overtake Aleina. It was an awesome night but I was tired, so i went home.

Desiree - My Athlete

Valerie Adams is my athlete. She plays shot put for New Zealand.Valerie Adams height is 193 cm /6,4. She weighs  120 kg/265 lbs. For training she lifts 100 pounds.   Valerie Adams was born on October 14th  1984,in Rotorua. She began to take part in shotput contests at the age of 14 years. When she took part in the schoolcompetition she was seen by Jean-Pierre, (Valerie Adams current coach).Her Tongan mother died from cancer when Valerie was 16.

Leone - My holidays

During the holidays I did a lot of things. I cleaned up the house and my room. I also watched a lot of television. My favorite t.v programs were “ Men in Black 3” and Hancock. I also helped my mum with making the food and doing the shopping. My family and I also went to see my dad many times during the holidays. I also went to my uncles funeral with my grandparents. The funeral was up north so we had to drive very far. At the funeral I stayed with my cousin, Peli. After the funeral the holidays were almost over, so we drove back home to get my uniform ready for school.