Issue 1.
Tēnā koe, talofa lava, malo e lelei, kia orana and warm greetings to you.
Welcome to the first issue of this blog!
What is Ōtākaro Auahatanga and why has it been created?
Auahatanga is a noun for creativeness and/or creativity. Ōtākaro Auahatanga is a place for us to share our creativity as a community.
Over the last few months our community, just like the rest of New Zealand and the world, has experienced change. Change on a scale that is unprecedented.
While sitting at home in my bubble with family, my challenge has been to try and provide a way for teachers (kaiako), learners (ākonga) and whānau to stay connected. Community and a sense of belonging is vital in any situation, but now it is even more important. How can we enhance connections between ākonga and their kura, and embrace this within the wider Ōtākaro Kāhui Ako community? How can we create opportunities for our ākonga to share their successes and celebrate their learning within this new context where we are all at home and not able to meet face to face? How can we nurture and build opportunities for tuakana teina to flourish from a distance?
While we can not promise that this Blog will succeed in providing solutions to all of the issues identified, it will certainly provide an avenue to address some. It will be a tool for ākonga from various kura and centres within the Ōtākaro Kāhui Ako to share their successes, it can be a place for older students to connect with younger students through participation in challenges and activities, it can be a place for kaiako to inspire ākonga and share creativity. It is a tool to support connection and engagement across the Kāhui Ako, and we offer this tool to our ākonga, kaiako and whānau.
We would love to hear from anybody with ideas, activities and learnings to share. It could be tutorials that are videoed, simple competitions, activities for creative writing, visual arts, dance choreography to share, music performances, finished artworks... Share your suggestions with me at vshaw@avonside.school.nz and we will build this Blog together.
Ngā mihi nui,
Victoria Shaw
VISUAL ART COMPETITION:
Avonside Girls' High School Arts Council
Theme: Gratitude
Opportunities online for Dance
The following list of opportunities has been put together by Taylin. They are online dance classes, tutorials and websites for you to explore:
Zion Studios Instagram page- @zion_studios
•video tutorials for various ages and levels
•they also have a competition, find out more on their instagram/facebook page
•hip hop
Swarm Studios facebook page- Swarm Studios
•various facebook live open classes for all ages and levels
•hip hop
The Compound’s Instagram page- @thecompound_studio
•instagram live open classes every Friday 7-8pm and every Tuesday 6pm
•mainly hip hop, some contemporary
Many Dancers and Groups on instagram are doing live classes, a few that I know of are @indigosagala @parrisgoebel @ysabellecaps @magneticmovement_1 @laducashoes
•various styles - hip hop, jazz, tap
Music resources
The resources below have been shared by Judith Bell. They provide a wealth of information related to music in the classroom for ECE, primary, intermediate and secondary aged students.
Please note we have released this as a way to support learning music at home (curriculum based) and wellbeing for the primary school level.
We now have primary, ECE, year 9, songwriting, well-being and all the MENZA ongoing digital kaiarahi resources too.
Also the latest magazine has a section on distance learning.
