Perform

2000

Junior School Musical

This year our Junior school (the 5-8 year olds) put on a 30 minute musical / dance extravaganza based on the story of the Little Red Hen. The lead characters sang beautifully and the ducks, cats and pigs danced delightfully! All 200 plus children were involved, those not on stage sang with actions from tiered seating on either side of the stage.

Pictures of characters and scenes from the show.

Short MPG filesof singing and dancing.
(These take a few minutes to download the first time you click on them)

BELOW ARE LINKS TO MPG FILES FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD

To see and hear each file smoothly, it works best if you wait until the download is finished. This takes a few minutes the first time. (But they are so cute it's worth waiting!)

5 second MPG of the miller singing

"You load sixteen sacks and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...Sixteen sacks of high grade flour and then I need to go take a shower...A miller is made out of muscles of steel... I need my muscles for the grindstone wheel..."

15 second MPG of the rooster and chickens dancing

"Pook Pook Pook Pook Pooky Be, Pook Pook Pook Pook Pooky Be, Pook Pook Pook Pook Pooky Pooky Be..."

15 second MPG of the final moments with the Little Red Hen and Rooster

"Sometimes it's hard to be a chicken, when you're in love with chicken man...And chicken man, here are two wings to cling to..."

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1999

Maori Cultural Groups

Flaxmere Primary School offers the children the opportunity to participate in the junior, middle or senior Maori culture groups depending on their age.

The children perform regularly as groups and participate in the regional festival that occurs annually.

These Maori culture groups allow the children to feel proud of their performance and a sense of well-being for their achievement.

Cook Islands Group

Flaxmere Primary School has a teacher who grew up in the Cook Islands and she is pictured here with the group who chose to learn dances from the Islands. There are usually between 2 and 5 pupils from the 'Cooks'attending our school. Many of these dancers are also in the Maori Cultural Group and the Samoan Cultural Group.

Samoan Group

We have a growing number of Samoan families attending our school. One of our Samoan parents has taught the pupils traditional Samoan dances for several years.

Senior School Musical Production

During Term 3, 150 middle and senior school children took part in a major musical production entitled “RATS”. This was the first production for many years and was such a success that we intend it becoming an annual event. There were 6 performances over four days, and at least 1600 children from nearby schools attended the show, as well as a great number of adults.

We were privileged to have the Mayor of Hastings attend a performance and we received a wonderful letter from him afterwards. He stated “What a magnificent and inspired evening I was able to enjoy. In every respect I was stunned by what I saw.”

Next year our junior children will have their turn.

END OF YEAR CONCERT

Every year we finish with a concert, during which, each team of classes performs an item for all families associated with the school. These pictures show parts of the item produced by the children in the Year 3 and 4 team (7 and 8 year olds.) It was all about different cultures learning to co-operate. In this case, the cultural differences were those between robots and androids, in a far off galaxy!