Year 1-4 Production: The Button Box!

On Monday the 1st of September, and Tuesday the 2nd of September, the Year 1-4 students performed a play called ‘The Button Box!’ The Button Box tells the story of how, when Grandma and Grandpa’s two grandchildren, Alice and Jack, are visiting, they have an argument, and they knock over grandma’s button box. They then beg Grandma and Grandpa to tell them the story of each button, and each story is told through song and dance. Mrs Bierwith, our performing arts teacher, wrote the script and choreographed,  Ms Harwood-Matthews, our music teacher, did all the music and she did the choreography too. Mrs O’Meara, 7OM’s classroom teacher, also helped out with the choreography, and many mums were there to help with make up and costumes.

Grandma was played by Sophie Hodgson, Ella H’s little sister, and she did an incredibly good job. Grandpa was played by Paris Hague, and she was brilliant as well. Alice was played by Sophie Thomas, and Jack by Emma Gabriel, and they both were fantastic too!

Then there were many dancers, including: the island dancers, the irish dancers/leprechauns, the Bombay dancers, breakdancers, the crows, and the frog king dance. One of the crows was played by Sarah Cox, Ella C’s sister, and two of the irish dancers/leprechauns were Kathleen’s twin sisters, Sylvie and Evelyn King.

Well done to all the Year 1-4’s, you put on a spectacular performance, and a big thank you to all the parents who helped out, and to Mrs Bierwirth, Mrs O’Meara, and Ms Harwood-Matthews, as well as the Year 1-4 teachers for making the play possible, and we are sure everyone enjoyed it.

Here are some photos of The Button Box:

On Tuesday the 5th August CTV cameras  came to school and the whole school made a lip dub. A lip dub is when there is a camera going around the school and there's one person who sings for a certain period of time then swaps with other people,each person is mouthing the lyrics of the song that is chosen.

         

In our lip dub the person who started singing first was year 8 Hana Pearce who organised the Lip dub, then it carried onto a year 6 girl named Sophie Siebuhr. The next person to sing was year three Xanthe Pearce  who sang the next part of the song. Year 7 Georgina Scott was the person to end the lip dub. Everyone in the school was shown in a part of the lip dub. Each class was selected  where they would be when the Lip dub rolled around. The parts of school shown in the lip dub were kids playing on the playground, people cooking in the tech room, some people were  in costumes and others were playing sports. Whenever the camera came past all the kids were to wave and shout. We can’t wait until we get to see the schools Lip Dub on TV.

By Rosa and Evie