We recently had some wonderful visitors from the Cook Islands come to our school. The students were from a Primary School and ranged in ages from 5 to 12 years old. Their school Principal and lots of family members came with them to Australia.
The visitors were fantastic musicians and dancers. They performed for us in our COLA (covered outdoor learning area) which reverberated with the awesome sounds of the drums. All the adults played the drums and the students danced for us.
Sometimes the boys danced by themselves, sometimes the girls, and sometimes everyone danced together.
All the kids from our school clapped along and couldn’t wait to get up and join in dancing with our visitors. Even the teachers got up and wriggled and jiggled to the drum beats 🙂
Finally, when everyone was exhausted we all sat back down and farewelled our newest friends. Wouldn’t it be exciting to visit them in the Cook Islands someday?
Hey AllStars!!!
When the cook islanders came it was pretty cool.
We told one of my friends to go in and she kept on laughing and she ‘peed’ alittle!!!
Jasmine
We had a school trip to Cook Islands this year and our Cook Island Group also preformed a whole lot of times this year. We put the videos of it our class blog, and we’ve just posted a new series called “How to Cook Island Dance” you can check them out at our class page on
tamakitoday.blogspot.com
Thanks Mr Webb and Room 6 – your video is great, we have a Cook Islander dance group too – we will put up some photos of them performing on our Multicultural Day recently 🙂
That would be great… our school has a huge cultural festival next week where we’ve got another four Cook Island performances… give us enough footage to survive the Summer break and still be able to post regularly… cant wait for the photo’s at your end…
What an amazing project! It is so interesting to be able to read about this sort of thing from the other side of the world. I am a teacher of 6 and 7 year-olds in Manchester, UK. We are just beginning to blog, and would love to know what you think. My kids posted their first bit of work independently today – the design for a 3d storyboard which we are going to make into an animation. If you have time, please have a look and leave a comment.
Thanks again – your blog is fantastic!
Jack
Thanks for your encouragement.
The AllStars are not back at school yet, but will love to look over your blog early February.
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