Cultural Diversity Day

Next week on 10 September it is a very special day for Victory Primary School because all the cultures at our school from around the world are sharing their customs.



They will also be sharing these things:

- Costumes
- Foods
- Games

Some students from Victory will be Performing and other students will be talking about where they come from and what culture are they celebrate.

There will be kids that are helping their parents cooking and sharing their items.

Rock Da House

Rock the house is a show that lots of schools are doing. There are four nights and each school does one night with other schools but there is a special choir called The Back Beat Choir which do two nights and also do the harmonies.



Two students from Victory Primary School are in The Back Beat Choir. They performed at Nelson College on Wednesday and Thursday night. Victory Primary School is performed on Thursday 3 September. They sang a variety of songs. There are the songs they sang.

-Up Town Funk
-Express Yourself
-Paradise
-Ring Of Fire
-Be Okay
-Living In The Love Of The Common People
-Lost Property Box
-Lest We Forget
-Up
-Love Is Easy

Taiaha wānanga

During Mãori Language week a group students from Victory Primary School went to Whakatū Marae for a taiaha wãnanga.



Only boys went to the wãnanga. They learnt mau rakau and taiaha. They also stayed the night at the marae.

Matua Solomon taught them mau rakau and games and told them stories. "It was so cool," said Morpheus.

"We got to play games and learn at the same time and we got told stories of our Atua." said Wiremu.

"I liked the story where Tūmatauenga stood up to Tawhirimatea," said Addison.

"The game that I liked was heke heke," said Oho.

Tereme liked walking in Miyazu and seeing the shooting star. "We got up at 5:30 and went to Miyazu."

Whaea Lynda Illuminates

Room 11 teacher Lynda Duncan has been working hard in her spare time to make an illuminated window at Woodlea Floral Studio on Bridge Street as part of Feast for the Senses.



Ms Duncan makes sea creature sculptures out of old milk bottles. She cuts out shapes and rivets them together and then lights them up.



"I just want people to enjoy the window, To have a smile," she said. "If it cheers them up in the middle of winter I'm happy."

There is a map of all the Illuminate windows here.

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Video gets 100s of views on YouTube

The Song for Everyone video has been viewed on YouTube over six hundred times in less than a week.

Song for Everyone

India and a team of senior students made this video to celebrate diversity at Victory Primary School.

Matariki

Victory Primary School celebrated Matariki this week. It is a time when we remember the people who have passed on.



Some kids put on a play for everyone in the hall. Then we had soup at the Victory Community Centre.



Everyone walked up the Railway Reserve. We carried our lanterns up to the top. There and back to the Community Centre is about 3km. It was cold and dark on the way back.



Back at the Community Centre there were lots of dance items from different cultures.

By Ethan

Victory Scratch Club

It was finally complete. Andrew, Darcy, Victor, and Ethan P from The Victory Code Club were working on a project for a ping pong app using coding but this coding is different. You have probably heard about JavaScript coding but this is Scratch coding and it looks like this.



Scratch is an online coding site were you can code, use other peoples creations, and have a secret look inside them. The way you code on Scratch is that you create your own characters then snap blocks together to make the coding.

By Andrew

Flooding at Victory

Playtime turned into splash time at Victory Primary School on Wednesday when some of the school flooded.





The back court was closed for morning tea because the gutters were blocked and the water had gone everywhere. Nobody could play soccer until lunchtime. Most of the water has gone now but it was good fun while it lasted. By Darcy