Here are the senior students’ final Production Video Journals before the premier of the feature films on Wednesday 14th December at the Taihape Majestic Theatre. If you are a local, you are more than welcome to join us for the show (check out the ePeN for information). For all of our distance fans out there in Cyber Land, I will put up their completed movies after the premier.
Photos from our trip to Papanui Junction for Athletics Day
We had a wonderful time at Craft and Pet days this year. A huge thank you needs to go out to everyone who helped during these days. It is so wonderful to have everyone together … with cake and muffins 
Here are our third installments of Video Production Journals made by the senior students at Pukeokahu School.
Here are the second two installments of our movie making production journals. These journals are inspired by the video journals made by Sir Peter Jackson as he creates The Hobbit, you can check out his latest video here. I have been a bit mean, and made the seniors create these video journals with out giving them any help. I just write the questions on the board and give them an hour to film, edit and upload the videos to our Youtube channel. So if you have any tips, questions or comments for the kids that will help them with their forthcoming video journals we would really appreciate it. Or if you happen to know Sir Peter Jackson, and ask him to take a look too … you never know?? Small country and all … we did manage to nab Richie McCaw 
Wow those Junior Kids have been working hard! Here are three more awesome Podcasts, by Paparangi, Micah and Logan, for you to enjoy. Don’t forget to leave a comment on their ePorfolios, you can find their links in the far right side bar
This term the senior students at Pukeokahu School are retelling a Māori Legend using Claymation. During this process they are going to keep a video production diary, just like Peter Jackson does for the Hobbit. Here is the first Production Diary for the group – Webb Ellis Productions.
And here is the first Production Diary for Wheelie Whizzers Productions.
The Junior Children at Pukeokahu School have started publishing their stories as Podcasts on Youtube. First they write their story in their writing books, next they create an illustration in Kidpix and finally a senior student helps them to record their story in iMovie which is sent to Youtube.
Here are the first two stories created by Ashley and Tiana. It would be really cool if you left a comment for each of these girls on their ePortfolios. You can find the links in the far right side bar.
The students of Pukeokahu school have entered the Tui garden challenge. Tui has sent us a massive amount of plants to have in our gardens. The first thing we did was split our school into half including our visiting student into groups, the next thing we did was get all the supplies and cart it all down to our construction site, ( where we wanted to put the gardens. ) When all the carting and carrying was done we started to build one of our garden boxes ( the box was about 2 metres long and 1 metre wide. ) The box was a brought one so it was really nice. Once that was done we put down news paper then on top of that was a weed mat and on top of that was more paper to help stop weeds growing. RUMBLE RUMBLE. Here comes Mr Gilbert in his tractor with some sheep manure. Straight away the girls were shoveling the manure into wheelbarrows but the boys held back until all the shovels were gone … with that they said ” What a pity all the shovels are gone,” so they went back inside. When the wheel barrows were full the boys came back out to push them to the garden. Then they stole the shovels of us and started to shovel the manure into it. then Mrs Gilbert our teacher came along and tipped the manure out on the garden. Then they started spreading it all over the news paper. Once that was done we had to snip open two bags of compost, and dump the contents on the garden. We asked Cody to help us make another garden except this time we made it out of half rounds. After it was made we put down news paper then weed mat and then we filled up the garden with sheep manure but we couldn’t fit in the compost so we waited a few days so the manure went down, then we put in the compost. Since then we have planted lots of plants like carrot seed, lettuce, dwarf beans and tons more plants. The dwarf beans didn’t go as well as planned so we had to replant but now the plants are going really good so far. It is really fun doing the Tui garden challenge.
building the garden:
Putting in the soil:
Planting the plants:
Sprinkling on the pea straw pellets:
By Grace and Peita
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