Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra- Kiwi Kapers

 

 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra- Kiwi Kapers 

It is finally the day for our first trip to the APO (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra). Before stepping on the bus, Room 8 read a pamphlet about what we will see/listen to at the orchestra, read about the different famous composers that wrote the songs that will be played by the musicians, Kiwi Kapers. After reading INTERESTING facts about these composers and reading the information of the amazing songs, the students had a quick 20 minute morning tea and then we marched to the school hall for a fast conversation. Mrs Sharma & Mrs Ashley talked about expectations from students, showing school values, and the groups we’re in. Now we take our first step onto the bus…

(After half an hour of riding to Auckland city...) Rm 8 and Rm6 lined up in a crowded queue, heading towards the Aotea Centre. My eyes were amazed and my head was full of fun stuff to do at this fancy, humongous, crowded place but my fabulous imaginations faded away being awakened up by Mrs Ashley’s voice echoing in the distance. Tamaki Primary students all got splitted and sorted in their groups, pushing themselves through the overcrowded audience. After getting sorted into our groups, we all got led by the ashers, following our supervisor (my leader was Mrs Ashley’s lovely mother) inside the expanse spaced room that was technically a 2 tiers floor building. (To be honest, the chairs were very uncomfortable because the feeling of the material made my body tick!) 20 minutes later, the lights slowly began to vanish away and the audience began to settle down… and then the musicians started to play a very nice melody that sounded super COMFORTABLE (it also made me sit still!). Our first music that got played was by Rossini-Overture, the music hyped me up more because I was gonna take a quick nap. The concordant music was interrupted by a weird looking male who was dressed up as a superhero, his name was Fernando. I would say that his job was to say an intro of the songs and the composers, I liked the way that there were some people acting out the story!! The musicians played some more music by Rossini.

The information that was given by Fernando was very interesting. Our next music was by Straus-Waltz. Fernando tried to conduct the musicians to play a tune for us but it turned out to be a catastrophe! “Clap, clap, clap…” the audience gave a huge round of applause for a very talented young man named “Tchaikouky” who was inspired by the famous composer that played piano, his fingers/hands were rapid. I couldn’t even see where his hands were going so instead of looking at the genius kid, I decided to close my eyes and listen to the perfect high-pitches that the piano made! The piano was relocated in stage left after being used by Tchaikouky in the centre stage.

The audience’s clapping got stopped by Mr.Fernando because now it is now the instrument families turn to reveal what they all sound like altogether. Families: String, Brass, Wood wind, and percussion. People from Tim Bray Theatre Company marched onto stage to act out the four seasons which were only Winter and Summer. Our last song was by Grieg, and then a song about Finlandia.

*Conclusion*

My favourite part was all of the AWESOME performances. I liked the way everything was sorted and planned, I can’t wait to see the next performance!

Reading- Maori and the city- Junefia and Htoo Say Wah

 

WALT- make connections across text

Task:

5 new words each

• Architect

• Integration

• Assimilation

• Prejudices

• Accountant

• Circumstances

• Discrimination

• Campaign

• Lectures

• Immersion

• Pepper-potting

SUMMARY:

Many people living in New Zealand enjoyed good times in the decades following the Second World War. There were so many jobs , especially young Maori people wanted to be part of the action. Migration is the movement of people from one place to, either within a country or between countries. Maori moved for a lot of reasons mostly because of the jobs in the city. The Maori people were low paid for their jobs so the government set up training schemes so that they can qualify with their skills in work. Many Maori people liked being security, dancing, live music, and meeting new people.

3 connections:

1. I knew that people migrated from other places/countries for jobs but I didn’t know that it included Maori people. I only knew that it was pacific people ONLY!

2. I can connect that this is also related to the DAWN RAIDS

3. My grandparents know what has happened but they don’t talk about it!

5 QUESTIONS

• Why did the people get low pay?

• Why did young Maori people want jobs really early?

• How many people applied for jobs?

• Did any other countries create an invitation for people to come and work in their country?

• What was the age that you should reach to go work?

Summary .2

Many people that were living in NZ had great times in the generation following the second world war. The economy grew really quick and there were plenty of jobs that people could take place with, mostly the maori’s wanted to take part with. Some people even left their home and moved closer to the city to work there. They were paid on low but they were happy and grateful for everything, by 1971, almost three quarters of the moari population lived in town, maori people are still doing traditional moari cultural.` By the end of the 1960’s maori had the right to debate and take action on key issues, including treaty and te reo moari. They purposely spoke their culture to assimilate and adopt the European ways.

5 Questions

• Why did the people get low pay?

• Why did young Maori people want jobs?

• How many people wanted jobs?

• What was the age that you should reach to go work?

• Why were they treated like second class citizens?

3 connections:

• I never knew that dawn raids happened.

• I didn’t know that people were allowed to go to other countries to work.

• I know that we have racism and people being racist to others. 

Dawn Raid- Explanation text

 Title: Dawn Raids

What are Dawn aids? Getting dawn raided is when police come

rushing into your house early in the morning. Most people

believe that the police are being “RACIST” because the

police mostly arrest polynesian people and also black people

(African American people). But what do they want?

The police think that these polynesian/African people are OVERSTAYERS, so once they come into people’s houses the

first thing they want to see is their paperwork and passports!

If you didn’t have them then the police would arrest them

until their family shows the paperwork/passports to the

police to release that person. 

PACIFIC PEOPLE MIGRATION TO NZ

In the 1970’s New Zealand invited people from the

south pacific to come live in NZ to meet the demand

for cheap labour. People came from all over, including

Tonga, Samoa and Fiji and Realm countries like

Niue and the Cook Islands. It was advertised as the land of

milk and honey- lots of jobs, better education, and better healthcare. When they migrated to NZ, ⅔ lived in Auckland

and the rest settled in Wellington and Christchurch. In

Auckland, most pacific people lived in suburbs like Ponsonby,

Grey Lynn and Herne Bay. By 1971 there were more than

41,000 pacific people in NZ. They worked in low wage jobs,

such as cleaning or working in factories. They worked very

long hours (E.g.. 10-12 hours per day). Some were paid

$1.50 per hour ( which is $17 in today’s money). There were

enough

Pacific people here that they started to build their own community, such as churches and their community support.

Many children were born to these migrants, and these children

 were automatically citizens. Another reason Pacific people

wanted to come to NZ was so their children could have better education and future job opportunities than they would have

had in the islands. Nz was advertised as the land of milk and honey, better jobs, better life and more. Pacific people were

faced discrimination. 

ECONOMIC CRISIS

In the early 1970’s, Britain made a decision about who they

trade good with that majorly affected the NZ

economy. Oil prices skyrocketed which meant petrol

prices went up as well. Lots of businesses went bankrupt

resulting in huge job losses. These job losses mostly affected

the Pacific Island community, so they were mostly blamed

for the crime that happened because of the job losses. 

POLYNESIAN PANTHERS

The polynesian

panthers were a group of young men and

women who were Nz born and were raised in New Zealand by Pacific Islanders. This gang wanted to fight back against the oppression and racism pacific islanders were experiencing in

that time. The polynesian panthers were inspired by a group

who does the same thing called the Black Panthers and the

symbol of the panther was the polynesian panthers symbol too, they chose the symbol of a panther because a

panther only

attacks when it gets attacked FIRST! This is a metaphor

for the Panthers - they are only fighting back against

oppression. The polynesian panther headquarters organise housings,

prison visits, educations, help people who got raided, and

organise safety crossings in Franklin Road after 2

Niuean kids were killed, they did this because they were

second class citizens. 

The Legacy

The legacy of the Dawn Raids was long term fear and

mistrust of the police. While the Dawn Raid terms were

happening, this caused intergenerational trauma. In my grandparents generations, they would get mistreated

like being called n**** or other means names,

they would get forced to go back home and much much

more. In my parents' generations, they would never have

known about their parents getting mistreated or maybe my

parents went through this hard time but I didn’t know

because they won’t tell me their history in NZ. In MY

generation, some people are nice and some aren’t

so I didn’t go through times like seeing my parents

get bossed around or getting arrested. My life has

been different from my ancestors so I didn’t know

anything about Dawn Raids, if I ask my parents they

wouldn’t say anything, maybe because they

don’t want to think about the hard time they had in the past!

Apology

It is a modern trend for governments to admit their historical wrong-doings and publicly apologize for them. In 2008 the Australian government apologized to the Aboriginal people in a 20 minute speech, for mistreatment of the people, confiscation of the land etc. In 2019 the government of Canada apologized to the Inuit people and First Nations people for decades of discrimination and mistreatment. Although these apologies do not fix the harm that was done, admitting what they did is harmful is a step in the right direction. On the 14th of June 2021, Jacinda Adern (Nz’s prime minister) announced the government would apologise for the Dawn Raids on June 26th 2021. Although this will not undo the intergenerational trauma caused by the Dawn Raids, acknowledging it is a start towards equity. 

Conclusion

Throughout dawn raids pacific people felt discussed of the white people’s attitude. I have noticed that my dad is growing an afro subtle to reclaim his culture. I hope my parents will one day tell their history to me!

Written by Junefia Wilco

Dawn Raid Poems- Free poem (rhyming or not), acrostic poem, and haiku poem

 Dark skin people do protesting 

At dawn the police will come running into your house asking for the paperworks

When polynesian people got mistreated, they called themselves “polynesian panthers”
Nowadays, everyone is treated NICELY

Racism gets shown every time to polynesian people

At that time, white people don’t want 

Islanders are mostly that ones who get mistreated

Dawn Raids is when people get raided, mostly islanders

By Junefia

Dawn

Running to the yard

Forced by police to show passports

Getting arrested

RUN!

By Junefia

Police come bursting through the door 

But the family is not SURE of what is happening 

So they should be panicking!

A cacophony of noise 

“What are you doing? Where are your paperworks? Hurry up!” the police shouts, bossing the family around

Pushing each other, the police drag the family on the ground.

Police will be running into your house early in the morning

When you are still SNORING

This is called “Dawn Raids”

So prepare yourself for the yelling and screaming, and orders gets shouted into your face by mean police officers

Polynesian people and black skin people gets blamed for everything

Racist words thrown like darts at the hearts of brown people 

So the polynesian/black people feel uncomfortable A LOT, and that when they made up a group called the “polynesian panthers” for the polynesian people and “black panthers” for the black people

The family feels hurt like they’re getting shot

While torches chop through one room to another

They’re a sad blueberry

By Junefia  

Early migration to Australia

Early migration to Australia

Starting in 1788, Britain sent convicts to Botany Bay in Australia. Over the next 80 years, over 162,000 convicts were transported to the Australian Penal Colony. The Majority of these criminals were arrested for petty crimes such as thievery. Prisoners were punished by being whipped with a cat of 9 tails and sometimes being locked in dark cells. Their job was to build roads, buildings, hospitals and churches. Later on, they were employed to local farmers as labourers. 

The journey from England to Botany Bay took approximately 252 days via ship. On the first flight, there were 543 men and 189 women, and 22 convict children. 

In London at the time, it was a very dirty and polluted place under the influence of the Industrial Revolution. Lots of factories were being built, and the city was overcrowded. 

Connecting the brain- Vocabulary

My buddy ( Htoo Say Wah ) and I made a slideshow of vocabulary, finding the mean of the word. We decided to create this slide show because we were told to be creative and build something for our book: Is that so- Connecting to the brain. I have learned more information and facts about brains from this book!

Manaiakalani Kawa Of Care- 2021

 

I will do... to protect my netbook: 

Never eat or drink near my netbook Leave the netbook in the middle of the table, not on the edges because it will fall of the table and break

 Look after the charger, netbook case and the netbook 

Hold it with two hands when walking. Don't go on your netbook when you are walking

I will always take care of my netbook because I don't want my parents to pay for the damage that I caused. Breaking something that I don't own shouldn't be happening, it happens because I am not reliable to take care of my netbook and it also happens to other belongings because they get touched by the person who doesn't own it! NEVER TOUCH ANYTHING THAT IS NOT YOURS!!