Hello! This week I have experienced the Kiwi phenomenon of a school prize giving. It was Kezia’s and was the year 3 and 4 children. It started off quite well, with the national anthem.We all had to sing this. I still don’t know the words, especially not to the Maori verse. But then it went downhill.
Well, the bits when they gave the prizes out were ok, but each class also had to do a turn and what most of the classes did was a hip hop dance to a cd. They sang along as well. I didn’t think that this:
- showed or celebrated what the children had learnt or achieved over the year
- showed what they could achieve at all
- justified the enormous amounts of time spent practising it.
My kiwi friends had to give me a de-brief afterwards.
However, Kezia did enjoy dancing around, so that was good. Esther’s is next week.