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Monday 30 June 2014

Beauty and the Beast Review


Beauty & the beast

Have you ever been to a live theater production ? On Friday the 9th of May at 12pm, my whole school went to the Manukau Vodafone event centre to watch a live Beauty and the beast show (Disney version). It was performed by Sancta Maria College and had a total of 13 characters.The main characters were : Beauty ( Belle), Beast, Gaston, and Maurice.

In this story there was a young prince. He was selfish, mean and cruel to other people around him, but one day there was a lady that disguised herself as an old woman, she went up to the prince’s castle and asked him for shelter and in return she’d give him a rose. The prince refused the old lady because of how ugly she was, then she melted and became a beautiful young lady. Then the prince started to  apologise for refusing her, but the young lady became angry and cast a spell on him that would make him a big ugly beast. She gave him the rose and said “ When the last petal falls on this rose and you haven’t found love, you will be a beast forever, but in order to turn into your normal form the girl that you fall in love with must love you back. Then the old lady vanished and the beast never saw her again.

In a small village near the beast’s castle there was a young beautiful lady named Belle. She was kind, caring and loving, but one day her father went missing she went through the forests and found a humongous castle she went in because she had thought her father would of been in there, she was right, then she saw her father in a jail cell she held her father’s hands through the big metal bars, suddenly she heard the “ROAR” of an angry beast.
I liked how the singers sang, they sounded perfectly trained and how they would actually sound  on stage. i also liked the props that they used because it showed that where the characters were.

I recommend this productions for all ages because it funny and romantic but for the younger children they should be warned that there are some romantic scenes and scary scenes.

Thursday 26 June 2014

Ostrich Slideshow

In this project I have learnt that Ostriches are flightless birds and that they lay eggs up to 3.3 pounds.

Nunuku's Law

`Nunuku’s Law
Many many years ago, there was heaps of fighting and killing between the tribes of Rekohu. A chief named Nunuku was so fed up with war that he made a treaty to end it, all chiefs of Rekohu agreed to this treaty. If someone wanted to fight then they were only allowed to strike each other with a wooden staff, but if they were to draw blood they had to stop immediately.

In 1835 Rekohu got invaded by two tribes  from Wellington New Zealand ( Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Tama). The chiefs of Rekohu got together and decided what they were going to do, they decided not to disobey Nunuku’s special law of peace, so that meant that they were not going to fight.

After the invasion many many Moriori men, women, and children were killed by the two tribes from Wellington and many more became slaves. But in 1863 the remaining Morioris became free from slavery.

In 1870 the native land court gave 97.3 percent of Rekohu to Ngati Mutunga, and 2.7 percent of the land was given to the Moriori. In 2004 the Moriori got back their fishing rights from the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission.


By: Angelika