EDUCATION: KRISTIN SCHOOL
Kristin Students Unleashed at Weta Workshop Our International Baccalaureate (IB) Theatre students were fortunate enough to take the new ‘Weta Workshop Unleashed’ tour in March, where they were invited to unleash their creativity through exploring the amazing world of Weta Workshop. The tour is an interactive journey through the work that Weta does, including glimpses into the amazing practical effects that they are so well renowned for. Students were invited in Term 2 to interact with displays, gizmos and set pieces from the worlds of horror, fantasy and sci-fi. They were able to try out crafting techniques, interact with real props, see the process of creating movie magic up close and wonder at the
detail and creativity they saw. The whole tour was very cleverly and creatively constructed in order to immerse visitors in the worlds they visited. Some students found it so immersive that their responses to their experiences were a delight to see. The visit was an excellent way to kickstart their own creative processes as they begin the task of generating directorial ideas for staging a play of their choice. All Year 10 drama students will also take the tour in order to unleash their creativity too. All of the students who visited in March thoroughly enjoyed their experience and are keen to put their experience to good use! Leigh Sykes, Curriculum Leader Drama
Elise Beavis from Emirates Team New Zealand at the Middle School Sports Awards Elise Beavis, Kristin Alumni (class of 2012), who Elise also reflected on the variety of school is Performance Engineer for Emirates Team subjects she drew on in her role as ETNZ New Zealand (ETNZ) inspired our Middle performance engineer – from trigonometry, School students at a recent Sports Awards statistics and scripting through to English and Assembly, sharing her insights on some of the CAD design. Elise shared that it took a lot of experience and drive required to reach big tenacity and several approaches to secure her goals – whether sporting or academic. dream job at ETNZ; reflecting that at Kristin, Elise spoke to students about the value of students are given so many opportunities to team work in sport and in life, and the benefits of pursue, but beyond school the challenge is to building a team with diverse skills, who together create our own opportunities. Elise Beavis holding the America's Cup. can achieve incredible results. She explained that Thank you Elise for sharing your inspiring ETNZ was a team of around 130 people who combined unique story with our students! We’re looking forward to following talents and efforts to achieve a single-minded goal – winning the your progress as Team NZ gears up for the next America’s Cup America’s Cup. campaign.
Adventures in the Kristin Wilderness! On the 8th of April the whole of Year 6 headed down to the back of the school for a day full of fun and adventure in the wilderness of the Kristin bush. Craftlab was onsite for the day and ran a number of hands-on activities that we rotated around. The activities included starting a fire to cook our very own homemade donuts, crafting with harakeke, creating and launching rockets, and geocaching around the Kristin campus. The highlight of the day was when we used all our mahi to prepare and cook our very own hangi, which we then shared together at the end of the day. We had to collect an assortment of materials from the bush to heat the rocks. We foraged for bits of wood, old manuka branches and logs. Others prepared the kai and dug the hole where the food and rocks needed to be placed. The process of the hangi was the best experience and tasted
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absolutely amazing! We would like to thank CraftLab NZ, our Year 6 teachers and parent helpers for putting this all together for us. Suhjung Kim and Karishma Sharma-Barrow (Year 6)
