Sunday 26 February 2017

The Jerome Experience

Today we participated in the Jerome experience. Jerome taught us about a variety of Pasifika musical instruments.

We were lucky to hear him play the beautiful melody of the Pūtātara (the sea shell horn) and the Nuguru (whale tooth nose flute). 

He told us stories about the Māori goddess of music, Raukatauri. Then it was our turn to make our own musical instrument using clay.


We listened carefully to Jerome's instructions and step by step we created our own Ukutangi; this instrument relates to the music of Papatūānuku, Earth Mother. 

Our next step is to keep practicing and hopefully one day we will be able to play the Ukutangi as well as Jerome. 

19 comments:

  1. This was cool because I like the sounds of them thanks Jerome

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  2. The Jerome experience was fun. I liked it because it was changeling and it was nice learning about all the instruments. Not to mention how fun it was to make the instruments! I'm glad that everyone got to participate in it. The Haka that he taught the Kapa Haka group was awesome. If I had the chance to do it again it would definitely be worth it!

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  3. I like the instruments and the sounds they make

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  4. I think that the Jerome experience was a really cool activity and being able to whatch and learn ,how to play different Maori and Pacific instruments. My favourite part about the Jerome experience although I couldn't get it to make a sound my favourite part had to be making the Maori instrument because it was a really challenging and fun time.

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  5. This was an experience like no other.Jerome was a very nice guys and I would love to work with him again.I think it turned out great,not only making clay instruments but making a school kapa haka aswell.I can tell jerome loved working with bromley school.

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  6. The experience was Awesome! I loved how everyone and I mean EVERYONE participated in it. I enjoyed my self alot

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  7. I loved the Jerome Experience i found it so cool that you can blow in the clay and then it plays a cool sound. :)

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  8. I liked geting to hear the insterments thanks Jerome

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  9. I liked the Jerome experience because it was cool finding out what types of awesome shells are on the beach just waiting there to be discovered and found. It was interesting finding out how to make an instrument out of clay. I got it and it made a sound that was like when you get a stick and wave it really fast and it will make a wind sound

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  10. I think the experience was really great, it was really interesting learning about different Maori and Pasifika instruments. I loved seeing all the different instruments and listening to all the different sounds. But when we made our own one, it started off not looking so good but it ended out alright.

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  11. I enjoyed the Jerome experience because It was exciting and I got to learn how to play allsorts of Moari and Pacifica instruments and I like how everyone participated in it.

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  12. I really enjoyed the Jerome Kavanagh experience because we got to learn about these really cool and interesting instruments that he found on the beach.One of the instruments were called the Putartara he also told us these cool maori storys.I found it really fun and awesome

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  13. I really injoyed learning about maori and pasifike instrument. Bromley school was very lucky to have Jerome Kavana come to our school i also really injoyed making our own instrumentan every one participated in this special event thank you Jarome.

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  14. It was a good experince and i also got to make my own insrument which was cool!!!! I really liked that. Hope everyone liked it as much as i did!😀 I liked all the maori insruments that that he played which i ❤️ed. The making of my insrument did not go so well but im still proud of it though.

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  15. I thought it was really cool seeing Jerome Kavanagh at Bromley school. I thought it was interesting seeing all the cool things he can do with the instruments. it was really cool watching Jerome play all the cool instruments he bought on his journey.it was a Maori and pasifika workshop the whole koru team participated then we got to make our own instruments it was calleda ukutangi i wish Jerome can come back.

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  16. it was really nice jerome kavanagh coing to our school and teaching us about new moari insturments and he even taught us how to make our own

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  17. I think it was realy fun I liked making the instrument and hearing the sounds of the instruments and hearing the stories.My favourite story was the one about the butterflies and I really enjoyed hearing the sounds of the instruments and it was really worth it and if he came back I would really enjoy it.😁

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  18. Well the jerome expiereins was great and exciting we made a ukutuinge and it was fun too.

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  19. It was real fun to make are own introment but my one dident work😭 but add least I tryed to make my instroment🎷

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