Parklands school is known in the district for its wide variety of cultural opportunities, musical shows, directed by Andrea Smith, kapa haka inspired by Te Whanau o Pakarana, school singing at assemblies, cultural performances at these assemblies,daily jump jam for all, particpation in the MASSIVE festival, and the annual Turangawaewae festival held in the autumn. Jump Jam,under the enthusiastic direction of Kathrine Sefton has reached National level, fourth in the NZ competition in 2010.

In 2011 the school once again antered the NZ competition, winning the South Island title at the Christchurch festival and later placed third in the New Zealand final. Here's the team.

Another highlight was the 2011Year 7 and 8 Parklands entry in:

MASSIVE or MOTUEKA ARTS SHOW from SCHOOLS INCORPORATING a VARIETY of ENTERTAINMENT. The theme this year was MOVE IT.

Here are some random shots from the show.

MOVE IT!!!!! on PhotoPeach  

TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL

Celebrating our cultural diversity . Children from eleven different nationalities attend Parklands, and once a year we highlight our Place to Stand, bringing together the School families with song and dance, food and costumes.

Here we see a Bavarian Folk Dance from Room7

MUSICAL PRODUCTION,

2010. I Love the Knight Life, a rock-n-roll mediaeval fantasia.

Captions by Charlie

Best-looking kids ever!!	Look at all the princesses!!	Two cool dudes.
The Reader. What a great hat!!	Can they find all 7 discs??	Go Boys. Knights in Undies.
Sir Lancelot with a birthday card.	Two heads in one.	Someone's got their boogie on!!
Two blue ladies.	Time to make some Merlin magic!	A night for the knights

SYNOPSIS by AMBER.

The scene is set in the Dark Ages. All is happy and merry. A wedding is about to take place. . But the evil Morgana arrives and scatters all the seven discs of the Round Table across the land. All the knights are dispatched to find them all, before time runs out. They all come together at the end, where Merlin saves the day. Then there is a beautiful finale where all take a bow. The day is saved and music is restored to the land.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Queen Guinevere, Holly Barnett. King Arthur, Holly Webster (Elvis). Merlin, Charley Tuuta. Sir Lancelot, Kendall Spark, Morgana, MacKenzie Lusty.

The music was hardly Dark Ages material. Itr was mainly old Elvis and other Rock-n-roll stuff wonderfully handled by the talented soloists. The whole school was in costume and participated in choruses. Congratulations to Andrea Smith and her team for yet another wonderful Parklands production.

TURANGAWAEWAE FESTIVAL 2012

Once again the school community came together to celebrate the large cultural diversity which is Parklands' .

This first clip is of the Vanuatu community who visit us each year.