Video Conference with Hawaii

This morning the year 7 and 8 extension group had a video conference with two other schools from around the world. The two schools are from Hawaii, Kea’au Elementary School and Nanakuli Elementary School. We had a big conversation about our schools and shared a bit about ourselves. Nanakuli ES speak English and Hawaiian, Kea’au ES have 870 students at their school.

Both schools don’t work on chromebooks like we do. Kea’au ES have lava flows in their everyday life! PT England School were the first to share the presentation, we just shared some information about ourselves. We were talking about the world wide voyage of the two waka, Hokule’a and Hikianalia that will come to PT England’s shore on the 24th of March 2015. All the Manaiakalani schools will be performing to them with a Haka, Chant and a Hymn.

Nanakuli ES went next, they told us a little about themselves and added an extra video to show us around their school instead of a presentation. Their school is pretty big. Their year grade goes from Preschool to grade 6. In the video we got to look around the place and in the background there was someone talking through a voice over.

The main reason why we called is because of the Hokule’a and their amazing voyage across the pacific ocean. We got to learn what it is like to go to school in another country. It was fun meeting new friends and getting to chat with them. I hope we can do it again another time.