In This Issue The Weekly Magazine of Cranbrook School

Year 8 Languages Day
Year 8 Languages Day was an enjoyable
and memorable experience for all Year 8
students. There was a Japanese drumming
TaikOz performance, a Roman weapons
presentation, French quizzes, t-shirt making
and much more.
Boules
Two of the highlights, for me, were boules
and calligraphy. Boules is a French game
which involves two or more opponents who
have to throw a heavy ball across any surface
to try and get as close as possible to a smaller
wooden ball called the jack. We played a
round robin divided into three groups and
the winning group went on to play the
winning team of the other class. It was an
enjoyable game which anyone is able to play
anywhere, anytime.
Calligraphy
The second highlight was the Japanese
calligraphy, Shodo. I especially enjoyed this
activity because we were given a variety of
different Japanese characters and animals to
write and draw in special ink. We practised
writing them for some of the activity until
we were ready for our final work. Once we
had finished them, we showed them to
Ms Jin and we were ready to take them home.
Languages Day was great fun and I wished it
were longer. I hope the Year 8s next year will
find it as much fun as we did.
Japanese drumming
Joe McLachlan
The Japanese drumming workshop, TaikOz,
came to Cranbrook to show us the musical
influence Japanese had on the musical world.
The drummers started with a music piece
that they made and it was enjoyable to listen
to. After that they introduced themselves
and started the next song which involved
some volunteers from the audience. We
chanted ‘Washoi’ as each volunteer had a go
at drumming. For their next piece, one of
the performers played a Japanese flute and
it look really hard. After this flute music it
came to the last song which also involved
more volunteers and this time, luckily, I
was chosen to participate. I had to sit down
and play small Japanese drums. A song and
rhythm was created by one of the gentlemen
and we played it with the help of the big
drums which kept the rhythm. Everyone
enjoyed it. Then off we went to the War
Memorial Hall for the Roman weapons
display and talk.
Roman Weapons Display
Battles, chain mail, swords and weaponries
are every boy’s favourite and luckily enough
we got to touch and feel these instruments
of warfare in the armour presentation.
The presenter was very funny and told
us interesting stories and gave us a lot of
information. Volunteers were asked to create
battle scenes and wear chain mail. He told us
about different types of swords and the type
of armour the different ranks of warriors
wore. He was a great story-teller and all boys
enjoyed his presentation.
Recess and lunch
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Aaron Frumar
For recess we had a choice of pain au
chocolat or snail and for lunch we had some
Japanese chicken yakitori and sausages.
Everything was really delicious and all boys
enjoyed their BBQ lunch.
Charlie Henderson
T-shirt Painting
T-shirt painting was a blast! We
were given a list of expressions in
French, Japanese and Latin to write
as slogans and to use in the design of
our t-shirts. We used our imagination
to design our very own World Cup
t-shirts. It was fun. I designed a
t-shirt that said ‘Go the Samurai
Blues!’ with a Japanese sword. When
I looked around the room I could see
that everyone was having a great time and
were chatting excitedly about what they had
designed. Thank you
Ms Gregory and Mr Ross!
Pictionary
My group started the day with Mr Hanson.
We were given an object, symbol or place to
act out or draw in Latin or French within
a time limit. The first task was to act it out
with a time limit of one minute. The next
task was to draw it on the board with a
time limit of two minutes. I remember that
my team lost by sixteen points. We where
no match against the other team! We then
moved to 4.8 and played a game on the
Smartboard with Mr Savic. This game was
challenging but enjoyed by all. Sadly my
team came last with only fifty points.
Joshua Frumar
Zach Trumper
Panayiotis Panaretos T-shirt painting
Mr Hanson’s
Pictionary session
BBQ Lunch