IT’S A 10 FROM LEN:
Dance was our next wall to knock down with the children, and what better way to knock it down than with the aggressive and intimidating HAKA dance. As spring started children at Believe and Achieve schools began learning the art of dance and its many wonderful forms. I picked the loudest, most hard hitting and scary dance. Sound stupid? Of course but kids love to be loud so at least let them blend it with dance. Unlike gymnastics I wanted to show the children visually what this dance looked like, we used YouTube to search the New Zealand rugby team and what the HAKA war dance stood for. Before you knew it all the kids in school were “HAAAAA”ing, “HOOOO”ing and “AHHHH”ing across school .All they needed were the rugby…