Orff New Zealand Aotearoa

Jon Madin's 'Pudding on the Hill' is an old time favourite song to play with your class.
What is your favourite pudding?
Strawberries and cream?
Sticky date pudding?
Banana Split?
The possibilities are endless....
Jeremy shows us how it's done!
https://youtu.be/Av_sk84BGZE

A Double Whammy !
Come and join an afternoon of playing Orff arrangements - at no extra cost!
This Saturday we have a Primary Teachers' Workshop - 13th May 9.30 - 12.30.pm "Connecting to Music through Maori Myths and Legends" - with Robin Trinick.
Followed by . . . from 1.30 - 3.30pm. a Marimba Festival play-through - live - with Jeremy and our marimba festival teachers. Stay on and join in for an afternoon of playing Orff arrangements - no extra cost! and lunch provided, No need to be registered for the Festival. Just stay and try it out )
https://onza.nz/connecting-to-music-using-maori-myths-and-legends/

Registration is now open. Don’t miss a great morning with Robyn!

Auckland Kaiako! Coming in May. A workshop with Robyn Trinick is always a rich learning experience. Join her to explore musical ideas when working with myths and legends.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Auckland Kaiako! Coming in May. A workshop with Robyn Trinick is always a rich learning experience. Join her to explore musical ideas when working with myths and legends.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

A wonderful group of musicians and music educators have just completed their level 1 or level 2 Orff training courses! Six days of integrating speech, singing, movement and instrumental work, assignments, and lots of fun, and of course some great music making. Thank you to a hard working tutor team of Renee Morrin, Celia Stewart, Millie Locke and Jo Charman.

Orff Bite 1:
A bamboo dance to Jeremy's catchy 'Pūkeko' ditty!
https://youtu.be/a8jSJuBKpzI

Looking for some great Music Ed PD? Orff New Zealand Aotearoa is offering 6-day workshops, the successful completion of which achieves ONZA certification (Level 1 or level 2 ) in Orff Pedagogy. The Level 1 workshop is a gentle, experiential introduction to the practices and principles of the Orff approach. The approach is appropriate to the needs of both specialist and generalist teachers working in early childhood, primary, intermediate and lower secondary school and community settings.
Register for Level 1 here: https://onza.nz/level-1-auckland-2023/
The Level 2 course builds on the dispositions and skills introduced in the Level 1 course and is open to anyone who has completed a Level 1 course.
Register for Level 2 here: https://onza.nz/level-2-auckland-2023/

Five days to go until the Porowhita Songs workshop! don't miss out. Register at http://onza.nz/psongs

Coming soon on 11th March. The wisdom of Whakatauki in a musical way. Auckland music educators -An inspiring workshop for you to begin the year with.
Register at www.onza.nz/events.
11th March 9.30M -1.30pm. Wakaaranga School.

ONZA AGM
Wednesday 15th March 2023, 7.30pm
We would like to invite you to join us for our AGM via Zoom on Wednesday 15th March at 7.30pm. This meeting is a wonderful opportunity to hear about what ONZA has been doing in the past year in music education and PLD for teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
If you are interested in joining the ONZA committee please contact our president, Hayley Hunter for more information: [email protected].
If you would like to attend the AGM, please email our administrator, Philippa Drake, and she will send you the zoom link and minutes from our previous AGM: [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you there!
Hayley Hunter
ONZA President

Please note email address is incorrect on poster
for level 2 enquiries contact. [email protected]

Auckland music educators - Registration is now open for Sean's workshop. Register at www.onza.nz/events.
11th March 9.30M -1.30pm. Wakaaranga School.
An inspiring workshop to begin the year with.

Are you in Wellington working with young children? Come and join Robyn Trinick, an inspiring and very experienced presenter, who will explore music and literacy connections through song, books and poems.
https://onza.nz/events/

Coming to the Bay of Islands and Northland very soon! What a great kickstart to your music programme. Primary School teachers come and join Deb Graham to explore Music and Movement motivated by Myths and Legends, using language, singing, playing and moving.

Watch this space Auckland !
An inspiring workshop to begin the year with.
Sharing the richness of Whakatauki musically with your Tamariki.
Registration will be opening soon.

Fabulous workshop with the amazing Doug Goodkin in Christchurch in the weekend. Thanks Music Education Canterbury especially Judith Bell and Heather Libeau-Dow for your work organising this and ONZA for your support. Heaps of fun and great learning.

Our Level 3 training course is well under way at the Auckland Uni School of Music, venue. Plenty of great music making and rich learning lead by James Harding from the San Francisco Orff school and 16 fabulous participants who have come from all over the North island to continue their Orff journey.

Orff bite 5:

'Shepherds on a lonely Hill' - NOTES

ONZA Marimba Festival 2022 ONZA is proud to present to you the 2022 Online Marimba Festival! Thank you to everyone involved and all the participating schools.

We are thrilled to share with you ONZA's Online Marimba Festival 2022 - "Songs from Rongo-Mā-Tāne - The Cultivated Garden". This video is a compilation of over 160 videos from 29 marimba bands from all over New Zealand, from Whangārei all the way down to Dunedin. Congratulations to all the students and teachers on your wonderful mahi to help create this marimba music extravaganza! Thank you to our incredible musical director Jeremy Hantler, our amazing administrator Cat Rowllings, our talented video editor James Hunter from One Legacy Films and Creative New Zealand for funding this video project.

ONZA Marimba Festival 2022 ONZA is proud to present to you the 2022 Online Marimba Festival! Thank you to everyone involved and all the participating schools.

Orff Bite 4:
ONZA RONDO notes:

James is an international presenter who has run workshops throughout the US, Europe, Asia and the Pacific and has been a guest teacher at the Orff Institute in Salzburg. Here is a great opportunity to work with James to deepen your understanding of the integrated Orff approach through speech, song, instrumental work and creative play. James will be supported by Renee Morin and Philippa Drake as movement tutors. https://onza.nz/level3ak23/

Early Childhood Educators! come and find out how to creatively enrich your centre's programme through music. A wealth of music, experience and creativity between these 3 hands-on presenters. Robyn, Greta and Jaqi.
Register here https://onza.nz/He nui

Need some fresh singing resources to share with your tamariki? Come and connect with these two great presenters Lala and Sean, and with others at this fun workshop in Wellington.
Register here https://onza.nz/sing-world/

Orff Bite 3
'Tune into Nature Sounds'

Pitter, patter, can you hear the sound of the rain?
The wind softly blowing in the trees?
Or the birds singing early in the morning?
Check out Hayley and Jo's latest 'Orff Bite'
and tune into some nature sounds.
https://youtu.be/iUXJqdQnLxo