Summer Learning Journey

Summer Learning Journey - 9/1/18 - Day 2

Day 2: Peace Out! (The 1960s)

Activity 1: The Dawn of Television

In the 1960s there was a great deal of change in New Zealand.

Technology was evolving and the television was introduced for the

first time into New Zealand homes in the 1960s. Popular programmes

included Town and Around and C’mon.  Television remains popular to

this day.

What is your favourite television show at the moment? On your blog tell

us about your favourite television show. What is it about? Who are the

main characters? What channel is it on?

My favourite television show is called The Lodge. The Lodge is about 2

boys fighting a girl and it is about the girl that the 2 boys like keeping

The Lodge. The main characters on the show are

Skye(Sophie Simnett), Shawn(Thomas Doherty),

Ben(Luke Newton, Kaylee(Jade Alleyne),

Josh( Joshua Sinclair-Evans), Noah(Jayden Revri) and

Danielle(Bethan Wright). The channel that The Lodge is on is 100.

Activity 2: Rock ‘n’ Roll

Famous bands also started travelling across the world

and in 1964, New Zealand hosted, arguably the most

popular band of the time, The Beatles.

People were very excited to see The Beatles, and the hype around

the band was known as Beatle-Mania (similar to the modern-day

Bieber-Fever)!

Read about their tour of New Zealand below, and then post three

interesting facts about The Beatles Tour on your blog.

The Beatles' first stop in New Zealand was Wellington.

Seven thousand screaming fans – nearly all young

women – waited as the band touched down on 21

June 1964. One girl badly hurt her leg trying to climb

a wire fence, and two others were forced through the

fence because of pushing from behind.

A team of 30 police officers, some in plain clothes, was

on hand. Bill Brien, in charge of the operation, later said

that: “We underestimated the whole thing badly. The crowd was so big

we had to … keep all the people behind a wire fence. At one stage it looked

like the fence would collapse, which would have been a disaster.”

As the band stepped off the plane, the shrieks of fans drowned out the

noise of the engines. Te Pataka concert party performed a haka, before

doing a hongi (pressing noses) and presenting the band members with tiki.

From the back of a Holden utility, The Beatles waved to fans who lined

the roads from the airport to town. The crowds outside their hotel, the

St George, were so large that The Beatles had to be taken in secretly

through the bottle shop entrance of the hotel. Management rushed the

band up to the third floor balcony so fans could see them and not crash

the hotel.

It was mayhem. 'Girls were screaming uncontrollably, quite out of their

tree,' people remembered. Police used dogs to clear crowds from

verandahs and other vantage points. Teenagers pushed over and

damaged two police motorbikes; there was so much pushing that

one of The Beatles’ cars was shunted backwards, even with the

handbrake on.

Fans trekked back to The Beatles' hotel after the concert. The band

was stuck inside as crowds gathered outside. Some kept up a

late-night vigil on the hill behind the hotel. Others tried to get

round the strict security; four girls strolled onto the sixth floor

into the arms of Ringo Starr. His response was, ‘Now girls, no

nonsense or else I’ll leave.’

Away from all the fuss, two of the band members took the chance

to catch up with family. Police whisked John Lennon away to Levin

to meet his second cousins, while Ringo Starr (formerly Starkey)

met a group of Starkeys from the Wellington suburb of Karori.

Retrieved from https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/beatles

Facts

1. A girl in the crowd badly hurt her leg for trying
2. to climb the fence and two others were forced
3. against the fence for pushing from behind.

1. The crowd was so large that they had to keep everyone bend a wire fence.
2. A number of Teenagers pushed over two police motorbikes and also damaged.
3. Other Teenagers tried to distract the angry security guard so they can get around.
4. Other Teenagers tried to distract the angry security guard so they can get around.

 Bonus Activity: The Three Rs - Rugby, Racing and Running

In the 1960s, sport in New Zealand was dominated by the three

R’s – rugby, racing and running. The national rugby team, the

All Blacks, had a great decade, winning 36 of the 40 games that

they played. Many kiwis also spent their week-ends at the local

racetrack and, in 1960, Peter Snell won a

gold medal in the 800m race at the Olympic Games in Rome,

Italy. He followed this up with two more gold medals in the 800m

and 1500m races at the 1964 Olympic Games.

Watch this documentary about Peter Snell and then create a one-page

poster on Canva* about this famous kiwi runner. Be sure to include a

picture  of Peter along with information about his interests and other

sporting accomplishments.

*You will need to register on the Canva website in order to use it.

To register, first you will need to choose your poster template from

the homepage. This will bring up the sign-in page. Click on the

‘Register with Email’ button and enter your details.

My poster

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