The four other schools taking part are Maunu Primary School, Kaurihohore School, Whangarei Primary School and Purua School.
Each school has been assigned a different day to perform between Monday and Friday with the idea that students will keep any money they make.
To culminate the festival, groups from different schools will gather at the Town Basin on the Sunday, November 5, from 11am to 2pm to perform.
"Besides having skills you need to look after the soul, and the music and the arts look very much after the soul," Mr Newman said.
Miya and her classmates are doing Rad Rhythm - a music programme which uses plastic bins as drums. She said drumming was taking "all of our encouragement and putting it in music".
"We do actually like making the noise. But I think working together and using teamwork has brought us a long way and I'm pretty sure everyone would agree with me," she said.
And while it was not love at first drum for Miya, she is now excited to make some money.
"I was a bit skeptical [of Rad Rhythm] when I first started it but after a few months of it I started to get into it and it was really fun," she said.
Other acts at the festival include ukulele playing, singing, kapa haka, mime acts and more.
Mr Newman said if this festival was successful he hoped it would be held again next year.
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