Oh, Christmas Tree - Celebration of Learning 2019

Our 2019 school year has come to a close.
Last week we held our annual 
Celebration of Learning.
Here is B4's item: 



Wishing you all a very happy holiday.
Our 2020 school year begins on 4th February.

Repertory for Kids - some more of the plays

At the end of Term 2 our school held their annual Repertory for Kids event.

You can see our Year 3's play here.

Here are a couple of the other plays that were performed:

'A Sleepless Night'

'Cinderfella'

Repertory For Kids - B4 presents 'Fearless'.

The Year 3 students presented their play at our school's annual Repertory for Kids afternoon.

There is nothing that will scare Mr and Mrs Brown ... or is there?

Check back over the next week or so to see the Year 2 play, plus the plays of the other classes!

Celebration of Learning 2018

Last term we read the book 'Charlotte's Web', 

so this term the B4 students created a spider dance for our 

end-of-the-school-year

Celebration of Learning item.

We hope you enjoy it!

 Year 7/8 and their dance called
Movin' and Shakin':


Year 5/6 and the Swinging, Singing Ostriches:


Year 3/4/5 and their Dance Medley:



Year 1/2 and 'Dinosaur Stomp':

Snail Art

Our art in the past term has been around textured landscapes, and from there the children have moved into observational drawing of creatures and plants. 

Our latest art works feature snails.

The children used Vivid pens to make the outlines stand out, then used strong dye to colour their work.

Learning About the Piano

In Term 1 the class learned about Beethoven and the piano.

They learned that Beethoven was a composer, 

and that he persevered even though he faced many challenges in his life.  

From when he was a small child, Beethoven practised playing the piano for many hours of the day, 

and although he went deaf at age 27 he continued to write and perform great music.

While one of our students played a short tune, 

the class took a look inside an upright piano to see how the sound was made.

Do you learn a musical instrument?
What instrument do you most like to listen to?

Celebration of Learning 2017

Our school year is at an end. 

Last night was the school's Celebration of Learning.

B4's item was a dance telling the story of 

Tawhirimatea, God of the Wind.

Papatuanuku the Earth Mother, and Ranginui the Sky Father were clasped closely together, leaving no room for their children to grow. 
The children, all boys, decided to push the parents apart.

Tawhirimatea was against his brothers separating their parents  to make more room.

When they succeeded, he went to live with Ranginui in the sky.

Now, when he is happy, the sun shines, but if he feels angry, we get storms.

Our new school year starts at the end of January, 2018.

See you then!

A Progression of Art Skills Over the Year

Back in Term 1 our Social Studies topic was around the heritage buildings that we have in our town.

The art with Mrs. W. was based around this topic too.

The children sketched, built models, and created 

crayon-and-dye art of the heritage buildings.

The next progression was print-making.

These prints were made by carving the buildings into printing foam blocks.

 Mrs. W. introduced the class to the work of Frederick Hundertwassr, 

an Austrian-born New Zealand artist.

He designed a well-known toilet block in the north of New Zealand.

Hundertwasser liked curves and bright colours, and based his shapes on forms of nature.

The children used the ideas of Hundertwasser to create 

art works. 

They practised using colours and curvy shapes, using colouring pencils.

They made more prints, this time cutting and gluing cardboard shapes to create their printing block.

They created our heritage buildings in the stye of Hundertwasser, using pastel.

The culmination of the work was to use paint to create an art work of buildings in the style of Hundertwasser.

The students are very proud of their artworks!

Do you have a favourite artist?

'Big City Noises' - Repertory for Kids 2017

The Year 3s were excited to present their play at the school's Repertory for Kids evening.

Uncle Shane and his dog have come for a visit. The family are taking him by bus to their place.

It's noisy in the city, 

but it's not the noises that worry 

Bruno the dog .....

'Landing a Job' - a play from Year 2

Our Year 2 students presented their play at assembly.

Seagull has his eye on parrots job as the pirate's parrot, but parrot isn't giving up easily!

What would your ideal job be?

Kiwiana Pictures

During our first week back at school, the children made artworks with Mrs. W, to enter into the local A and P Show. 
(A and P means Agricultural and Pastoral).

They based their artworks on Kiwiana - items that relate to our unique culture and heritage in New Zealand.

1st place - Hokey Pokey and other flavour icecream

2nd place - spiral design

3rd place - sheep

fern

kiwi

spiral design

tomato sauce bottle

fern

fern

a sheep and a kiwi

pavlova

ferns

spiral design

kiwi fruit

chocolate cake

NZ style flag

pukeko

pukeko

What are some items that reflect your culture and heritage?