Nga Koru

                                           Room 2 students practising drawing koru.

                                                  Riico and Gabby from Room 1 creating collage koru.

Room 5's Flying Machines

The students of Room 5 have started on their "good copies" of their Flying Machines. Looking fabulous!

Crafting Skills with Room 4

Today we practised our cutting and pasting skills. The students coloured parts of a butterfly and then cut them out, put the butterfly together and pasted it into their Art journals.
Buzzy bees were also the buzz today. We pasted yellow and black tissue paper onto our bees and then added eyes, antennae and wings. Oh and of course the stinger!
You can see our finished Buzzy Bees in Room 4.

The Magic Flying Carpet

The junior and middle syndicates have been creating short drama skits about discovering magic flying carpets. They have enjoyed developing their ideas about where they found the carpet, how they felt and what they said as it began to lift off the floor, and of course where it took them to!
These photos (above and below) show Ella and Lauren presenting their skit.

                                                   
                                                 
                                                    Below: Toby and Benjamin's flying carpet takes off!

Amazing Flying Machines Years 3-6

The middle syndicate have been creating drawings of amazing flying machines as part of our theme this year "Te Rangi".
We have also been integrating dance and drama sessions around the same topic.
The images show some of the students working co-operatively to create human flying machines, paying particular attention to creating formations that show varying levels to enhance interest.

Above: Cam sits at the wheel inside a "flying machine".

Above: Milan is the energy source of this flying machine, while Greer provides the mid level part by balancing on her head and hands.

Above and below: Groups at work creating and developing shapes for their flying machines.

Keep an eye on the blog to see upcoming posts of the students drawings of flying machines.

Art Criticism and Appreciation

This term we are learning how to observe and discuss artworks. We are learning about some famous artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne as well as New Zealand artists like Philip Clairmont and Robyn Kahukiwa.
We are learning to discuss artworks using the four steps of Describe, Analyse, Interpret and Decide,
(or List, Explain, Discuss and Evaluate).
As well as looking at and discussing the artist's works, we are having a go at drawing and painting similar subjects or compositions in a style similar to or influenced by the artists.

Room 5 students sketching a still life similar to Cezanne.

Room 7 students sketching a still life composition

Students from Room 8 ( Years 0-2) working on a collaborate work after learning about Van Gogh's The Starry Night.

Fresh Moves 2015

Fresh Moves is a dance festival held each year at Baycourt Theatre. Schools are invited to enter a group of 20-50 students to present a 5-7 minute dance. Although it is not a competition, there are a panel of experts who give us feedback on our dance. Anyone from years 5-8, with a great attitude, can join our Fresh Moves dance group at Te Puna School. 

The whole idea is for the students to create the dance themselves, from the concept, to the choreography, costumes, music and lighting. We have a series of workshops where we all work together creating and rehearsing. The senior students are given the opportunity to lead and make some of the final decisions throughout the process.

This year the theme was "Innovation" and our dance was about us all working together to be innovative. We received some awesome feedback about this and about our whole concept. The panel also really liked how we used a variety of shapes and levels in our choreography.