Fresh Moves Dance Festival 2018

Last Wednesday a group of years 5,6,7 and 8 students performed in the Fresh Moves Dance Festival at Baycourt Theatre. Everybody enjoyed working together to choreograph a dance to represent the given theme " Because...".  We rehearsed and put in a lot of time and effort , and it payed off as we received a certificate of excellence for "original movement content". 

Jemma Stewart

Exploration Dance with the new entrant class

The new entrants are learning how to use their body and levels to create interesting shapes for a dance tableau.

The students are encouraged to consider and engage their whole body from their heads to their toes.

Dance

Year 7 and 8 students work in groups to create frozen shapes 

based on the koru as part of creating a dance sequence. 

Teaching for Artistic Behaviours

Teaching for Artistic Behaviours

Teaching for Artistic Behaviour (TAB) is a choice-based art education approach to teaching art. The Teaching for Artistic Behaviour concept enables students to experience the work of the artist through authentic learning opportunities and responsive teaching.

Choice-based art education regards students as artists and offers them real choices for responding to their own ideas and interests through the making of art.  Choice-based art education supports multiple modes of learning and assessment for the diverse needs of students.

I have been trialling this programme and fine tuning it to suit the needs of Te Puna School students and our curriculum. I am adapting the concepts of TAB  to incorporate Dance and Drama components and to provide authentic contexts that the students relate to and have ownership of. Maori identity, language and culture is an integral part of my arts programme. 

I am still in the investigation stage, but I am excited and motivated and the students are loving exploring their creative skills; as they are provided with resources and opportunities to construct knowledge and meaning in the process of art making and performing. 

                                           
                                     Creative Play: Spiderman swings by for a bit of shopping....

                                       Ayla searches through the craft table for the exact thing 
                                    she needs to create her masterpiece.

                                 Clancy and Ayla making and creating at the craft centre.

        Sam creates and presents a puppet show for an attentive audience.

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.