Sunday 24 February 2019

Student Led Monday Mashup

This week, the students led the learning for Monday Mashup. There was a great range of activities and our children really stepped up to become leaders. 
What activity would you have chosen?
 Football
 Cooking

 Graffiti art
 Water Colours
 Making animations
 Construction
 Dancing
 Paper sculptures
 Construction
 Making Playdough
 Scratch programming
 Paper Craft
 Turbo Touch
 Construction
 Construction
 Cooking
 Water colours
Comics

Thursday 21 February 2019

Marble maze

Today's collaboration challenge was to create a Marble Maze from old boxes. The children have been developing their skills in working together and seem to be getting better week by week. Lots of fun was had today!








Sunday 10 February 2019

Funtastic Climbing Frame

You have probably seen the new spider web climbing frame in the front area of the school. The students of Tawhirimatea had the opportunity to explore this funtastic new space this week!


From the top, the arrow towards the east can be easily seen with its koru accents. The children showed their amazing climbing skills in reaching the apex at the top.



Wednesday 6 February 2019

Collaborative Raft Building

7/2/2019

On Monday we worked together to build rafts and test their floating ability. Each group had a Year4, Year 5 and Year 6 student. Students gather their own sticks, had 1m of string and a sail.
Their task was to work collaboratively to design a raft that stayed together and could float.
There was a variety of designs and sizes, with a variety of results!





Rainbow Art

This week we created a collective work of art. We took the theme of Tawhirimatea, the Atua of Wind and Weather, and created a rainbow artwork made up of our portraits.

We did not have long to draw and colour our portraits. We were allowed to use colour pencil and pastel with only one or two colours. If we wanted to add shade or outlines we needed to use different tones with the colour.

Here are some examples of our portraits.












Sunday 3 February 2019

First Day 2019

The students had a very relaxed but busy first day back at school. We started the day with a Mihi Whakatau to welcome our new families, then we had had our new Spider climbing frame opening. We then organised out totes tray, had a free swim, some children played Rob the Nest and finally had a 'Getting to know you" scavenger hunt.

 

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