Completing Our Clay Coral Reefs
Students built clay coral reefs with glass for the ocean and underglaze detail. Some left coral white for bleaching. Fired twice and showcased at the Expo.
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Endangered Animals In Charcoal And Paint
Charcoal sketches and mixed media portraits fill the seminar room as students highlight their chosen endangered animals and why they are at risk.
Carving taonga for Te Wiki o te Reo
Aotearoa Bone and Stone led a workshop on whanaungatanga, tikanga and pūrākau. Students carved Rei Niho or Hei Matau and polished them to a shine.
Digital Design Animations For A Sustainable Earth
Students used Adobe Fresco to create frame-by-frame animations that share imaginative sustainability stories.
Designing Logos and Finding Voice
Year 7 built reading skills then designed logos using font, colour and layout. Year 8 and 9 studied I Am Malala, brown girl dreaming to prep essays.
Music Class Hits All the Right Notes
Students covered theory, rhythm and chord charts, learnt drum rudiments, ukulele, keyboards, wrote new melodies, sang as one and built confidence too.
Picture Books, Start To Finish
Students wrote and illustrated picture books in 7½ weeks by hand and on screen. Rhymes, life stories, a sensory touch book, and some were published.
Basketball and Badminton to Finish Term 3
Basketball and badminton rounded out three weeks. Students drilled serving, footwork and shooting, then turned practice into games with fair play.
Treasure Chests Near The Finish
Hinges and latches on, lids lined up, edges filed. Back at Green Space with The Re-Creators, the chests feel solid and close to done.
International Day
A cultural morning at school. Haka, Mandarin, South Africa, Asia and Pasifika workshops, then a shared lunch with families. Gallery inside.
Turning Sustainability into Art
Students explored the meaning of sustainability and used recycled materials to create unique covers for their art journals.
Digital Fluency | Student Websites and Blackout Poetry
Students planned, designed and published simple websites. They then turned texts into visual poems in a Blackout Poetry project with English.
Coral Reef Ceramics and Animal Studies
Sketches moved into paint this week, with collage backgrounds taking shape. Coral reef bowls were glazed and finished with glass for the ocean. More pieces are firing.
Week 3 Crown of Thorns study
(From Week 3, shared now) We studied the Crown of Thorns starfish and reef loss, then designed and began clay bowls with coral and sea creatures.
Treasure Chests Taking Shape
Students are assembling chests, shaping arched lids with slats, pre-drilling and gluing, clamping and sanding, and working safely at the saw bench.
Sustainable Earth Animations In Edit
Students are using Adobe Rush to cut, add sound, and sequence their animations into a single short film about a more sustainable world.
Bottle Top Sculptures (Part 2)
Students are turning recycled bottle tops into sculptures and models. Careful planning, steady making, and plenty of individual ideas on show.
Art Inspired by Coral Reef Conservation
After learning about the Crown of Thorns starfish and its impact on coral reefs, students began creating clay bowls featuring coral and sea life.
Lost Property At The Front Office
Please name hoodies, lunch boxes and other items. If something is missing, students can see Monique. Unclaimed items at term end are passed on.
End of Term Message from the Principal
Congrats to AIMS Games athletes, expo success, sun safety and attendance reminders, and wins for Imogen and Cohen. See you back Monday 6 October.
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