Ta Moko

The Year 5s made these amazing Ta Moko while the rest of us were at the Young Leaders Conference.  Ms Duncan helped them understand what the Moko represent and the significance of them for Maori, both in the past and today.  Great job, Year 5s!

Aleisha's Koru design!

Koru Art

We've working hard to complete our Koru designs. In this stage we're using hot and cold colours (or a rainbow effect if we want) to make the koru stand out from each other! Do you know what the koru symbol represents for Maori? It has something to do with this term's inquiry!

Our Tree is Alive!

Today our Kauri Tree sprouted some real leaves - it must have happened over night while we were asleep! Actually, we made the leaves and finally got some time to put them up. We all think it looks MUCH better than a brown stump in the middle of our room.

We'll be adding glittery leaves to our tree when we achieve our goals this year. I wonder how many 'success leaves' we'll grow?

Our tree is coming to life...and some discus action

On Thursday we started to create the leaves that will adorn our Kauri tree. We decided thatreal life Kauri leaves were too small to make so we went for a more traditional general shape and colour. We learnt how to use a reference to create realistic texture and colour.

Google gave us lots of examples to brainstorm the right colours and textures to use an we got stuck in. In week 3 we'll get the leaves onto the tree so it doesn't look so wintery!

We're also spending some time mastering our technique for the upcoming athletics day. Thanks to all the parents who are able to give their expert advice in the afternoons. Here, Jack and Ben can be seen in front of camera letting rip on the discus.