Let’s fly a kite. The Pukeko children listened to the story The Seven Kites of Matariki. Following this beautiful story, we made Matariki kites out of natural materials. Kite making and flying them teaches children about science and weather patterns while developing hand and eye coordination, kinesthetic awareness and gross motor skills. Above all flying […]
Piwakawaka’s Kadinsky inspired Matariki fireworks pictures. The Piwakawaka children have been very busy this term learning about colours, in both English and te reo Maori. For our art project we decided to weave this into our science topic and explore how primary colours are mixed to form secondary and tertiary colours. The children really enjoyed […]
Moment In Time! Kakapo spent three weeks learning to write and publish some ‘Moment In Time’ pieces of work using Google Docs to publish. A ‘Moment In Time’ is like a recount but it is happening right now. We used present tense to describe what we could see, feel, smell, taste and hear. Here are […]
In Week 2, Kakariki enjoyed celebrating the King’s Coronation. The children wrote about what they would do if they were a king or a queen for the day and they made beautiful, sparkly crowns complete with glitter, scrunched tissue paper, felt tip colouring and gems. There was a lot of careful work needed to stay […]
Weka have been hard at work in preparing their gifts-with heaps of love and care-for their special mums this Mother’s Day. They enjoyed the process of being able to make a gift using recyclable materials and using their own designs to create their own unique expression of love by adding acrylic paint to brighten it up […]
In religion we have embraced Te Reo Maori and the English translation of the sign of the cross, whilst depicting the traditional cross symbol, associated with our Catholic faith. Takahe’s spectacular ‘Royal Self Portraits’ involved blending colours for the skin tone. The colour palette included white, black, brown, yellow, beige and gold. By looking at our […]
Tui Class have worked exceptionally hard during Term 1 to produce these unique self portraits. They began by using the ipads to photograph each other -they needed to ensure that they carefully considered the amount of light in the background to enable them to trace around the facial features easily. After outlining their silhouettes with […]
On Monday the 6th of March, 38 very excited Year 6 students and their teachers headed out at 7:30am for Mt Carmel’s first overnight camp to MERC!! The students had an amazing time being led by the talented staff of MERC. They did the Giants ladder, rock climbing, went on giant stand up paddleboards, raft […]
Look at us standing tall! We created these colourful self-portraits during the week. It gave us the time to study our eyes, nose, mouth, and the rest of our faces. We experimented with the use of various media and techniques. The process of creating self-portraits teaches students to think deeply about identities, values, interests and […]
Pukeko class are enjoying learning of the life cycle of a butterfly. Look how observant these children are as they look carefully on the journey of transformation. Nature can teach us so much if only we stop, watch and look.
