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. {6}
We asked Kiwi P and Kiwi G what activity they could do in the summer holidays if they were bored and had nothing to do – here’s what they decided on. Mark Anduyan Daniel Barsdell Sophie Berrill Keeley Bruford
The Blooming Piwakawaka Sunflower Competition maintains momentum….. Since the beginning of Spring the children in the Piwakawaka class have been embarking on a wonderful Sunflower growing competition. Each child received sunflower seeds to plant and grow at home. Every week the children bring in their sunflower measurements, photos and graphs to share with the class […]
The students in Ruru have created their own art pieces based on the Northern and Southern lights. Students have learned what causes the Northern and Southern lights to occur. They are also known as Auroras. As a class, we investigated, and found out that scientists discovered that the sun gives off a bit of electricity, […]
Students in Kakariki are putting together a visual display for our topic of Fairy Tales & Stories – our learning intention is to use stencils, collage, and découpage to create a mural display of colourful leaves, of our favourite story books and of handmade Fairy Tale Pages, adorned with students’ writing and illustrations. After brainstorming, our first steps have been to create an array of magically […]
