Celebration of the Arts 2017

It's been a busy time but it was all worth it! Thanks to all the great effort that was put in by the students, with some support from home we had a beautiful and successful evening. Please watch this video to get a feel for many of the spaces. There was a wide variety of art on display as well as poetry and wind sculptures. The movie and popcorn were very popular! There was a sense of the process we went through, including prototypes, diagrams and explanation writing. Thanks for the fabulous community support.

Talk by Dr James Renwick, climate change scientist

We were very lucky during the week to have Dr James Renwick visit us to talk to us about wind. He works at Victoria University and specialises in climate change so we were also able to ask him some questions about that.

We had a good general discussion about the wind and what causes it, with many of our students showing they are building a good base of knowledge from the experiments they have been shown and undertaken themselves, readings and our sculpture walk. James also brought some interesting slides to prompt discussions about pressure on our body, hurricanes, etc.

He finished with a simple way of showing how wind is created, moving air from high pressure to low pressure: take one balloon and blow it up (hold it tightly closed), then let it go and watch the air move - from the high pressure system inside the balloon to the low pressure system in our atmosphere!

Thanks very much to James for visiting with us, and to Debs for organising his visit.

Wind Sculpture Walk.

Wind Sculpture Walk

A crazy wind was blowing……but we’re not scared.

We went looking for wind and, man, did we find it!

It is all part of getting inspired for our ‘Wind Power’ Inquiry. Looking at the sculptures along Cobham drive, seeing how they move, figuring out how they work and asking questions about how and why the works were created.

Back and forward it bends trembling, like the mast on a tall ship.

The wind

I felt the wind go past my face

The leaves were dancing in disgrace

I was in the alley where the wind rushed by

I heard it echo down the chimney  

The boat was leaning and the sail was slick

I was biking with a gust on my back

The corn was bowing as the howl arrived  

by Chester

                      Wind

I hear you howl at my door.

I fell you freezing breath pass over me.

I see you shaking the tree’s like a rattle.

I taste the gravel as you pass me.

I smell the dirt you pulled up from the ground.

You are invincible, invisible, unstoppable.

Wind

by Arabella

Looking up at a giant and the clouds make you dizzy.