Very Dramatic!

 In preparation for our Joke night, we've been writing scripts, stand up comedy and jokes.  In our scripts we've been learning about setting a scene, choosing a point of concentration, and developing characters.  

We've also been playing drama games and having a go at performing for our class before we take the stage for our families. 

Writing and fine tuning our scripts

Practising on our own and for the teachers and getting some feedback

Having a go on a "stage" in front of the class

It takes a lot of zest, bravery and creativity to come up with some original ideas and then act it out in front of a group of people.  We're certainly honing in on these character strengths and working towards a great performance at our senior joke's night!

Christmas Zine

We have continued to pump up visual literacy. We know that our students enjoy to present their learning in different ways. Visual literacy has been a way to engage and motivate many of our students to communicate their ideas in creatively. This week, we made a Christmas Zine. It was wonderful to see the quality of the work produced. 

Ethan Q: On Wednesday the 7th of December we made a Christmas Zine in one day and it had 11 pages. First we all started on doing some doodles, word search and comics so it took us about to morning tea to get about half way done. It was very fun. After morning tea we kept on going until we finished and we all moved onto do different things. We made a word search for a song, an odd one out and many more things and stapled it together and there were awards for teamwork, creativity and encouragement and we got the award for teamwork. We managed to finish it at the end of the day. It was very fun and we named it 'Crazy Christmas.' Our group were Ethan.Q, Tui, Marcia, Samuel, Scarlett and Alice.

Font and Colour - Visual Language

 In our mahi towards creating a school Zine we have been working on understanding colour and fonts with greater depth. These skills will help us to create high quality work for our Zine.

We have been learning about how colour can be used to make us feel a certain way, this is used in advertising all around us! For example, we had some thoughtful discussions around how the colour red can mean love but also anger. We recognised that characters in cartoons often have red faces to show us they're angry.  

We also have looked at the way in which colour from across the colour wheel can contrast and look effective.

We had a good dose of fun creating our own colour palettes which we have even named. 

We anticipate the work we have done this week will help us as we tackle the next phase of the Zine. Exciting times!

Zine (a work in progress)

We are ramping up our creative juices in a push to create content for the Zine. We have begun to make comics, diagrams, posters etc etc. We have LOVED having a go on Canva and creating some content using the programme. We are still honing our design skills and there will be more work on this in the coming weeks... Watch this space!

Information about our Inquiry from a previous post:

"Our Inquiry is called ‘Words and Pictures, Igniting the imagination’.

This Inquiry links to our school-wide Writing and Inquiry focus, creating a Zine which we can share with the Worser Bay community and beyond! We are beginning to work on different form of Visual Literacy and are learning more about magazines in general to generate inspiration."

We are using our on Visual Language Checklist to make sure what we are creating is 'quality work'

Cupboard Spooks

During lockdown, We had a task of making a movie. We created one, by the name of Cupboard Spooks. It was, in a way, difficult to make, especially since visiting each other was banned. But what we did was that we cut the clips together to make it look like one house. We actually worked way over the deadline. We finished on about the week before the last week of school. We created the special effects. It was a really cool experience, and we want to make a sequel.

Samoan Art - Siapo

Teuila taught us about Samoan Art called Siapo. It is art that has been passed on from generation to generation. She helped us to make some stencils so that the patterns would be good. Once the patterns were on, we went over with crayons so it would stand out then we coloured it in. After that we used dye to make the colour stand out and to make it look like tapa cloth.


By Eddie

Rock Art by Hayley

All along the Seatoun waterfront there is something magical happening...

Rocks painted in all sorts of characters are popping up weekly. Do you recognise some of these?

There are also smaller rocks that have been painted by children around the neighbourhood.

Would you like to get involved? Easy!
Just collect a rock or pebble and paint it - it doesn't have to be fancy. 

Then put it somewhere for passers by to discover and enjoy!

It's a lot of fun!

Learning with Minecraft

We love all of the creative ways that you are sharing your learning. Lots of you have been working on Minecraft projects. Minecraft enhances creativity, problem-solving, self-direction, collaboration, and other life skills. Good on you!

 

Minecraft Parthenon by Chris

Our Garden Design by Cameron and Hunter

This is my unfinished replica of my garden on minecraft by Caspian

My Garden Design By Mae

Happy Easter!

We hope that you all have a great Easter. There are many interesting and extraordinary things being created as part of Home Learning. You are brilliant!

Happy Easter by Rhosyn

Patterns with nature by Lucy


How to make an Easter Basket by Solly:

Easter Basket made by Solly

Solly: This is the link where we found the instructions to make this small fun easter basket.

Patterns in nature by Liora

Ethan: I made the tower in the 30 day LEGO challenge. (The ninjas are breaking in!) There is a locked vault in the wall and lights to warn people to stay away. In the vault there is gold and money.