Design Project for Whetūkairangi Pā Worser Bay School.

WE are excited about the design work we have completed which brings our Inquiry to an end for the year.  There have been so many incredibly creative ideas developed during the last week and all of them are based on a really good understanding of the history of our school site. 

We have identified the site where we want to build, the materials we will be working with and what it will look like when completed.  

The work has then been developed into prototype sculptures. 

Sculpture; Arts Celebration

We have been thinking about how to communicate some of the idea which are important to us with sculpture. Alexander Calder liked the idea of expressing joy and playfulness through his artworks.  We think that is a pretty cool thing to express and had a go at using his idea when we made these prototypes.

City Gallery Visit: Eva Rothschild Inspired Works

Listening to information, thinking about ideas and responding to Eva Rothschild's artworks.



We were lucky enough to go to the City Gallery on Tuesday followed by an afternoon at Te Papa.  Claire, the educator at the gallery took us through the exhibition by Eva Rothschild, titled Kosmos.
She told us the the artist was inspired for one of the pieces by images from the Hubble Telescope.  The colour palette is that of outer space, changing depending on the angle from which we view it.  We loved walking through it. We were able to make all kinds of connections; to our work in Geometry, as with the Tangrams shown and to our new Inquiry looking into outer space, the Cosmos.

For the workshop we made sculptures which resembled her work, using the techniques of 'stacking' and similar colours (all done with tape) and, our own focused creativity.  Amazing work everybody! And, thanks to the City Gallery for another great experience!

Making Modelling

City Gallery Visit: From Scratch 555 Moons

Orla: 

On Monday while one group was at Capital E the other was at the City Gallery. We saw an exhibition called From scratch: 555 moons. It was about a band who made all their instruments themselves they made them out of every day items.

Nell and Emelia: 

This week, we went to the City Gallery. Here we went to a exhibition called "from scratch: 555 moons." The reason it was called this is because it was focused on a band called From Scratch and it was all about their music. It was called 555 moons because it has been 555 moon cycles since they have formed. The band is called From Scratch because they make their instruments from scratch using every day materials. They also let everybody join their band even if they don't have a musical talent. For instance one of them was a geologist, another was an architect.  The cool thing about this band is that they play in a position of a symbol that represents their music, such as at one time they put their instruments in the position of a peace sign, because their song was protesting against testing nuclear bombs on Pacific Islands. One of their songs is called Pacific Plate. We went tried out some of the instruments and they sounded amazing.

This is the Rugby Celebration Sculpture near the City Gallery

Art Celebration by Alastair

Art Celebration

We are excited about the art exhibition because we get to present our sculptures then and show our work in front of our parents, family and friends. My groups sculpture is called the fly fighters. They are made to blow in the wind. On one side there is a tie fighter and on the other there is a x wing from star wars. They work because of a bearing attached to dowels which blow the planes around when the wind blows them. We are going to attach the the fly fighters with tape so the fighters will hang on the ceiling with the tape. I am also excited about seeing other group's sculptures as well. We have been doing other art as well like the cherry blossom trees made with ink and straws. And paper stars for Matariki in them I chose Ururangi for my star. One of my favourite sculptures was the ones on bottom grass. They spin in the wind. There is a big one that stands on a pole. And the other ones stand on bricks or the ground. The fastest one is the medium sized one it is also my favourite wind sculpture that uses wood and wind. And for my sculpture we also had to do a prototype so we knew what the sculpture looks like and if it would work or not. We tested the prototype with Henry's fan and it worked.

Come and see our wonderful art on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th at 5-7pm.

By Alastair

Getting ready for the Art Exhibition

We are working together in collaborative groups to plan and make sculptures for the art exhibition. We have generated many idea individually. Now we are putting our heads together to combine some of our ideas. We are all very excited to see what our students come up with!

Shapeshifter Sculpture Trip

It was awesome. As soon as we walked in our minds were blown by the colourful eye-opening sculptures. It was amazing how people made these wonderful artworks in so many different ways.

Kaia - I was astonished by the knitting: it was long, bright pink plastic bags knitted together with massive wooden knitting needles. It made a massive scarf.

Sam Sh - my favourite was the enormous giant drift wood eagle. It inspired me to think about what I can create from driftwood.

Evie - I liked the 'ring my bell' and the 'padlock'. The padlock because I liked looking at it and discovered it was hollow. I liked the bells because they all made different sounds.

Jasper - I really liked the frog because of how it was placed on the side of the stream and how it popped out because of its colour and the Haast eagle because it was made from driftwood.

Flynn - My favourite was the driftwood eagle because it looked exactly like a normal eagle but in a very realistic large version.

Louise - the one that inspired me was the Native Vessel - a long metal stick that came into a blue patterned feather.

Teddy - I liked all the sculptures because they all inspired me because they were all really cool. I'd like to make something like all of them.

Oto - I loved all of the sculptures, they really inspired me to make great artworks.

Milla - I liked the red lock and the keys because it was a bright red colour that really attracted my eye. I liked how the locks were hollow. It was about half the size of me.

We had an idea that we should make metal discs that represent every one of us at Worser Bay school and hang them from a tree as a sign of our community. We're interested in making some driftwood sculptures too, and maybe some sculptures from clay or another material.

Sam Sh, Oto, Teddy: Since we got back we've been wondering about creating a nature pole from scrap metal (to make the flax), wood and something to make a tui out of. It was really cool how we included each other's ideas to come up with this awesome nature sign idea. We're wondering how we would curve the metal to make it look like flax. If you're reading this and have some skills in this area we'd love to have your help.

Scupture on the beach

Sculpture on the beach from Matariki on Vimeo.

We went to the beach and we went looking for some sticks and wood and made our own sculptures. By Charlie P

Wood Towers

We were making wood towers for our Art Exhibition. We used driftwood from the beach and made lots of different sculptures and structures! We made different ones every day! By Anna


Wood Tower from Matariki on Vimeo.

Driftwood for Sculptures

We have been collecting driftwood for our sculptures. You can see our sculptures next week at the Art Exhibition.

Tower Sculpture

Peter, Jasper's grandad came in to show people how to make towers out of paper. He is an artist and often makes sculptures. We cut, glued and folded the pieces of paper and made them into cuboids. We stacked them on top of each other to make a tower. It went up quite well and climbed to the ceiling. They are now pinned up on the wall. 

By Lucas and Hugo