Distorted Kiwiana

Every year our teacher, Mrs Young, sets us a Kiwiana Art piece to complete.  This year we identified items, images or people that are truly 'Kiwi' and cut them into pieces.  After re-gluing them in a random way on backing paper, we traced the outlines and then painted both the images and the background.

Here are the first batch to share!  Can you recognise the original image???

Novel Studies

Each year we do a number of novel studies in our class.  Mrs Young selects from a wide range of books and we do different things with them - all things link to our understanding of what we have read.

This time we had to complete three activities.  Firstly we had to list the main and supporting characters and describe the relationships between them. Then we had to identify the themes within the novel and examples of how the they were unpacked throughout the storyline.  Our final activity was completed as a whole group - we had to identify the main events of the story and plot them in a creative way on an A3 sheet.

Here are three of them.....

Survival Swimming

Our very last session of swimming involved our group taking part in a Survival Swim.  We had to come fully clothed - (long pants, long sleeved top, socks and togs)!  


The first task was to dive into the water and then swim immediately for four lengths as a warn up before beginning a programme that involved another ten lengths of swimming.  The last part had us treading water for three minutes.  as a cool down we got to take our clothes off and swim the last length in our togs - the difference was amazing......we felt so fast!

Portraits - third lot.

Portraits - second 10

Portraits - first 10

We have been exploring the art works of Robyn Kahukiwa.

Mrs Young took a photograph of each member of our class.  Once it was enlarged to A3 we traced our image onto another piece of paper.  We had to pay attention to where the shadows formed on our faces in our photograph.  Using paint, we recreated the shadows to give our faces more detail.

Finally, we filled our background with pieces of advice that have been given to us over the past two years.