Wearable Arts Fashion Show - 2015

The Wearable Arts Fashion show was held at school. The students showcased their creations of the Fabrics, Fibres and Fashion Inquiry. The students of Whanakitanga Whare researched, designed and created their own masks and outfits. All the materials used were recycled materials. They were only supported by the teachers, rest was done by the children, for the children. This is a very good example of LEARN CREATE SHARE!!!

Pohutukawa Group - Letter to Mrs Irvine - Persuasive Writing

Tuesday 8th September 2015

WALHT write a letter to persuade someone.

SC :

-Opinion

-Three reasons

-Conclusion

-Strong vocabulary

Dear Miss Irvine,

I strongly believe we should all have a chromebook each to ourselves.

My first reason is that if we have a chromebook we will not need to buy any pencils or stationary.This will save us lots of money that we can put towards buying the chromes. It will also save us precious time we waste on looking for pencils.  

We feel  that if we work on chromebooks, we will be able to work from home too. When we are sick we will be  able to catch up on our work  from home.This will help us to keep up with the classroom learning.

Mrs Irvine, if you agree to buy chromebooks for all us, we can help too.

We can help by fundraising for the chromebooks for our class.

We can organise a garage sale or a bake sale to help raise the money

Lastly we feel that we can use the chromebooks to do lots of research. We will be able to finish or work on time.At the moment we have to wait four our turn on to go on the computers or chromebooks. Do you agree with us, Mrs Irvine ? If you do , then please consider our request. We hope you will buy chromes for all of us soon.

FROM: POHUTUKAWA GROUP E2

Counties Manukau Sport - PE Skills Sessions

As part of our PE 'winter sports skills', Whanakitanga Whare have been enjoying participating in Ripper Rugby Skills sessions facilitated by the friendly staff from Counties Manukau Sport.

Here are some images of some of the activities we participated in during Term 3...

Creating: The Next Step in Our Term 3 Topic Inquiry

Earlier this week, we watched a video on "How to Make a Papier Mache Mask", which was shared with us by our teacher. It was selected in response to a couple of the Inquiry Questions our class came up with for our "Fabrics, Fibres and Fashion" topic this term. (You can watch the video here if you would like to see it, too). 

Ms Osborne suggested we could use a "reduce, re-use, recycle" approach to creating an item for our fashion show later this month - by using materials we have around us in our community, such as old newspapers, plastic milk containers and home made flour and water glue... 

...to make ourselves an African "Igbo Ijele" styled mask that we could then personalise to reflect the vibrant and exciting culture around us! Now that we have made our papier mache bases for our masks, we will use some of our design ideas that we made to paint these to match.

Our next step will be to ask ourselves: what reusable or recyclable materials do we have available around us? How could we use some of these to decorate our masks to reflect our own unique cultural 'fashion' ideas?