Whanakitanga Whare: The Arts

Creating: Illustrations for a 'Big Book'

(Term 4, 2016)

WALHT create illustrations for a narrative story.
The Year 5-6 students working on their SC's -
acrylic painting technique, colour selection and composition.

Looking Good!
The image ideas the students came up with are already meeting the SC's,
and Anita's smile shows how much they enjoyed watching their 'compositions' come to life!

Community As Home - Visual Art Project

(Term 4, 2016)

As part of our Year 4-8 Visual Art Cultural Group over the past term, we have been 'Learning, Creating, Sharing' together to complete three final designs that will be on display at Keri Downs Park in Papakura by mid December 2016.

Check out the slideshow below to see the different stages of the project...

We will add the photo's of the A2 sized signs once they're up, too!

Learning & Creating: Visual Art linked to Our Topic Inquiry

(Term 3, 2016)

Learning and Creating: 'When I Grow Up'

(Term 2, 2016)

"We Are Learning How To..." create a themed poster.

Learning and Creating: Native Bird Drawings

(Term 2, 2016)

Our whole hub topic-linked visual arts lesson...

Breaking the images into shapes we could replicate ourselves...

The E1 class group sketching their own versions...

A couple of our finished sketches - well done!!!

Sharing: Using Oil Pastels for a Collaborative Collage

(Term 4, 2015)

This term, our Inquiry Learning topic is Kiwiana. In response, we are doing a Level 3-4 Visual Art unit as planned by Ms Osborne. We had modelled examples, where we all worked out together how to draw the lines by first breaking them up into shapes we could see, before adding the finer details:

We used the designs we had drawn to then create our own versions of the designs using oils pastels. Again, Ms Osborne modeled how to use these:

Our 'success criteria' were: using lightest to darkest colours and making sure we moved the paper to avoid smudging it or mixing the colours, to get the best result we could. We had a lot of fun creating our own images to share with others. Here are some of the images we have created in response to this 'so far':

Creating: 3D Sculpture Using Papier Mache

(Term 3, 2015)

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?

Creating: 3D Sculpture Using Papier Mache

(Term 2, 2015)

For our Cultural Groups electives sessions, the Year 5-8 students in Cultural Art have been learning about portrait composition (lines/shapes) and contrast (shading) with Miss Osborne.