Wai Challenges

The Key competencies participating and contributing, and thinking were extended. Students gained a lot of ideas by looking at each other's creations, and they had lots of questions. Read more about 'Wai Challenges'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged Science, Technology, The Arts, Mathematics, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 24 days ago By Olivia Graham

Education Outside the Classroom - Room 15’s Art Adventure

Often we think of school camps for more senior students when we think of Education Outside the Classroom, but it can be as simple as Bike Taupo coming to school... Read more about 'Education Outside the Classroom - Room 15’s Art Adventure'...

Posted in Poihipi; Tagged The Arts, English; Posted 3 months ago By Susan Green

Blooming Lovely

Our Inquiry had an art focus. Each class in the school was to present an installation around an idea or concept for Art in the Park. Read more about 'Blooming Lovely'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged The Arts, Mathematics, English, Thinking, Using Language Symbols and Text, Managing Self, Relating to Others; Posted 3 months ago By Leanne Jackson

Patterns Patterns Everywhere

Patterns have been an interesting and exciting phenomenon for us all. We have been on pattern hunts finding patterns in places we didn’t expect. Read more about 'Patterns Patterns Everywhere'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Mathematics, The Arts, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols and Text, Managing Self, Thinking and Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Angel Chauval

Inspired by Jackson Pollock

Looking at Pollock’s works, we were touching on level 3 of the New Zealand curriculum in visual arts: investigating the purpose of images from past cultures and identifying the contexts... Read more about 'Inspired by Jackson Pollock'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged The Arts, Technology, Using Language Symbols and Text, Participating and Contributing, Relating to Others; Posted 3 months ago By Olivia Graham

Jay's Custom Cruiser

Art in the Park has allowed students to express a variety of ideas through 3D art works. Read more about 'Jay's Custom Cruiser'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged The Arts, English, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Using Language Symbols and Text, Managing Self, Relating to Others; Posted 3 months ago By Jay, Kelsyn, Olivia Graham and Tawhiri

Patterns, patterns everywhere

Mathematics is the science of patterns Lynn Steen Read more about 'Patterns, patterns everywhere'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged Mathematics, The Arts, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols and Text; Posted 3 months ago By Melissa Isaacson

Student Voice and Student Choice

Visual arts is the focus for the Te Mihi students in term 4 and the teachers decided that it was important to provide opportunities for choice. Read more about 'Student Voice and Student Choice'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged Mathematics, English, The Arts, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols and Text; Posted 3 months ago By Melissa Isaacson

Creative recycled art

These are the questions Te Mihi students who chose to work in Room 8 for Art in the Park asked as we went on our journey of getting creative through art. Read more about 'Creative recycled art'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged English, The Arts, Science, Social Science, Thinking, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Clara Loughin

Room 14’s Art in the Park Journey

Room 14 began its Art in the Park inquiry by brainstorming ideas about why people do art and how people show art. Read more about 'Room 14’s Art in the Park Journey'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged The Arts, Relating to Others, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Using language symbols and text; Posted 3 months ago By Paul Morehu