Beautifying Wairakei School

You will have noticed that the Wairere Team were busy last term creating beautiful spaces around the school.  This term it is Otakaro's turn!

Rooms 10 and 12 are currently planning a garden for the back entrance of the school (from Saffron Street) with Miss Gray.  It will look awesome!  Another project that Room 12 is working on is some durable artwork to place in one of our gardens.  We have been learning about aboriginal art and will be making some 'totem poles'.  Part of this project has been learning about what 'durable' means (see earlier blog post).  Over the last couple of weeks we have been observing what happens to certain materials when left outside.  We've established that paper, tissue, a leaf, fabric and a toilet roll is NOT durable.  We have a tin can and wood left...they seem to be durable.

We've chosen to use a tin can for our totem poles.  Hopefully they will look these ones!

This is the general idea.  Now just imagine them with aboriginal art on them.

Today we started to plan our art for our tin can.

Last week one of our writing groups published their colour poems.  They were even published in the school newsletter.  Here they are: