Tamaki College Presentation#2

The College kids had all gone home, but the Art Teacher, Chris , who was dressed in a very cool jacket that matched the school colours, told us all about their art programme that produced the cool work we saw. He also gave us an impromptu lesson about NCEA, which was very interesting because most of us are from Primary Schools. We could see that they put real effort into producing high class artwork.
Great stuff Tamaki College!

Tamaki Intermediate Presentation #2

This was the 2nd last presentation of the day. These guys are real stayers!
The students presented their work have gleaned ideas from a show called 'One Man against the Gods'. It was the story of Maui-tikitiki-a-taranga. They then amalgamated 5 ideas from the story so that all the artworks are composites of parts of the story.
We think this is a very clever idea and gave rise to some really excellent artwork.
Well done Tamaki!

Tamaki Primary Presentation#2

The presenters talked about how they made the 3D papier mache birds.
We thought the presentation was really cool.
We especially liked it when they did the Pukeko Stomp. You guys really shake it up!
The explanation of the art process they followed was really clear and well expressed.

Sommerville Special School

Sommerville School students studied famous artists and found out interesting things about them. Then they looked at their artworks. They then proceeded to produce their own artworks modelled on the work of that artist.
Sommerville arranged their artwork in the foyer of our exhibition so that every person who entered had to walk past their beautiful work.
The work is very colourful and bright and beautifully mounted under lights so it really shows up.
Some of the student viewers commented that some of the artworks looked shiney as though they had a metal or glass surface.
It was the first time Sommerville had joined our Expo and it was really great to have them involved.
You ROCK Sommerville!

Pt England School - Ask Arty Betty

The school day has finished and Arty Betty is putting on her final performance for the visitors who are coming in after school. Lots of hard working teachers are arriving to view the Art work in peace! And we are expecting lots of kids will come back to visit after school with their parents. If you haven't got down to Art Alive yet, why not? Come on down... you will be surprised at the high standard of Art work on display. And our student presenters could give adults a few tips :) Good to hear intelligent questions coming in from the audience too.... We hear that a few pieces of art work have been sold today too! Well done team.

St Patrick's Panmure

St Patrick's presented their Reduce,Reuse,and Recycle show to a crowd of attentive Tamaki College students. It is amazing to see what they have done this term -all with materials brought along from home. I enjoyed the quote from one student on their video: "we learned that you don't have to use flash materials to make some cool things". That's a good message for us. Their wearable art display is fantastic and the other forms of art on display have given us some good ideas for things we could do in the holidays! Well presented team!

Glenbrae #2

These presenters of all ages were confident and gave very clear descriptions of the different styles of art each class learned. The wonderful description of how to creat art like Monet's waterlillies by the Year Four class definitely inspired me to try to create my own! The Year Fives focused on creating sea creatures using dough, which sounded like heaps of fun. Room 7 looked at painting, particularly landscapes and human figures, and we LOVED Year 0 and 1's fish that they drew using Kidpix! Fantastic work Glenbrae.

Panmure Bridge #3

These guys just get better and better! More energy, more charisma, more enthusiasm, and the audience loved them! The presenters were great, and the models were fantastic. I don't know how they manage to walk so well in their massive costumes! They're definitely supermodels. The digital photos in their booth are spectacular, make sure to check them out when you're here, so that you can learn all about the different types of shots they took of all the things they checked out!

Panmure Bridge #2

This was Panmure Bridge's second performance, as they treated to an encore! They were just as fantastic as the first time, although I'm a little bit scared to hear that there might be sharks in the Tamaki Estuary!!

Tamaki Primary

The focus of Tamaki Primary's art was birds. Each year looked at a different type of art, but all was about the pukeko. They did crayon and dye art, collage, paper mache, bird masks, and mystical peacock fans, which they created using feathers and other exciting materials. I really liked the paper mache birds, which were created by blowing up balloons and gluing shredded pieces of paper to it! Tamaki Primary finished by doing the Pukeko Stomp, a really cool dance, for us.

St Patricks

St Patricks used recycled materials like egg cartons, boxes, wrapping paper, string and beads to create their works of art. The focus of their inquiry was to do the three R's: reduce, reuse and recycle! Then they brainstormed ideas of how to use these materials. They made dresses and masks, candles and even soap out of their recycled stuff! They even made a enormous fossil out of bottle caps and gladwrap! Their finished products look amazing, they should be really proud of themselves!

Pt England #2

The first group to do their second performance, Pt England was just as great this time around! Arty Betty once again thrilled the audience, and all the different guests were fantastic to listen to. I especially enjoyed hearing from Sally the shoe, who told us all about how she'd been learning to imagine things from the point of view of a shoe! It was pretty cool. Tamaki Intermediate was here to watch the presentation, and were great guests.

Tamaki Intermediate

Tamaki Intermediate went to see a production called "One Man Against the Gods," and it impressed them so much that they decided to use it as their theme for Art Alive. They designed artwork based on Maui and mythical landscapes, using lino printig, pastel, crayon and Indian Ink. Their booth looks amazing, you can really see all the hard work has paid off! Good work guys, and thanks to your lovely presenters.

Pt England - Viewpoint

This was the Arty Betty Show! Arty Betty was an Oprah style character who interviewed a succession of artists from throughout the school about what they had been doing this term. Team 3 talked about all the wonderful artwork in the Glen Innes community that they had been to look at, and we could see that lots of the kids in the audience recognised the pieces of art too! We didn't know that there were 16 different landmarks right on our back doorstep! Arty Betty even interviewed a jandal and a sneaker! What a woman! Great job guys.

Glenbrae School

A team of students from Glenbrae School have just shown us the amazing work they have been doing this term. Their Inquiry topic has been water - "Water, Water Everywhere". And they sure live up to this name - they even have runnig water i their display area. They showed us how they have created their beautiful artwork using a variety of mediums and they did some cool digital art as well. Their very confident presenters came from all their classes, even the youg children. Well done Glenbrae.

St Pius X

St Pius has been learning about the underwater world and the fish that live there. All the classes have been learning about different subjects, like Room 6 and the angler fish. Johnny and Heimoana presented their subject wearing masks and snorkels! It was pretty cool!

Tamaki College

Tamaki College told us all about the treatment of women in history. They used pop art and lots of different types of art to demonstrate their topic. They also told us about pointilism, which is about mixing colours to make it look like other colours from a distance. Well done!

Panmure Bridge - Digital Photography

Wow! Panmure Bridge started the day off amazingly! Jaiden and Robert presented their work confidently, and they were really funny! We heard about how they were motivated, went exploring, asked questions, found the answers, and communicated it to everyone else. Then they finished it off with a fashion show! I really liked the historical building as well as the waka, which looked really cool. Great job, PBS!

Good Morning!

Welcome everyone, our day at Tamaki College has begun! Pt England Year 5 and 6 and Glenbrae are just arriving to watch Panmure Bridge's first performance. It looks like it's going to be great! Hope to see you all here sometime today.

Art Alive 2007

We are back with an exciting day ahead of us to share what we have all been doing this term in our schools.
We have most of the schools from last year back with us and two new schools joining in.
On Thursday June 28th we will all be getting together at the Tamaki College hall to share our experiences with Art Alive. Knowing the fantastic work that goes on in our cluster of schools, I can predict we are in for a wonderful day.

This year we have not got together during the term at all, so it will be a wonderful surprise to see how each school has approached the topic "Art Alive". Why don't you start the blogging process by adding a comment to this post telling us how YOUR school has approached Art Alive.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Dorothy Burt

The Prize Winners

At 3pm today, every comment made on the blog was printed off and put in a box, and entered into a prize draw. The winners are:

Alex, Room 7, Glenbrae School won a drink bottle
Jeremiah, Room 1, Glenbrae School won a drink bottle
Joseph R, Room 18, Pt England School won a cap
Sela T, Room 8, Glenbrae School won a cap
George and Kesomi, Room 17, Pt England School won a sports bag
Matthew T, Room 7, Pt England School won a sports bag
Santana, Room 17, Pt England School won a sports bag
Darion, Room 18, Pt England School won a cap
Mrs Jenkins, Glenbrae School won an umbrella

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who posted comments, your prizes will be delivered to your school for the first day of Term 4.

Tamaki College #2

Tamaki College is presenting the last show of the day. They had some technical difficulty to begin with, but carried on anyway, and presented really well. First Agent Fred told us all about The Statue of Liberty, with the help of a PowerPoint Slide Show. Next Agent Peni who introduced us to Ayres Rock in Australia. He was a very funny presenter. Then came Agent Leon, who showed us Machu Picchu, and even gave us tourist information in case we wanted to visit! After Leon was Agent Alex, who presented the Pyramids in Egypt. Lastly came Tui, who showed us the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. He showed us the Greek flag and told us all about Greece. A great conclusion to our Celebration, Tamaki!

Pt England Extension Group

Wow! That was an amazing performance guys! Alosina and Charin were really confident, funny presenters who took us around the world to Egypt, France, and Brazil. Charin and his artist friends decided it would be cool to explore art in these countries. In Brazil, they researched costumes, and used their amazing ICT and art skills to reproduce some of these fancy costumes. In France, they visited the Louvre, and studied pointalism. WOW, they did such a great job using pointalism to recreate the Arc de Triumph! In Egypt, the artists were able to tell us about the wall paintings. What a treat to be able to see how skilled the extension group is. Job well done.

Tamaki Intermediate #2

Tamaki Intermediate's second presentation was a smooth, well presented show. The presenter was fantastic. Tamaki Intermediate had a great booth. I especially liked the Christ the Redeemer Statue and the Big Ben. They showed great artistic skills. I also thought the floor map of the world, done by blowing up an actual map on an OHP and tracing it, was a fantastic idea, and came out really great. Well done guys, keep up the good work!

St Pius X - Amazing Masks #2

Great job St Pius! You've obviously learnt alot this term. All the little kids in your movie were really great actors, and your presenters did an amazing job educating their audience about how and why people around the world make masks. As well as telling us about masks, St Pius also gave us basic facts about the country the mask came from, like telling us about the canals in Italy, and that Africa is actually made up of many different countries. St Pius also made passports to take with them on their journey around the world, which was a fun idea. I also liked the plane animations between each country.

Tamaki Primary #2

Tamaki Primary has just presented their show for the second time. They researched how different lunch food can make you healthy and strong. I really enjoyed learning about Brazil, and the healthy food they eat for lunch. It was also cool to hear that in Chicago, USA, the kids eat their lunch in a canteen. ePal helped Tamaki Primary to learn all about different lunch foods by giving them classes to talk to in other countries. How great is it that they can share lunch foods with other kids all over the world?!

Pt England Senior School - Amazing Structures #2

Once again, the Amazing Race was run. Once again, Pt England's presentation was spectacular. This was also the first show after school had finished, so there were heaps of people here from all over the place. The presenters were confident, and the Amazing Race contestants were great actors. Sean even pretended to cry! It was pretty funny.
Well done to everyone who helped put the show together, it was a seamless performance, well rehearsed and interesting to listen to. Fantastic show!

Glen Innes Primary #2

The second show from Glen Innes Primary was even better than the first! We thought the food from Canada, "Toad in the Hole", which was milk, flour, eggs and sausages baked, looked really yummy. I'd love to have it for breakfast! The rice with the shrimp and vegetables from Spain looked pretty good too. We also thought it was really cool that Mrs Martin, the principal, went all the way to Spain just for their project! The presenters were even more confident this time, and spoke clearly and well.
I thought that the set up of the 6 lcd screens at the side of their booth made for a very cool look. Great job guys!

Visitors

Pt England Teams 2 and 3, and Tamaki Intermediate were our latest set of visitors. They were a great audience for Glenbrae and Panmure Bridge's presentations. Well done! Remember to leave a comment and tell us what you thought!

Glenbrae - Festivals Around the World #2

Great job Glenbrae! Phileas Fogg was a great host for our trip around the world, and all the presenters did a fantastic job speaking, even with technical difficulties.
I really enjoyed learning about the festival of lights in India, and Hogmanay, which is the New Year Celebration in Scotland. It would be a good idea to invite dark, handsome men to your New Year anyway! :)
Well done to all participants!

Panmure Bridge - Dancing Around the World #2

Another fantastic effort from Panmure Bridge. The audience really enjoyed all the performances. The penguins were cute, the hip hop dancers were groovy, the disco people were amazing, the cuban dancers were swish. All the dancers were great, really confident and outgoing!
The movie was fun to watch too, with the funny Mr Brown showing us different types of dancing, and students also showing us the same dances were awesome!
Are we able to hire you guys to teach us your cool moves??!

Glen Innes Primary - Amazing Food

Glen Innes Primary took us on a "gastronomical" plane ride around the world. During term 3, they focused on learning about the different kinds of food people eat in countries like Spain, Africa, Japan, France, and Italy. One of the students became the pilot and the other presenter was the stewardess. The pilot kept a journal of all the places the plane stopped at and did a fantastic job guiding the tour. The food looked really yummy, I would have loved to try some of the dishes they had in class! They spent one WHOLE WEEK cooking and eating different foods from countries around the world! Wouldn't it have been cool to be at their school that week? Their presentation was put together really well. I especially enjoyed the plane that flew around the globe. Well done Glen Innes!

Visitors

St Patricks School and Panmure Bridge Primary are the current visitors. Right now, they're wandering around and having a look at all the different booths. Have fun guys, hope you enjoy it!

Tamaki Primary

Tamaki Primary has been studying lunch food around the world. A school in Samoa sent them a photo with every child in the class's lunch box open on the table. We were surprised to see that it was mostly like ours, except that some of them had taro chips and breadfruit chips. Then we heard about Germany, where they told us about how Germans eat different types of bread at lunchtime, Next was Mexico, where they eat spicy food on special occasions.
They learnt most of their information from their ePals. They corresponded with lots of kids from around the world during their journey.
A really snappy presentation, Tamaki Primary!

Pt England Juniors - Amazing Houses #2

Congratulations on another great performance! All the presenters did a fantastic job. I especially enjoyed watching the tree fall when we watched Room 6 build a mud hut like the ones in Ethiopia. It was interesting to hear about houses in Canada and the differences between their and ours, and how climate makes them use different materials. I also enjoyed the dancing at the end, and thought Toreka was a fantastic dancer!
You guys were fantastic, especially considering you're only 6 and 7! Imagine what you'll be doing when you're Year 6's!

St Pius X - Amazing Masks

St Pius treated us to a trip around the world. Officer Mafu stamped passports and St Pius students showed us four different countries. First we went to Japan, where we learnt about Noh masks, which are used in plays. Next we went to Italy, where we saw carnival masks. These masks are used at masquerades or balls to cover your face so that no one knows who you are! They are very beautiful and elegant masks, covered in sequins and glitter. Then we flew to Africa and found out about African masks, which are used at festivals and public events. These masks are complex, well constructed masks. Finally we went to North America and saw Native American Corn masks. These are made out of sweet corn leaves and celebrated the growing season and the harvest of the crops.
St Pius has done a fantastic job constructing all their masks, they are very impressive. Make sure you come and have a look at all the hard work!

Pt England Seniors - Amazing Structures

What a fantastic presentation! To show the audience their Amazing Structures, the Pt England Seniors held an "Amazing Race!" There were five teams, who had to participate in the race by performing different tasks in different countries, and at each country, one team was eliminated. In Brazil, they went to the Christ the Redeemer statue, and video conference answers to questions about the statue. In France, they went to the Eiffle Tower, where they posted photos on Flikr, in Rome, they visited the Colesseum where they had to fight a gladiator, in Egypt they visited the Pyramids and had to find a golden brick to receive their next clue. Finally, they went to China, where they had to build a part of the Great Wall of China! In the end, team 17 won The Amazing Structures Race. Congratulations guys!

Tamaki Intermediate

After some technical difficulties (Get a Mac!) Tamaki Intermediate showed us an awesome Power Point presentation of all their work from term 3. The most interesting part was their fittness programme where they measured the distance that they ran and mapped it around the world. Their presenters were confident even though there were technical difficulties and their principal, Mr. Horan, did a great job filling in, and quizzing the kids on the locations of amazing structures! Great Job Tamaki Intermediate.

Congratulations to Tamaki Primary Jnrs, Pt England Team 1 and Tamaki Intermediate for being a fantastic audience! Remember to post comments when you get back to school to tell other schools what you liked about their presentations!

Pt England Juniors - Amazing Houses

The Pt England Junior School have been learning about Amazing Houses. Firstly, they shared about the Samoan House - the fale. The Room 8 reporter in Samoa showed us how to build one. They also told us that a fale is made of "mostly fresh air!" Then we heard about Canada, through emails from Mrs Fale's parents to Room 9. Next we heard from the Room 9 reporter in England, who interviewed Lepa the guard, and the Queen of England. Hajira made an amazing Queen, and told us all about her Palace. Finally, Room 6 took us to Ethiopia and told us about mudhouses. They corresponded with an 8yr old girl called Lydia in Ethiopia, who told them all about the sorts of houses there. We also watched a live demonstration of how to make a mud house.
The Junior School finished by singing "Imagine" to us, with great smiles and actions! Great job guys!

Glenbrae - Festivals Around the World

Glenbrae is now telling us about their topic - Festivals Around the World. We're lucky enough to get to hear about festivals in China, New Zealand, Egypt, Scotland, Peru and France! Phileas Fogg took us on a tour around the world, and told us about how different countries celebrated New Year. We got to know what kinds of celebrations happen in different countries, starting in New Zealand with Matariki.
Phileas Fogg was interviewed by a number of very well spoken Glenbrae students. They noticed that everywhere he went, he seemed to do alot of eating. Perhaps New Years festivals all over the world involve alot of eating?!
Well done, Glenbrae!

Panmure Bridge - Dancing Around the World

Wow! Panmure Bridge has a really cool presentation! First we got to see some live dancing from their presenters, and now we're watching their movie, which has lots of different kinds of dancing, and some of them are funny! One of their teachers, Mr Brown, has acted out lots of the different styles. He even tried rapping! The Panmure Bridge Kids also showed us all their cool dance moves from dance styles around the world. We saw dancing from France, Cuba, USA and India, complete with amazing costumes.
Then we got to see some live dancing, which was really fantastic! They demonstrated all their different kinds of dancing, from hip hop to Cuban dancing, penguins to Indian dancing. What a lot of work that must have been to prepare! That was an amazing show Panmure Bridge!

GO!

Good morning! The day of our celebration has finally arrived! Tamaki College Auditorium is packed with people, both Pt England Senior School and Glenbrae School are here, and we're watching Tamaki College show us their presentation. First Agnes welcomed everyone to Tamaki College, and their Head Boy said a karakia. Now we're watching their movie, which has the Mission Impossible theme music, and is about Secret Agent William delivering a package to their ICT Team. Secret Agent William has a really cool wig!
Their live presentation is about significant structures - Mt Rushmore in USA, the Great Wall of China, and the Golden Temple in India. They finished their presentation with Peni playing the drums! Well done Tamaki College :)

Ready, Get Set....

Wednesday has been a very busy day down at the College hall. Teachers have been busy setting up the displays ready for everyone to enjoy tomorrow. Lots of hammers and paint and staple guns and tape...
A big thank you to RED (Renaissance Education Division) who have set up our wireless network so our blogs will work from the hall.
It is looking fantastic and all we need now is the students to arrive and show us their presentations.
See you all tomorrow
Mrs Burt

AWED - Sponsors for our blog!

We have good news to share with you all today. The ASB bank in Glen Innes are very generously sponsoring our blog and have donated us prizes to give out to the bloggers from our cluster.
This is how it will work. Every student in our cluster who posts a comment on THIS blog ( ICT in Action) between Monday September 18 and Friday September 22 will go into a draw to win one of the prizes from the ASB bank. We will make the draw after 3.00pm on Friday and post the names of the winners on this blog too. You will be able to claim your prize in the first week back after the holidays.
The ASB have donated us caps, drink bottles, bags and umbrellas. To have a chance to win you just have to post a comment this week on the blog. You must have your first name, class and school on your comment though.
Thanks very much ASB.
And keep up the good work going on in your schools as you get your presentations together. The ones I have seen are looking great.

Mrs Burt

Around the World in 80 Days

Week 10, Term 3, 2006 and the countdown begins...
This week on Thursday 21st September we are all coming together for our celebration. We are using the same blog as last year, but we have moved on from the Expo thing.... been there, done that...

What have we got to celebrate? Something very special actually. 9 schools, more than 100 teachers, around 2000 kids - all travelling on a learning journey together for ten weeks! What an accomplishment. We have had wonderful experiences this term as we have travelled around the world and Thursday will be a wonderful day. Make sure you are there to celebrate with us. Tamaki College Auditorium is the venue and the celebration will be open from 9.00 am to 7.00pm.
See you there

Mrs Burt