The mahi continues...

This week has been very special for the school. The tukutuku panels that we have been working on are looking amazing and there is a great sense of pride amongst the students (and staff) that through our collaborative work we have achieved something very special.

One panel is complete and the others are still being worked on in the senior classroom if you want to come and look or join in and do some of your own weaving.

Baxter painting the backing board.

Charlie did a great job helping other students learn. Tuakana-teina in action!

Ruby and Foster working together.

Another brother-sister team working together. Good work Bailey and Eva.

More whānau team work. Thanks Kayla and Ella.

Winky working out the patterning. He's got it!

Elyza working on the poutama pattern.

Where it all begins...

Today we started working on the tukutuku panels. We started by meeting together as a school to discuss the panels. Then the Year 8's did some work on them that will help them support other student work. 

After that students from the senior class worked on stripping the panels back, fixing them and then re-painting them ready for weaving.

One of the panels before we dismantled it.

Hannah working on restoring the panels

Removing the deteriorated weaving.

The panels at the end of today, painted and ready for weaving tomorrow.

Tukutuku planning

Last week we started planning for working on the planning for the tukutuku panels from Hurunui-o-Rangi Marae. We worked in maths on the algebraic patterns that can be found in tukutuku and then had a go at creating our own.

Hurunui-o-Rangi Marae has given our school 5 panels to restore. They date back to 1987! The year when great kiwi hits like this were heard all around:

We will be working on these panels this week in the school hall. You're all invited to pop in and have a look at what we're doing.

Here we are hard at work on our maths/algebra:

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Harry researching and thinking hard.

Penny, Abi and Hannah working collaboratively

2D and 3D Shapes

We Are Learning To identify the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. This week we started by creating 3D models of houses from 2D plans. Check out our collaborative work on this: