Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Making Bunting for our Enviro Stall

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Making Bunting for our Enviro Stall: Bunting was really fun and interesting. We traced the letters onto special paper. We then ironed the letters onto the fabric we choose. Then...

Parihaka Day at Frankleigh Park Kindergarten

Parihaka Day was celebrated at our kindergarten last week.  In preparation for this our children have been drawing and painting the 3 feathers of Te Atiawa onto calico flags. 

The story has been shared about Rangimarie- the peace and goodwill of Parihaka.  We lit our peace candle, recited a karakia and then moved outside to see our banner of flags strung between the tree and our Whare Rakau. This was followed by delicious kumara chips.

This story has enabled children to develop an understanding about the concepts of peaceful resolution and negotiation and to learn about a unique historical event which happened here in Taranaki.

This will become a tradition to be shared each year on November 5th. 
Kia tou te rangimarie
i roto i tenei kura
o tatou e tenei wa
Peace be with us all in this kindergarten at this time.

 

Totem Poles

 Term 1

Hawera Primary carried on working on our totem poles adding the finer details. 

Three years ago we painted four totem poles. Unfortunately they didn't make it outside, they were left in a classroom :( Now needing the classroom space we had a group of children perform some TLC and they are now ready to be put into the ground. 
Our next step is to find someone to support us in digging some holes and laying concrete!! 

Art murals

We started by getting a huge piece of wood and some containers of paint, and brushes. We got a subject to paint each. My groups subject was tuatara. Each group got pictures of their subject.

Everyone had a go doing observational drawings of their subject on paper.  We had help from teachers to paint the outline, their was lots of year sixes to do the careful parts, and the younger kids did the background. Our group painted a brown tuatara. My friend Isis was in another group and they got all the light colours, painting a green lizard.  There was also a komokomoko lizard.  It took as a week to finish the paintings. Once they were painted we hung them up on the outside of the wall by the carpark for visitors to see and learn about lizards.  By Claudia

Marco art

Marco School art teacher Miss Spencer comes about once a year. We have painted Marco Polo chasing the pig, and then it was the pig chasing Marco however the dog got killed. That’s why our school is called Marco School. We have also made a mural on our school changing shed of a forest with native birds and native trees on.

Murals and Bird Feeders

May Harrison's Mural

Our outdoor art was inspired by May Harrison, a much loved teacher and member of our community who passed away several years ago.  The first mural is in memory of her and was completed at the beginning of 2014.


With the help of our Artist in Residence Barbara Spencer, students designed and painted this fantastic mural.  We were lucky enough to win a Keep New Zealand Beautiful competition for our design and the paints were provided by Resene.


This mural got us all inspired and one of our senior students completed a mural of the oak tree (which is our school emblem), other students created upcycled flower art from rubbish bin lids and bird feeders from plastic bottles.