Te Tuhi

On the 3rd of December Class 4 went on a trip to Te tuhi which is a Art Gallery in Pakuragna.  We went inside, had a seat and watched sketch-up builds while waiting for our tutor Jeremy to come. After a while our he arrived and told us to follow him to the activity room to make tapa.

Tapa is a cloth made out of bark and is dyed earthy colours. The tapa we were making was to have symbols of hobbies, friends or family. We went inside and Jeremy gave us a sheet of paper. There were 4 squares on it. We were told to crunch the paper to get lots of crinkles on the paper. After, he told us to rub he red crayon on the four boxes. This This highlitec the texture of the crinkles. The next step was to dye the paper brown. Simple enough so I did it and it looked so realistic! But we weren't finished.

We still had to draw our symbols of hobbies and family to it! I added a computer because I love video games, a book because I love to read, a cricket ball because I like sports and a house for family. Finally we had to dye the boxes 2 different colours. I did 2 colours facing each other diagonally.

After we had finished our tapa we headed to look at the exhibits. The theme of the exibition was about pacific water but it was mostly a big  blur what Jeremy said because I was to busy looking at the paintings or movies. After an enjoyable afternoon it was time to go back we grabbed our pictures and hopped on the bus to go back to school.

MOVIE COMING SOON!!! :D

Extension symbols movie

This Term year 7/8 Extension we learned about symbols because of our school topic Art Attack. Here is a movie that I made to show what I have drawn and learnt. Symbols are cultural things which means they belong to your country. I drew the greenstone and Maori flag for my 1/2 NZ who's 2nd culture is maori. I drew 2 lions because i am  my 1/2 Netherlands.

Braeden



Here is where we got assigned our task
https://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/extension-pes-2014/term-4-year-7-8

Aspiration meeting

The 5 intermediate classes filled into the street and sat down. Mr Burt and 4 others came in. I had no clue what  their names were. (apart from Mr Burt.) Mr Burt says that the main speaker for this event is called Andrew Patterson. He starts off by saying his welcomes and then he talks about a kid who was very shy. Now he’s a public speaker who gets paid for speaking at conferences.

He introduces the next speaker called Andrew Samuels. He shows a slide on the tv that said “To Mihiako Hoki” At first no one could figure it out. Then Andrew said that it was “you are awesome!”

He talks about when you would use it and how to say it properly. Then he advances to the next slide. It says “Your Past Does Not Have To Determine Your Future.” Meaning what happens in the past does not have to affect what you do in the future.’

Next was another male called Paula Fakalaka. He comes in and says some facts about himself then says “don’t be afraid to take risks.” Only if there good risks not bad risks because bad risks have the risk of killing you. We talked about what was a good risk and what was a bad risk until it was time for the female to come.

The female was called Amelia Unufe and she was underestimated at school because her 2 older brothers both flunked out and everyone thought that she was going to as well. She said that it wouldn’t affect her and she would continue doing the best she could. Thats why her thing to remember would be don’t let “peoples expectations stop you”.

We ended it off by singing our school karakia Powhiri Mai. We sang our hearts out to the 4 people that came. We gave them our thanks and gave Andrew Patterson a box of chocolates for being the host of this special event.

Braeden

Maths Term 4 Week 7

207 miles per hour world record

A French man set a new record for fastest speed on wheels. He used a rocket powered bicycle to beat the last record which is actually pretty funny. It took 4.8 seconds to get to the speed of 207 mph (or 333 km an hour)

The record holder said it was very scary to ride a bike that is going 207 miles per hour.He believes that he can get to 250 mph on his next run with a little more confidence. The bike is lightweight so there's no aerodynamic curves or turns.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30007505

Its very expensive to buy and build but it runs off of half the usual helium power than It should. so in the end it will balance itself out. The best part is he will never lose a bike race again!!

Jo may

Extension Symbols Blog

On the 17th of November Mr Tele'a came to extension to show us his tattoos to help us with our learning. He took his shirt off to show us the tattoos. There was one but it was a big one called the Tatau. It stretched from halfway down his back to his knees. We started to ask questions and my favourite question was What bit was your favourite part? The answer was his bellybutton because as soon as the bellybutton is tattooed the Tatau was over.

Here are some pictures

 We have been investigating tattoos for our school topic art attack. We had to draw a tattoo that meant a lot to us and a cultural tattoo. I made a Pokemon card because my friends in nelson and I loved to collect Pokemon cards and for the cultural tattoo I drew a lion because it is the national animal of Netherlands and a Maori greenstone

Here's a movie we watched to get the term started
Part 1
Part 2