As part of Assignment, the West Coast Year 3-6 students have been creating artworks for the art competition.

One of the artworks was “Out of the frame” art; it must be a New Zealand native animal. One part of the animal must be out of the frame, such as the tail or the wings. We designed a koru border to go around it.

The next one is the bird art. We all copied the instructions and diagrams of how to draw it, then we started. The main part of the drawing is doing the body: you use shapes to help you. For example, the tail would be a rectangle, the head would be a circle. After we drew our bird, we coloured it in with pastels.

Lastly, the printmaking. First, we created a Māori design after researching Māori koru and kowhaiwhai patterns and Māori artists.  We made a cardboard block, then we got coloured ink, rolled it onto the cardboard block and transferred the design onto paper. We made more designs and tried different coloured ink and paper. We chose four different prints to display.

Written by Frankie Filleul

It has been a busy start to the term, but a real celebration of some of our learning. 

Some of the junior students at Nelson Campus have been busy creating, planting & caring for our new no-dig garden. We created this using the left over cardboard from our sculptures that we made in Art. Last week a few students planted Agria seed potatoes. We are in the process of getting all of our gardens ready for planting a variety of different vegetables and becoming part of the local Heritage Seed Library.

Our junior art expo was a huge success. Below is some of the year 5/6 art they created. Our year 7/8 students enjoyed designing their own clocks and cooked up a storm in food technology. 

The Year 3-8 Art Exhibition took place on Friday 13^th of October. Throughout Terms 2 and 3, students worked with a variety of media to create pieces for the exhibition. They enjoyed learning new techniques and skills and produced some amazing artworks. Local artist Abbey Greenwood was invited in to judge the pieces, and on the day, community members were invited to vote for ‘the people’s choice’. The results certainly showed us that art really is in the eye of the beholder! Congratulations to the following award winners:

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Year 3-6 Agamographs

Year 3-6 Tuatara

Year 3-6 Kiwi Sketches

Year 7-8 Kiwiana Pottery

Year 7-8 Photography

Year 7-8 Watercolour Painting

This term Cruden and Arie are working with wood and string. They are creating pieces of art to represent their chosen OneSchool Value by forming their value word with string on an aged piece of wood. Cruden has began gluing his piece of string to make his value word, Respect. The gluing process is taking time with a lot of patience and perseverance. The Y8 students are going to produce some excellent pieces displaying the OneSchool Value words in a creative way. Take a look at Cruden’s great progress.  

CAP Launch Webinar held Tuesday 17^th for all Year 11-12 students.  In case you missed it, you can view the recording of the webinar HERE

Please see attached the 2024 NZ CAP Overview and CAP Course Information.  As mentioned in the webinar, we ask that all students fill out the CAP Application Form by November 1^st to secure your place and enrolment in the CAP Program for 2024.

Thank you to all those parents who have completed the Re-Enrolment and ICT forms. As students will move up to their new year level after this month, we would appreciate all remaining forms completed as soon as possible. If you receive reminder emails, please could you click on the link to complete the forms, or if you know you have already completed it but we haven't received it, please ask your child to check their emails and complete their section. Thank you.