Room 15 have been playing around with ideas about how animals could look being morphed together. They have investigated the features of two seemingly incongruous creatures and morphed them together showing a contrast of scale, shape, texture and environment. They have also investigated scientific names and classifications, and come up with their own new name for these wonderful creatures.

Students have drawn and are now making paintings of the creatures, and also created some fabulous poetry to go with their soon to be finished art works. They will also produce some stop motion movie segments within this theme.

Here is a snapshot of our amazing work so far…….enjoy

Spiderhorse

Loud as a horse

Small as a spider.

Born as one dies

As two.

Sitting in dark corners

Waiting

To pounce

While weighing one

Ounce.

You will know your

Fate

When it's too late.

-Daemon Morey, 

Dark as Night.

Dark as the sky, on a cloudless night,

Rough as tree bark, completely out of sight.

A grin from this behemoth wouldn't be nice,

Its rugged, unkempt fur, thriving with lice.

Nowhere to be seen, but when it appears,

The Pan Harrissi will have you in tears.

-Israel Malama

SPRINGHORN

The subtle walk to the local pond

I’m in fear of being on the wall

Or having my silky soft pelt on the floor

Even being somes next meal

Spronking around to show my fitness

Fleeing at 85k to escape

the danger

Jackson Hayes

OnyxCanaria

My beak may look tamed

My frame not so much

Feathers merge to fur

A chirp can grow as loud as a roar

As furious as I may look

Ferocious even

More of a shy timid bird

A pounce as to play

Not as prey

I don't have my wings

So my way to get away

Is a galloping gait

Around eighty to a hundred

Maybe even a hundred and thirty

I could win any race

-Shianna Heney

  Animal poem

Cuniculuslopardilas

Small as a rabbit big as a giraffe

this unfriendly beast

will take a bite from your calf

It has a feisty looking face

and very long neck

this animal will screech

until its a pain in your head

It sprints walks

and jumps around

not very far

because

the zookeeper's around

its skin is soft

if you can even get near

as the animal has

a deathly stare.

• By Haven Holden Purukamu