We are halfway through our week-long focus on Art and the students are busy creating landscape pieces based on our Cultural Narrative and surrounding areas. 

Our partnership with Ngāti Moki Marae has been a great source of ideas and the students have been very engaged in learning about local landscapes and why they are important. 

On Monday and Tuesday we taught specific art skills as a rotation, and now the students are drafting and designing their piece using either watercolours, paints or pastels. 

Check out some photos of us below. Here are some reflections from students: 

Tamara

"This week we have been working on identifying features of landscapes. We can show a horizon in our drawings and name where the foreground, mid-ground and background are. We have learnt about complementary colours. These are colours that contrast with each other and make the picture stick out. Eg: green and red or yellow and purple. We have looked at a landscape by Helena Blair that has New Zealand plants in it."

Emma

"Today we did our last rotation for Art Attack and 5IR did ours with Mrs Marsh. The rotation was about shading the foreground, mid-ground and background. We also did some finishing of our art that we have started. We are looking at New Zealand landscape art and learning how to use complementary colours so our art will stand out."

Liam

"In art so far we have transitioned round all of the three of the Hub 5 classrooms with the three different teachers teaching us different things. In Mr Rule’s class we learned about shading and we had to to do a little drawing of a landscape. We got to use thick grey pencils with softer tips but to be used for darkness. In Mr Forman's class we learned about complementary colours and light. We got to pick a colouring in sheet and we had to use complementary colours. In Mrs Marsh’s class she talked to us about shading. We watched a video about tones. Next we are going to pick a type of drawing to use and do that to create a landscape picture."