Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Noticing and appreciating things of beauty

We are having a big focus on character strengths this year. We are focusing on the character strength of noticing and appreciating things of beauty. 


Noticing and appreciating things of beauty around school
Today we begun to look for things beautiful in our school. This is us looking for beautiful things:



Here are some of the things that we found:

Please come in and take a look at our "Wow Wall" to display things that we find beautiful
Please bring in photos or objects of things that you find beautiful to put on our "Wow Wall".


HATS HATS HATS

Fantastic to see so many hats on heads today.

What month were you born?

















Today we made a human graph. We lined up according to what month we were born in. November and March will be busy birthday months in Tautoru!
This is us counting how many people were born in each month.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Question Box


Next Thursday (11th February) we are having a Parent Information Evening at 6.30- 7.45. If you have any questions about our programme, please either pop your question in the "Question Box" at school or write a question here on GOOGLE DOC: Question box.

Thursday, 17 December 2015

Year 3's Snow Globes














Here are the year 3's snow globes!

Snow Globe mania!







These are the year 2's snow globes.  They are hanging in the classroom ready for next year.  We had to think about what our world would have in it if we lived in a snow globe.  Then we used oil pastel and dye to create our backgrounds.  Next we posed for a photo.  Once the photo was taken we laminated it, placed it on the picture and attached it to a plate.  We then decorated the plates and named our worlds! Here they are.  If you want a closer look, come in and see!

Term 3 Anthropologists !

Teaching our students about   culture and identity through the arts   is important and something we are striving to improve this year.  It b...