Sam's digital pepeha

Sam has used Google Slides to create a digital pepeha. He has used images which represent different parts of his pepeha.

Mrs Tofa's digital pepeha

Room 7 have been working on their pepeha during the term. This week we recited our pepeha to the class. A pepeha is important to us because it tells other people about our identify and where we come from. We also created digital presentations for our pepeha as well as pepeha panels on paper.

Learning art techniques

Graham Dodd came to Glenbrae school and taught the students some art skills in sketching. This is Alfred's artwork from the session. Alfred took a photo of his artwork and cropped certain parts to describe the skills he learnt from Graham Dodd.

Describing artwork

Dasharn's task was to describe a piece of artwork. He decided to describe an artwork from Samoan/New Zealand artist Fatu Fetu'u.

Manaiakalani Ambassador

This morning Levi R., Mrs Raj and Miss Stone went to the Maniakalani Offices.

As the Manaiakalani Ambassador for Glenbrae, Levi was asked to present with ambassadors from the other Maniakalani schools.  This took a lot of work on Levi's part as he had to design the presentation and learn the speech that accompanied it off by heart.

Levi had to present in front of visitors who had come to learn about Manaiakalani and the learn, create, share process. He discussed the way that we had learn, created and shared in visual art this term.

He did a fantastic job! Mrs Raj and Miss Stone were very proud of the presentation that he delivered and the visitors got a good understanding of the way that our students learn at Glenbrae school.

Luisa describes chocolate in a very sweet way

WALT - use our senses to describe food.

A Guest Speaker

Today Glenbrae school was visited by artist Graham Dodd who taught us all how to sketch.

Room 7 and the seniors were involved in the first session with Graham, which occurred in the hall this morning. Graham spoke about lots of different conventions that are used in art and sketching. The children began to colour their sketches by the end of the session, but they continued to colour them when they returned to class.

Once they had finished, the children had to write a blog post describing the different techniques that they had used for each aspect of their artwork.