My art work

In my class the year 8’s are doing art and using a panel to create designs with three other peoples designs on it. But when we draw our design’s we have to make sure that it is Samoan patterns and that the patterns are not to small.

In our panels the patterns we design have to mean something in your family and it also has to represent you too. In my design my patterns represent me and everyone in my family because it has a flower that show’s people in my family who has passed and the other part represents me because it has a design that I like and also a design that has my culture in it.

When we paint our designs we only have to use four colour white, red, yellow mixed with orange and black. First we had to use the light colours and the the dark after it so the dark wouldn’t overtake the light bits. I coloured my back round white first then I started using the other four colours.

So after I have finished colouring my design I had to do the outline black so that you could see the flower properly.  My design that I made kind of doesn’t look like a flower but once I have put my outline in it will.

My art work

In my class the year 8’s are doing art and using a panel to create designs with three other peoples designs on it. But when we draw our design’s we have to make sure that it is Samoan patterns and that the patterns are not to small.

In our panels the patterns we design have to mean something in your family and it also has to represent you too. In my design my patterns represent me and everyone in my family because it has a flower that show’s people in my family who has passed and the other part represents me because it has a design that I like and also a design that has my culture in it.

When we paint our designs we only have to use four colour white, red, yellow mixed with orange and black. First we had to use the light colours and the the dark after it so the dark wouldn’t overtake the light bits. I coloured my back round white first then I started using the other four colours.

So after I have finished colouring my design I had to do the outline black so that you could see the flower properly.  My design that I made kind of doesn’t look like a flower but once I have put my outline it will.

Technology

Every week on Thursday’s some of the year 8’s and 7’s from class 1,2 and 4 go to technology at Tamaki College. The subjects at tech are Cooking, Graphics and hard material.

This term my technology activity is hard material. At hard materials we make really cool things over their like houses, diamonds, sun shines and all sorts of things.

Mr Grundy is the teacher of hard materials he is a really strict man sometimes. Miss Heka is a teacher of cooking she is a kind women but when something goes wrong he gets angry. Lucky last Mr Pineda he is the teacher of Graphics he is an awesome man who never gets angry.

What my favorite subject at tech is Cooking because we get to make delicious food. Also my other favorite thing is graphics because we can do lot’s of fun things with paper.

Athletics

Hook: Athletics is on today Nooo!

                                   Athletics

Paragraph 1: “Oh no as I said walking to school there is athletics today. When I got to school I saw all the athletics gear on the field. Children were jumping and playing with the gear.

Paragraph 2: As the bell rang to go to morning tea everyone got their bags so they could get change into their house colours. After everyone had played the second bell had rung to go class.

Paragraph 3:  Then we put all our things away and went down to the netball courts where we had to sit down and line in to our lines. It was getting really hot so I had a drink of water before we all do our activities.

Paragraph 4: Waiting and Waiting until we went to do our activities Miss V said” all the year 8’s and 7’s can go do their activities now. We hopped up and started to walk to our activities. First we went to Javelin with our Leaders. Mr Barks was the one who was doing Javelin for us.

Paragraph 5: He had to talk to us about safety rules and also instructions and then we started. When we people in front of us had a turn it looked really easy, but when it was my turn it was a little bit hard because I didn’t know how to hold it. So when we had another turn again I got used to it and I was really happy.

Paragraph 6: Then after we had tried all the other activities it we went to shotput and some other groups where just finishing their turns. Finally it was our turn I got ready to go up but I had to wait for long because people were a little scared to throw it.   

Paragraph 7: Later after all that we went to the courts so we could go class and get ready to go home. We all walked straightly in a line to the courts and sat down quietly. When everyone came and sat down Miss Va'afusuaga told us how amazing we were and told us that we are going to finish off some of our activities on monday Then we all finally went home.

Future Aspiration

                                          Future Aspiration

It was 8:34 in the morning when I heard that Visitors were coming over to our school so they could talk about their past and their future. I said to myself “ Oh this is going to be another Future Aspiration talk”. It is when special people come over and talk about themselves.

It seemed like everyone was really excited to see them come because there can be very funny people. So when the clock turned to 9:30 am we all packed up ready for them to come. My stomach was feeling funny because I was really happy and excited.

As I was looking at the door waiting for them to come in hmmmm” I wonder what they are going to look like?. Finally one minute later they came walking inside everyone started to clap and clap happily “Wow with excitement I said”.

Mr Burt said a Karakia for us to start the day. Next Mr Patterson introduced the visitors to us but first Mr Burt introduced his best friend Anthony he is one of our students Dad. Then  it was Mr Patterson’s turn to speak he had first introduced a man named Anthony but he is another man, he works at a place where kids have dreams and he helps them to make it come true.

After Anthony Mr Patterson introduced someone else it was a teenager her name was Amelia she is a fashion maker. Lucky last there was another teenager his name was Paula he is a man who goes around the world and talks about stop bullying people and helping other people to face their fears around their enemies.

When they had all talked about themselves we watched a little video where a boy was talking in front of lot’s of visitors. He was a samoan and he was actually good at talking in front of them. What he had said” is that this is what he was praying for but he was a funny boy.

Later the prefects gave each one of the visitors a present and said” On behalf of our school we would like to thank you for taking some of your time off and coming to talk to us and we all clapped happily.

Meeting Robyn Lamont

On Thursday 13 2014 all the year 8’s met Robyn Lamont. She is an artist that loves to draw pictures and add lot’s of other details that could make her painting look realistic.

When Robyn Lamont came into  the intermediate building everyone clapped with excitement and surprise.  All the year 8’s went into class 5 so we could learn more about her life.

Next we went to sit down and get ready to listen more about herself. We all greeted Robin again so she would feel more welcome into Pt England School.  So Robin Lamont told us a little more about herself.

After that Mr Barks gave us each a paper and pencil to draw with. Robyn Lamont showed us one of her famous pictures that she has drawed. It was so filled with bright colours and beautiful patterns.

Everyone followed her drawing steps so we could know how to draw her famous painting.  First we started with the easy bits and then drawed all the hard bits . Her drawing was really integrate to me because all the shapes that she drawed  came together like a realistic painting.

Then we started on our drawing Robyn came to check around to see if  we had done a good job drawing. Robyn went around and told people about their drawings there were really amazing drawings like Robin’s.

But we didn’t have that much time to draw other things. So we stopped and pasted all the pencil’s and papper’s into a pile. As we finished doing that we sat down quietly and then said “ Bye Robyn see you again on friday. We had finished our first lesson with her so we need 2 more lessons with her Yay!

My Tapa pattern

This is a Tapa pattern that I drew in my class for art. Everyone in my class room and Class 1 made one of these. We had to draw Samoan patterns on our brown paper bag.

A Tapa cloth comes from the Pacific and other countries like Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Malaysian Islands of Fiji.

On my bag I have drew a Samoan Fern, Superman logo, flower and another flower on the otherside. I choose these kinds of patterns because it has style and it mean a lot more to me.

All the designs that I have drawed each have meanings. The Fern (Manulua) means bringing two groups and families together. The flower (Taualuga) means a traditional samoan dance. The dance brings other different kinds of cultures together. This is another samoan flower it means that it represents the people that have past away from families. The superman design means representing special people who have saved other people or help them.

Steps:

Step 1: Get one piece of brown paper bag.

Step 2: Get crayons, pencil and ruler.

Step 3: Find a pattern or design to draw.

Step 4: Use your pencil and ruler to make a frame on the ends.

Step 5: Start drawing you're four patterns or one whole pattern.

Step 6: After drawing all your patterns get your crayons and colour every design or pattern any colour you want.

Step 7:  Then scrunch your paper up to make it look like a real Tapa cloth.

Step 8: Later get brown dye and dye over your drawing.