Welcome to Term 2!

We have been welcoming our new children at Yaldhurst Model School with our Mihi Whakatau. We also celebrated our HERO's and their awards.  Angel-Mey got her 100 award, Alex got her 40, Ruby got her 60, Devran got his 100 and Zara got her 40.  

Our HERO awards are for people who have lots of HERO cards. We get HERO cards for being a HERO (Healthy Individual, Enthusiastic Learners, Responsible Citizens & Open-Minded Explorers) in class and showing our HERO values. When you get to 100 HERO cards you get a badge which says YMS HERO 100! Angel-Mey and Devran have now got their badges and can wear them every day on their uniform.

What values does your school have?

Digital Art

For our digital art this week we have been doing animations. We've had to use CTRL+D to duplicate a slide, use Explore tool to add in backgrounds and characters and we've also practiced using the mousepad to drag and resize as well as some grouping to move our characters around.

We shared some of our animations on the TV and we were super impressed with Ema-Leigh's! She's worked so hard on this at school and at home! She has 609 slides!!!

Have a watch of her animation below and leave her a comment! What did you like the most?

Amazing Tapa Cloth Art

This term we have been working on making tapa cloth. Tapa cloths are when you have 6 symbols about things that you care about or you like. Lots of different countries use them, but mostly in the Pacific Islands like Fiji or Samoa. Tapa cloths have lots of unique designs to show different personalities from different cultures.

We picked 6 things that mean something to us and used chalk and oil pastels to create our designs. 

Some of us have finished them and they're ready to be dyed but some of us are still working hard on them.

Have a look at the pictures we found on google and compare them to our colourful versions. What is the same and what is different? Leave us a comment :)