ART ATTACK

We have been learning and practising new painting skills in our recent Art Attack.
The theme was Kiwiana - Uniquely Kiwi.
Our learning intentions were:
• WALT use paint to create an art piece that represents and reflects New Zealand
culture/lifestyle
• WALT apply and use at least two elements of colour, tone or pattern
• WALT to mix colours using the primary colours and white
• WALT to use brushes in different ways to create different textures.

We practised mixing colours using the primary colours and then using opposite colours on the colour wheel.
We also practised different brush techniques using the brush (both ends) in different ways.
Check out our results in the following photo show.
Kiwiana Art on PhotoPeach

Run, Bike Run Update

It is sad to hear that the Oaklands School Run, Bike Run has been cancelled due to wet grounds. It is also supposed to be raining tomorrow.
With the event being cancelled that means that it will not be held again this year.
We are all disappointed that it has been cancelled. Some of us are even devastated because it has been cancelled.
We have all been training hard for it but that training wont go to waste because we have our School Cross Country in May.

Reporters: Room 4 students

Run, Bike, Run

We are hoping to hold the Run, Bike, Run competition for Yr 5-8 studnets on Thursday 7 April at Halswell Domain. We have been training hard by running several laps of our school field each day.
Some of us are racing as individuals, there is one 2 man team and the rest of us are running in teams of three.
We just hope the weather will be on our side as we don't want to miss out on this event.
Keep watching for updates and results.

Ipod touches

This year the Supernovas(yr7/8) get to use ipod touches in their learning! Each of the three classes gets 3 ipod touches each. This year we will not have "normal" book porfolios, but we will have e-porfolios! We will each have a blog which we can upload photos to. We can take photos with the ipod touches and within ten seconds upload it to our blog! We have this resource to show our learning! Paris from rm 3 has been using them to learn her times tables! We may even be able to use them for games as a reward!

29 miners.

As you would know this is the West Coast's darkest hour. 29 families are suffering from the death of their beloved ones that were stuck down in the Pike River Mine. Unfortunately as a result of the second explosion everybody lost hope in the miners still being alive and all of the families and friends once they found out crashed out and were torn apart. To help these families, Oaklands School is holding a mufti day on Friday 3rd December, then we are kindly going to send the money that we funraised to the families.

By Timiny.

What house colour does this teacher represent?

30 What house colour does this teacher represent?


Reporter: Sarah

Shot Put Videos

In Room 4 we have been doing our shot put videos to show our technique. When you set up the ball it has to be under your jaw bone then you push as hard as you can and then release.
We are uploading them onto our Ultranet page.
We had to write a title and write a description about what we are doing well and we had to write our next step.
They are looking very cool.

Reporter: Liam