Final stages on our carving.

Yesterday was our last day with Mr Briggs.
We gave our carving a final sand down and then sprayed it with silicon to make it water-proof so that the rain will dribble off it , not soak in to it. Miss France got to put the paua shell in place. Then we carefully put it into the hole we dug.

We are going to make a garden around it.

Tewhia said it is amazing how we turned the big block of stone in to something so beautiful.

You should see it- it looks AMAZING!!!!   Thank you Mr Briggs- it was a great team effort.

Sailing

I am so proud because i learnt  how to sail  in   the yacht  and how to kneel in it. 

In sailing I was proud that I overcame my fears and capsized [on purpose]. I was really scared when the sail went over my head. My favourite bit was the swimming at the end. I learnt how to use a sailing boat. I enjoyed everything. Ben

When we went sailing I was really nervous because I had never been sailing.When I had my first go at sailing it was so horrific I couldn't do anything apart from just sitting there nearly going to fall of, but then I got use to it and was really good it was so fun!!! My favourite part of the day was swimming ! I never knew that the lake was so deep!!Bonnie

At sailing I learnt how to capsize.Ben

My big challenge at sailing was I learnt how to sail and how to turn and then  capsize.Ethan

sailing

This morning at 9:30 rm7 and rm9 did sailing practice for next week
we learnt how to put the yacht together and the parts of the yacht for example
the tiller and the boom and of course the sail and we did some practices with two other buddies it was a lot of fun and at the end we learnt how to put the boat back together again it was double fun this finished at morning tea Chloe!

This is Maxim David and Isaiah trying it out!!Chloe

          

This morning Rm 7 and 9 went to practise  sailing for Monday when we go to the lake.  We learnt about the different parts of the boat. We put it all together and we all had a turn  sailing in the boat it was a lot of fun. After we all had a turn sailing we learnt how to take it apart.I cant wait till Monday  to go sailing in the water. I hope it will be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grace

Today we did sailing at school it was really really fun I enjoyed it a lot -we learnt all the different parts and how it works.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Zoe


wow!What a good morning learning about sailing!

Andrew Ellis and the World Cup

Today Andrew Ellis came to Harewood with the Rugby World Cup and showed it to us but he said that we were not allowed to touch it .He also came with his test shirt.
Andy handed the shirt over to Harewood and the teachers got a picture plus every class got a picture too.

Pen Pals from England!

We have just finished writing letters to our Pen Pals at Great Easton School in
England. We told them about ourselves and our hobbies.We got some emails from them.There are so many things the same at Great Easton School- their uniform is the same colour as ours and we are both reading Lemony Snicket books.

Our Oamaru stone sculpture

We are so excited about working with our resident artist Mr Briggs. Yesterday we talked about the different designs we could do and decided that we could already rule out some of our own designs because they wouldn't work in stone.

Our stone carving needs to represent our school for our 150th Jubilee.We want it to show that we are a country school in the city with this marvellous KORU piece of art.

We wanted to represent  our values and we wanted to represent Harewood pupils.
Our carving is going to show the teacher(big koru)the parent(middle sized koru)and the children(small koru).It will also show that we care for each other.
 We gave Mr Briggs our designs and then he took them home to work on our final design.Zoe

Today - Wednesday we saw the final design idea and sketched it on the big stone block.It looks amazing.Mr Briggs managed to include all our ideas.

 We had to wear safety goggles when we were sawing the stone.

Today- Tuesday 15 November 

Today Mr Briggs came to help us with our stone carving today we had to chisel away at the corners with the rasp.Sven

Wednesday 16 November

Our Oamaru stonre carving is taking shape.It's messy, dusty,challenging, fun work and time just flies by.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

HEARTS FOR HAREWOOD 2O11

We shared our finished product at our assembly on the 4th of November it was a very special moment for us. We were very proud of the work we had done.