Collaborative Bubble Art

Ōtawhito students have been busy decorating colourful 'bubbles' to create some very effective collaborative artwork. They look so amazing!! Can you guess who the silhouettes belong to? They are all from our studio...

Welcome back and Window Art

It was fantastic to have all our Otawhito kids back at school for the past two weeks! We have loved hearing about all the children's experiences during the lockdown. As a studio, we produced our lockdown window art. We drew pictures to represent the different things that we did during lockdown such as baking, movies, youtube, walking with our families. We hope you enjoy them!

Art in Ōtāwhito

We have been very busy this week working on our self portraits. The Koreke students chose collage as their medium and Kowhai used pastels. Look at how effective our art looks!

Starfish Swimming

The Year 4's and 5's have really enjoyed their swimming sessions at Starfish during the last 2 weeks. The lessons have been loads of fun and we have learnt a lot!

Sports Coaching at Hillmorton High School

The Year 4 students have really enjoyed the Sports Coaching sessions at Hillmorton High School, each Tuesday for the last 3 weeks. Students are participating in netball, hockey, football and basketball coaching sessions, lead by senior PE students from Hillmorton High. We have been developing our ball skills and learning to work as a team with a variety of our peers. It is so much fun!

Tuhono Kapa Haka Festival

Last night, the Year 4-8 Kapa Haka team performed at the Tuhono Kapa Haka Festival. They competed against 5 other Christchurch schools in the Intermediate section. They did an amazing job of impressing the audience and judges with their waiata, action song and our school haka. Ka pai team, you should be very proud of your efforts!

Gymnastics with Jono

Every second Friday for the rest of the term, we will have Jono from Selwyn Sports coming in to teach our Otawhito kids gymnastics. Last Friday we worked on our balance and stability which is a key part of gymnastics. As a group we worked on our core muscles and how we engage these when we are doing different activities such as planks and balancing.