NZ descrimination

 This week we have looked at Jacinda Adern apologising for the Dawn Raids, A girl named Zeinab and her story, and finally Simu Liu's post about Asian hate. I have learnt a lot about racism and discrimination and learnt that there's so much more out there than I had thought. Before this week I had never even heard of the dawn raids. So im glad that I know and understand more about rasicm.

Reduction Prints

 In art this term we have been looking at block printing and reduction prints, first we started off by drawing images inspired by Sonia Terk Delaunay, then we created our very own image. 

Method:

• Draw on a piece of lino the image/pattern you want
• Use lino cutting tools to carve in your design.
• Cover the lino in ink starting with a light shade.
• Press the lino onto a clear piece of paper, turn it over then rub a spoon over the paper to press the ink down.
• Then cut off whatever shapes/pieces you want to that first colour of ink.
• Cover the lino in a darker shade of ink and repeat this until you have 3 layers/colours of ink on your paper. 

Camp

 Yr 10 Camp Blog

Greetings,

Last week (22-25 June) Yr 10s trekked off on an Outdoor Ed. trip to Boyle River.

As soon as we arrived, we had a conversation about safety and expectations, then we went into our camp groups and played some ‘get to know you’ activities.

For breakfast we had toast.

Dinner consisted of Macaroni and cheese, nachos/chilli and chicken fried rice.

We slept in bunk rooms, I shared a room with Mya, Paige, Chloe, Daisy and some of the year 13 leaders.

We had a range of indoor and outdoor activities which included going on a walk in nature, shelter building, swamp crossing, fire starting, the amazing race, flying kiwi, orientering, night line and solo.

The best experience I had on camp was going on a walk in nature because that reminded me of Project K, I also enjoyed the night line and solo although they got boring in the end because it lasted too long.

I was most challenged by the long get to know you activities, there were too many and they became unnecessary.

Staff involved on camp carried out a range of duties which included keeping us in line and safe, setting up activities, running the whole camp ect.

Overall camp wasn’t as bad as I expected but it was still not great as it was cold, loud and too crowded, I did however like the night times and when we got to go on walks.

Litter Clean Up

 Litter Clean Up

Today in social studies we picked up rubbish from all over the school to help the eco-warriors, I was surprised to see how much rubbish was everywhere and the range of rubbish that was there from plastic to socks!  I hope that people will get better and discarding their rubbish in the future. 

Screen printing-Textiles

 In textiles we were doing screen printing, we drew a design on paper, I chose the Nirvana logo, then we cut it out using a craft knife. Once that was done we used a screen, textiles paint, and a squeegee, then pulled the paint on the screen using the squeegee to create our design. 

Live Aid

Live Aid 

In the 1970s Bob Geldolf was the lead singer of the Boomtown rats.  He became famous for their song ' I don't like Mondays, which was a song about a school shooting. Bob Geldolf was involved in promoting charitable events for the developing world and more specifically Africa.   

Midge Ure was a Scottish singer involved in multiple bands.  He was famous for being the frontman for Ultravox and the song he and Bob Geldolf co-wrote the song called ' Do they know its Christmas' Midge Ure was involved in organizing and forming the benefit concert, Live Aid 1985.

Do They Know It's Christmas

Bob Geldolf wrote the song ' do they know it's Christmas' because the kids in Ethiopia didn't get to experience Christmas, so they wrote about how they don't know what/how people in other environments experience Christmas. 

Micheal Mew

 

In art we have been looking at an artist called Micheal Mew, he does work with lots of different images combined to make leading lines and to have a focal point. Leading lines are exactly that, the lines that lead you to the main image, and the focal point is the main image. This is an example of his work. 

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For our own work, we had to take magazine images and combine them then add some drawings and paint over them, I have added my thumbnail sketches and my final product. 

Before paint

                                                          My final image.