Year 6 Legacy Art : UPDATE

Last year we started an ENVIRO INITIATIVE whereby the year 6 leavers create some artwork to be displayed at school as a special memory of their time at Howick Primary School. 

In 2024 the year 6 students decorated our water tank - turning it into a giant 'fish tank'! 

This year the students decorated part of the play area - the 'stumps'. 

The students were asked for their ideas how we could decorate them and they voted... 

                                         COUNTRIES & CULTURES was the winner! 

This fits perfectly with the enviroschools guiding principle  'RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY'.

Students researched and sketched up designs of things that were special to them as part of their culture. 

They then outlined and finally painted these onto the stumps. 

Before shot... (after we had sanded them down) 

The AFTER shot! Many, many hours of sanding, priming, designing & painting!

A huge THANK YOU to Zeena that supported the students with their designs and all of the painting for this project.  

Eye on Nature Enviro ART Competition

At the end of last term some of the enviro students entered an enviro art competition. 

They worked tirelessly for many lunchtimes with Zeena (Selena & Karolina's Mum) to create a masterpiece!  It was displayed at Auckland Botanical Garden during the school holidays. 

While it was on display, lots of visitors saw our art work and loved it! They voted for ours as their favourite!  

WE WON the PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD! 

We won a $150 voucher for The Warehouse towards art supplies for future projects.

Addilyn, Kimberley, Karolina, Annika, Zoey, Adwitiya, Hamreen,
Rianka, Leah, Selena, Jarvis, Piper, Ayla

 

Zeena also organised some trophies to celebrate the student's achievements.  These were handed out at assembly today. 

Year 5/ 6 'memorable' Enviro Art

 Our students have all designed and painted a rock as part of our art programme. This is a special 'waste free' keepsake for them.

In addition our year six students are creating a 'Legacy Art' project. 

This is a way to leave their 'mark' on the school in a creativity, environmentally friendly and peaceful way. 

The students all brainstormed potential themes. These included native NZ creatures, vegetables depicting garden to table foods and native trees. 

However, the winner was...  "OUR COUNTRIES AND CULTURES"

To start off with, we are preparing the area where we will paint. This includes sanding down the old, faded paintings and using a 'primer' base coat to help the paint stick on. 

Watch this space for updates of the countries & cultures that are significant to our students and the awesome designs they come up with! 

Pumpkin Carving!

This year we, again, grew some giant pumpkins. 

They were GINORMOUS and everyone was fascinated with them! 

After storing them in the enviro room for a while we decided now was the perfect time to carve them.

First Miss Long ran a competition - anyone interested in helping needed to draw a design and hand it in. 

Some students from year 3 / 4 and year 5 / 6 were chosen as winners and helped every lunch time last week to carve faces, patterns and shapes into the pumpkins. 

They were surprisingly easy to carve - we just used spoons! 

We displayed them outside the hall for assembly on Friday. 

We collected all the seeds from them so we can try and grow some more from seed - both at school and at home!  Time to get planting! 

We found a video HERE about how to grow them from seed.