OUR GREAT, GRAND CATHEDRAL ASSEMBLY!

Yesterday we had an assembly to reveal our Great Grand Cathedral, we had Dean Peter Beck, Mr Craig Dixon from the Cathedral and Mayor Kelvin Coe with us to celebrate!
Here are some photos of our assembly

The Heart of the Matter - Reggio Discussion

Lochlan started the discussion by saying... "We shouldn't have a broken heart, cause it's a new cathedral."
The conversation continued...
Oscar: Hearts were broken because of the earthquake but now they are
not cause the cathedral is new. What if you missed the words?
Travis: the broken one will make people sad.
Laura: I think its fine, maybe we could change the words to we did fix
this.
Zane: I don’t know why we need a heart.
Alara: We would put something along the lines of kia kaha let’s build our new city together. I saw that in the
red zone.
Zane: What will we do then cause we have fixed the thing.
Laura: I don’t think its fair on Natasha. She spent ages on the broken heart.
Molly: We can keep the broken heart & have a picture of the old cathedral above it.
Josh: With the broken heart we are stuck in the past.
Molly: Don’t you want to remember though?
Josh: Yes cause its been there for years.
Travis & Conner: Its life move on...
Josh: we could have a full heart.
Oscar: maybe on one wall we could have one broken heart and the old cathedral but then on the other wall we
could have a full heart
Natasha: Put the whole one on the wall rather than painting another one.
Emily: You could have one half full and one half crushed.
Zane: you could put it around the rose window.
Oscar: that would look weird
Alara: Emily’s idea is good but you don’t want to forget the past.
Josh: But we are not talking about the earthquake it’s about the cathedral.
Oscar: We need to say kia kaha because we don’t know what we will go through in the future.
Zane: maybe we should start now!
Oscar: Maybe we should draw up idea’s on the board and put names under the idea’s we want and have a vote.
6 children go to the whiteboard and get started.

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Our grand museum trip!!!

It was the best day ever for a class trip to the Canterbury museum!It was the sunniest morning with no wind at all!It was perfect!

Our class, 8b7, drove to the museum with help from some of our parents and grandparents!In front of the museum there was some amazing photos of all around the world!There we had some morning tea!We also saw there was a window similar to the rose window on the front of the museum too!

Once we finished our morning tea, we silently crept into the museum and we were taught about photographers and how to take portrait pictures with our camera that they gave to us to borrow.We were taught by a lady who's nickname was 'Whea'.We took portraits of each other and she printed them out for us.She also talked to us about Brian Brake (photographer) and focusing with a camera and also the lighting. The reason for this was because we wanted to take good photos of our Cathedral building.

After the lesson was over, we had a walk through the Botanical gardens.We saw the peacock gardens and the beautiful flowers. Near by the playground we ate lunch.

Then we got a choice of staying and having the look around in the gardens or going and having a look around in the museum.My group and I chose to look around in the museum.We all had a go on the horse and the bike with the big front wheel!We had lots of fun, we even pretended to be a mummy!

At 1:30pm when we all finished looking around, Mrs Stewart called us in and we walked in groups up to the gates in front of the Cathedral.We couldnt see the Cathedral too well because of a red dome blocking it but i could see a huge hole in the Cathedral and it was very upsetting.We got a class photo and got back to school.It was a fun, wonderful and awesome class trip to the museum!

Mr Dixon

Mr Dixon came in to help us with our Reggio by giving us information about the old Cathedral, which we all found very exciting. He also gave us the plans for the new cardboard Cathedral and about where the new cardboard Cathedral will be. Mr Dixon knew all this because he works at the Cathedral as the marketing and development manager. He helped us make a wooden effect for the model of the new cathedral we are making by painting the cardboard a dark brown colour, waiting until it dries and then painting over in a lighter colour and while it is still wet get a pencil or the tip of a paintbrush and make little lines going over the place to make it look like good wood instead of just plain brown! Mr Dixon has been very helpful and we hope to talk to him again.
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Some Photos of Our Reggio Project - The New Cathedral (and also some of our Ring of Fire Project)

Top Deck Learners News

Dear Parents and Caregivers

As you may be aware the children in 8B7 are undertaking a project looking at rebuilding the Cathedral.
We are making our new Cathedral out of a number of materials including: cardboard, bottles, polystyrene and paper mache.  The children are currently looking for polystyrene for this project, as well as items to enhance our classroom environment such as plants, coloured glass, flowers, cushions, material and vases.  If you are able to provide any of these things the class would greatly appreciate it.  Also if you have skills in stained glass window making, mosaic making, paper mache, sculpture or if you are just keen to join us for a lesson we would love your help! We are having a lot of fun and any assistance would be of huge benefit to the children.

If you are able to help please fill in the slip below and send it along with your child.

Thank you

The Top Deck Learners and Aimee Stewart
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Yes I would love to help! Name:____________________________________________________.
I am available in the following ways_________________________________________________.
I am available at these times________________________________________________________.

Reggio Discussions, our work of art

We talked about what a work of art was and how we could turn our cathedral into a work of art

Question: What is a work of art? – the children wonder on this question

Alara:  It’s amazing

Rania: Made by hand

Josh: It’s really artistic

Travis: It’s fancy

Emily T: Something remembered forever

Josh: It is the use of different things, like materials

Zane: It means something, it has a reason for what it is

Natasha: something that has a lot of thought put into it.

Emily T: It is something people can be proud of.

Alex: It takes time to make.

Grace: Something that is shown around the world as a memory.

Emily T: It could be a treasure or something special.

Molly: You need to take the time to make it look real.

Alara: We would put some real things into our cathedral like clay.

Zane: We could make a bottle wall, they do that on grand designs

Alara: On grand designs they use polystyrene to make it strong.

Josh: We need to use the correct colours.

Emily T: We could have a picture of the old cathedral around the walls.

Natasha: We could use pirctures of the old cathedral on the stained glass windows. We could include parts of Christchurch in our design.

Reggio Discussions

We have been discussing a number of interesting ideas during our Reggio time!!
Mrs S has documented some of the things we have been saying, we are then going to highlight the bits of our conversations that are relevant to help us plan our next steps for our project. See the pages opposite to view some of the great conversations we have been having!!

Natural Disasters - Tornado Drinks, a real whiz

In 8B7 we have been learning about cyclones and earthquakes and the power that creates them, which led to tornadoes and other natural disasters . We have made some tornadoes in drink bottles. Look at these pictures we took ...