Thursday, April 29, 2010

New School Website!

Have you checked out our new school website?? It is pretty awesome ... and has lots of cool things.  Go to www.plimmerton.school.nz  This is the front page:

Friday, April 23, 2010

School Song for Week 3 Assembly - Individuality

Here is a link to a movie of one of our school songs for the week 3 Whole School Assembly: Individuality. Watch it, practice it, sing it lots! The other school song is "The Irish Song" from Term 1.

An Octopus Steals My Video Camera!

Tom brought in for news a newspaper article about Victor Huang who went diving in Wellington and we watched the youtube movie of it. We thought it was pretty awesome - what a cheeky octopus! Here is the movie

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Our Personal Portraits in the style of Amedeo Modigliani

We drew pictures of ourselves.  They are based on the European artist Amedeo Modigliani, using pastel and dye.  Amedeo Modigliani was famous for his elongated and elegant portraits, painted in Paris back in the early 1900s. The heads and necks were long and narrow, giving his subjects a very graceful look.