Our Place, Our Stories!

In the junior classes we have been learning about the Paparore School pou. 

Below is a photo of our school pou. The pou are wooden carvings that tell us the important stories of the school’s history and the history of the area. Paparore school has been located in three different places. The two early locations were on the east coast. Today our school is located near the west coast.

The Western pou has stories about the west coast.

The Eastern pou has stories about the east coast.

One day we all got to create some different parts of the pou using art and craft materials, play dough, sand, shells and construction materials like blocks, lego and magnetic shapes. Some of us took photos of our creations and made an audio recording telling the story of who or what we had made.

Mila is showing you her crayon rubbing mask of chief Tohe.
Brax created chief Tuwhakatere from Duplo bricks and Ahinui 
built a fabulous wheke [octopus].

Puwheke te maunga, Tuwhakatere and Ra the sun!

Busy creating!

Can you see what these students are creating?
What materials are they using to make their creations?