Modigliani inspired self-portraits

Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter who lived in France in the early 1900s. He is perhaps best known for his portraits that had a surreal elongation of faces and necks. The oddly graceful and haunting paintings were not very well received in their day, but in time have actually become highly acclaimed (and valuable!) masterpieces.

The way we create these portraits means that the children create a VERY stretched-out look for themselves, which can be applied to their features as well.

We shared these two videos with the children to help explain the look and also tell the children a little about Amedeo.

We are so impressed with the children's artwork and they loved every moment of creating them! 

Scroll down to view our gallery.

T1's portraits:

T2's portraits:

Manaakitanga Awards

 Over the last two weeks, we have been exploring the school value of Manaakitanga.

The two children who received certificates for demonstrating this value were Ashley and Brooke!

The Counting Games

This week take a little peek at our counting games designed to enable the children to use their fingers to help them calculate and count 1:1.  You can also some of our displays on the wall, we miss seeing you in the studio!

Also take a look at our counting book based on the book Ten Little Black Dots

CLICK HERE TO SEE T1'S VERSION - WE LIKE IT EVEN BETTER!

  

Whanaungatanga Awards

Halswell School has developed a school-wide system to acknowledge students who are modelling our new values in the playground. Through the children's time at Halswell School (years 0 - 8), they will have the opportunity to earn five significant certificates, one for each value. When a child has gained all of these certificates they will receive a special award recognising this achievement. It may take several years for a child to gain all five certificates.

For the start of term one, the students have been learning about the value Whanaungatanga:

In Ahuriri, we have been discussing and writing about ways in which we can grow connections and relationships with each other. The children have some wonderful ideas about smiling and saying hello to new children,  including others in play, sitting next to people who are on their own. We have been demonstrating this and talking about examples of Whanaungatanga that we see the children modelling.

In our virtual Whole School Assembly today we awarded four value certificates for Whanaungatanga.

We do have Ahuriri Certificates that the children receive more regularly and that recognise special efforts in learning, behaviour, sport, and events such as starting school.

If you would like to find out more about the school's values please watch this video that was shared with the community in our first week of this year: