Mural Project: Part 1

During this stage we started painting the outlines with black paint. We used Resene house paint for this task. We got told to start in the middle so we wouldn't get paint on ourselves and work out to the side. We had to use a thin brush and carefully go over the pencil lines before we could paint in between with colours. The black outlining was a detailed task and took us 1 to 2 days just to complete.




by Dee and Rebecca

Mural Project: Introduction

We have recently started creating a mural for our school grounds. We have done this with the help of Mr. Ray Stoddart who is an artist and ex-art adviser. Our mural is being designed by students and will depict the things that we see as important to us in and around our school. It will consist of 3 large panels and 5 smaller panels. Four of the smaller panels will show the native trees that represent our school houses which are; Koromiko, Puriri, Rata and Totora. The 3 larger panels will show various other aspects of school life.
A strip of Kowhaiwhai (a maori pattern) will run through the bottom of each panel linking them together.
This first stage involved a lot of planning, discussion and decision making about design and content. We took photos of various points of interest around the school to assist us. Once we were happy we then divided our boards up into grids and proceeded to draw our designs in pencil onto them. This was intensive and painstaking work and took about 3 days.

Once the mural is finished it will be mounted in the school grounds for everyone to enjoy.

Rugby World Cup Champions 2011

Yes! The New Zealand All Blacks have succeeded in winning the 2011 Rugby World Cup for the second time in 24 years. After a nail-biting final vs France at Eden Park in Auckland in front of over 60,000 fans captain Ritchie McCaw led his gallant squad to victory and became the second New Zealand All Black captain to hold the Webb Ellis trophy aloft. France were at their best and almost caused heartbreak for the entire country but could not break the ABs dogged defense and conceded a vital penalty on full-time to allow an All Black victory by a mere 1 point! All Blacks 8 - France 7.

Mr. P (very happy)

School Cross Country

On Friday the 1st September, Fitzroy school held a cross country at Peringa Park and on a paddock through the trees. In the paddock there was lots of cow poo and thorns. We walked from school to Peringa Park at 10:30am and finished at 2:10pm that was 3 hours and 40 minutes, wow that’s long.
The 5 year olds had to run 2 laps of the soccer fields, 6 year olds had to run one lap of all of Peringa Park, 7 years had to run 2 laps of Peringa Park, 8 years had to run once around Peringa Park then a lap of the paddock, 9 years ran 1 lap of Peringa Park then 1 lap of the paddock then another lap of the Peringa Park, 10 year old boys and 11 years did 1 lap of Peringa Park 2, laps of the paddock then another lap of Peringa Park.
On the day some Taranaki rugby team players came with the Ranfurly Shield to show us. We’re lucky.
By Chad

Fancy Dress Ball 2011

We had a great time at our recent fancy dress ball held at the New Plymouth YMCA. Everyone got into the swing of things and dressed up in some fabulous costumes. Even the teachers dressed up too. Lots of parents came along to watch us dance and we hope they enjoyed themselves as much as we did.