Term Two Concept: Creativity

Inquiry for Term 2

Our Inquiry for Term 2 is based around our Central Idea-

Creativity is the way in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values.

Our concept

This term the whole school concept is Creativity.  The key understanding that we would expect the students to gain is that, ‘Original ideas have value’.  We will be exploring this concept through music dance and drama with our context being “Forces that shape our earth”. This includes exploring plate tectonics and the creation of physical features in Aotearoa and the impact of recent earth movements in the South Island, in particular the 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura. We will be linking this to the humanitarian responses from different communities and the creative problem solving that took place during and after this disaster.

Science Experiment

The Year 6 team have been looking at forces that shape our Earth over the last few weeks. We have been learning about physical differences and impacts plate margins make. On Monday we experimented with Oreo cookies, yogurt and crackers to show the 3 different plate boundaries-

Divergent, convergent and transform. We had a lot of fun with this experiment and yes, we ate the Oreo at the end!

Dance Workshop

On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th May the Year 6 Team were lucky enough to have a dance instructor from the Royal New Zealand Ballet come and run 1.5 hour workshops with each class. Students were given the opportunity to experience moving their bodies creatively in ways they never imagined! With production in our sights these engaging workshops provided the classes with fantastic ideas to share and implement in the future.

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