Vision Quest

The Tiaki Taiao group is on a vision quest. We are collecting students' feelings, ideas and opinions on our school environment to help us to create a vision map for our school.

Last week: Words that describe areas in our school.

We put a map up in the library and asked students to add describing words to the map to show how they feel about areas in our school. They wrote their words on stickers and added them to the map. 

Today we analysed the results and planned our next step. We also finished making the badges we started earlier in the year. Thanks Whaea Lindsey for bring the badge maker in!

This week: Places in our school.

This week students will be asked to add a coloured sticker to the area in the school they think is most:

- Over-used, crowded, noisy

- Fun

- Quiet, peaceful, safe

- Disused, neglected

Recycled Art

The Tiaki Taiao leaders have been constructing sculptures from recycled materials. 

Our sculptures were part of an exhibition on the church steps on Friday.

Signs, maps and designs

Today the Envirogroup finished a sign for our library display, started a large map of the school also for our library display and worked on some ideas for a sculpture made from recycled materials.

Badges

Today we designed Enviro-leader badges. We also started on a sign for our display in the library.

Mapping Our School

Today Whaea Lindsey worked with the Envirogroup to make maps of our school. We included buildings, paths, play areas and plants.

We also began discussing some of the following questions:

Which areas are noisy, interesting, fearful, quiet, peaceful, relaxing, comfortable, fun...? 

What other qualities do you identify with certain areas? 

Which areas give you the most joy? 

Which areas seem to be well looked after? 

Which are disused or neglected? 

Are there any unsafe areas?