Kites in Room 8

After our visit to the pools we settled down into a really fun, creative art task - "Stained Glass Kites".  Over the next two days we will be learning about why our school was designed in the shape of a kite.  Today we had to cut out the frames for our kites and begin to glue in our 'stained glass' (we used coloured tracing paper or cellophane).  The gluing is a really tricky process and we had to show resilience!  Tomorrow our plan is to laminate our kites and to add plaited wool tales.  We hope to have these up on display by the end of the week.  Please see below for a work in progress photo.    

Interesting information:  Manurewa is Māori for "drifting kite". The name refers to a kite flying competition where a kite line was severed and drifted away. The kite's owner was the chief Tamapahore who had a pā (fortified village) on Matuku-tururu(Wiri Mountain). The name Manurewa commemorates the incident by the name Te manu rewa o Tamapahor - The drifting kite of Tamapahore.

- Photo taken by Jacob