Visual Art Planning - AS91912

 The theme for our work on this standard is Taonga. I am going to be breaking this down into these sections

1. School Taonga
2. Personal Taonga
3. Maori Taonga

We have started on school taonga first as we are lucky to have a sculpture out the front of the school and a school marae. We started this standard bt drawing these first so I could get the students drawing straight away as they start level 1 Visual Art.

We sat outside, in the shade under the trees, drawing the main sculpture in front of the school.

As a class we have broken down what we see as a taonga. We spoke about what is at school and the students came up with the ideas on the diagram, We then spoke about what could be included in the personal list and thype of thing they could use. When they write this one up they have to bulk out the idea with how it applies to them.

We were then lucky to have a visit from Mrs Moore who is one of our deputy principals. One of the things that she is in charge of is the school archive. She came and spoke to us about all the things around the school that we treasure.

This presentation shows the notes that were made while Mrs Moore was talking and the images we looked at at the same time.

Pages that we have worked on so far are included here in this presentation. This standard is a research based standard but I want them to include some drawings too.

The first job was to present the diagrams in a clear way, with details of what they are thinking about for their personal taonga.

The students then had to cut out the photos and there drawings and arrange them into a double page spread in their A3 sketchbook. Then they had to decide which notes to use to annotate the images.

Here is the link to my Visual Art class site - this is DEFINITELY a work in progress as this is completely new this year.

I have been putting photographs of my sketchbook pages on this page so the students can have access to my examples all the time. I have been working on them at the same time as them so they can see the progress.

Our next steps are -

1. Visit to the Auckland Museum where we are getting a guided tour round the marae and then time to draw in the artefact exhibition.
2. Taking / finding pictures of personal taonga and doing some drawings from them
3. Printing patterns from our own cultures that can be used as page backgrounds.
4. Analysis of how these areas of research intersect to where we are personally.

These will all be translated into more pages in our A3 sketchbooks ready for the 8 pages we need for this assessment.