Art Gallery, Museum and Queens Park

Wow!  What a busy day we have had.

We enjoyed spending our first rotation with Koreena in the classroom at the museum / art gallery.  We spent time in the Māori Gallery first looking at the detail of the exhibition and thinking about the materials they used.  Then we learnt a little about Tapa Cloths in the classroom.  Finally, we made our own Tapa Cloths!  They look AWESOME!!!  Can't wait to see them on display in the classroom.  We were thinking a lot about cultural identity.

Our second rotation was in the museum.  We were able to find 3 different exhibitions that interested us and we had 4 questions to consider:

• What was in the exhibition?
• What did we learn about Southlanders from the exhibition?
• Why would Southlanders be interested in the exhibit?
• If I were in charge of promoting this exhibit what would I do?

We finished off by presenting back to the class on our findings.  The presentations were very impressive and a lot of time, effort and thinking had taken place.  Well done to:

• 1st:  Imogen and Stevie (Times of our Lives exhibit)
• 2nd:  Maegen and Simone (Burt Munro)
• 3rd:  Hannah and Molly (iSite area)

These three presentations were of a very high standard and had particularly excellent ideas for promoting the area.  Imogen and Stevie, you need to see Miss Pickering in the morning for your prize.

After a picnic lunch we spent our afternoon 'orienteering' in Queens Park.  Thankfully the weather was much better by then!!!