Tiles

All the tile designs have been handed in and below are images of all the design ideas plus some designs using images the art group have produced over the last year. With the art group I will work on the designs to work out how they can be used on the tiles, this will mean looking at combining, repeating and enhancing some of the original designs so they work well as a ceramic tile.

Update

The deadline for the tile designs is the last day of term and I will be looking forward to picking up all the designs and going through them with the art group to pick out the designs to be turned into the tiles.

I have got a whole lot of marbles for the run and hopefully we will have it up and running next term for all to use, I am just waiting to find a suitable storage box or bag for the marble run pieces.

Wellington City Council is developing a living walls/vertical gardens idea and I have been in contact with them to find out what will be going on and if we can get any support for the ideas that Huia, Luna and Natasha have come up with for a vertical garden to go on the fence.

Below are some more ideas we are working on and thinking about.

Marble Run Fence

Above is photo of the marble run fence panel showing the fantail design, on the left is the road side and on the right is the playground side. The cut out pieces of the fantail have magnets embedded in them and form the pieces of the marble run, you can see it in action in the short video below.

Marble Run Slow Motion

A short clip in slow motion showing the marble run.

Marble Run

First test of the marble run with the art group went well in the winter sunshine yesterday. We will now sort out how everybody else can get to have a go of the run, which will mean setting up a system for it to be used during play time. Also we have some ideas for using the metal panels by having some more magnetic pieces added and even to use them to make stop frame animation film, keep watching this space!

Marble Machine

The marble run pieces are finished and I hope to get them tested with the students this week, but for now here is a very big and noisy marble machine, would drive the teachers and neighbors mad if we had one of these.

Marble Run

The main parts of the marble run have been put up along the fence, much to the surprise of the students and parents who were wondering what was going on. How it all works will still be a bit of mystery until the marble run parts are finished and the Art Group test out the marble run to make sure it all works and how we mange its use by students and stop the staff spending all their time playing on it.
I am going to get the Art Group to think of some ideas for developing the marble run and we might think about having a marble run construction day later in the year, we will keep you posted on ideas they come up with.
So thanks to the Art Group both this years and last years students for all the ideas and Wellington Makerspace for the fabrication and installation of the marble run.