More Secret World Ideas

Racing Otari

Another group have started work on a race track, which will snake it's way along the fence and through the trees, with jumps , curves and loops. The students will plan the route of the track and look at some of New Zealand's native climbing plants and trees such as rata and supplejack to get idea for the track climbing through the trees.
They will also look at designing their own model cars and may set up a competition for the rest of the students to design and make their own cars.

Secret World

Mireen, Oscar and Aimee are working on Secret World, which is an idea to look at the world underground and behind doors, once you start researching this you come up with lots of examples used in literary, films myths and legends and that is not to mention the real world of underground flora and fauna.
They are testing out their research by developing a range of diorama ideas with the intention of turning these into real models to be embedded in to the retaining wall shown in the photo. This will need to be tested but we have some alternative plans if we cannot cut into the retaining wall.
When it is completed we hope to have a series of doors that the children can open to discover the Secret World underground.

Face Fence

Geordie and Izaak are working on an idea to develop a series of portraits to use on the fence, the portraits are superheroes, people from New Zealand, the local area and Maori myths and legends. The idea is for the students to be able to use the portraits like masks and have their pictures taken with the portrait of their choice. Izaak and Geordie will be working on who will go on the fence over the next few weeks.

Vertical Garden

Huia, Luna, Tania and Natasha are working on ideas for a vertical fence garden. They have been looking at various options for things to grow the plants in such as gutters, plastic bags and recycled milk cartons.
The plan is to test out the various options in the school's vegetable and plant growing area to see what works best.

Tim Knowles Wind Work

Tim uses wind in many creative and innovative ways in his work. More information about his work can be found at his website here.

More Wind - Charles Sowers

Charles Sowers