Suter Art Gallery

The Suter Art Gallery

“Gilding The Lily” - Mike Ward Exhibition

On the 23rd of June, Nile Room went to the Suter Art Gallery’s interesting Mike Ward exhibition. There were four types of art there: graphical design, wearable art, sculptures and jewellery. Mike Ward is a politician and he designed our school logo. It has a few stick figures holding a sign which reads ‘Auckland Point School’. Mike Ward loves the environment and he tries hard to care for the Earth. He perseveres at everything that he is determined to do. The exhibition was interesting and fun. Mike Ward himself came to the exhibition when we were halfway through drawing ourselves holding signs. He seems friendly and we got a photo with him. A staff member of the Suter, Esther, told us about the exhibits and suggested some activities for us to do. We all drew a picture of ourselves holding a sign and we had to write down something that we think is special to Nelson. The exhibit was very interesting.

Mac’s Overseas Adventure.

I have just got home from a 5 week adventure. I went to Scotland for my aunty’s wedding. My Dad hadn’t been home to Scotland for 14 years. We went from Nelson to Auckland first. Auckland airport is really cool. We left Auckland and Hong Kong was our first stop. I didn’t like it that much. It had a funny smell and it was really hot. When you went outside, it was like walking into a heater. It was hard to breath. Then we went all the way to London. It was an 11 hour flight. I didn’t get any sleep on that flight. This is where we met up with Grandma and Granddad. I hadn’t seen them for 3 years. We drove to Scotland from London. It was torture having to sit in the car for 8 hours to get there. When we got to Scotland I slept for hours. Grandma and Grandpa’s house was a cottage and it had this gravel type stuff on the outside walls, that attracted heaps of snail! On the inside it was like a fancy New Zealand house.

In Scotland I met lots of Dad’s family friends. I also met 5 of my cousins. In Scotland we visited East Colder, Edinburgh, Stirling and Crimond. We got to see the Edinburgh dungeon. It was really scary. I tried Haggis and it was disgusting. When we left Scotland my Dad was really sad and he cried. It will probably be ages before he visits Scotland again.

The highlight of my trip was my aunty Pamela’s wedding. It was really fun and I ate a lot of cake!

I was really happy to get home. I missed the smell of Nelson. I also missed Mum, Bamma, Tim, Wallace and my class.

By Mac

Warriors Visit

Today we had Simon Mannering and Michael Luck from the Warriors come to school. They spoke to us about themselves, how they got into Rugby League and what they enjoy about it. At the end we had a quiz and people who answered correctly won a prize and had it signed by Michael and Simon. Trey even got his cast signed! It was neat to have some famous New Zealand sports stars at school.

Technology Project

We have made scale models of what we think our adventure playground should look like, when it’s had an upgrade. We spent a lot of time planning our designs so we would know exactly what materials we would need. We worked in groups or 3 or 4 to create our designs.

Here are some photos of a few of them.

Tree Planting

On Thursday 3 June, we went to the Tahuna back beach to plant trees. This is to help the beach from eroding. Steven from Nelmac showed us how to plant properly and we got into pairs and got started. Between Nile Room and St Vincent Room, we planted nearly 700 trees. It was really warm and sunny so it was good to get out of the classroom after all the wet weather we have had.