Melville Intermediate - Bone Carving Process

Earlier this year, at the end of Term One, we received a very special present from overseas, from our friends at Vonslid School, in Denmark.  They sent us a package of shirts and information about their city, Kolding, and also about their national sport, Handball.  You can see the original post here.  In return we thought long and hard about what we could send them as a thank you in return and were thinking about something special from New Zealand that we could make.  We are very lucky to have Matua Peter in Room Five at times to assist our learning.  Matua Peter is an artist and carver.  He has been working with a group of Room Five students creating a set of bone carving gifts, which are a traditional Maori gift for Denmark, which we are finishing in class this week.  This slide show gives you a peek at the design process. Photography by Sam from Room Five on Friday 11th May 2012.

Bone Carving 2012 - slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Sativa's Explanation of Bone Carving

On Thursday afternoons we have Options at Melville Intermediate School (electives) during that time students have a wide range of activities that are available to them outside of the normal lessons. On Thursday 4th March, Kennedy from Room Eight went to Bone Carving and Sativa from Room Eight presented this video about what she was doing and toured the workshop.

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Melville Intermediate - Bone Carving Option

Students at Melville Intermediate School have the opportunity to have an election lesson every Thursday afternoon. There is a huge range of subjects available to the students at this time. One of the most popular Options at the moment is Bone Carving. These photographs were taken by Torrence from Room Two during Thursdays option.