This week, we have learnt about the Gateway of Hamilton East School. Many children are very familiar with the gateway and know where this is located. In order for us to develop the understanding about the gateway, we first went to see this awesome gateway!
The children felt the carving with their hands, some of them even put their cheeks onto the carving. They talked about what they could see... the lizard, the fantail, the big faces...
The next day, the children drew the pictures of the gateway from memory. I could see that they were helping to do this together.
In the class, we talked about what each symbol represented. There are Hotumane and Mahehe. Hotumane is watching the people go through the gate. There are carving that represented boy students and girl students as well as the teachers. It also had Waikato River and Tāniwha which we were very familiar about as we went on a boat trip and learnt about tāniwha recently.
We went to do some sketching at the gateway. We also did some art creating our own gateway which will be coming soon!
Nice work, your paintings and drawings are beautiful. I was wondering what you where using to draw on the big paper.
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