During the past few weeks in English, the year 8s have been hard at work brainstorming, creating and publishing their very own magazines! We were challenged with the task of creating a school magazine in groups. 

Miss Wackrow and Ms. Khalique started off by showing us some different types of magazines. We looked at Hunting and Fishing magazines, Women’s Weekly, New York Times and many more! After that, we got into our groups and found a cool and catchy title. Next, we decided the different roles each person would play. Like, the editor, who overlooks the project. Then we let teamwork make our dreams work! 

Our magazines varied in styles and topics. For example, some groups swayed towards an inspirational and soothing type of magazine, while others made a more comedic and relaxed, or conversational newspaper.

I really enjoyed this project and I think I learnt many valuable skills throughout these past few weeks. Such as, how to work well in groups and incorporate other people’s ideas and how to write a letter to an editor, if I ever wanted to complain about an important issue. My favourite part about this magazine project was being able to create the quiz because it was fun and I was able to put my own personal spin on it. Also, I loved creating  the feature article because I learnt a lot of new things about a topic that I am passionate about while writing it.

For me personally, being able to create and play around with many different skills in order to create this magazine was a real bonus. Magazines make talking, reading or writing about different issues easier. It is just so rewarding pouring your heart out into an extract. Whether you’re writing about something that happened recently or trying to inspire others to step out of their comfort zones and do something interesting! I really enjoyed being able to use digital platforms to create cool pages, incorporate art styles, jokes,  a fun comment or two and interesting information. Overall, this whole experience was one to remember!

Here are some extracts of our creations! Come to S3 and S4 to check them out in person.

Kapa Haka

On Wednesday 8 December, the Year 10 Art class went on a field trip to City Gallery Wellington to see the exhibition of Hilma af Klint.
In an era offering limited creative freedoms for women, af Klint, created an entirely new artistic language—possibly even abstraction itself—years before Vassily Kandinsky and other male abstraction artists.

Af Klint recognised that the world was not ready for her work and anticipated a future more open to its message. She left instructions that her work be kept secret until at least twenty years after her death. Over the last few years, af Klint has become one of the world’s most discussed artists.

There have been exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The students enjoyed looking at and drawing the paintings in the large open spaces, and had an educational session from one of the specialists at the gallery before entering the exhibition.

Year 7s & 9s left a little legacy for the future Year 7s & 9s

 

Year 7 Science – Planets & Egg Drop

Year 7 worked on the distances of the planets in our solar system. 1 Astronomical Unit is the distance between the Sun and the Earth. If 1 AU was 1 meter, then the first 4 rocky planets would be all bunched up and Neptune would be about 30 metres away from the Sun!

Check out these pictures from our recent ‘egg drop’ challenge.

Frozen Junior – Production

Chilton Saint James School will be performing Frozen Jr at the end of Term One 2022 in our fabulous School production.

Are you in Years 7-13 in 2022? Do you love singing, dancing, acting and performing? Do you want to build a Snowman? Put your name down now to join in the fun!

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Chilton Saint James Instrumental and Voice Programme 2022

Music and Speech and Drama  Registrations for 2022 now open

Music and Speech and Drama registrations are now open on Chilton Central. 

To register for one of our choirs, rock bands or orchestral ensembles please click here. 

Chilton Saint James School has an established Itinerant Music, Speech and Drama programme which offers tuition on an individual basis. An extensive range of instrumental tuition, singing tuition, music theory and speech and drama tuition is available to students from Years 2-13. We are proud of the outstanding calibre of our experienced tutors, many who are regarded as some of New Zealand’s top musicians in their respective fields. Tuition opportunities are available for all abilities, from beginner students through to students considering careers as professional musicians. 

To register for lessons in our instrumental and voice programme please click here. 

Music lessons are extremely popular at Chilton and places fill up quickly. If you would like your daughter to take lessons I would advise that you fill out an enrolment form soon so as not to miss out. Registrations will close on 1 February with all private instrumental and voice tuition beginning Term 1, week 2. 

Speech and  Drama lesson registrations are able to be made through the  instrumental and voice programme link or through Chilton Central.  

Seraphim Choral Audition – Thursday 16 December, 2.00 – 4.00pm

On Thursday 16 December from 2.00 – 4.00pm we will hold auditions for our Seraphim choir. This is an audition only choir and open to students from Years 9-13. We are very much looking forward to an exciting year of performances and continuing the Seraphim tradition of excellence at the Big Sing competition. To our potential new auditionees, we are looking forward to meeting you. All current Seraphim and I see Red students have been emailed information on how to book an audition time. If you are not already in one of these choirs we would love you to audition. 

Please email Ms. Malone,  smalone@chilton.school.nz to book your audition time. 

Seraphim Workshop – Saturday 29 January, 10.00am-12.00pm

Our first exciting vocal workshop of the year where we will work on vocal technique focusing on developing our Seraphim sound. Repertoire will focus around upcoming performances and initial preparation for the Big Sing competition. All members must attend.