A great tuning in experience.

On Tuesday 6th May 2008 at 9am the brilliance of Bob Bickerton could be heard at Pine Hill School. This was a whole school tuning in activity for our inquriy: Kaboom! Pop! Whistle! How do we make sense of sound.

To tune us in we had a performance by the talented Bob Bickerton. He brought along a variety of instruments and played each of them for the students. He also provided a great explanation of how each instrument created its sound. The students were exposed to a variety of musical instruments, some instruments they had seen before or knew of them, while others were very new to us.
Some of the instruments Bob Bickerton played was ...

A Kazoo, a guitar, a violin, irish bagpipes, a koauau, a harp, a flute, a tin whistle, a bottle, a pan pipe, a swany whistle, an accordion, a harp, a hand drum and we used our voices in song.

After the performance each class went back to their own rooms to reflect.

Our Latest Inquiry

This term we launched into our latest inquiry...

As part of this inquiry we are learning to be sound detectives and develop key understandings about the phenomena of sound and then explore this further through musical instruments. The key understandings we want the student to have by the end of this unit of work are...
Key Understanding 1: What is sound?
Key Understanding 2: How does the ear hear sound?
Key Understanding 3: Where does sound happen?
Key Understanding 4: How are different sounds made?
Key Understanding 5: What are the different instruments and the sounds they make?

Please come back and check out our blog entries as we undertake our latest whole school learning journey. You will find out what is happening in each class and what is happening as a school as our students develop these key understandings.

Our Magnificant Mosaic of OUR WORLD

This magnificent mosaic mural was created by children of Pine Hill School in Term 4, 2007. This artwork was created in response to a term inquiry into “How are we responsible for our planet?” During this inquiry children learnt about the environment of Antarctica, Penguins and Global Warming. This artwork is a response to this learning and a way of taking action to share our learning with our community.