We got our Year 7 pupils back from AIS to complete our work today!

 We were lucky enough to get our last year's Year 6's who began this project last year... back to finish off what they started.

Mr Grey let Mrs Maw and Mrs Leverton come down and collect the girls and bring them back for a full day of Art on Friday. We so appreciate all their hard work.

Here are some images of them in action.

We asked them what they loved about Art TAG.

Emma

I loved painting the canvas and the dragon.

Researching the pictures to draw.

Sketching out picture ideas.

Communicating with others while doing work.

Literally just everything!

Celeste

Being able to work well with my friends and bonding with each other.

The experience itself. I loved painting and designing characters.

Painting to be published! We painted on huge canvases and they are going to be put up around the school.

Sketching. I loved how sometimes we would literally just draw.

Everything!

Chi

Working with others to make an art oience.

Getting to miss class.

Drawing.

Learning about new cultures.

Having a supportive group to work with.

Georgia 

Hanging out with Mrs Maw.

Learning with people who are as smart as me or smarter.

Doing out of normal curriculum things.

Using my brain in different ways.

Having fun.

Denise

Making art pieces and drawing.

Getting to choose what is on the canvas.

Hanging out with Mrs Maw and my friends.

Evah

Being there with friends.

Doing Art because I love it.

Learning about other countries.

Being creative with colours.

Having fun.

Coming to the end of all this work - images of our Senior TAG group.

This is our last TAG session .

Each person has listed what they enjoyed most about their experience in this particular TAG session.

Aaron

Doing the art.

Looking at the patterns I found.

Mrs Maw.

Improving my drawing skills.

The cool  huge canvases.

Hooper

It's more in my elelment.

The canvases.

Art itself.

Everything!

It was just so fun.

Haniteli

Getting to work with Mrs Maw.

Painting.

Drawing.

Mrs Maw sharing her art ideas/skills.

Laughing.

Elsa

Painting.

Drawing.

Being creative.

How fun it is - 100%

It was awesome.

Ariana

How I got to express my painting skills.

Meeting new people.

I loved drawing and painting.

I've improved so much over the past year.

I hope to be in any future Art TAGs and be happy.

Freya

Art TAG is fun.

I like Art and painting.

I love that we got to choose the patterns and pictures for the canvases.

The huge canvases were fantastic.

I like how it still continued on when I was a Senior.

I wish I could come back - I will miss you Mrs Maw.

Georgia

Art Tag is so much fun.

I love Art.

It is fun painting on the canvas.

Art is my favourite subject.

It won't be the same without Mrs Maw.

Thomas 

That we get to do Art every session.

That we get lots of space on the huge canvases to do amazing drawings.

It's so fun.

We get to do lots and lots of painting.

At the very start we got to show our own art by drawing our own art folders.

Jack

I liked the painting.

Mrs Maw was great.

I liked the drawing.

The canvases were great.

I liked all the games and books in TAG.

3 mystery people with no names on their form...

I have been enjoying Art since I was 3 years old and so loved this.

Meeting new people.

Learning about Art and painting.

Knowing what other people like about Art and what they do.

Knowing how far I have come from when I started.

I loved all the painting and drawing.

It was fun painting on the cavases.

I found it good practice for drawing big.

I just loved all the Art.

Painting.

Drawing.

Not doing Maths.

Being with friends I had made.

Letting my creative spirit fly free.

 

Junior/Middle TAG Feedback from our children

 

Nafsad

I liked getting to draw on panels.

I loved getting to paint and be really creative.

It was great getting to have 4 different panels from where you are from.

I liked getting to work with people from different classrooms.

Eliza

I like learning about other cultures.

It was great to have the opportunity to do what I love.

The free time was great too.

We did lots of painting, designing and drawing.

I got to see how creative I cam be.

Sita

I liked spending time on Art.

I enjoyed getting to learn more about countries and their contents.

I liked learning about cultures and traditional arts.

Leni

Art is my favourite thing.

I loved the all the drawing.

We had 4 big canvases.

We get to play challenging games.

I did so much painting.

Art TAG is really fun.

Annabel

I loved all the time we had and wish we had more hours.

I loved doing Art.

All the drawing we did.

Finding out all the things we need to know.

We did so much painting.

I got to meet so many people.

Things I can improve...

My painting.

Drawing eyes and ears.

Making colours.

Liana

I loved the Art especially drawing and painting.

It was great having 4 huge canvases.

Playing the games with people from other classes.

The finished Murals.

Lauren

I loved the Art.

I loved painting.

I liked working with others.

Mia 

I loved that it was 2 hours each week.

I enjoyed drawing and painting.

It was nice making new friends.

I got to draw new ideas.

We got to paint on a big canvas.

There was lots of teamwork.

Archie

I liked doing Art - planning, painting, drawing, designing.

We did so much searching on the internet.

Together we did packing up, helping the team.

Harper

It is great having TAG for 2 hours a time.

I loved meeting new people.

We did so much Art.

I loved the painting and drawing.

It was cool to get to do some of your own art too.

Things I can improve on ...

Making colours.

Drawing.

Getting ready quicker.

Hugo

I like drawing at TAG.

I like all the painting we did.

I like Mrs Maw teaching us.

I like having the huge canvas.

Charlotte

I loved the painting.

It was great having such a big canvas.

I loved all the drawing we did.

We learned lots of skills.

Justin

I liked doing Art.

I like to paint and draw.

I liked cleaning up.

Martin 

I Love Art TAG.

I like the drawing.

I like being here.

I like painting.

It is fun.

I love having TAG for 2 hours. 

Vavatau

I liked doing hours of Art.

I got to do my own art.

I liked all the painting.

We get to play hard games with new friends.

I enjoyed packing up.

Justin

I liked listening about cultures.

Drawing your culture.

Painting.

Doing so much Art.

When people got to do their own art.

How I learned about other cultures.

Fiona

I loved our Kiwiana, Māori, Pasifika and Other huge canvases.

I liked all the research we did at the start to find our what should be on each panel.

All the hours of planning, designing, sketching and painting we did together.

We did lots of playing with AI tools to generate content.

That we had three different groups that were collaborating on four different panels each week.

That we got our ideas from so many places - Library books, our school families and the internet.

Each session shows our progress towards our end goal!

 

Down time so we can all fit around our canvas - Challenging each other using the TAG Games or library area.

 

More work transferring our design to our canvas.

 

Images from 2025 - Sketching onto our canvas.

Before we started any Art we needed to find out what should be on our panels. We each sent out 3 or 4 sheets to ask families for their views and then read through them... sketched what they had asked for and began our designing.

We also tried using AI to help us with the designs.

After we had designed everything on paper we began to transfer it to our big canvases.