Chorus Box Art

ST MARY’S SCHOOL

“Bee Positive”

These Chorus Boxes are located on Ararimu Road in Ramarama.

A small group of St Mary’s students had the opportunity to design a piece of art.  One is of a beautiful sunset and silhouette scene was designed by two girls.(year 6 and year 7). On the beach is a little blue penguin and a native pied shag.

The other is a reminder to be positive accentuated with honeycomb, a sunflower and lots of little bees. This was designed by a year 7 boy. Our designers recruited a few helpers from our art group and this made this a lot more fun and enjoyable.

CONIFER GROVE SCHOOL

“Sustaining the Environment”

This Chorus Box is located on Walter Strevens Drive in Conifer Grove.

At Conifer Grove School our concept learning focuses on sustainability.   We sustain the environment and it sustains us.  The beautification of our local community sustains the artists, residents and visitors.

These Chorus boxes remind us of the multiple ways connectivity sustains our daily living and learning.

CONIFER GROVE SCHOOL

“Tribute to the Turtle”

This Chorus Box is located on Keywella Drive in Conifer Grove.

Our Whanake students (Year 5&6) were looking at pollution in the ocean. This pollution has a deadly effect on our ocean wildlife. Thousands of marine animals are killed each year from ingesting or becoming entangled in plastic. The plastic accumulation in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. We discussed our reactions to this problem and the challenges that these animals face. We looked at the opportunities we as humans have in order to initiate change. This is what inspired us to do water paintings of our favourite ocean animal. The top favourite was the turtle. In this painting we added hibiscus flowers as a tribute to the turtles in the Pacific.

RAMARAMA SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on Waterview Road, off Porchester Rd, Papakura.

It was done by the Ramarama School Art Club and it’s called “Underwater”

The Art club chose this theme because of the road name given it is located on Waterview Road and the fact that Ramarama School has a mural around their pool that is an underwater theme as well.  They liked the idea of underwater as it connected the two together.

PAPAKURA INTERMEDIATE

IT TAKES A COMMUNITY

This Chorus Box is located on Hunua Road, Papakura.

At Papakura Intermediate we pride ourselves on our diversity and embrace all the cultures in our school and community.  The Box represents all the cultures we have at Papakura Intermediate in 2020.

REDHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on Dominion Road in Papakura, past Redcrest Crescent.

The Students from Red Hill School who have Pukekiwiriki as their maunga.  The work on the chorus box represents their local maunga and ngahere/forest which is Pukekiwiriki, the Moana is Manukau and our native birds like the Kereru and Tui occasionally occupy our trees for feeding.  Cultural patterns are used in our design and they based their design on the New Zealand Artist Reina Cottier for inspiration.

COMMUNITY KINDY PAPAKURA EAST

This Chorus Box is located on Clevedon Road, Papakura.

The Maori whakatauki/proverb alongside the bottom of the art translates to ‘Nurture the seed and it will grow’. Because we are an ECE centre we wanted to reflect our kaupapa inside the art work.

The back ground is a rainbow, which we thought represented children well, and we thought of as a nice gift to them. And the Japanese cherry blossom tree which represents the life force and how precious life is.

ROSEHILL SCHOOL, JAMES COOK SATELLITE CLASS

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Edinburgh and Jupiter Streets in Papakura.

Our students know that with hard work and a positive attitude, they can achieve anything! The students’ hands are stretching up towards the stars – their goals and dreams. The sides are our class motto “Dream, Believe, Achieve”.

COMMUNITY KINDY MARNE ROAD

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Opaheke Road and Liverpool Street, Papakura.

This picture is based on three dinosaurs out on an adventure exploring all around them. This was to portray that at Marne Road Kindy there are new adventures to be had every day.

COSGROVE SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located at 142 Clevedon Road in Papakura.

The students studied designs from different cultures as part of our Belonging study. They chose designs that were important or significant to their culture or to their family, e.g. the koru being a symbol for new life, the bird because it showed mariners where land was. The eagle and the multi-coloured tree are part of our school philosophy; the 6 colours of the leaves represent the 6 kinds we follow at the school and our students are encouraged to “fly like an eagle”. The students then drew and painted their designs the same size as the chorus box to get the ratios of the elements correct.

COMMUNITY KINDY VIEW ROAD

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Grove Road and Old Wairoa Road.

The children from Community Kindy wanted to paint an animal theme for their box after a recent trip to the Zoo.

OPAHEKE SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Tasman Drive and Opaheke Road.

This box was painted by Hawaiiki from Opaheke School who entered a Matariki Flag competition run in Papakura Town Centre, and then painted his design onto this Chorus Box.

SETTLEMENT ROAD KINDY

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Harper Street and Settlement Road.

The latest Chorus box to be painted in Papakura by Settlement Road Kindy on the corner of Settlement Road and Harper Street.

The design is 2 caterpillars, into two chrysalids and then into butterflies designed by the children of Settlement Road Kindy.

The translation means … give yourself time.

HINGAIA PENINSULA SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Pararekau Road and Anchorage Drive in Karaka.

The Year 7 students who did this box named it Sharing our Passion and the ideas for this box came from a lovely group of four girls.

All the girls loved Unicorns so this created the centrepiece for the design with fabulous bold colours.

HINGAIA PENINSULA SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on Anchorage Drive in Karaka.

TE KOHANGA REO O KIWITOA

This Chorus Box is located on Gallilee and Fairdale Street, Papakura.

‘Te Kaupapa o Te Kōhanga Reo’

The whole design is to let people know that Te Kōhanga Reo are here, that the kaupapa of Te Kōhanga Reo is a beautiful movement to be a part of and that we are here to help, share, support and ensure the taonga and knowledge that our Tīpuna have gifted to us will forever be alive. So why not start from Te Kōhanga Reo and teach our mokopuna/tamariki who are our rangatahi of today and the future in keeping our beautiful Reo Māori, tikanga me ãhuatanga Māori ALIVE for ALL generations to come.

PAPAKURA INTERMEDIATE

This Chorus Box is located on Settlement Road in Papakura.

Te Waha a Tama-nui-i-te-ra (The mouth of the Sun)

The sun rises every morning in the east but in winter the sun moves slowly to the north (of the eastern rise).

From a Maori world view the sun has moved to his winter home where he is welcomed by his wife; the winter maiden.

This is actually a star in the sky called Hinetakurua or also known as Sirius. So when the sun meets with Hine-takurua this is known as the winter solstice.

As we start to move into summer the sun rises in the east but starts to rise a bit more to the south everday until it has reached its summer solstice.

From a Maori world view the sun has moved to his summer home where he is welcomed by his summer wife; the summer maiden.

She is known as Hine Raumati. This walk that the sun does over the year is known in Maori as Te Waha a Tama-nui-i-te-ra.

The students art work shows the sun and from his mouth light shines. This is Te Waha a Tamanuitera. At one end is Hinetakurua and at the other end is Hineraumati (with their child Tane Rore). On one side is summer and on the other is winter. Each side of the chorus box will be represented by it’s seasonal theme. On one side the winter theme will contine and the other the summer theme continues. A dawn shall be represented on top where the two seasons meet.

ROSEHILL SCHOOL, JAMES COOK SATELLITE CLASS

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Argyle Avenue and Beach Road in Papakura.

Learning is taking us Places!

JC2 is a Rosehill School satellite class at James Cook High School.

The Students are passionate about learning and know that their education will take them somewhere in the future.

This design expresses their dreams for the future as well as our school motto on the side in English and Te Reo.

DRURY SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on the corner of Fitzgerald and Waihoehoe Road in Drury.

This box was painted by students from the School depicting the growth of the students through their journey at school.

ROSEHILL SATELLITE SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located in Longford Park, Takanini.

KIWIANA

Students from the Rosehill Satellite at James Cook High School wanted to create a kiwiana design as a warm welcome to the Longford Park area.

TE HIHI SCHOOL

This Chorus Box is located on Linwood Road, Karaka.

HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

The use of technology to create sustainable farming practices, Julia, Niamh, Maddy, Savanah and Gabby collaboratively planned and completed painting the Chorus box outside Te Hihi School. The global perspective of the rainforest theme communicates how we need to actively save rainforests around the world because our actions are contributing to global warming and the endangerment of plants and animals vital to create a natural balance to our ecosystem.