A day at Goatee Beach

As part of Multicultural Arts Week, Owls and Woodpeckers walked down to Goatee Beach to spend the day learning about Japanese Culture.

We chose to visit the beach because in our class novel, Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, we are reading about a boy called Michael who becomes shipwrecked on a small island and makes his home on the beach.

We tried our hand at a number of activities; from Japanese pebble painting and writing our names in Japanese, to creating natural art landscapes and writing Haikus (a type of poem) about Goatee Beach.

We had a fantastic day and are looking forward to learning much more about Japanese culture and art this week.