Matariki 2015

The Matariki evening was a great success. It was encouraging to see such a variety of activities happening all over the school. It seemed to truly reflect the spirit of Matariki - a celebration of the year past, learning new things and enjoying each others company.

Click on the links to listen and view two stories about Matariki.

The Matariki lanterns-always a source of celebration and excitement!

Lots of concentration required!

Nothing like a fire to keep you warm!

Leaving your own mark on Matariki stars

Thoughtful reflections...

Great full attention...

Theo read his remember when poem beautifully.

The National Aquarium of New Zealand visit!

We had a great time last Thursday. We were greeted by Carol Larsen and her team in the meeting room downstairs. She told us the expectations for the morning and how we would go off in our groups with Carly, Tara, Jake or herself.

The first thing we did was to observe the penguins being fed! it was cool to see one of them dive into the water and eat its food. It was sad to hear that the penguins had been badly damaged because of dogs, rubbish or people being careless...

We thought it was great because not only did we get to make fossils with Carly, find fossils in the rocks with Tara and listen to Jake about fossils in the dinosaur room - we got to have a tour of the aquarium with Carol! We enjoyed seeing the creatures that we studied last term at the rocky shore.

Take a look at our photos from the visit and enjoy the captions!

Wow! Look at those penguins!

I hope you've been brushing your teeth!

Look out behind you......

Fossils, fossils and more fossils!

It was great to have lots of parents there to help us.

You have to follow the instructions carefully

Monie likes the idea of being a Paleontologist.

Jake has so much knowledge about dinosaur fossils

Rosie and her sibling Grace with their mother Jade.

Sarn worked hard to make his fossilized shell

National Aquarium of New Zealand - Dinosaur exhibit

Inside the exhibit at the National Aquarium

We are looking forward to going to this exciting place!

This is where we are going!

Soon we are going to be visiting the National Aquarium of New Zealand. We are going to be visiting the dinosaur exhibit there. 




We will also be lucky enough to see the rest of the aquarium, including the feeding of the penguins. The children are all looking forward to this trip!

Rooms 6 and 8 are going on Thursday 11th June and rooms 7 and 10 are going on the 12th June. We will leave school at 9am on both days and return to school by 12pm. Let us know if you can help!

We get to see the penguins being fed!