Privileged Learners

This has been an amazing week of learning opportunities. This week have had visitors from the Far North District Council come and share with us about pest plants. We are learning to be experts about the plants in our environment that cause harm to our native bush. We got to see and feel some and we know how they can be spread.



Next we had a visit from David. David is an author and a journalist. He shared with us about some of the things he has done as a writer, some of the places his writing and taken him and the times when he has realised how much power words have to change the world around us. We have been doing lots of learning about persuasive writing and the writing process. Thanks David for sharing how this looks in the world.

The Whitebait Connection - Wairoa Stream Trip

We have had so much fun learning about the importance of whitebait in helping us to evaluate the health of our waterways. Do you know what five species of whitebait are?

Isabel, Whitebait Connection, has been sharing with us the instruments, tools and processes involved in testing the health of our local stream. 

Our trip to the stream was great. We had a little precipitation but we were prepared to be a little wet so that was all good.

The Intrepid Olwyn Returns

Olwyn has returned from Waipukurau School with a wonderful book detailing her adventures. Her arrival at school was just in time for some reading mileage with Maree. Here she is sharing her adventures. Thanks 7W, Waipukurau School for looking after her so well. We are loving reading about her adventures!

How the slime dripped through by Georgia

Far away where no one would go, something in a down hearted town was ready to petrify people. I was coming home when I felt something on my arm it was wet, clumpy and shiney. I didn’t know what it was. I could feel it spreading across my arm. I could see that it was a green, soggy slime. I felt petrified. It slid from my arm to the ground and fled to the drain. It dripped through the cracks down to the sea and carried on. It dripped in a dolphin’s blow hole and stayed there forever.

Cyber Safety with Hector's World

Hector's World

In ZONE 31 we are learning to be Cyber Safe. Today we learned about the importance of not sharing personal details on line.  We watched Hector and his friends.  

Nga Tupuranga Duathlon/Triathlon

Easter Egg Hunt with QR Codes

Working collaboratively to solve Mathematical Word Problems.