Up and Coming Scientists

Room 5 are becoming very smart with their science. Our wonderful student teacher Mrs Burbidge is helping us with this special project. At the moment we are making things such as: butter,ice-cream with more interesting things to come. Did I mention that we have been experimenting with food colouring, milk and dish washing liquid. When you put the food colouring in the milk and then the dish washing liquid the food colouring will expand and all the colours will combine making a rainbow. I'm Blossom and I'll send more information to to keep you up to date.

Room Fives Class Made PE Games

The first thing we did was to get out our topic books and figure out a game to make up. Well, we taught it to the children from Room two and three. My game was called Rarsket Ball. It is a combination of rugby and basket ball. All you need is: CHALK and TAGS to go around your body. Then you need a team with four players. Now with the chalk you need to draw a circle or a goalpost. There are only five touches and then it's hand over so you have to use your team very well.

By Tyler M

Taki Rua

Guess what happened on Friday the 15th of July? Room 4 and Room 5 went for a short drive on the bus to see the Taki Rua show in Te hana at the new marae. A lady came out and called us all in so we sat down and waited. After all of the talking it was morning tea. Then the show started. There were three people performing and it went on for about an hour. They acted out thier ideas about leadership. Then it was time to go home. As we left the performers gave us their poster. Off we went.

By Portia

The School Possum

Cross Country

We had an awesome Cross Country with a lot of students making it into the Bream Bay Inter school Cross Country. The students are now training hard for this race which is being held at One Tree Point School on Thursday.

D.O.C. Visit

On Friday we had a visit from D.O.C. Mr Blissett came to talk to the students and gather their wonderful ideas for the 'Kauri National Park Proposal'. I was amazed at the different and interesting ideas the students came up with.

Electricity Facts

Electricity is dangerous. Do not fly kites up by the power lines because if you touch the kite and the kite touches the power line you could get electrocuted. If you dig and you see an orange cap do not dig any more. Do not put a cord on spilt water because if the power is on and you touch it you will get fried like an egg.

Once there were three boys trading cards on top of a transformer. One of the cards slipped out of the boys hand and fell into the transformer. Well, these boys kicked the padlock open and reached inside. Electricity runs through these transformers so when the boy reached in the electricity was mad and it sprung through his body. He got flung onto the ground. Luckily he did not die.

Another interesting fact about electricity is that if there is a dead possum on the power line you need to call North Power to get it down because it damages the power lines insulation. If there is a possum guard it will be fine.

By Mathias