Great Kereru Count 2016

We took part in the Learnz online conference which was about kereru conservation. We joined online video conferences and we used lots of the background pages they supplied to study kereru too.  We recorded each kereru we saw at school, travelling and around our homes and farms on the website.

Afterwards we completed a survey and surprisingly we won a package of sponsors products - books from Nelson Council Library and a pack from World Wildlife Fund.  We will definitely take part in this kereru count next year to see how the kereru are progressing in numbers throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Below - The boys are having a look through the books we got from one of the LEARNZ sponsors, Nelson Council Library.

Room 8 October 2016

THE GIANT

(A POBBLE 365 inspired mini narrative by George S)   

I was walking down a Wellington street when I saw a 70 metre high giant who was climbing out of the earth.

 

He had green hair and double decker sized feet.  His eyes lit up like fire.  

The giant flew into a rage seeing me walking down the street.  He ran clumsily after me, roaring loudly, so I jumped on my motorbike and charged off to get help.   

The giant charged around breaking fences and destroying buildings and cars. The army was called in and they tried to stop the rampaging giant but it didn't work because the giant smashed them up too.  

I returned from the army base and started to chase the monster man with a military ‘giant’ water gun, because I had read that the only way to kill an underground giant was to smother him with water.  I chased him for three kilometres until I finally hit him with a super powered blast of freezing water.  In front of my eyes, he crumbled down to the ground, leaving a pile of soggy ash with green around the edges.  

ELECTIVES 2016 ROUND-UP

We are so lucky to have such awesome whanau, friends of our school, grandparents, past pupils and teachers who have been so willing to share their skills, time and dedication in giving us such a great electives experience. 
A huge thank you to Mr Lewis for his great organisation, and to all the electives providers!
THANK YOU! 

Fun Electives Action

We have had two weeks of electives and they are going really well. We are so lucky to have such generous, talented parents and community members. Here are a few photos...

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE - ANIMAL BIOLOGY

On Friday 12 August, we had a special lesson involving the study and dissection of small animals, down in old room four. 
A huge thank you to Mr Marty Walshe, our local vet, who taught our year eight students a very interesting, fascinating session studying small mammal anatomy and physiology, using rabbits and lambs.  We learned how to dissect to learn about all the body systems, such as skeletal, looking at bones, muscles and tendons, circulatory, involving the heart and blood vessels, including veins, arteries and capillaries, and the digestive system, including the oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines. 
Wow, Mr Walshe is an awesome teacher, and we learned so much!  We want to thank him very much for the time, effort and care he put into our lesson.  Also, a big thank you to Mrs Taylor, who organises all our ag science lessons and field trips, and assisted Mr Walshe with this biology session.  
Here are some pix of the session, taken by Mr Lewis. 

WIZARD OF OZ PHOTOS

What an awesome show!  Congratulations to all the students, parents, grandparents and everyone who put in huge time and effort to make this production such a success!  Thanks and congratulations to Papanui Junction School for their scene and their excellent participation and effort!