Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Technicraft Goes Out & About!

Today's technicraft got our team out & about despite the dreadful weather!!

The Ukelele group went to Days Bay Playcentre and brightened up their day, while the cooking team were whipping up some yummy treats!















Monday, May 30, 2016

The Art Ambassadors have completed the house banners!

And just in time for Cross Country!!





Our new Charters House Captain

...may we announce....taking the on the newly vacant role of Charters Captain - Tom Griffiths!

Congratulations Tom!

Lindy joins us for some monitoring of vital signs!

Another wonderful expert from our community!

We were delighted to have Lindy visit last Friday and share her expertise from years as a registered nurse.








Mark & Lian come to talk aquatic animals and respiration!

Huge thanks to Mark & Lian who spent Friday morning a couple of weeks ago giving us the benefits of their amazing marine biology knowledge in the most informative and fascinating talk!





Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Working hard at Brain Sparks with Mrs Allen!


National Young Leaders Day

Yesterday 30 of our senior students visited Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua to attend the Wellington National Young Leaders Day event.

Our students were inspired by speakers such as Billy Graham, James Beck, Bylee Mills, Marina Alefosio (a spoken word poet).  These people shared stories of leadership from their own lives and we also enjoyed music from Avalanche City.

It was a great day!








Sunday, May 15, 2016

Work In Progress...

The art ambassadors are working on the house flags. This is what they look like so far...




Tuesday, May 10, 2016

More Techicraft Chefs!!



Our Inquiry Unit for Term 2 2016

EWWWW... Fish!!!

This term our inquiry has been focusing on breathing and how animals and humans breathe underwater and on land. 

Yesterday afternoon Room 23 and Room 24 used our new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) room to look at fish and how gills work to help them breathe under water. We had to slice the fishes belly and look at all the organs; liver and the heart... IT WAS REALLY BLOODY!!!

First... Tim went fishing!!







....But we took pity on the poor spotties and used fish from the fish shop instead!!