Senior and Middles News 15th June
By Robin Hartley | Posted: Saturday June 16, 2018
Winter has come! See what your children have been up to...
Dates to put into your diary:
- Life education visit- 13th to 22nd of June
- Year 6 Balmacewen (Full Steam Friday) 29th June
- Parent Teacher Meeting - 3rd and 4th July
- Kaikorai Valley College Year 6 visit for 2019 - 5th July
Articles Below
- KVC open day for year 6 students
- Life Education Trust visits our school
- Controlled Explosion in Playgroud
- Orokonui Ecosanctuary
Kaikorai Valley College Open Day Visit
If you are interested in your Year 6 child going KVC next year then we would highly recommend they attend this visiton the 5th of July. If they go they will be picked up from our school by KVC just before 12 and dropped back at around 2:30. If you want your child to attend please email me at [email protected] and I will put their name on the list.
Life Education Visit
The senior children have been visiting the Life Education Trust tailer. They are learning about their body systems and how they work and how to stay healthy. Please feel free to drop into the trailer and visit the coordinator if you have any questions. This is a great time to have some discussions about the human body and how to stay healthy.
Controlled Explosion in the Playground!
It was great to have Amadeo Enriquez Ballestero from the Otago Museum come and work the juniors and put on a science programme about the stars for our seniors too. During his break at lunch he also set off an explosion in the playground! This provided much excitement for the children watching. Please see the video below it goes off at about 4:50 minutes.
Orokonui Guests visit and Field Trip
As part of our inquiry into life systems and adaptations the following was organised:
The senior student had guests for the Orokonui Ecosanctuary visit us and teach us about tunnel web spiders and how they have adapted to the environment. They got to meet a large female called Greta. The students also set ink pads out around the school to see what small mammals we have running around our grounds.
On our visit to the sanctuary we walked around hearing about the forest, the birds and how a predator free space was created. The children even got to smell some native lemon leaves and some stinky leaves too. They even got to eat some spicy horopito leaves. The children learned about traps and tuatara, and they got to see kaka, takahe, tui and many bell birds. Some children found takahe feathers rarer than precious metals. The student got to feed a long finned eel and did some hands on learning by finding macroinvertebrates in a pond and classifying them to see how healthy the water is.
Please take the time to see pictures below.
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