Tuesday 21st May

Kia Ora all

A copy of the week 3 newsletter can be viewed in the Notices and Newsletters page.

Yesterday at the Kauri team assembly the awesome MYA received the Room 5 RESPECT certificate. Mya has been an amazing role model for the "R" value of our CARE values. She respects other students right to learn, is kind and helpful and helps take care of our classroom resources. Ka pai, Mya.

Orana Park

Today we jumped in the bus and made our way to Orana Park as part of our science inquiry learning.

It was a bit wet and some of the animals decided to keep in their enclosures, but we were fortunate to get access to the giraffe enclosure to view, very up close for some, Harriot and two adult giraffe.

Apparently we were the first Zoo School group to get access to this area.

We learned many interesting facts about the birds, mammals, reptiles etc at Orana Park, and it was pleasing to see the depth of knowledge students already had. Each student had their notebook, with many doing drawings, some writing down questions, and many others jotting down facts and new vocabulary. We will use these tomorrow to review our visit.