Primary Years
This is a story of cold weather, road patrollers braving the elements to keep us safe and the sponteous generosity of a member of our local community.
On Monday morning, having seen our dedicated road patrollers on early morning duty, Mr Bowers decided to return with a gift to make their job just a little easier - warm hats for the whole team!
Quotations from letters written by the delighted road patrol team members best sum up their reactions...
- Thank you for giving us those very warm beanies. They are very practical because they match the bright orange on the road patrollers jackets. Being warm is very important for us so that we can fight bacteria so that we do not become sick and miss out on attending school and our learning. This is a good example on how the community supports our school and our learning.
- It is good to have a warm fuzzy feeling when we are doing our job.
- Thank you for the hat. Now my head will be as warm as fresh toast from the toaster. I like the orange and black, as well as the logo too. All of my friends like them as well and our heads will no longer be cold and we won’t have goose bumped faces.
- Our ears could get hypothermia and then they would need to be chopped off! This would be bad because we wouldn’t be able to hear at school or at home.
Fire Wise is new Zealand's most poplular educational Fire Safety programme run by theNew Zealand Fire Service. The focus of the progamme is to teach young people about the dangers of fire and how they can keep themselves safe. Fire Wise is part of our primary curriculum and to back up the classroom learning, last week we all headed off to the new Whitianga Fire Station.
As part of a learning programme about Matariki, stars and constallations, on June 8 students in Y5/6 became real astronomers. The group headed off to the Stargazers rotating observatory in Kuaotunu to see first hand what these celestial bodies looked like viewed through a large research telescope. The observatory is owned and run by local astronomer, Alistair Brickell and he generously gave us his time and shared his expertise. The weather was on our side and we were able to see stars, the moon and planets not normally visible to the naked eye. It was a fantatstic opportunity for our students to add to their understanding of the night sky and make sense of what they can see.
On Friday 13 May 2011 a group of twelve students from the Year 4 – 6’s were invited to attend a talk by our local author Des Hunt at the Mercury Bay Library.
