Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow 2014

On Friday the 27th of June year five and six got to go to the science road show at Royal Oak Intermediate. When we got there we watched a show called “Are we living?” We really enjoyed the show. After the show we could walk around and look at the different science experiments on display. At some of the displays, if you understood how it worked you could get a little card and go up to one of the teachers and explain how it worked to them and if they thought you understood they would clip your card and you could enter the draw.  Looking at the displays was really fun and most people liked the display where you chucked a little ping pong ball into a large funnel and then you pushed a huge lever down and the force [the air] pushed the ball out of the funnel.  After looking around we watched another show about our body.  We had a lot of fun.

Gymsports Competition

Gymnastics

Ten children, Talia J, Hugo M, Jessica Mc, Ella L, Amie H, Leilani F, Alice B, Luca L P, Natalie S and Josie G went to Tristar gymnasium to compete on three apparatus; vault , beam and floor. Hugo did two floors, since he is a boy he does not do beam.  We all had to compete against many schools and try to earn ribbons. Gold is the best you can get and is excellent, red is the second best and is very good, blue is good and green is merit. Amie and Ella also competed in trampolining and both got gold’s. Everybody had great fun just being there and we would like to thank all the parents that helped. We could not have done it without you. We would also like to thanks Mrs Stennard for organising it and Tristar for doing it.

MOTAT Trip

MOTAT Trip

On Thursday 19^th of June 2014 room 9, 8, 7 and 6 went to MOTAT for topic. We all saw so many great things to do with the past and the present. We also learnt about how things worked. We went because in topic we are learning about how things function. We also went there to learn how things have changed over time.

Medina Ihaia

Matariki

Matariki 2014

To celebrate Matariki room 7 had a fun.  We began with a round robin tournament playing Tapuwae,
this was followed by a shared lunch with room 6. 

Congratulations to Fergus, Hugo, Evie, Talia, Belle and Jeremiah who won the Tapuwae finals - can the repeat their amazing performance next term?

The round robin tournament playing ki O rahi was postponed until the beginning of next term due to bad weather.  Stay tuned to find out the winning team.

Big Foot Cycling

Bigfoot Cycling

By Amelia Kelly

On the 12^th and 13^th of June, we were really lucky to have Bigfoot Adventures come to our school and do a cycling program with us. It was a really good opportunity for people to refresh their skills, and even learn from scratch. It was really fun, and taught us all some really important skills that we didn’t know. We were taught how dangerous it can be why’ll you’re riding on the road, how fragile your brain is and how important it is to always wear a helmet properly. Everyone learnt something new, and was left smiling.  

The 3D Printer Comes To Room7

3D PRINTER

Dear Mrs Hahn

 

Room 7 should get a 3d printer. The reason why is so we can make toys for the fair, one of the pumps feet is missing then we can make one the perfect size we can also make different tools or even nuts and bolts, you can even make models of your face, trees e.t.c. and you can make the objects by taking a picture and send the picture to the 3D printer and comes out in plastic form.

The 3D printer is basically a printer which makes anything out of plastic that you take pictures of. The 3D printer is a helpful printer which can change anybody's life with tools, hands, balls, toys and it can make their lives better.

The 3D printer works with a material known as PLA. The PLA is in a tube that melts, the PLA falls into a small box then processes to make the object you took and wanted it to print. The reason why the melted PLA doesn’t just slide away because when the PLA goes on the platform and dries quickly so the PLA won’t spread.

3D printers were actually made to change and help people’s lives. The 3D printer changed people’s lives when they were bored or sad that everyone has things that they don’t, they could be tired that they were teased by others so 3D printers could make that thing that the person wanted to make the person’s life better.

Now let’s sum this up, the 3D printer can print anything you can take a picture of, the 3D printer uses PLA, and it can help others lives  so now you now know why we urgently  want a 3D printer.            

 P.S we will give you time to think about it.

   

Ashleigh Lin 

This boy didn’t have a hand so they used the 3D printer to make him one and now he enjoys his life with his new hand.

We had some visitors that showed us the 3d printer, their names were Roly Smoldon and Alan Jennings they showed us what you can make out of the 3D printer this what we saw.

Science Week 2014

Science Week 2014

This week, we did an experiment with milk, dish washing liquid and food colouring. What we did, was we put some milk into a bowl, added four different colours of food colouring, got a cotton wool bud that had been dipped in dish washing liquid and placed it into the middle of the bowl. The reaction was, that the food colouring was pushed to the sides of the bowl and started to mix together. We kept our cotton wool bud in the centre for a long time, and it created a flower like pattern. We found, that if you placed the cotton wool bud in different places in the bowl, than it creates spiral patterns. This is an excellent experiment that you can try out at home with just what’s inside your pantry.