Music festival

Music Festival

Last Thursday night was our performance night at the South Otago Schools’ Music Festival. It was a fantastic night and was really awesome to hear all the schools come together and perform after all our hard work preparing. Our item was a song by the band The Script called Superheroes. Our students did a super job and sounded fantastic even though there were a few nerves about the big crowd, even from Miss Chapman and Miss Taylor! It certainly was a great night. Thank you to all of our parents and families for bringing your children along to the event. Check out our item below.

Inquiry Update

This week we have been Finding Out and Sorting Out information for our Inquiry topic - What makes a Kiwi Inventor?

We watched an episode of Let's Get Inventin' where Josh made an invention to help him feed out on the farm more easily. After watching this we spent some time making our own inventions on the Let's Get Inventin' App for iPads.



I am really looking forward to seeing what topics students want to cover for their Going Further projects.

Otago Museum Trip!

On Tuesday 6th June we had a wonderful trip to the Otago Museum to learn about inventions for our inquiry topic. First, we went into the Tropical Rain Forest which was an amazing experience. We saw many colourful butterflies and some of the butterflies even landed on us! We also saw little birds called Quail, some huge goldfish, a tarantula and a couple of turtles. We also spent some time in Discovery World, played with the fantastic equipment and thought about inventions that we would like to make! Some highlights from Discovery World were the air hockey, the mind-controlling game and the giant piano you play by standing on the keys.

In small groups the children went on a scavenger hunt to look for different inventions including a huge camera and an Maori eel net called a hinaki. We learnt a lot about inventions and Emily was very impressed by the great ideas the children were sharing.

After lunch, we went with the Museum educator Emily to learn about different inventions. We looked at a wooden plough that is 4000 years old. Emily then took us to look at a plough from the 1890s that was built out of metal. We talked about the difference between the two inventions and why they were useful inventions at the time.

We had a fantastic day out and learnt heaps about inventions for our inquiry topic!


Otago Museum Inventors trip on PhotoPeach

Morning Programme - My Choice

This week's topic for Morning Programme was Own Choice. Bree decided to bring in hers and Cooper's rabbits - Ash and Diamond. The children loved having a cuddle with them and it was interesting to hear from Bree what they eat and how they look after them.

National Young Leaders Day 2017