Stop Shark Finning in NZ

For Adventure Learning we have been learning about shark finning and how we can stop it in NZ waters. If you want to help stop shark finning you can visit http://www.nzsharkalliance.org.nz/ to sign the petition. 


Here is our sharing item that we created using Sock Puppets.

By Curtis, Matai, Joel and Xyin


Kiwiana Calendar Art

This term each class had to produce some art for our school calendars. Room 2 decided to create art inspired by Kiwiana. Each classroom will have their own 2014 calendar and every child's artwork will be feature in it. Calendars will be available to purchase for $10 early in Term 4. Check out Room 2's awesome art. I'm so proud of all your hard work Room 2. Have a happy and safe holiday. 

Miss Gentil 



A Special Visitor

Every Friday morning we do Adventure Learning and this morning a special visitor came it. It was the Whangarei Council man. His name is Spencer Jellyman. He came to talk to us about the Morningside Park upgrade. It might not be upgraded for another five years. This is because there are 40 playgrounds in whangarei and only two playgrounds get replaced a year. It will take 20 years to replace all the playgrounds in Whangarei. The next playgrounds to be upgraded are one in Onerahi and Kensington Park. We asked him some questions. 

Here are some of the questions we asked:

  • When did you start working at the council?
  • Where do you get the equipment from for the playgrounds?
  • What things do you need to make the playground safe?
  • How can we improve our playground design?
Stella used to live my Mander Park and it just been upgraded. Then she moved to Morningside and she thought the Morningside Park playground was boring and old. So that's when we thought that we could design a new playground. We went over the the Morningside Park and took some photos. We went there to see what needed to be done. We also went to the park behind the Information Centre. We liked the equipment at that playground. We made a poster of all the stuff we learnt about playgrounds. 

This afternoon we made a card using Pic Collage on the iPad to say thank you to Mr Jellyman. We emailed him the card. Next term we are going to do a competition to design the best playground. We are going to do this at lunch time and anyone from other classes can come along. 

By Carlia and Lakeysha









PJ and Movie Day

In Room 2 we have a sparkler jar. We get sparklers when we work together as a team. When the sparkler jar is filled up we get to vote for a class reward. For our class reward we picked a PJ and movie day. Miss Gentil even wore her onesie. Room 2 had lots of fun. I hope you have a great holiday. 

By Suga-Rae 







Festival of Light and Art

Last weekend was the Festival of Light and Art and the Whangarei Art Quarry. On Friday night there was a lantern parade to start off the celebrations. We spent Thursday and Friday morning making our own colourful lanterns for the parade. We used kebab sticks, coloured tissue paper, electrical tape and tin foil to construct them. When we had finished we put a small tea light candle inside our lantern. To find out more about the Festival of Light and Art you can visit http://www.fola.co.nz/2012-programe.php