Junior Motat Trip

On Friday 22nd February, our junior team had an exciting fun-filled day.

We were out and about in Motat.

Learning about flight in the aviation hall and exploring all the wonderful things inside the Above and Beyond exhibit.

     

Our favourite part of the trip was when we got to create our own plane with our new knowledge of the 4 forces that help things fly (lift, thrust, drag, and weight), and testing them out.

        
After all that walking around and learning, we got treated to a nice relaxing tram ride.
 

We have learned so much from our very amazing trip and we can't wait to go back to school and tell everyone all the great things we found out about flight!

Buddy Reading at Hay Park School

This year Hay Park School is doing something different in the morning. 

We are and will be reading almost every morning to a buddy from our buddy class!

This means we each get a turn to read to someone and be read too.

We are all loving this buddy reading morning and are enjoying all the great stories that are being read.

Check out some of our fantastic buddy readers below!

           

Our first week of learning!

This week is our first week back, and we have gotten straight into our learning!

This week was a special week for New Zealand, as Wednesday 6th February was the 179th year that the Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) was signed and celebrated.

We learned about the treaty and that it was made to help everybody to work together.

"The Early Settlers came to Auckland and wanted to hunt the whales, and the Maori's were very angry. And they made a treaty and signed it." - Krisha 

We also learned about our class artist and talked about how we could create art as awesome as our class artist.

"I want to use dinosaurs in my art." - Ayyan

"I want to use flowers and butterflies." - Renesmee

The hike around our school grounds has made us all very very tired and ready for a nap.

That is all for this week.

Have a great weekend!

From Matthews Class.