Enrichment Programme

An Enrichment Programme for students throughout the school has
begun for this year. The programme will consist of a variety of topics
throughout the next two terms, involving selected students from
throughout the school. The current topic is “thinking themes” and a
small group of students have begun exploring issues related to a
specific topic: Moa students theme is “Round & Round” and the Kiwi
students them is “A New School”.
Other units of work that will be covered throughout the programme
will be specifically targeted to a selection of curriculum areas,
including science, technology and art.

ANZAC Day visit

We were fortunate to be treated to a visit and talk by Chantal McKee’s husband, Colonel Phil McKee who also
happens to be the Burnham Camp Commander. Colonel McKee gave talks to each of the seniors and juniors, touching
on subjects such as his rank, what his “job” entailed, medals awarded to New Zealand soldiers and the uniform worn
in the first world war compared to now.
He discussed how soldiers wear their poppies (on the hat band) what ANZAC stands for and when/why ANZAC was
first celebrated. Half of those assembled raised their hands when questioned if they had been to an ANZAC
celebration, whilst the remainder were gently encouraged to do so if the opportunity arose.
In the question and answer session that followed the Colonel fielded questions such as: the number of medals a kiwi
soldier can get, what he thought the most important war was, the highest NZ medal awarded, who started WW11, did
the air force help much and “were you active in Galliploi?” – To which he replied tongue in cheek – “No, I’m not as
old as some of your teachers but I have served in other wars!”.

Science Alive

On the 21st of April we went to Science Alive. We got to go to thespace classroom. We learnt about many planets. We got togo round some space games and we got a booklet to fill in for each game.After that our teacher in the space room called Sarah hada special projector. The projector showed us allthe planets including the sun and the moon. After we had lunch in a little park.Then wehad free time in Science Alvie. I went on the gyro-scopeand the Earthquake house. THe other activities that I didwere whisper dash, wave sea, air guns, and the minigolf. After that we went in a blow up domeand looked at some stars. We also looked at some planets andsome Maori names of stars. By Katy Silva, LC4