Optic Society Visit

This morning we had a visit from the Dunedin Student Chapter of the Optic Society of America. They were all Physicists and students at Otago University. They all study Optics or light.

Swimming lessons begin

Day one and straight into learning.

Hello there to Quad 100

Hello to our new Quad-Blogging buddies from Dunedin and the UK,
We thought that we could try and tell you a bit about our school.

 Our School is Awesome Because...

• We have a Cricket pitch.
• We have a bike park.
• We have a swimming pool.
• We have lots of space.
• We have two play grounds.
• We have a new tennis court.
• We have an Interactive White Board in some classes.
• We have nice teachers and fantastic Kids.
• We have not got too many people.
• There is a lake really close to us.
• We do not need to wear a uniform.
• We go on heaps of field trips.
• We have a caretaker called Doug, who is also the local Fire Chief.
• We have monkey bars.
• We are awesome writers.
• We have a whole lot of instruments like Ukuleles and Drums.
• We all do lots of sports.
• We all get to learn to swim.
• and...
                                   ...we get to go skiing in Winter!

Grass to the Glass - Milk

Our new inquiry 'Grass to the Glass' began today with the class trying to record what they new about the process in the form of a flow chart, spider web or bullet points.
We discovered we had some great language like digest and udder, but we also found out that we had a lot more wondering than we had knowledge.

Some of the interesting questions were...
1. Do you get Chocolate milk from a brown cow or by feeding a cow chocolate not grass? (this was a joke, but how do you get chocolate milk and is banana milk from cows that are fed bananas?)
2. What is the difference between all the different type of milk? And who makes them different and why?
3. What happens at the factory to the milk?
4. Can we buy milk at the dairy farm gate?


- Posted by a Student in Room 6

Room 6's School Census

With the Census happening in the next few weeks we thought that it might be interesting to conduct a census of our own.
We brainstormed questions, created a Google Form and loaded it onto the Blog.
We then had the challenge of getting as many staff and students of the school to fill out the form. It was quite tricky, but we now have over 130 responses. Tomorrows challenge is looking at all of the data that we have collected and making some conclusions.












- Posted by Mr Dyer

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