The Great Drain Tour of School

We wonder what is down there!

Another drain!

Further along...another drain.

A drain by a drinking fountain.

A tiny drain.

Leaves and other interesting things in a large drain.

Arterslie: sketches of Rangitoto baches

Kaitiaki Posters

Room 18 and the Photography Festival

Room 18 with their Rangitoto photos

Pointing at our Rangitoto photos

A couple of quotes for the Photography Festival.  Well done girls!

A fast moving leopard....

A leopard running at 77 kilometres an hour would take 26 hours to run 2000 kilometres around Olympus Mons.  This is the largest mountain in the solar system on Mars.  Olympus Mons is almost the same size as France.  If this was all scaled down it would take a leopard 9 seconds to run around our school rugby field.  That's rather fast!!!

Working on our big question: How long would it take a leopard to run around Olympus Mons?

Maths Intensive 2013

Here are some photos of our Maths Intensive.  The children were comparing two different aspects of our local landmarks:
The Sky Tower is 330 metres high.
The height of Mt Wellington is 130 metres.
The width of Mt Wellington is 450 metres. 
The width of the Panmure Basin is 900 metres wide.

See the pictures and explanations below.

Maths Intensive Room 18

If the width of Mt Wellington was one book, the width of Panmure Basin would be two books.

You need 7 Mount Wellingtons to get to the width of Panmure Basin.

One piece of wool is the height of Mt Wellington then three pieces will equal the height of the Sky Tower.

If Mount Wellington was 13 blocks high then the width of Mt Wellington would be 45 blocks.

If the height of the Sky Tower was one person, we would need 1 and a half people to show the width of  Mt Wellington.

If the Sky Tower was the height of a block it would that three blocks to show the width of the Panmure Basin.