Room 6 @ Tamaki Primary School: March 2020

Wednesday 18 March 2020

We drew pictures of our favourite moments from either Tamaki Primary fun day or our pest eradication school trip up Hamlin hill.

Please check out our slide show!

Trip to Hamlin Hill

As part of our Pest Eradication learning we went to Hamlin hill on a school trip! it was a sunny day as we set off into the bush. First we had to spray clean our shoes so that we didn't infect the native trees with germs. It was quite scary as we came across a herd of sheep with big sharp horns. then we had to walk through the paddock avoiding their dung!

Frazer showed us all the traps set around the forest to catch rodents such as: rats, mice, stoats, weasels, possums, ferrets, wild cats and hedgehogs. with out these traps all of our native species would be in great danger. we need to keep our pest populations down! It was very interesting, we even spotted a fantail!

Friday 6 March 2020

FUN DAY

FUN DAY!💥👀💫

Our Tamaki Primary School fun day was a RAGING success!! We were deeply concerned as the rain fell from the sky. "will it get cancelled?!"

Absolutely not! The show went on and the heavens shone down on us. We enjoyed eating our sausage sizzle then set of onto the school field to get involved with all the different activities on offer:

Ripper rugby

Three Legged Race

Softball

Tug of War

Bouncy castles

We even got to hoon a police car and try on
the gear!

WEEK 5 - INQUIRY

Yikes!! This week we had Mike from Auckland Zoo visit us at Tamaki Primary. We learnt about all things Pest Eradication ( Riha Rawaho) Whilst these creatures may look very cute, unfortunately these imposters are messing with our native species. Sadly some of our beautiful NZ birds are becoming endangered and are even in danger of going extinct we learnt about all the different ways we can track and trap these creatures and even got to hold dead RODENTS!