World Ranger Day

 Thursday 31st July was World Ranger Day and the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust invited ten children from each of the three Peninsula schools to take part in activities at the Okia Reserve at Victory Beach.
We did four activities: shoot the pest, use a GPS to find a nest, trap petanque and planting pikao to help provide the penguins with a suitable habitat. We also had to identify plants along the way. At the end we enjoyed a delicious BBQThe weather was beautiful and we enjoyed having lunch at the beach and jumping off the sand dunes. The trip was sensational and we were exhausted by the end of the day. A big Thank you to Mrs Lund for helping with transport and to the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust for all of the great activities. We loved it!
Dan, Milo, George and Ed

Planting pikao

Eating lunch at Victory Beach.

Using a GPS to find the penguin nests.

Not a real penguin but great to know we were learning about them

and helping them to survive.

Writers Workshop

Writers Workshop

On Wednesday 30th July Mrs Hawker took us to Port Chalmers School to for a writers workshop. Four authors were there; David Elliot, Sandy McKay, Melinda Szymanik and Quinn Berenston. We went to workshops taken by Sandy McKay and David Elliot. They both told us that to be a writer you need to have lots of good ideas and a notebook to write them in so you can use them later on for your writing. David Elliot said that ideas were like butterflies that fly through your head and you need to catch them. He talked about using delicious words in your writing. Both authors said that to be a good writer you need to read lots of books to get other peoples ideas. We really enjoyed hearing them talk about their writing and what inspired them. We loved it when they read their own books to us because they read it with so much expression and passion.

By Josephine Tarasiewicz and Rory Augustson