Football Tournament

Another fantastic day out at Carrington Park for our Senior Hub. We always enjoy participating in different sports and getting to play against other South Wairarapa Schools. Here are some photos taken from todays amazing, muddy, damp and fully enjoyable efforts. (photo credits: Sharon Gates)

Year 7/8 team

Taylah taking on Martinborough

Oops...it was a bit slippery out there!

Mid-game tactical discussion between Matt and Sean

Sean taking on South End

Wow! A levitating ball!

Kick it Kayla

 

We are getting singing fit!

The main parts for the school production and our kapa haka group are lucky to be getting professional vocal training in two sessions this term.

Check us out in our first session:

 

How to make a sundial

Walking water

Can water walk? 

We are trying to find out if we can transfer liquid from one vessel to another using absorbent materials.

 How can liquids transfer?

What do you think is going to happen?

How does it rain?

Today is a good day to think about weather sciences. How does it rain from clouds? What are clouds made of? Are there different types of rainfall?

We created rain in jar

We worked out that the clouds form from water evaporated from the earth

Then when it gets too heavy it drops back down again as rain

We also learned about two types of rainfall that happen in Aotearoa: convectional rainfall and orographic rainfall. Do you know about them? Where do they occur in New Zealand? Ask us!

Wayfinders

What an awesome week of Astronomy we had in the Senior Hub. We were so lucky to have a visit from SMART (Society of Māori Astronomy Research and Traditions). A group of five Wayfinders came and demonstrated to us how they navigate around the oceans on sailing waka using only the stars, moon, sun, sounds and birds.

They told us some pretty important things. Like did you know that the Wairarapa was known as a very special place of knowledge about navigating by the stars? A whare wananga, not far from Gladstone, was one of the premier places in Aotearoa for holding that knowledge.

There are different ways that they navigate during the day and night, but none of it is done with modern technology but rather traditional knowledge.

 One of our visitors was a Māori Astro-Physicist: Wow!

We felt very grateful for the special knowledge they shared with us. Ask us some questions about it and we will see what we can answer!

What can you see?

This photo was taken at 4am last Thursday morning in Collingwood. What can you see in the pre-dawn sky?