OUR SPARE TIME DURING THE CULTURAL EXTRAVAGANZA - By Harrison Leach

 

On Monday the 17^th of June, Rooms 1, 2 and 8  went on a cultural extravaganza to learn about why people came to New Zealand and to watch cultural performances. But I’m not here to tell you about that, I’m here to tell you about what we did in our spare time. We split the classes Room 1 and half of Room 2 went into Te papa while Room 8 and the other half of Room 2 stayed outside and had free time .When Rooms 1 and 2 had finished in Te papa we swapped over. Potato chips were consumed and hunger was vanquished. After we had eaten our food we dashed to the playground and bought ice-creams which were delicious, though some of us were still hungry. Suddenly we thought that we had to head back to the meeting place (outside Te papa ) because none of us remembered what time we had to be back, but it turns out we were wrong. We ran into Miss Clark and she asked us what we were doing we told her that we were heading back and she was heading to the playground so we decided to go with her. On the way there we stopped by a small rock pool to search for starfish (Actually we were having a look at the destitute remains of a TV that was in the water beside the rock pools) we went down and examined the starfish; some of us got to pick them up. Cam Preston picked up the biggest starfish and won the "biggest starfish competition". Well done Cam!!

BY HARRISON LEACH  

Te Papa - Part one of our Cultural Trip

On Monday the 17^th of June , Rooms 1, 2 and 8 took a delightful bus trip into Wellington, to our beautiful national museum, Te Papa. We were going to go all the way to Te Papa on the bus, but since it was such a fine day, Herbie [Miss Herbert] said we’d get off a stop early and walk along the waterfront until we got there. When we were there, we split off into two groups. While one group went and had free time, the other group went into Te Papa. [If you want to read more about the free time group, refer to Harrison’s blog post] I was in the first group. We went in and travelled up to the fourth floor. Once there, we split off into pairs, working together to find out the answers to a work sheet Miss Clark made for us. There were many cool presentations and interactive exhibits that helped us find all the answers. There was a globe showing us where some immigrants came from, and how many. There were cool interactive tables that played music and showed us stories of refugees and immigrants. The walls were lined with examples of things brought by the immigrants, like medicine, games, and [unfortunately] rats. We learned about push and pull factors, and how these affected the flow of immigrants to New Zealand. There was a timeline and rows of beautiful dresses and information about national events that led to mass immigration in New Zealand. We had a brilliant time, and then went to eat morning tea.

 

By Tui Christie