Te Papa Trip

On Monday the 4th of August our class went on a trip to Te Papa.

Our class got split into groups of 4 with one parent helper per group. We would stay with this group the whole way around the exhibitions in Te Papa. My group:

Parent: Mrs Everett
Jack
Davin
Ellie
Rose (me)

We had activities to complete on lots of different exhibitions around Te Papa.

Our group didn't know where the some of the exhibitions and we could not find some of the exhibitions, but luckily we could find the most important one- the WOW exhibition.

The WOW exhibition had displays of lots of previous WOW costumes. It also had videos of WOW shows. My favourite WOW costume was the dinosaur- although I can't remember the name of it.

My favourite part was lunch time because we got to go to the park.

School Commonwealth Games Day

Yesterday our school had a commonwealth games day.

Each of our whanau groups got assigned a continent. Then our whanau classes each got a a commonwealth country within that continent. Each class had to prepare a short performance- it could be a chant, a song, a power-point presentation, etc. The classes had flags, costumes and wore the colours of their country.

Our whanau got the continent of Europe.

My whanau class- Ms Lemmon- got England.

What we did for our performance:

We painted the England flag on our faces and made flags to wave.

We also had a queen to read out facts about England.

After performing and having morning tea, everyone went back to their whanau class to play a game. After 15 minutes a bell rung, which meant you had to go to another class to do another game. WE got points for sportsmanship, participation etc. The whanau class with the most overall points gets a award in the closing ceremony on the next day.