Wonder Project - Rockets

 We are underway with our rocket project... we will report back when the weather settles down and we can test our rocket prototypes!

Polly Pekapeka

This week we enjoyed learning about pekapeka.  This learning was ignited by a visit from Polly Pekapeka, courtesy of Forest and Bird.  We took Polly on a few adventures around the school while we worked on our individual blog posts about Aotearoa / New Zealand's pekapeka.  Thanks for visiting!

Karmi had to search to see Polly Pekapeka in this setting.  She has great camouflage.

Polly found a relaxing pekapeka use for a COVID mask.

This mamaku leaf did not match Polly's camouflage.

Polly was intrigued by this fungi!

Finally a perfect burrow in a tree for Polly.

The dusk was approaching when Polly took flight.

Polly thought that the weather was a little makariri.

Polly tried out the swing on the bush track.

Polly was exhausted after all of her adventures!

Wilderness Trail Ride - Karoro to Kumara & Return

 

On April 8th Ruma Waru cycled from Karoro School, Watson's Creek through to Kumara and back!  This was an epic trail ride and everyone showed incredible resilience. 

Huge shout out to our awesome support crew: Louise, Tracey, Rachael, Ainslie, Joel, Angus, Sarah, Corrie, and Netty (and Neil).

Most students made the full return trip but a few were brave enough to ask for support and to receive a car ride back to base. 

We covered approximately 44kms.

 

William Pike Challenge Day tramp

 What a great day out! We took climate change into account and walked from school to our destinations. The first walk was through the Omotumotu walkway.  We had some information about Rongoa Māori, traditional Māori medicines using native plants. We found kawakawa, rimu, makomako, koromiko and mamaku. 

Our second walk was through Grandjeans walkway to the creek and beyond that to the ancient pine tree on the hill.  We had lunch under the pine tree. Then imagine our surprise when we met up with some students from Grey High, including four past Karoro School students. 

We had enough time to have an small explore of the creek before we walked back to school.

Thanks to all of the parents who supported us today: Mark, Glen, Gareth, Kirsty, Luzette, Tracey, Rachel, Sarah, and our great teacher aide, Ms B.

Pi Day.

 The fourteenth day of the third months is Pi Day! 3/14

Ruma Waru celebrated with an Escape Room and a Scavenger Hunt.  Here are some results from our scavenger hunt. 

2022 William Pike Challenge Beach Cook Out

 Ruma Waru learned about camp fire safety; ways to build safe camp fires, how to safely light a camp fire and how to safely extinguish a camp fire. We were allowed a maximum of four matches per group and the challenge was to light the campfire using only one match... congratulations to Emma and Lucy who did this for their group. We also had to work in groups to develop and cook our meal on the camp fire. As you can see we did a great job!