Today the year 7 and 8's went to Wellesley School to view an opera produced by Class Act. The opera had the usual tragic love story where boy longs for girl and is rejected. Girl then meets other boy who doesn't work out being such a great match. Only for the girl to realise in the end that the original boy is the one for her...(I hope that made sense :) ) The opera was enjoyed by all especially when Mrs Mills-Smith was serranaded by one of the singers (as seen below).
Today room 21 went on its Take Action for Water explore day. We spent our day testing two very different streams and exploring what creates a healthy stream. Catchpool Stream in the Rimutaka Park was very healthy with lots of mayflies and stoneflies to be found. It also had lots of big rocks in the stream bed and trees to provide bank stability, shelter and food for the aquatic animals. Black Creek in the middle of Wainuiomata was very different with lots of human impacts to be seen.
Today the class had to plan an explanation on a wacky machine from a book (Castles by Colin Thompson.) We got into groups and then came up with our own ideas for what the machine was for. Then we split up individually and wrote what we thought it was and how we thought it worked and so on.
