Wire Sculptures
The children manipulated the wire .Cavelle " I liked twisting and bending the wire We sketched our sculptures and wrote about them. Emanuel " I found an interesting button [...]
Making Beautiful Music In St Clare’s Class
Last week the children in St Clare explored ways of using recycled materials. The boys had a great time beating on their drums. Some of the girls decided to notate their music and perform songs [...]
St Patrick catapult experience
We learnt to make a simple catapult. We measured how far the objects we used for the catapult went and we got to eat marshmallows. We learnt that the tighter we made the catapult rubber [...]
St Francis made catapults
Today we learnt that the big pompoms went the furtherest when shot out of the catapult. The small pompoms and marshmallows went straight up because they were lighter. The heavier things stayed lower and went [...]
Beach Clean Up!
St Patricks and St Catherines show concern for the environment by cleaning Torpedo Bay. The children enjoyed scouring the beach and rock pools looking for rubbish and other foreign objects. This fits in with our [...]
Whanau Leaders off to an early start
Our very excited Whanau Leaders were all smiles at 7.30 this morning as they were heading off with Mr M to the National Young Leaders Day in South Auckland. They will represent our school well [...]
Catapult Challenge with Mrs Harris
What will travel furtherest when shot out of a popsicle stick catapult? A small pom pom A big pom pom Or a mini marshmallow St Catherine's challenge was to build a catapult from popsicle sticks [...]
No breeze, but no lack of effort in the water.
St Catherine's Waterwise Thursdays have not had much luck with optimal conditions for sailing so far this year. Without even a puff of wind today, the students took to the kayaks for some highly competitive [...]
Coastlines in Virtual Reality
St Catherine's and St Patrick's hosted visitors from the Sir Peter Blake Trust. They came with expensive virtual reality goggles and a very important message. The students were immersed ( virtually ) below the surface [...]
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