Coastal Athletics

Coastal Athletics

Our year 5 and 6 students went to Coastal Taranaki School for our annual athletics meet with Coastal and Omata schools.  There was lots of running, highjumping, longjumping, shotputting, discus throwing and javelin throwing. It was a fun day, with people stretching themselves to the limit.

Boats Challenge

Boats Challenge

Room 8 had a homework challenge to make a boat powered by some form of natural force, built by mainly found, recycled materials.

 Room 8's Solar Energy Science Experiments 

Heating water by magnifying the Sun's rays.

We laid out one polythene tube filled with cold water on the grass,

and one on the concrete and left them in the Sun for an hour.

The water in both of them got almost too hot to bear on our hands, 46 degrees

Lovely Sun-heated water!

The boys heated up the water using mirrors to reflect the Sun's rays. It got very hot!

Then we had a challenge to see who could cook an egg using solar energy. Many strange solar cookers were invented.

The winner! Well cooked!  (Using a satellite television dish covered with tinfoil.)

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