Air Force Museum

What a blast we had at the Airforce Museum on Wednesday August 13. Our class went with Room 3. In Term 3 we have been learning about flight and this had been a good opportunity for us. Chris spoke to us about the rules we had to follow. In the background is the Roll of Honour, the list of the Airforce men who died while serving New Zealand.





We had to find out about interesting things around the museum through the scavenger hunt working in pairs, group or on our own. There were a lot to see and explore.

















This is fun, pretending to ride in an airplane.




















We enjoyed our morning tea.











Chris was a great teacher. He gave us a hands-on understanding of the parts of the airplane and the concepts in detail of what cause it to fly.

















Chris explained to us some wonderful stories about airplanes in the old days. Chistopher sat on a pilot"s chair.


James tried wearing the old pilot's jacket. Hmm...he looked good.


We tried to work out the ways an airplane flies.


We had to assemble the parts of the airplane.

















Our finished work.....








Finally we had to demonstrate what we learned from Chis - the mechanics of how the airplane flies.









It was really a wonderful learning experience for all of us.

Ebola Outrage Argument

This week room 5 have been writing about arguments, one of the topics we did were "Should NZ close its border to stop Ebola?" Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by a fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids. Currently the Ebola virus has spread in Nigeria, many people are dying of it. Here are two sides of our ebola argument:

Against:

Personally I think NZ shouldn't close its border to stop Ebola. It's extremely unlikely that someone would catch Ebola by being in the same airplane or public space who was affected. Ebola doesn't tend to travel through the air like the flu. In order to get ebola you have to touch the body fluids such as, sweat, vomit, diarrhea, blood, urine and etc. So no I don't think NZ should close its border.

By Samantha

For:

So I am sorry but I think we should close  down the border because we can't take those risks. Unless there was a cure... But there isn't. It's too risky letting people from other countries that have Ebola coming into our country. But it really stinks not to go to other countries but it's for the best.

By Iuvale

Les Miserables - Lunch Treat

Our class was treated to lunch with McDonald combo and dessert courtesy of the gold coin donation on the 24th of September performance and the rest by the school. We thank all the donors and Mr O'Neill for this wonderful treat.

Location:Forfar Street,Saint Albans,New Zealand