Inquiry

This is the page you want if you want to learn more about what we're learning about in inquiry. Keep your eye on this page as I'm sure there will be some very exciting learning round here!

In term 3, our inquiry is based around the theme of "Mechanisms in Action". We've been learning all about simple and complex machines and even had a visit from the team at Science Alive! Check out these websites designed to help you learn more about machines and how they make our lives easier. [|Ed-heads simple machines] [|Simple Machines webquest] [|How Stuff Works] media type="custom" key="4180741" media type="custom" key="4180759" media type="custom" key="4180765"

This term in inquiry we are looking at what it means to be a New Zealander. In week one we looked at NZ celebrations like Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day. For homework that week we had to write a diary entry, imagining we were an ANZAC soldier. Here's Mary's one... we think it is AWESOME!!!! 

Here we are in the trenches after a long night recovering our wounded and dead and carrying them back from the muddy and wet field beyond. The trenches are wet places and sinking into the mud lay the decaying bodies of our fellow soldiers where they fell, the stench of rotting flesh and gun powder make you feel as though you have reached the gates of hell. We wait lying low in the mud so we can't be seen or hit by a flying bullet, in readiness for the days long and endless attack. We sink into the mud ourselves, boots full of it, weighing us down. How we will run, we have no idea. The attack begins at dawn if we survive crossing no-mans land we are the lucky ones if not then....... Everyday is like a game of chess, we are the pawns closing in on the King, but one wrong move and it's game over. As soon as the gunshot pierces the morning silence, the days battle begins. Everyone in the trenches says a prayer and we are off... across the field. Bullets whizzing past you, shrapnel hurtling down, this is the dance of life and death.