You Could Win $10,000 Dollars For Finding A Bird?

For three years there has been a reward for who ever finds or sees the South Island Kokako. Over the three years there have been 200 possible cases of people seeing this bird. This bird has been extinct since 2013 and the South Island Kokako Charitable Trust have spoken saying that there are no facts saying that the bird is still alive.

Most people have been submitting a lot of photos saying that they've seen the bird but the photo was identified as one of our other native birds, tui! 

Save Energy!

Yesterday at science tech our teacher Ms. Palvi Sharma had showed us many ways to save energy in our house. She had shown us videos on what we can do to save energy and as she was doing that we were bullet pointing problems that cause energy being wasted.

Turns out incandescent light bulbs consume's ALOT of energy. Other than that we could all try to save energy by doing simple things such as not using air cons, turning off lights and having shorter showers!

Someone Spotted A Whale Shark?

Off the coast of Tauranga a whale shark has been spotted swimming through the water. Only a few people got to see the miracle whale shark in action. The people who saw the animal said it had swam below the boat and that's when it caught their eye.

People say whale sharks aren't very fast but this is their first time spotting one! 

 

Coronavirus In NZ!😷

As everyone knows, Coronavirus has been spreading all around the world. Now it has hit New Zealand. What happened was a 60 year-old from Iran flew into our country earlier this week with the virus. The man that came into New Zealand has now been quarantined in Auckland City Hospital.

According to Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield, if the Coronavirus starts spreading from one person to the other, people will die!  They were saying that Australia has only been having a small amount of cases and deaths so it's most likely we should expect that too.

One kiwi had just returned to New Zealand from Italy saying that she's putting herself in self-isolation to prevent others from getting the virus in case they have it.

Symptoms Of Coronavirus:
Fever
After 2 to 7 Days Develop Dry Cough
Mild Breathing Difficulties At The Outset
Gas Issues
Diarrhea
General Body Aches

To protect yourself from Coronavirus I suggest wearing hospital face masks and gloves to stay safe and to prevent you and your family from catching COVID-19!

Hamlin Hills Trip!

On Friday both intermediate classes had our first field trip for this year. The trip was related to our topic for this term which is PESTS! On the day of our trip we had a small lesson from our tour guide Frazier explaining what we were going to see on the trip and what we need to look for.  

Nobody really knew where Hamlin Hill was but turns out most of us drive past it almost every time we go to Sylvia Park! During the trip Limiteti (one of the students) had a close encounter with a rat that nearly gave her a heart attack! Not only was there a rat moving around in the forest but there was a dead mouse in one of the traps that Frazier had mentioned!

As we were hiking up the mountain we started seeing more traps and ribbons that Frazier said we were going to see. The ribbons were different colours, so that means different codes such as Pink for Pests and Blue for Clues. 

Come To School Everyday!

A number of students skipping school is increasing! Most students have been skipping school because of illnesses. Tracey Martin (Associate Minister for Education) has spoke saying that Maori and Pacific students are most likely to skip school.

Tracey Martin says that more parents should encourage their students to go to school more often instead of staying home!

Earthworms!

Yesterday at Tamaki College our science teacher made us study about Earthworms! We had to look at the behaviours between all four worms that each group had. The worms were all different shapes and sizes.

We learnt alot about the Earthworms and its lifestyle. Turns out worms are invertebrate which means they have no back bone and their made out of male and female cells so their are no genders.

I loved learning about Earthworms and maybe next week we can learn more!