Curtis's House

This is my old house. We had two bedrooms, one kitchen, a fire place, a deck and two doors to go in and out. Me and my brothers bedroom was small but we could fit our three beds in. My bed is yellow, Nicolas had a green one and Lucas had a blue one. Tawhiti slept with my Mum. We had a pet dog called Reneak and Ceasar. Also we lived quite close to our Nan. We used to visit each other every single day.

Colour Changing Daffodils

Room 10 carried out a science experiment to see if daffodils could change colours through the veins in their petals.

First Mrs Maunsell put water into the three cups.  Then we cut a little part off the stems diagonally.  Second we put the daffodils into the cups of water.  Now it was time for the food colouring!  Kelemete put the red food colouring into one cup and Jerome put the blue food colouring into another cup.  We left the last one plain.

It was going to turn out incredible.

When we got to school on Monday the transformation had been completed.  The daffodil in the red food colouring didn’t have red, it had orange in its veins!  The daffodil in the blue food colouring didn’t have blue, it had green in its veins!  Red plus yellow equals orange.  Blue plus yellow equals green.  The one with no food colouring didn’t change.  

The petals changed colour in their veins because the daffodil sucked up the food colouring.  Then it went into their veins.  That is called capillary action.  What happened to the daffodils was extraordinary and very cool.  The daffodils showed us how they sucked up the water through their stem to their petals.

Written by Anahera

Operetta 2016 - Turangiwaewae

Our scene in this year's Operetta takes place early last century, when New Zealand was involved in World War 1 and World War II. These are the soldiers from the Maori Battalion. Come and enjoy the show next week. The show is looking amazing.

Blobs in a Bottle

We want to explain how we made the blobs in a bottle that looked like a lava lamp. First we put ¾ of a cup of water in a bottle. Second we filled up the bottle with vegetable oil. Third we put 10 drops of food colouring into the bottle. We had to wait and watch the food colouring go down to the water. Fourth we broke a berocca tablets in half and put half into the bottle. Next we watched to see what would happen: the dark bluey/greeny coloured sphere shaped blobs went up and down very slowly in a oval shaped pattern. Then it went to sleep like a lazy volcano, with the water at the bottom and the oil at the top. Written by Room 10

Room 10's Movie About the Hamilton Bridges

Dantes War ship

One rainy Monday I was working on making a war ship. This war ship was made out of Knex but it didn't take long to make. I got a little bit of help from Maz to make it too. This war ship can reload really easy it also can charge up to fire a big rocket and bring it back again.

Our model of the Union bridge

Our model of the union bridge was made out of dull orange Popsicle sticks. The bridge was washed away during a flood in1907.It was rebuilt and named Victoria bridge.On the side of the union bridge there were zigzags. So with a thick piece of paper and a sharpie we drew some zigzags.