2020 Toyko Olympics fanzone

Kia Ora bloggers,

The senior school at Hay Park school had the opportunity to attend the 2020 Tokyo Olympics fanzone, held at The Cloud. 

Children had a blast, we got to meet Debbie Tanner who was an olympian. We asked her questions about her experience and then later we had an opportunity to meet and greet. We learnt so many things and recalling its good to have a go at different sports so you can options with which category or sport you would like to play.

We would like to say a huge thanks to the team at the 2020 Tokyo Fanzone, it was a wonderful opportunity and we had a lot of fun!

Check out our pictures below.

Fantasic Similes

 Kia Ora bloggers!

Today was really fun as we allowed our creative juices to flow and come up with our own simile examples. We used Google forms to display our similes and we pasted a picture related to the simile.

Here is what we got up to today! :D

Check out the student blogs to see more examples.

Spheros and Vr Headsets!!

Kia Ora,

We were so lucky to have the opportunity to have played with Spheros and VR Headset.
With the Sphero's we used the Ipads to control and move them around. We had so much fun. Later in the day, we were assigned to the VR headsets. They were really cool because we were able to visit places in the world. We also dived into the sea to see Sharks. Most students found the Shark video scary because the shark would creep up behind you!

We later wrote a persuasive letter about why we should purchase these amazing tech tools for our school.

I strongly think you should buy the VR and Sphero for Hay Park School because we really enjoyed it. That was the best thing I've ever done. When I used the VR Headset, I felt like being the fluffiest kid in the world. It was like a ball that you can go inside and grapple the hook and you can climb on mountains. You can also learn about different things when we are doing free writing.   

By Barney


I loved to control the Spheros and i also liked using the VR Headsets. I liked using the Spheros because you can change the colour of it and move it around, change how fast it goes. When I came back from Read and Write I saw the Spheros, and I remembered that my brother made one of those Spheros at AUT and he was controlling it from the computer. 


When you use the VR Headsets then you can see how good experience you can see because when you put on the VR Headsets then you can choose which place you want to be. 

By Neha

Welcome back to Term 3

We had a fabulous start to the term! We were so lucky to have presenters from Genesis Energy.

They came in and taught so many exciting things about how energy is formed. We also had the opportunity to generate energy manually using the 'Human Generator'.

Some facts from the session were:

There are different ways of collecting energy.

Solar panels collect energy from the sun.

Water hydro dam gathers water from everywhere and put it through huge pipes. Starts of as potential energy and kinetic energy when it goes down the pipes

Wind energy - Mostly used in Wellington and Palmerston north areas as it is very windy. Wind turbines are used to collect energy.

Fossil fuel ise used. There are two main ones used in New Zealand. Natural gas is burnt to make energy and coal.

Geo-thermal electricity comes from under the ground. Extracts steam from the ground.

Here are some pictures from our session!
Emrico and Scarlet were lucky first to be selected to have a go with the Human Generator in the senior school

Matariki Festival

This week is the last week of Term 3, we had such a blast celebrating Matariki as a whole school.

In Feu’u class, we discussed what Matariki was and why it was celebrated. We paired up with a buddy and we created presentations about Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year, so we decided that we wanted to set learning goals for ourselves. So decided to write our goals on feathers and create a class Korowai. A Korowai is a special cloak that Maori people wear on important occasions.

Our presenters for Feu'u class were Mekhi, Justin and Mahrosh.

The whole school dressed up in their wonderful cultural outfits, we had so much fun!

Here are some photos of our day.