English Park Performance

What a beautiful afternoon for an outdoor performance at English Park. It was almost as warm there as it was at the rest home yesterday!

The Room 17 Folk Dancers perform for the school.

Te Mahuri Kapa Haka

The Haka

Hunter made a connection between our performance and the Te Mahuri's performance. He suggested they are both dances from "past times".

Diana Isaac Rest Home

I'm sorry I don't have photos of our visit to Diana Isaac today. If I did have I can tell you the faces would have smiles on them and the few tears were tears of joy.

Highlights

• meeting old people and talking to them
• seeing tears of joy
• watching the old folks tapping their feet to the music
• seeing the birds in the cage
• giving people a present that we'd made ourselves
• knowing that we'd created moments of joy
• making people happy
• being brave 
• getting a chocolate fish
• being asked back at Christmas
• discovering one of the people went to St Albans School as a child about 80 years ago
• realising that even when your brain is muddled you can still be happy 
• having so many parents able to help us and take us there in their cars
• representing St Albans School and doing such a good job of it

At Long Last!

Time For Your Own Investigation

We have spent a lot of time recently looking at how things have changed. We went to Ferrymead and experienced what life might have been like 100 years ago. We thought about WHY things changed. Now we are going to investigate how one particular area is going to change into the future.
You came up with these ideas: jobs, schools, houses, transport, aircraft, fashion, shops, cities and sports gear. You will need to pick one of these ideas (or come up with another) to study further.

Fabulous Ferrymead

Didn't we have a fantastic time time traveling today? There are more photos and information to come, but YouTube has not been my friend this evening. Mr Black never had problems like that!!!

Thanks to the wonderful parent helpers who came with us today, Leanne, Tracy, Christo and Bridget.

Typing Across the Decades

Lily brought this wonderful example of a typewriter. Her great grandfather used it for his work.

You all came up with some interesting differences and similarities between it and my laptop. It was also a great item to use as the observational drawing model.

Today Riley brought this Dial Typewriter that his great grandmother had been given when she was five. 

A google search told us that it was a designed as a toy.

What will the machines we use to "type" our ideas be like in the future?

I remember my mum playing this orchestral piece to me on a record once. What's a record? Well that's another whole story...

FERRYMEAD

Tomorrow (Tuesday 19th August) we are going to Ferrymead. The bus will leave at 9.05 - you don't want to miss it! Please be at school by 8.45. You need to be in uniform and to have lunch and morning tea.

Old School

What was school like over one hundred years ago?

  This little video will give you an idea.