Orana Park Trip

Today Room 5 & 6 enjoyed a trip to Orana Wildlife Park. 

Here is an outline of our Zoo School programme: Students will discover that animals can be grouped in many ways...by characteristics, diet, where they live, what their feet look like and even how rare they are. They will learn about their behavioural, structural and physiological adaptations. Students will learn how changing habitats are causing problems for animals who are unable to adapt quickly enough to survive.

We loved seeing a huge variety of animals and finding out some cool facts about them. Have a browse of our slideshow below with a few photos from our day out. 

Insect Symmetry, by Mark R

For Maths we learned about symmetry and we had a task to find a bug or insect that was symmetrical and we had to draw it.

I drew a scorpion. I first drew a line in the middle, and then I drew half of a scorpion and when I was done I started designing the insides of it. After that I folded the paper in half on where the line was drawn on, then I went to the window and started tracing. To trace you either need light shining on the paper, or just go on a window where the sun is out. Then when you've done tracing all of it, unfold it back to normal then you're done.

I found it really easy to come up with designs to put in the scorpion.

I found it really hard to make it as symmetrical as possible, mine's not perfect but it's decent.

Here's my work :