Thursday, 13 August 2015

Visit to The Faraday Centre




On Thursday 13th Aug, Room 4 went to the Faraday Centre in Napier.  It is a fascinating place, with lots of exhibits from times gone by.  It is great for children and adults.  There are things to interest everyone.  It is interactive with lots of hands on activities. The museum is open to the public in the weekend.


Careful sewing girls.





Does the bellows have a wheel or a lever?



Moving a load using rollers.



Keep peddling to make the wind machine work.

Remember phone boxes?
Lots of cool things to look at.

Two shop girls.  Watch your fingers in that till!

The olden day hairdryers didn't look so old!


Keep turning the wheel to make it go Jayden.



What a cool way to shine shoes.




The waterwheel used water to make electricity.



Ride him cowboys!


Keep pumping the jigger boys.
The pulley tug-o-war

Koltyn enjoyed the pianola.

The pianola was popular.  The children liked seeing the keys move by themselves

Kees & Koltyn doing the washing.


Jenny the teacher told us about the earliest wheels.

Jenny had a model of  a wheel made from cardboard, The children learned how important an axle is.  Something to try at discovery. 
A very old tractor.
Very cool trike Alyssa

The old vehicles were in demand.






Good driving Poppy.


Doing the washing.  Watch your fingers in the mangle,

Sunday, 9 August 2015

New Play Equipment

The children are loving playing with the new play equipment.  The favourite seems to be the Stickle Bricks with the Mobilo a close runner up.
We want to send a huge thank you to the parents league who provided the funding for this.  Also I would like to thank Frances Ellison for all her work coordinating and ordering this for us.  We appreciate your hard work Frances.





A Stickle Brick creation.


Cool plane Braidyn,

Great Mobilo machine Lewis.

Concentration Amber

Does it roll Koltyn?


Cool glasses Hailey


Sharing and cooperation.