Reading in the Library

12 Huia Birds - a cautionary tale

Thanks to NZ On Air funding, this beautiful interactive story is available for free on 

Google Play, iOS App Store and Amazon!

It walks us through the demise of the Huia, as a cautionary tale about caring for our native flora and fauna before they disappear forever. Its not upsetting, though, just thought provoking.

There's all sorts of extra goodies too - worksheets, extra information and games.

Check out the trailer here!

Our bees in a book!

This is pretty exciting! 

Our very own bee hive and our students feature in this book about Suz the cat who goes on an adventure and learns about how we get honey!

Suz and the Honey Bee Adventure is just one in a series of cat adventures - we have a whole 18 books! They will go on our new book stand at first, but later, you will find them in the Early Reader section...look for the frog stickers on the front.

Who do you recognise in this book?

Bee writing!

Puriri Team went and checked out the honey extraction from our school beehive last week. 

There is some terrific writing up on the wall in the library, but here is a sample from Victor!

Today we went to the kitchen to see the honey extraction.

First Mr. Lyons talked about the frames, he said that the frames hold the honey and the wax keeps it inside. Then he talked about how you take the frames out of the hive and he showed us how you put them in the extractor.

After that we all got a turn to spin the extractor machine. This makes the honey come out of the frames, it is collected in a bucket. The honey is put into jars.

I felt happy, I really liked extracting honey and seeing it in the jars, it is liquid gold!!!

Here is Victor himself helping out with the extractor.

Make sure you come in and check out the rest of the awesome writing on the Writers Wall in the library!