Motat

On Wednesday the 6th of July we went to Motat to learn more about inventions. Did you know that M.O.T.A.T stands for Museum of Technology and Transportation. When we arrived at Motat we went to a place that we called the classroom because that’s where we ate our lunch. After we ate our morning tea, room 14 went and had a wonder around while room 13 stayed with Stacey.
The first place we went was the arcade games. They had Donkey-Kong, Street Fighter, Pac-Man and more! The games were so fun but unfortunately we only got a little bit of time to play the games.

Another place we went was the Mirror Maze! When I went in the Mirror Maze I collided into Jorja. I fell down. As I got back up I looked at the mirrors and noticed that there was endless reflections.

Suddenly we had to go back to the classroom and have some lunch. After we had lunch we went to the Tactile Dome!

Nervously arriving at the Tactile Dome, because I haven’t been in the Tactile Dome for a long time, I sat down next to Jorja. There were 2 people at the Tactile Dome explained how it was going to work. After that the first people to enter it was Tyla, Jonita, Porscha and Raeleen. Outside the Tactile Dome they had a speaker, so we could hear them. Jorja, Hayley, Ashlee and myself were probably the 7th or 8th people to go in. Nervously going into the pitch black maze I carefully made my way up and down the pitch black maze. (They were in front of us) Suddenly I stopped and said “Who’s that?”. The other girls started to scream! “Why do you have to scream!!” I yelled. “It’s only the boys”. Very loudly we caught up to the boys. This meant we had to wait a bit for them to get out of the way a bit. But I guess they were going the same way as us. While we were in there we had to go down slides, over nets, through tunnels and also once we went down a slide then came out on a soft mattress. Finally we made it through. I had FUN!!!

Telecommunication was the next place we went. Telecommunication was a place where they had lots of old phones and they had the morse code. You can even ring your next door neighbours number. There are lots of rotary phones.

Suddenly, again, we had to go back to the classroom and switch with room 13. So they went to wonder around and we went to another place with Stacey. We had to go to another place witch had a lot of old things that people accidentally made, made to solve a problem and made because of someone might have a passion for something. One thing one person made was a automatic vacuum. This was made to solve a problem. The problem was that you might have to go somewhere but you also have to do your vacuuming. This person made a do-it-yourself vacuum. It wasn’t that good though.


Soon it was time to go back to School. I had fun but it was a really long day. I learnt alot of different things when we went to Motat.

Hidden Matariki

This is a movie about Matariki. It has been made into a Hidden matariki. If you have seen Hidden talents on Sky then you might know. This movie was made by some year 5 students in extension. I hope you enjoy!

Stanley Steamer

When the American twins, Francis and Freelan Stanley attended a local fair, a French inventor, who had invented a steam-driven car, was demonstrating it. Interestingly after seeing this the brothers decided to invent a steam car of their own. They would call it the Stanley Steamer. The Stanley Steamer was the best-known and best-selling car from 1896-1924. Between 1899-1905 the Stanley Steamer outsold all the gasoline cars. Did you know that in 1906 the land speed record was broke by a Stanley Steamer driven by Fred Marriott. The speed was 204 kilometers per hour!

The Stanley Steamer had positives and negatives. One positive thing was if something went wrong with you Stanley Steamer you could take it straight back. One more thing was that compared to most of the other cars at the time it was the fastest most easiest to start and cleanest. But other manufactures spread rumors about the Stanley Steamer blowing up and killing people. It wasn’t just good things going around there were quite a few negatives.

All About Me

My name is Kaycee. I am 8 years old and I go to Pt England School. I come from the Awesome country Aotearoa, New Zealand. I live with my mum and 2 brothers. I also have another brother but he lives with his partner and son. My favourite sports are Netball and swimming. My favourite colour is blue. My friends names are Jonita, Tyla, Jorja, Ashlee and Porscha. My favourite singers are Katy Perry and Alexis Jordan. One of my hobbies is to sing and dance! Now you know all about me.

My Favourite Singers!

Do you have a favourite singer? Well I have 2. They are Katy Perry and Alexis Jordan. Did you know that Alexis Jordan got famous by you tube is well. I really like her song Good Girl and Happiness. Katy Perry has some really good songs is well. My favourite one right now is ET. These are my favourite singers because they have good songs and they inspire me. If you have a dream, follow it! I hope someday my friends and I become famous!!!

I Am Making Movies 2

This is a small part from our 3 minute movie. It was created by Kaycee, Tyla, Jonita and Calvin from room 14, with the help of our great extension teacher, Mrs Tele'a. This is about us learning our cultrul history. Suddenly we get sucked up into the past .................. What will happen?

This movie will be entered in the I am making movies competion at the museum. Hope you enjoy! We had a lot of fun making this movie. We hope we win a prize! Wish us luck :)

Past Connections from SchoolTV on Vimeo.

The Braille Alphabet

Braillewas invented so that blind people could read and write through touch. It was invented by Louis Braille. He was blind so then he became a teacher of the blind. It is made up of dots. Each cell, of dots, represents a letter, numeral or punctuation mark.