Kauri Syndicate Award to Jing

Congratulations Jing. You are a popular pupil in Room 18 because of your caring and kind ways. With your schoolwork, you have made pleasing progress. Ka Pai!

Celebrating Diwali

Today we celebrated Diwali. Aayush dressed up in his kurta. His Mum came in her salwar kameez. 

Mrs Nagpal drew a rangoli pattern on a table and we added coloured powder to the pattern. 

Vibrant colours, spectacular and breath taking result!

Principal's Certificate awarded to Jessica

Congratulations to Jessica for being an empathetic friend to others. She has put a lot of effort into her schoolwork and has made pleasing progress. Well done Jessica!

Grandparents reading to us

We were very lucky to have seven grandparents in Room 18 to read to us today. A big thank you to Kaya's Nana, Ben's Granny and Poppy, Arlo's Nana, Roman's Papa, and Caprice's Nana and Gam!

Book Character Parade

What a wonderful parade. Thanks so much Room 18 for your enthusiasm today!

Cassie Celebrating New Zealand Chinese Language Week

Cassie proudly wore her Chinese clothes on Thursday to celebrate  

her culture.

Should Dolphins Be Taken From Their Natural Habitat? by Peter

Should Dolphins Be Taken From Their Natural
Habitat?

My answer is no, why?  The reason is dolphins only have
specific feeding times and specific food but in the wild,
dolphins have the freedom to eat anything, anytime.

My second reason is that dolphins are forced to do tricks
for humans-it gives the dolphins a lot of anxiety, pressure
and stress.

Another reason is that dolphins will get very bored in a
blank aquarium.  A suggestion to those who don’t agree
with me should at least tell SeaLife to give a bit more
decoration to the aquariums.

Next reason is that they have no friends, just think about
it-a life without family or friends and being forced to act
for strangers, imagine that.

My 5th reason is that dolphins don’t have the freedom to
roam in those little tanks, it could be a big tank but they
would need to swim in circles every day but if they are in
the wild they can swim with freedom and they will think,
“I love freedom!”

6th reason here we go!  This one is because that dolphins
get excess chlorine because of the chlorine in the pool which
gives skin illness and that means that the dolphins have
only a short lifespan of only about half the time in the wild.

Next reason is that the breeding in the aquariums is hard so

the keepers have to keep on capturing the dolphins from the
wild, this is reducing the number of dolphins in the wild and
later there could be no dolphins at all!

8th reason-Don’t put dolphins in captivity, it’s not nice.

By Peter