Police Museum Trip

What an amazing sunny winters day we were blessed with today. The exciting day started off with a bus trip to Aotea Lagoon where we were lucky to have a big play at the playground and sports games. Just before lunchtime we were very lucky to be visited by two police handlers and their dogs one 2 year old dog and a puppy that was just about to begin its training. The students were very lucky to get to smooth the puppy. 

After Lunch we got to go to the police museum, room 15 and our room 12 guests were amazing listeners and learnt about all the amazing things that the police do. We heard lots about NZ's criminal history and students asked very good questions. We got to try on proper police uniforms and then had a walk around the fascinating exhibits.

A Huge thanks to all our parent helpers you made the day run extremely smoothly. 

What job we want to do when we get older

For Inquiry this term we have been looking at what jobs people do. This has inspired some art and writing about what room 15 want to do when they get older. We had to think what our uniform would look like and create it using coloured paper on our photograph. We then had to say what the job was and why we wanted to do it.

Room 15 Police Officers

As a follow up from yesterdays police detective work, room 15 discussed what a police officers uniform looks like and we made our very own police hat, badge and stop and go sign. This was a great way to get excited for our trip tomorrow to the police museum.

Police Detectives

In week 11 Room 15 and the rest of the rainbow team are lucky to be going on a school trip to the police museum. To introduce the idea of what police do we had a whole class discussion and one of the ideas was a detective. So yesterday we decided to become detectives and look at how unique our fingers are. We used an ink pad and a worksheet to look at our fingerprints and used magnifying glasses to see what type of fingerprint we had.