What's the plan Stan?

For the past couple of weeks, we have been looking at identifying the differences between hazards and emergencies and how we can be prepared.

We have had lots of drills at school for fire/earthquakes - at lots of different times in the day.

On Friday we were very lucky to have a special visitor come to school to talk to us about her job as an 'Earth Scientist'.

We learned about the earth's plates and how they can move around to cause earthquakes.  We had a go at making our own earthquake with a 'seismograph'! We were very powerful at causing the earth to shake with our vertical jumps!

Lastly, we shared a story from Kaikoura - Moo, Moo and Little Calf too. We saw the effect of what happens when the earth moves around.

We really enjoyed our morning and many of us decided that we too would like to be an earth scientist.  Thank you so much to our kind friend who came to share her knowledge with us. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful school community.

learning about the earth and its plates

Creating our own earthquake! 

Practising what to do if there is an earthquake.