In Te Ngahere the year six’s went to Urupukapuka island while the year 7 and 8s went to technology. A couple of days before we went on the trip we were choosing our jobs. The teacher told us the names and we need one girl and one boy. I was told nicely to let everybody get a job because I am the Paihia School bell ringer. As they were going through the names people had to paper, scissors, rock to see who got it because lots of people put their hands up. Once the teacher called out the last name of the job nobody put their hand up so I did. The jobs were biosecurity, construction, planting and health and safety. If you were biosecurity you would check people's bags and stand on a cleaning brush so the other year sixs could clean their shoes. If you were construction you would take the rat trap parts onto the boat. (We got split into 2 groups because we had to make rat traps and plant trees. For planting you would help your group plant trees at the end of the walk. For health and safety you would mark who got on the boat, give people hand sanitizer and hold a first aid kit. On the day we had to pack a nice lunch and lots of water. I really enjoyed this trip because I learnt how to plant trees and make rat traps. Before we left the school we had to grab our school hat and school t-shirt. As we were about to get on the boat we had to line up in 2 lines so bio security could check our bags and we could clean our shoes so we didn't bring pests onto the island. Once we got on the boat be met a lichenologist called Marley. He wanted to find a new species of lichen. He didn't find a new lichen species but he did find a rare species. After we got off the boat we went to a small place for morning tea. After that we got split into 2 groups and my group had to walk up a hill to a farm and we sat on a big Pohutukawa tree for a little while. We got off the tree and walked down a hill to the campgrounds. We had to jump over a fence to plant our tree. Once we got over the fence we watched our Project Island song teacher plant a tree. Once she had done I handed out gloves to everybody because my job was planting. My group and I planted our tree and the name is a beach tree. Once everybody had done planting there tree we walked back up a hill and went to have lunch. After lunch my group was now doing making rat traps. We made a proper rat trap and decorated it. When we decorated the rat trap we had to put the date, our names and our School names before we could color and draw pictures. When we finished we had a little more time and we were going to go for a small walk in the bush. Before we went in the bush we saw 2 adorable dogs. Those dogs were trained to find pests that came onto the island. The owner said that there were no pests on the island but they were just looking for pests if there was any. Then we walked into the bush turned around and walked back to the deck and the other group came back.we got back on the boat and came back to Paihia. On the terrific boat ride home we saw about 10 dolphins. Have you ever seen dolphins? Have you ever been to Urupukapuka Island for the project island song?
Hello Anika its me Manu I liked your post I’v never been to Project Island Song before but one day I’d liked to go. Your post was pretty cool making rat traps sounds fun and planting trees also sounds fun. The dogs that you mentioned sound so cute to. Hope you had a good time. Your post was pretty expiring I liked the photo of the
ReplyDeletedolphins it was so cool.
Have you ever seen a baby dolphin before.