Whanara Farm trip

On the eleventh of june 2018 room five from makaraka school went to whangara farms to learn more about our grass test samples in our green houses. We were all really excited even though it was raining and muddy in the morning.

We arrived at the main sheed and after a brief discussion we went further up the farm to the weather reader. We had to walk up to it but it wasn't far and by that time the rain was gone. Androw the farm manager told us what it did and what it measured. It had a wind catcher and a direction reader. There was also a rain catcher and measuring system.He passed around his phone so we could see the grid measurement.

We then went even further into the farm to look at the trees that they were growing to keep in the soil in place. There were two trees willow for by the river and popolas for on the dry. They told us about were they put them and what happened without them there. Then they showed us all the slips and how high the water came up to.

Then we jumped back on the bus and went back to the main sheed and had lunch. Mr Swann tock some photos of us and then we went back to the bus and sat down to heed back to school.


We all had a really good and fun day. thank you to all the parents and teachers that helped us have this fun and happy day.