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=Northern Wairoa SPCA= the Northland Native Bird Recovery Centre. Both trips were amazing and the kids were fantastic! Of course they all wanted to take home an animal!!
 * On June 21st the Dargaville kids visited the SPCA and

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the kids were able to stroke a real kiwi and learn about looking after our native and endemic species. One of the tuis speaks so clearly and like an old man! He says things like, "How's your cold?" "My best mate Terry is cool!" They then learnt about birds such as the albatross and petrels, and what to do if you discover an injured bird.
 * The next stop was the Native Bird Recovery Centre where

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=SPCA Tikipunga Group= and Native Bird Recovery Centre because of bad weather, we finally managed to get there. The Tikipunga kids had <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">an extra surprise when they visited the Bird Recovery <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Centre, as Robert had an injured harrier hawk that he had <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">saved, to release back into the wild whilst they were there. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">They were all able to not only stroke a kiwi but were also <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">able to stroke the hawk before it was released and it flew <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">off over the valley. A very, very special moment.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">After initially having to postpone our trip to the SPCA

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">These photos were taken by Anna and Brady from the <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Friday group and Chloe from the Thursday group: || media type="custom" key="9925627" width="212" height="212" align="center" ||

NW Museum Trip <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Pippa, the education officer, was fantastic and the kids learnt <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">about cogs, wedges, cams and others. We also learnt about Pi and <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">how that came about. It was a hands-on day and the kids were kept <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">busy all day learning. The day ended with a trip on the old train <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">through Millington's Bush. The kiwi in the kiwi house were not <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">active today and all we saw of them was their bottom on the webcam! <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The photos were taken by many of the kids.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">We had an amazing day at Kiwi North, the museum at Whangarei.

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=Tikipunga Museum Trip= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">activities that taught them about wheels, cogs, cams, wedges and <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">pulleys. The whole day was a discovery day. Pippa does not "tell" <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">them the answers but always encourages the kids to think about <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">the question and discover the answer. There was more time today <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">to spend a longer session in the kiwi house, and we were very lucky <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> that the kiwi was active and feeding when we went in there. Pippa <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">was also amazing in being able to adjust her programme to talk <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">about how certain parts of technology have stayed the same and <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">how some have changed. Perfect!
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Another amazing day at the museum. Again the kids had hands-on

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