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Thursday 23 August 2018

Our Trip To The Sky Tower|By Jack

Today our class, along with a few others visited Auckland city to learn about the infamous Sky Tower. This may just seem like a cool trip that we had to pay a small fee for, but you'd be wrong as we were kindly funded this trip by Mr Douglas Bates. Because of his kind act, we along with Learning Space 1 and Room 5 learnt so much about our iconic structure. We learnt such things as the glass we were standing on was a whole 38mm thick! Also that the Sky Tower's weight is equivalent to 6,000 elephants! There are over 70 floors in the Sky Tower, and we only visited roughly 15% of it! The main part of the trip was visiting the main observing floor, which is floor 51. From here, you can see people bungee jumping off from the top, and at least 80km of land at every direction. While we were up here, we all had a little challenge for ourselves. We were all given a little booklet with blank boxes, with arrows pointing at a landmark. All around us were hand rails with information on them about nearby landmarks. Our challenge to figure out what to put in each blank box. I had a lot of fun learning a whole bunch today, and I believe that everyone else did too.


7 comments:

  1. The Sky tower trip looked very interesting, it must of been fun looking over all of Auckland. I’m sure you would’ve remembered everything well since it was a change of the boring old classroom and best of all it was free. I could never think of going to the sky tower as a school trip because I live in the South Island. Good work.

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  2. Hello Jack, It’s Freya from Westland High School here. It looks like you had a lot of fun at the Sky Tower. I like how you used descriptive words in your writing. Douglas Bates was very kind to sponsor your trip to the Sky Tower. It was very cool how you described how heavy and tall it was. I’ve never been to the Sky Tower before. What’s the view like? Is there a place to eat and look at the beautiful view Was it cool when you saw the people bungee jumping? Maybe next time you could post a couple more photos of what you did. Blog you later. Go have a look at my blog http://kanierefreyac.blogspot.com/

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  3. Hello Jack, My name is Emily from Westland High School. This trip looks like heaps of fun. I like how you used descriptive word to describe your trip. Douglas Bates was so nice to sponsor your trip and pay the fees for you. I love how you described how heavy and thick the sky tower is. I have never been to the Sky tower, what’s the view like. Blog you later!

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  4. Hello Jack, My name is Scott and I attend Westland High School. This trip to the Sky Tower looked and sounded quite interesting. I have been to the Sky Tower to and I really liked standing on the glass and looking down. This trip was probably a lot of fun since you weren’t sitting in a boring classroom. I was wondering what did you learn about the information on the handrails? Also heres, a link to my blog: http://kanierescottm.blogspot.co.nz/

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  5. hi Jack my name is Hugo from Westland High School. I think that it was really nice of Douglas Bates to sponsor your school because not very many schools get the opportunity to go to the Sky Tower. It must have been very fun. And like how you used lots of punctuation like exclamation marks and question marks. I have only been there once because I live in the South Island. What was the most exciting part?
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  6. Hi my name is Michael from Westland High School. I think this post is amazing. I have been to the Sky Tower myself and I think it's pretty cool.
    Thanks for the information. I didn't know the tower weighed the same as 6000 elephants.

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  7. Hi Jack, my name is Lucan and I go to Westland High School. I didn't know that the equivalent weight for the Sky Tower was 6,000 elephants but that sure is very heavy!! This is the link to my blog link./www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=397354148216301295#editor/target=post;postID=587887520973470126

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