Our message for Happy Feet

Hi guys, our message to Happy Feet is now on the website!  Here's what we wrote...

Goodbye Happy Feet,

We'll miss you so much!  Good luck getting back to Antarctica, we hope you have fun with your friends and family.  Please don't come back (even though we would love to see you again), New Zealand is not a place for penguins!  Stay safe - look out for sharks, orcas, and sealions.. AND.. don't get lost again!

From Room 6, Totara Park School, New Zealand

You can read our message and messages from people all over the world HERE!

Goodbye Happy Feet!

Hi guys, it's just 12 days until Happy Feet leaves New Zealand!  The famous Emperor Penguin has been getting looked after at Wellington Zoo since he got a little bit lost and washed up on Peka Peka Beach in June but now he's all better and ready to go home to Antarctica.  Happy Feet is going to get a ride on a special Antarctic explorer ship and when they let him go he will carry a satellite tag so we can all trace his journey as he heads south.

If you visit the website below you can write a farewell message for Happy Feet!  The cool people at the 'Our Far South' project will print your message, name and suburb on his giant farewell card and send it with him on the boat to the Southern Ocean.  Your message, name, and suburb will also appear on the website!

You can write your farewell message for Happy Feet HERE!
And you can read messages from people all over the world HERE!

School closed!

Hi everyone, how cool is this weather?!  There's so much snow and ice today that it's dangerous and so we've had to close the school!  The courts are covered in ice and very slippery and the playground has a thick layer of snow all over it!  Lots of people can't even leave their houses!  Stay tuned to Newstalk ZB or visit the website below to find out when we'll be open again, if this snow continues it could be a couple of days!

Now... homework... I want to see photos of you building snowmen, having snowball fights, making snow angels, sliding down hills, and just having fun in the snow with your friends and family!  Bring them to school (once we're open again) or send them to our class email and we can put them on the blog!  I will post some of my favourite photos soon so keep checking the blog for updates.  Stay safe, stay warm, and have fun!

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