Last Friday, thirteen students, accompanied by science teachers Mrs Nisha and Mr Frank, attended the 2019 NIWA Auckland Science Fair, held at Mount Roskill Grammar School. The students had worked either individually or in pairs to perform a science fair project and display their experiments and findings on a board for the fair. Projects from 29 different schools crowded the hall at Mount Roskill Grammar School and the vast range of experiments and the detailed knowledge displayed was astounding. It was open to public viewing on Friday evening and Saturday and drew a lot of fascinated supporters, enjoying the creative display boards and getting fascinated by the results of hours and hours of work from hundreds of students. Projects were entered into specific categories - such as material world, living world, technology - and within each category were prizes for first, second and third as well as highly commended. Several MAGS projects took out prizes, with a first and third p...
Sustainability. Environmental awareness. Some people would call these fads, but climate change is not going to be short lived. Unless we take action. Nowadays there is lots of talk about how to save our earth. Friends talk about it, family talks about it, people post about it on social media. ‘I spent the weekend doing volunteer tree planting’, ‘I joined a stream clean up’, ‘I’m going vegan, long term’, ‘I donated to a wildlife rescue organisation’. It’s easy to feel guilty that you aren’t doing all of these things too, but the reality is they involve time, money, effort and organisational skills. Don’t worry! You don’t have to be extreme. As an individual there are innumerable ways that you can play your part in being sustainable and preventing damage to the earth. And they don’t have to be expensive or grand, just simple changes that will reduce your carbon footprint and help you have a positive effect on the world. So many products include plastic these days. Excessive pa...
Nothing to read these holidays? Don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Here is a list of highly recommended reads compiled by members of the MAGS Blog Club! Alex Rider series - Anthony Horowitz Dear Vincent - Mandy Hager Everyday - David Levithan Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Far From the Tree - Robin Benway Hive - AJ Betts Lists of Note - compiled by Shaun Usher Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng Matched - Ally Condie Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend - Mathew Green Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs Moonrise - Sarah Crossan Mortal Fire - Elizabeth Knox My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece - Annabel Pitcher Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Northern Lights - Philip Pullman Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman Paper Towns - John Green She is Not Invisible - Marcus Sedgwick Starters - Lissa Price (and sequel Enders) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The...
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