Whio's visit to Nottingham Stream

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 Today the children from Whio visited the Nottingham Stream to see the Long Fin Tuna (eels). Jenny (our Facilitator from Te Tuna Taone) had been down to the awa (stream) the night before and set an eel trap (that did not harm the eels). Overnight 3 tuna swam into the net, 2 were long fin tuna that we then transferred to a tank for the children to see. 

We completed 3 activities with the help of 6 wonderful senior students and Jenny. At Station 1 the children got to carefully touch a tuna and we learnt about the stream and how they live. Station 2 look at water clarity (the water quality was poor) and Station 3 was studying little creatures from the stream. 




 



This was the net that Jenny used to catch the eels last night.





                                                




We had the best morning and want to thank all our wonderful parent helpers who gave up their time to come and help! 




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