Currently there are 28 summer sports on the Olympic Games programme for this year. Approximately 10,500 athletes are expected to participate in this year’s games. Did you know that the 28 summer sports break down into 302 events?! Some of the sports are: archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe/kayak flatwater, canoe/kayak slalom, cycling BMX, cycling mountain bike, cycling [...]

Hey guys its only four days to go till the Olympics start! Check out the official website for the Olympics: http://en.beijing2008.cn/ . Also check out New Zealand’s official site: http://www.olympic.org.nz/Front.aspx?ID=3783 . Our team is already there and they are saying how hot it is! Check out this site also: http://tvnz.co.nz/content/olympics_2008_index/olympics_index . It’s going to be very exciting to [...]

Car science by Richard Hammond is a new book that we have just recieved at the library. It is jam packed full of amazing facts, incredible illustrations and inventions. It explains the history of cars very well, and also has interesting facts about what cars might be like in the future. Some scientists are putting effort into developing hybrid [...]

The first pyramid in Egypt was built as the burial place of King Djoser in 2630 B.C. It is called the Step Pyramid because it rises in steps. It was designed as a giant stairway for Djoser to climb to the sun-god in the sky.
 
King Sneferu developed the Great Pyramid with sloping sides. It was [...]

I know I’ve got you thinking so I’ll prolong the suspense a bit. Well, if you like getting struck, flashed and sparked at then you might be interested in this job. A fulminologist is a scientist who studies… LIGHTNING! Fancy that! It is a fact that about 100 flashes of lightning hit the Earth EVERY [...]

Check out the Book of Absolutely Useless Lists written by Philip Ardagh. Philip Ardagh is very tall. He wasn’t allowed a pet until he was an adult. He wears size 16 shoes (on his size 16 feet). His beard is younger than he is and he doesn’t know how to drive a car or a [...]

I swear this is true… in fact I read it off a book. Are you very curious already? Well, a zedonk is actually a light brown animal with very fine stripes which is a result of breeding a zebra and a donkey. Amazing isn’t it? Cheetahs are the the fastest animals on land but boy [...]

Hey, there’s a 10-year-old going to the Olympics!! His name is Gandalf. Ok, ok I admit it…… he’s a horse (a gelding)…… but he’s a goer. He will be Mark Todd’s horse for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He’s grey, and he arrived in the South Island to train with Mark Todd at the end of January. [...]

Hey guys here is our hot Olympic young person for this month….. Samantha Hamill. She started this sport, swimming, when she was six. Samantha has won quite a few titles already, especially for her age group. One of her events at the olympics this year is swimming butterfly. I find butterfly a hard style to swim! Isn’t it [...]

Do you suffer from spheksophobia, arachnophobia or ophidiophobia? What should you do if you’re stung by a wasp and whose bite is more dangerous - Mr or Mrs Katipo’s? Learn the answers to all these perplexing questions and more by reading Poisonous Stuff. You need to watch your step in a world full of fangs, [...]