Grade 3/4 Sackley have been busily learning about the Ocean and its connection to the waterways. This term we went to the Marine Discovery Centre and explored the range of creatures in our local ocean. We were really excited to touch sea cucumbers and hermit crabs. We even got to look at them with UV light. It was really interesting to see which creatures would light up under the UV light. We got to review footage from the water around the Marine Discovery Centre and saw octopus, seals, shrimp and skates all coming for a feed. The octupus’ tentacles were creepy in the way that they moved in the water.

We have also had visitors in our school to talk to us, this included Angela from Landcare who came in to investigate what invertebrates we have in our local rivulet. She collected water samples from different spots and we searched for insects that would tell us how healthy our rivulet is. We found lots of creatures from the poor water quality section but we were really excited to find some from the fair water quality section. We are going to go back to the rivulet in Spring to see if there are more and if there are ways we can improve the health of our rivulet.