Every year, the year 13 Biology class goes to Orana Park. This is not simply a fun day out - this is work!!

The students are set to work analysing the details of a collection of replica primate skulls - looking for key features that are clues to how these animals live. We then go and observe these primates in the flesh,  trying to make sense of what we saw on the skulls.

After visiting the living primates, its back to the long dead - students are set to work looking at the collection of replica ancestral human skulls.

Using what we have learned from the primates, we can make much keener observations about the life habits of these ancestors of ours. This is all valuable revision for the external examinations in November. 

After lunch we look at the park's collection of NZ bird life - again revising material learnt earlier in the year about how these species came to NZ and became what we have today.