Trip to MOTAT

As part of our flight topic, the Ninja Warriors were super fortunate to go on a trip to MOTAT to explore the museum and to also take part in a Fantastic Flight session with one of the educators there.

We had such a great time and learnt about the four forces of flight which are:

- Thrust (which is moving forward)
- Drag (which goes back)
- Lift ( brings it up)
- Weight (brings it down)

On a plane if there is too much lift and not enough weight, it will just go up up and up. If there is too much drag and not enough thrust, it will go backwards.  We discovered that is important for all these forces to be balanced to create flight.

Check out our photos at MOTAT:

Cook Island Tivaevae Patterns

During Cook Island language week the Ninja Warriors made their own tivaevae patterns based on some Cook Island designs. Check out some of the designs they created...