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Competitions for Schools!
Competitions for Schools!
Prizes include - flight simulator rides at
Prizes include - flight simulator rides at
The Aviator Experience!
The Aviator Experience!
View some wonderful examples of posters made by students from Moanatairi and Parawai schools - displayed in the Carson's Bookshop window, Pollen Street Thames.
STEAM MACHINE COMPETITION
STEAM MACHINE COMPETITION
Look up YouTube designs on home-made steam machines. Choose one you like - or design your own! Give it a try - construct one, and then submit. No matter how humble the entry is, it is about learning and comparing them to the "real deals" at the Goldmine Experience and those steam engine trains at the Thames Small Gauge Railway. Go on - give it a try!
Great prizes can be won!
Entries for both the poster competition and the steam engines can also be submitted to Mrs. Ruth Howes (Librarian of Thames High School) . They can be left at the school's Main Reception.
EXTENSION! The last opportunity to submit posters or steam engines to the school or Carnegie Library, is 10am on Thursday 4th September. Don't miss out!
Did you know that the famous South African statesman Jan Smuts, founded the Royal Airforce - so laying the foundation blocks for the legacy of Thames-born Sir Keith Park?
What colorful yet controversial Thames MP, performed the "turning of the sod" of the Cape Town Railway in 1859 - as well as the Thames (NZ) Railway in 1878? Find out more at the KiwiSA EXPO on 6th September !
What colorful yet controversial Thames MP, performed the "turning of the sod" of the Cape Town Railway in 1859 - as well as the Thames (NZ) Railway in 1878? Find out more at the KiwiSA EXPO on 6th September !
What has been the impact of the South African Dungbeetle on NZ/Hauraki farming practices? Click here to learn more
Whanaungatanga and Ubuntu. What are the similarities and differences. Watch Obama's take on Ubuntu while delivering Mandela's obituary.
All three schools below were founded by the same person - who also was at one time, New Zealand's Member of Parliament for Thames!
Greys High School, Gqeberha - Alma Mater of Siya Kolisi (Springbok Captain)
Thames High School - one of the older schools in New Zealand founded in 1880
Greys College (Bloemfontein) "Incubator " for up-and- coming Springboks
CE Fivaz - President of SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, credits the cyanide extraction process for not only saving the early SA gold mining industry, but also making major economic growth possible in South Africa during the 20th Century. He acknowledged New Zealand (Thames Goldfields) for overseeing the world's first large scale experiment of this process. Professor James Park, (Director of the Thames School of Mines), established himself as a world leader of the practical implementation of this process, during the 1890's
Lena Kenrick and Annie Devon both worked in the many concentration camps set up throughout South Africa during the war (1899-1902). Lena's father was the Warden of the Thames Goldfields and Annie had been a teacher at Whitianga. Together with twenty other teachers, they were the first women to represent New Zealand abroad.
Walter Callaway - recognized by the RSA as the "key initiator of Māori participation in the NZ Defense Force." Student at Thames School of Mines. Learn more about this remarkable New Zealander - as well as a handful of other fellow Māori SA War volunteers, by visiting the KiwiSA Expo in Thames on 6 September!
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