We built a Power Station made of glass and iron. There are pools of very hot water coming from under the ground. The bubbling is made of soul sand. There are pipes going through the power station with water in them. The wire makes the turbine and then goes into a generator and it sends power to these homes. There are lots of cooling towers to cool the water flowing through. We made a big power station.
After the water flows through the Cooling Towers, it flows through the factory into the ground, which then flows back over to the cooling towers and restarts the entire process again, and again. This is why it is called renewable energy.
How the power station works
Heat or Hot water is pumped through a pipe from the earth's crust and turned into steam in a flash tank. The flash tank is very, very hot.
The steam goes through another pipe and turns the turbine, which the generators produce electricity that is exported to the grid.
The grid leads through power to other Power Lines/Transformers. Transformers are power lines which bring power from a Geothermal Power Station through to normal power lines, then to homes.
The big tower you might see is a cooling tower. The water leftover from the turbine goes through into the cooling tower to cool the water down, which goes through a pipe back down to the underground to do the process again.
A teacher’s core job, according to educational consultant Neill O’Reilly, is to ‘cause learning’. This is a simply-worded, yet aspirational goal for one teacher in a dynamic classroom environment. It clarifies why teachers do what they do each day, and the ‘why’ is very important.
Having been a teacher here since 2014, I am passionate about Wairakei Primary School. The school’s values provide a superb foundation for learning to happen, and staff and students live these values every day. The school has a busy and unique setting, a variety of active students, friendly whānau and many hardworking professionals.
Literacy, numeracy and languages are my passions in education. I believe in the importance of the basics and preparing each child for continued success in their later school and working years. Getting something just right is important to me and I admire students who put in the effort needed to achieve at their own pace. Providing support and extension is important and something Wairakei Primary School does well. Teaching in the senior school is my area of focus.
One of the rewarding roles I have is being staff representative for the Board of Trustees. My spare time is spent gardening and biking.
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