New Entrant Project

The children noticed that the deck outside Room 18 and 19 was dull, hot and lifeless.  They decided to develop the deck into a living learning work space.  They plan to include plants and vegetables to encourage wildlife to visit the deck and make it sustainable.  They also want the space to become an area where the can learn, an extension of the classroom. 
Here is a photo of the deck at the beginning of the year.

 

Since the beginning of the school year the children have been busy planting.  After a while the deck looked like this. 













It is now half way through the school year and the deck is developing.  We are now finding more mini beast.

Butterfly

While working on the deck and the concept of change the children found some caterpillars on the swan plant.  We bought a few branches into the classroom.  The caterpillars changed into chrysalis' then beautiful Monarch butterflies.  We were lucky enough to observe the butterfly emerging from the chrysalis.

Planting veg

The children worked with Mrs Elmore to plant some vegetables on our deck.  They thought carefully about what the vegetables need to grow.  We plan use vegetables to make pastries for our Grandparents afternoon tea in Term 3.

New Entrant Toy Sale

The New Entrant Team are developing the deck outside Rooms 18 and 19.  To raise funds for the materials the children held a toy sale.  Children purchased a recycled toy for a gold coin donation.  We raised over $700!!

Fruit Feast

Today Room 22 harvested some tamarillos and mandarins from the orchard. Many of us had never tasted tamarillo before and thought they tasted really yummy, although the skin was a bit sour.

Piwakawaka Report

The Piwakawaka/Fantail is the bird that represents the Year 2 children. Watch the Little Bird Tale Room 22 created to find out some interesting facts.

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Signs in the Gully

The Year 4 team have noticed that the signs in our gully are old and falling apart. We have decided that as our Enviro project for this year we will replace them with more up to date, permanant signs. Our first job is to find out why they have deteriorated. Next we have to think of an alternative.

Beyond Green Gold Day

Today a group of students from Woodlands Park School came to visit our school. They met with our BDoubleG's (our reflection group) and they talked about what makes us great Enviro schools. It was great to see them sharing their big ideas and to show them around our wonderful school.