Year 6 Fair

Well done to the Year 6 children who ran a very successful fair raising $688 to go toward purchasing items and paying for postage for the Christmas Boxes for children who live in poorer countries. It was wonderful seeing so many children throughout the school bringing toys and books they no longer needed for the children to sell. It was a great example of recycling and the money will go to help other children. It was AWESOME to see everyone having fun and older children helping younger children. We were AMAZED at how little rubbish there was to pick up afterwards. We are becoming tidy Kiwis!!

Louis and Milo with their game

Baking stall people getting ready for their sales.

Katrina doing a good job selling toys.

Term 3 Enviro Class Representatives

Macandrew Bay Enviro Group    Term 3

The Term 3 enviro group had its first meeting on Wednesday.

           Emily, Finn, James, Josh, Lottie, Rahwa, Erika, Zita, Jade, Ezra U, Gus,Ezra L   are the class class representatives for the 3^rd term.

·      We picked up rubbish around the school and were pleased there was very little.

·      We are checking each class to make sure lights are turned off when not needed. The best class will get 5 minutes extra play at the end of the week. 

·       We will be using our green vegetables from the garden to make soup – broccoli, silverbeet and parsley.

·      We hope to plant lettuce, carrots, cabbage and maybe strawberry plants so we can eat them later in Spring

Harvesting Our Pumpkins

Room 1 and the enviro children from last term and this term made pumpkin soup using the pumpkins we harvested from the school gardens. We softened the pumpkin skins in the microwave so they were easier to cut. We also added onion and bay leaves to the soup. The soup  was delicious!! For Maths Room 1 had to estimate the weight of each pumpkin, weigh them and then add the weights together. The total weight of the seven pumpkins 18.033kgs. We only used two pumpkins to make the soup so we have five left over. Each class has been offered a pumpkin. well done Room 4 on taking up the offer. We can't wait to see what you make with your pumpkin. We have collected the seeds and hope to grow pumpkin plants for our garden next year.

Seven lovely pumpkins grown in our school garden.

It taste great, thumbs up from Room 1

Ter 2 Enviro Team

This is the Term 2 enviro team and we had our first meeting today. We are keen to do some gardening and noticed 7 big pumpkins growing. We thought it would be a great idea to make soup with them for mid winters day and share with the school. Here are the minutes of our meeting.

Envirogroup World Savers

16^th May 2014

Present

Rosa, Georgia, Orlando,  Leyton, Emma, Olivia, Megan, Katie, James, Reid, Julia, Flynn, Gemma, Nova, Lucy

Agenda – what we discussed

1. Enviro children need to talk to their class about using their food scrap bucket

2. Every Friday we empty the buckets in the compost and we wash the buckets.

3. We read the care code and will share it at Mondays assembly.

4. We need to make sure we turn our lights off in the classroom and the staffroom on a sunny day. Enviro children to check each day.

5. We need to make sure the taps are turned off so we don’t waste water.

6. We need to look after our gardens and keep the weeds away.

7. We need to make sure we don’t waste paper.

8. We need to make sure we pick up rubbish even if it is not ours.

At the end of the meeting we went out and looked at the compost and the gardens,

We could name most of the vegetables growing in the garden.

We noticed 7 pumpkins and will  use these to make pumpkin soup in winter.

We had our photo taken for the enviro display in the front office and to go on our Enviro blog.

Enviro children are to

Empty compost

Check lights are turned off

Check taps are turned off

Pick up rubbish when the see it

Be good role models

Stream Restoration - Parent Working Bee

It was great to see principals, teachers, parents and children giving up their Saturday afternoon to help transform our stream.They weeded, put down sacks and shifted over three truckloads of woodchips. Thanks guys it is looking great!Our plants are thriving.

They shifted woodchips.

Weeded and put down sacks.

Wow, over three truck loads of woodchips were spread.

The Stream Restoration - Room 1's Working Bee

The Room 1 human chain!!

Wow it doesn't take long to shift a trailer load of woodchips.

Tomorrow there is a community working bee at the stream. Room 1 thought they would help out and have their own working bee. We formed a human chain and shifted heaps of woodchips in next to no time.

The Best Time in the Garden - Harvesting and Eating!

Today we harvested our potatoes and Diana helped us scrub them clean.

We baked them in the oven and then put some sour cream and chives on top.

We shared them with our classes. They were GREAT!