Conservation Week- Share your nature story

For conservation week some of us entered a competition to share our nature stories. We all had a lot of fun writing about different experiences we have had in nature. We were then lucky enough to be invited to an event to celebrate these adventures. Some of us got certificates and Jackson even won a prize!

Slade with his piece of writing that was being displayed. 

Harry Katelyn and Slade with their certificates.

Harry and Slade posing for a photo after a fun evening! 

Yazmin's Beeswax Wraps

my beeswax wrap

This is my beeswax wrap that we made today in the tec room all breaks and it took a while but we managed it in the end

Harrison's Beeswax Wraps

bees wax wrap

 Today we made beeswax wraps to save the environment from the rubbish it was really fun it was really hard to spread out the beeswax over the material really really fast By Harrison 

Friday Beach Time

On the last day of term we went down to the beach to enjoy the winter sunshine. We had a great time working together to build huts and trying to stop the water from destroying our huts.

Looking out to the sea trying to see if another wave is going to crash on
 our huts. 

Meka and Katelyn's hut

Luke's Beeswax Wraps

hi we made beeswax wraps using material and beeswax. We did this because we are trying to reduce the waste in our school. 

Enviroschools Celebrationg Assembly

In week 9 we had a celebration assembly to share what work we have been doing towards our bronze for enviroschool. This is the slideshow Ngahere presented to the whole school.

Meka's Beeswax Wrap

beeswax raps

today in class w made beeswax raps this is my one. we did it for the environment we are trying to make less plastic so we wanted to make beeswax raps. my favorite bit was making the label

Jesse's Top Tips

litter free poster

WALT: help our families use less rubbish in our lunch boxes.
we did this activity to help us and others find ways to use less plastic and wrappers in our lunch boxes. Paroa school is an enviro school working towards a bronze medal and we want to start making improvements. We found out lots of new ways to use rubbish in our lunch boxes and we can't wait to try not having no rubbish in my lunch boxes.

Taj's Top Tips

Tips & Tricks for lunch boxes

WALT: have less rubbish in our lunchboxes We are doing this because we are enviroschool and we want less rubbish because we find lots of litter around our school. I can't wait to try making more homemade goodies like cakes so I don't have as much rubbish in my lunchbox. It was fun because we got to see what homemade things we could make.

Dean's Top Tips

Tips and trick for a letter free lunches

Walt help our families use less rubbish in our lunch boxes
We did this activity to help us and others find ways to use less plastic and wrappers in our lunch boxes.
Paroa school is an enviro school working towards a bronze medal and we want to start making improvements. We found out lots of new ways to use less rubbish in our lunch boxes and we can't wait to try having no rubbish in my lunch box.

Beeswax Wraps

Today we made beeswax wraps. We wanted to do this as we are sick of seeing glad wrap in everyones lunchboxes.

"How to make beeswax wrap

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees or the lowest setting. ( Pinking shears will help prevent your swatches from fraying).

2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the fabric on top. If the pattern is one sided place pattern faced down.

3. Evenly distribute a liberal amount of beeswax all over the fabric. ( grate the beeswax ). Make sure you spread the beeswax all over the fabric.

4. Place it in the oven for about 4-8 minutes. When the beeswax melts completely, take the tray out and use a paintbrush to spread the beeswax evenly over the fabric.

5. Hang the beeswax up on a clothes hanger and let dry.

Then you are done with your homemade beeswax wrap!"

 

 

Tips and Tricks for a better lunchbox

  

WALT: have less rubbish in our lunchbox     
 We did this because so we can save the world you should buy food that doesn't have plastic on it instead of using glad wrap you can make bee's wax's wrap's and bee's wax's wraps can reuse it and it's pretty cool.  if you see people littering tell them to pick it up so the world can be a better place.
 Hopefully, we can make the world a better place.

By Quaid. 

Painting Panels

As a school we are working on beautifying our environment. Last term we painted a panel for outside our compost area. We are now painting a panel for the front of our school.

 

 

Kohen's Dear Human Writing

Dear humans, 


Please stop leaving your rubbish lying around because there are truckloads of plastic getting dumped into our ocean each minute!! 


My little brother was sick because of all the rubbish lying around.


I like jellyfish but since you put the plastic in the ocean I eat this.

Harrison's Compost Homework

For homework for this term we have been exploring all things waste. Below is the newsletter Harrison created using Smore. 

Term 2 homework

Bury it, Dig it up

Last week we buried a range of different types of rubbish. Every Tuesday for the next four weeks we are going to dig up this rubbish and see if it has changed over time. We are trying to find out what happens when things decompose and how different types of rubbish break down when exposed to the elements.

  
 

What's in your lunchbox?

This week we dove into people's lunchboxes. We have been looking at how much waste is in our lunchboxes and what percentage of that waste will decompose. We were shocked when we worked out how long it would take for some of our lunch box contents to breakdown. This was a very interesting activity as we hadn't really thought about how the waste we made when we were five is still somewhere in the world. 

 
 

Blogger of the Week

At our school we do blogger of the week. Our blogger for this week is Katelyn from our class! Katelyn has been doing some amazing blog posts and has been doing some amazing positive, thoughtful, helpful comments. Well done Katelyn! Below is a copy of one of her amazing blog posts.

Recycling for Homework

PLEASE DON’T LITTER!!!

Why you should not litter: If you litter the rubbish can easily just go in the sea and kill sharks, turtles, whales and lots of other animals.

Did you know when you put something in the recycling bin some stuff can be turned into something else?

What can you recycle: You can recycle paper, metal and plastic bottles.

  The metal, paper and bottles get their own piles. Some metal goes to a special factory so it can get crushed and then squashed together from other recycling bins. Then chopped into little pieces. After that, those pieces are melted in a big hot oven and then poured into blocks. The blocks are then sent to other factories because the factories can make other things with the metal. Some metal that you throw away in the recycling bin they don’t go to the dump there become something new like a new metal can or a new roll of foil or even part of a bike and car.

Some old plastic milk jug can be turned into something different too. It is taking to a special factory where it makes the plastic get shredded to bits and melted into a really hot oven and makes little pellets. Factories take the pellets and make them into new things like clothing, carpet and lots more.
But the paper is a little bit different from plastic and metal. Some paper goes to a recycling centre so it can get mixed with other paper in lots of water. Then it gets all goopy so it is smashed together by two big rollers and the rollers turn the goop into big flat pieces. The pieces are then left to dry. After that, they’re then cut into sheets of paper so we can write on them or do art, all sort of things.

So ALWAYS recycle metal, plastic bottles and paper so our environment is BTB.

BTB stands for Better Than Before.

By Katelyn.M

Clara, Harlem and Jesse's School Map

This is what we made today, we had to make a view of our school on paper or on google drawings. Before we made the maps we went into groups and had a piece of paper that had categories of rubbish and our teachers picked a spot around the whole school to find all the rubbish we can find in that area and then we telly marked it on the paper.

C = compost bin

Orange spheres = compost bins

Green spheres = recycling bins

Yellow spheres = recycling bin

Zero Waste

As a class this term we are exploring the waste our school produces and endeavouring to make our school waste free. Last week we did a waste survey and looked at the waste that was scattered around our school. We were shocked with the amount of rubbish we found especially the rubbish that had been hidden by people. Below are some photos from our waste survey.