July Reflection

We are reflecting on the learning that happened in July. 

It's great to sit and think about all the things we have done. It's a time to celebrate our learning and think about where we are heading to next (our next steps in learning). You can read our reflections on individual  blogs.

Here's Francesca's...

Tairāwhiti Enviro Centre

This week we went to the Tairāwhiti Enviro Centre where we learnt about edible gardens, composting, where our landfill goes, how to have waste free lunch boxes, how to hold a waste free disco and the importance of refusing plastic. We discovered that there's even plastic in tea bags now! We also learnt that the trucks transport our rubbish to a landfill that is 5 hours away, and that an old landfill in Te Araroa spewed out into the river after a huge rain storm. It polluted the water so they were unable to collect kai from the river. 

Composting was also very interesting as we learnt how to layer our compost with green waste then brown waste then water. The brown waste strops its from smelling and having air around your compost also helps.

Lots of photos were taken so that afternoon Mrs Torrie came and showed us how to create a photo collage in Google Slides or Canva so our blogs have style. This means that you don't have to keep scrolling on our blog pages to see all the photos. If we make a collage you can see all our photos at once.

We used photos from either our Drive or Chromebook so some people made collages of our Enviro Centre trip, others made them of our rat traps and some even created collages of celebrations we have had in class.

R.E. Challenge

This week, we have been set a challenge. We had to create a poster displaying this term's school value FAITH, WHAKAPONO. We talked about what faith looks like, feels like and sounds like. We discussed synonyms for faith and searched the Bible and the internet for quotes. Then we started creating our posters. The challenge finishes on Friday so we will have our posters up on our individual blogs by then.