Maungaraki School is having a clean up day around Maungaraki. Senior Syndicate went to the Maungaraki Church and down Barberry Grove. Nikau went to the park and the dairy. Rata Syndicate went around the school grounds. All the Syndicates had to collect Rubbish and Recycling.
Clean up day.
CUPCAKE DAY!
On Monday we had a cupcake day for the SPCA. Lots of people bought in cupcakes that we sold to raise the money.It turned out we had to sell them over two days cause there were so many cupcakes.We raised about $407! It was a success.By Sophie &Ryleigh
Transpower Community Award - Our new play area!
In the Enviroteam, we have been very busy making plans for a new play area between room 7 and room 6. In that space there is going to be seating and a sand pit with a wave wall. The people in the team all had a job to ask someone in there family or to do some research about our plans. We have just talked to Jess, the engineer about are plans for the play area. She said it was a very good plan and then we all shared what we had done at home with Jess.
Alisha got some plans of the school from her Dad to find out if there was any thing under the ground where we wanted to build. We were worried that there might be sewer pipes or electrical cables. They said that there was nothing under the ground near where we are doing the play area. Tanya, Dipwanita, Priya and Jhanvi drew an amazing scale model of our design. Jess was very impressed! Hannah Shaw, Casey and Haylee were working on getting quotes for some boulders, and Laura and Hannah Burdan have consulted with school children about our plans.
Then she shared some plans and ways for us to organise the project. She also had some amazing stuff to tell us. She told us what engineers do. They do so many different things!
By Sophie.
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RECYCLE
Today in the enviroteam has been busy with 2 main jobs the grant and the new paper recycleing bins. The paper recycle bins are givein to us so we can get more trees for our school. The grant is for the soil we need for our plants.
Learning about the compost and worm bins.
Last week we were inside the library talking about how we do the compost bins. We figured out a roster - Sophie is typing this up. Mr Marsh showed us how to do the compost. After a while, we went out of the library and Mr Marsh showed us how to get out the worm pee (otherwise known as the secret formula - don't tell anyone :-] )
What the team is up to this year
This year we have recruited lots more people to help us in the Enviroteam.
Our goals for this year are...
To design and build a shaded seating area with the help of some engineers.
To get out water tank ready to use.
To make sure we update our blog regularly.
To fix up our garden using some donated tyres, there are millions of them!
Hopefully this year we will get badges for enviroteam members.
This year we want to go out with a bang BEFORE the year ends.So we want the silver award this year.
We have split our team into two main groups. The blogging team, and the gardening team.
By Adam, Jessica and Joshua.
