Tread Lightly

Tread Lightly is an awesome organisation that visits Auckland schools to help 8-12 year old children learn more about looking after our planet by making sustainable choices.  Dominique from Tread Lightly visited Pt England yesterday to explain why we need to start recycling soft plastics.  These are the plastics we can scrunch up in our hands, like plastic bags, chip packets and plastic wrap.  Donte and Jermaine stepped into the limelight to help Dominique share her message with everyone in Team 4 yesterday.  They played their roles with so much style and enthusiasm.  It was wonderful to watch.

New recycling bins have just been delivered to Pt England.  Donte and Jermaine have also volunteered to be Room 11's Bincurity monitors to make sure that we chuck our rubbish in the right bin. Ka mau te wehi!

What do we need to do? Chuck it in the right bin!

My Term 1 Animation - by Jayah

This is my animation about respect and this animation shows me picking up rubbish outside.

My fourth marine environment activity - by Valessa

Hi I am back and I wanted to post this activity because I want to share what I learnt about by reading.

KaitĪakitanga i nga wā kātoa

KaitĪakitanga i nga wā kātoa means guardians of everything around us. As guardians of our environment, we strolled over to Omaru Creek today to explore the birds, plant life and check on the condition of the water.  It was wonderful to see  ducks, pūkeko and dotterel in the clear water and around the reserve.  It reminded us of how this time last year the stream was severely polluted and needed a lot of cleaning and care to return it to a healthy environment.

Welcome to Room 11 2018!

It's 2018! An amazing group of enthusiastic learners are beginning a new year in a new classroom.What a wonderful first day back at school today! During the term we will be learning about being guardians of our environment, Kaitīakitanga i nga wā kātoa.

Fishing for flounder

This morning the whole school walked down to the Tamaki Estuary to support our students and manuhiri as they went fishing to catch baby flounder for our Flounder Project. Our beautiful singing brought blessings and good luck as many baby flounder were caught in the net. They have been transferred to our flounder tank to grow into healthy adult flounder that can be returned to the awa when they are ready.

What are we making?

As part of our learning about Te Taiao o Tāmaki, we were hard at work in Maker Space with Mr Vogt this week. We are designing and making bird feeders to use in our local environment: Kaitīakitanga i nga wā kātoa!  Our bird feeders will be on display at the special event at Te Oro later in the term.

Kaitiaki: watching over everything

We are learning about Te Taiao o Tāmaki and we were shocked by the sewage and pollution we saw in the Omaru Creek.  As we are all guardians, we decided that we could keep a watch over everything from Room 9: Kaitīakitanga i nga wā kātoa.

Kaitīakitanga i nga wā kātoa

We are learning about the environment in the Tāmaki area and how we can be responsible guardians of everything around us. We walked over to the Omaru Creek in Point England Reserve to check out for ourselves the pollution caused by a sewage leak into the water.