Stream Monitoring Term 1 2011

A new group of River Rockets, learnt the science of stream monitoring and the Maori perspectives and importance placed on water. Children conducted tests and searched for 'bugs'. Our findings concluded that Poorman Stream was in very good health with many mayflies and caddisflies found easily.

Cooking Kiwiana Style

Thanks to Isabelle, our dorking pullet, and all her eggs many classes have been learning the art of the Kiwiana classic, the PAVALOVA !

See the eggs we found and look at the yummy result!

Getting Cooking

Cooking on PhotoPeach

Now that we can automatically water our vegetable garden over the summer holidays we come back to an impressive supply of vegetables that make up our cooking.

Room 2 were making tomato chutney which will give us yummy morning teas with cheese and crackers.

Room 10 made silverbeet and ricotta filo parcels. These were also shared with other students in the school.

Room 6 made tomato and cheese tasters.

Our vege garden will be providing us with lots of cooking to come!!

Treasure Hunt

We have been having a treasure hunt for potatoes to see if we can find them all!

Tomorrow we are going to be cooking them and making potato salad.

Nikau Garden

Today a group of senior students visited Nikau Garden to learn about planting up young plants and cuttings. We learnt how to work with seddlings, cuttings and division of plants.

While we were looking at the seedlings the mist spray came on and we all got wet!!!

Ecofest 2010

This year our Junk Shop Rock Band played on instruments made from recycled material collected from the Nelson Recycle Centre.

To hear our piece look us up on You Tube: The Junk Shop Rock Band.

Eggs!!!

Our chooks are now laying eggs!!!!

Under our ecohut we have a chicken coop with three chickens. They are called janice, Isobelle and Darryl, named after the last three principals of the school. They are heritage chickens. We have a Rhode Island red, a white wyndote and a dorking chicken.

They love the children and enjoy the scraps from our garden.