Team:

Curriculum area and learning focus:

Evidence of learning (eg photos of students in action or their bookwork)

Staff

PLD - focus:

‘zero waste’

Intermediate Hub

Social Sciences:

Exploring Globalisation and Free Trade

Team 1/2

We played games from the ‘olden days’. We enjoyed playing these games and now we play them at lunch time too.

Awa 1

Making birdseed cakes to feed the birds in winter.

Year 5/6 Gardening Club

We have been helping Mr Renwick develop the garden.  A group of self selected students have been shovelling and raking new dirt for the gardens. Some of the students are also planning to paint the fence and put up some wall planters with Mr Renwick's old guttering. They will be planting some herbs and other lovely smelly plants.

Team 5/6

Our concept for Term 3 has been Campaign Earth which has focussed on problems in the environment and what we can do about them. We have talked a lot about sustainability, and also visited Orana Park to see what we can do to help save and protect endangered species.

Our speeches this year were all completed from an environmental perspective. The students selected topics that were of interest to them and persuaded the audience as to how they could help.

Team 5/6

As part of a Dairy NZ and School Kit initiative we have been planting seeds and looking at different variables that could affect their growth. We made green houses to see if the growth of the seeds would be improved.

Rakau 2

Some of Rakau 2 children volunteered to assist the Prebbleton Domain committee with planting shrubs at the domain in September.

GaTE Art

Some gifted and talented artists working on their visual representation of our cultural narrative

Intermediate Hub

Science- Exploration

‘In Our Backyard’

Our students are discussing and testing the water quality of the Selwyn River and Lake Ellesmere.

Whole School

Jayden from Rakau block showing how we recycle cardboard

Whole School

Promoting the recycling of cell phones