The 3 Rs –
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The responsibility and costs of dealing with the growing mountain of packaging waste (such as single use containers) is currently falling onto taxpayers, councils and communities. The waste from packaging accounts for about one eighth of the rubbish sent to landfills. Each New Zealander throws away 83 kilograms of used packaging every year.
Last Thursday Colleen Brink from Zero Waste New Zealand visited our school to discuss ways to recycle our waste. The focus in the junior room was educating today for a sustainable tomorrow. They discussed tips for reducing waste – 1. Use it again. 2. Borrow, hire or share. 3. Sell or donate it. This is reinforced in the children’s work books. Colleen also talked about how metals are really important to recycle because it reduces the need to do further mining of things like bauxite and iron ore. The children have also been making things out of rubbish like bird feeders, boats and a letter box for the classroom etc.
Last Thursday Colleen Brink from Zero Waste New Zealand visited our school to discuss ways to recycle our waste. The focus in the junior room was educating today for a sustainable tomorrow. They discussed tips for reducing waste – 1. Use it again. 2. Borrow, hire or share. 3. Sell or donate it. This is reinforced in the children’s work books. Colleen also talked about how metals are really important to recycle because it reduces the need to do further mining of things like bauxite and iron ore. The children have also been making things out of rubbish like bird feeders, boats and a letter box for the classroom etc.
The
senior room completed a unit on water conservation studying the water cycle
like storm water drains, waste water drains and what happens in treatment
plants. Each child in the senior room took a bag home to find out how much
water they used in their showers. They
are making a model of the water system and gaining an awareness of how much
water they use.
What are we
learning about?
There
will be information in your child’s homework book about our current studies. Please check their homework book daily to
keep informed about what we are focusing on at school.
Commonwealth
Home Play Challenge
We
are encouraging the children to participate in the Commonwealth Home Play
Challenge which is about nutrition and exercise. Those who participate will not
only learn beneficial lifetime habits by taking responsibility for their own
well being but there is also a special day in store for those who do
participate.
The
seniors are in week two with the focus of having a packet free lunch every day
this week. It is good to see the children are making an effort to achieve this.
The junior’s goal is to take a walk with their whanau and count as many trees
as they can as well as aiming to have one vegetable and one fruit in their
school lunch box this week.
School
Holiday Break In
Dear Parents,
There was an incident in the holidays where a number of boys entered the school buildings and took some items of food and drink. We the board and the teachers are investigating this thoroughly and a member of the community police is also involved.
Our hope is to provide a strong lesson for the boys' involved, increased awareness of security at the school, and a sense of closure for the school community. We hope to have this resolved so we can let you know in the next newsletter.
Regards
Seba Illingworth
Board of Trustees
Dear Parents,
There was an incident in the holidays where a number of boys entered the school buildings and took some items of food and drink. We the board and the teachers are investigating this thoroughly and a member of the community police is also involved.
Our hope is to provide a strong lesson for the boys' involved, increased awareness of security at the school, and a sense of closure for the school community. We hope to have this resolved so we can let you know in the next newsletter.
Regards
Seba Illingworth
Board of Trustees
Cross
Country
We
are training every day. Please send your
children to school with appropriate training gear. The cross country run is on
Tuesday 12th August at Whenuakite School. We will be assembling at
Whenuakite School at 11am. More information
will be sent out next week.
Volleyball
Briar
Ward from Sport Energize took the junior room children for Volleyball training
today. They started with learning to
keep a balloon in the air.
School Community
Officer
We
met with Constable Catherine Sell, our new School Community Officer today to
report the school holiday break in, and discuss with her the process we are
taking. She was happy with the progress
made so far with the schools restorative justice programme. We will have more information next week.
www.netsafe.org.nz
The
online world creates opportunity and a wealth of information but it brings with
it a plethora of dangers, tricksters and scams. If you are worried about what
your child might be seeing on the internet, check out Netsafe.
Netsafe promotes
safe, confident and responsible online activity and through its website
provides information that will help provide guidance in almost every aspect of
online safety.
Bus Rules
A
special newsletter went out yesterday regarding the bus rules. School policy is your child/ren must have
consent if they are going somewhere different to normal. If you did not receive
this newsletter and your children catch the bus, please let us know, and we
will send one home.
From Penny
and the Team
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