Enviro Schools Update

The Green Thumbs Environmental team has been working on getting our Environment Silver Award. We are being interviewed on Tuesday the 11th of November. We helped host the Te Anau Environment Hui. It was such an amazing experience and we enjoyed it so much. We hope we can do it again very soon. Mark, Pat and Amy from Environment Southland helped us a lot throughout all our years being an Enviro School and are so proud of our amazing accomplishments as an Enviro School. We are proud of our fun times as the amazing Enviro School that we are. Hopefully we can continue being an Enviro School and we hope we will get our Silver Enviro School award. Then later on we hope to achieve the achievement of the Gold Enviro School award.

By Fergus, Jake and Jayden

Corrugated Iron Bird

Bird Nesting Box

Willow Hut

Native Tree Area

Enviro Schools Hui

On Thursday the 23^rd of October all the Enviro schools came to Te Anau for a Hui. First of all Kids Restore the Kepler did a speech, secondly we split up in our groups for a tour of the bird park. In the duck enclosure there were two goose nests with eggs. Then we went to see the kaka. The kaka eats kowhai leaves. After that we jumped into the cars and went to the Kepler track. At the track we did all sorts of fun activities like the blind game when a buddy guides you to a tree blindfolded and then you have to find it again with no blindfold. Then we learnt to use a tracking transmitter and find birds. We meet Billy the stoat again and set off a stoat trap. Then we walked deeper down then track to a huge tree. We got back to the car park and did some trading. We traded honey for a bird nesting box and Snapdragons for a corrugated iron bird. We finished and everyone went home.  It was a very enjoyable day. We are looking forward to the next hui.

This is a cat caught in a trap.  

Jake

Here is Jake sharing his poem.

Jake

Learning the Guitar

Thomas's brother Jackson has been teaching a small group some songs on the guitar.  We are going to play these at the end of the term.  They have been learning Superstition, Country Roads and This Old Man.  We will post some videos of our progress soon.  Thanks for helping us Jackson.

South Spell2014

South Spell 2014

12 students from Room 12 were selected to go to the South Spell competition. We were spilt into 3 different groups of 4. There was 42 groups overall. The spelling test was divided into 10 different categories.  We were supplied with a Mitre 10 pen, some scrap paper so we didn't shout out the answer and a piece of paper to write the right answer on. Just about every parent that came offered their vehicle. We had a blast working together as a group. We were spilt apart when we got to the desks so we couldn't cheat (although we wouldn't!!). We were about a metre away from the next group of kids. The names of the people who got through to South Spell are: Lydia, Rosie, Thomas, Connor, Jessica, Esther, Tessa, Emmerson, Luke, Samantha, Lindsay, Jake. We think it's a great opportunity and everyone should try and aim to get through to South Spell.

A huge thanks to everyone who helped us.

By Lydia and Rosie.

South Spell competition

Rap - Unzel

On the 9^th of June 2014 NZ Playhouse came to present a show to Te Anau School called Rap-Unzel.  This was the same company who performed The Big Sad Wolf last year.  It followed the story of Rapunzel but they used New Zealand’s got talent and turned it into Far Far Aways got talent to make it fun. There were three 21 year olds that performed for us 2 boys and 1 girl. They had to audition to get the part they wanted. Simon Cow was one of the character’s names.  We think he was the funniest.

Southland Cross Country

Ready steady GO! On Friday the 13th of June 2014 6 children from our school went down to Southland Cross Country including Jessica Molloy, Mitchell Flynn, Thomas Larrivee, Noah Cockburn, Esther Cole and Jake Tither. The people from our class got these placings Esther got 50^th/76, Jessica got 36^th/76, Jake got 33^rd/76 and Thomas got 22^nd/76. Mitchel from Room 5 got 42^nd and Noah from Room 6 got 41^st. 

On the track it was very muddy, Esther even lost her shoe and she never found it. You got used to it though.  There was only one big hill, lots of mud holes and there were bark chips, also hay bales to run over. This day would not have been possible without Mrs Taylor and all the parents that provided transport. Thank You, you made the Cross Country a great success and you made the day for lots of speedy children.  

Written By Jake, Jessica and Thomas

Jake running hard