Testing coastal defences

Today we recreated coastal erosion in trays. We used sand, bark and water with food colouring and added protection like wooden forks, fence cloth and skewers to recreate coastal protection.

MoE

Today Rōpū Ngaio met with Lily and Latiya from the Ministry of Education. The students gave a presentation on our findings from our school lunch waste investigation. Great work team!

Critical Thinking

Every day we finish the day with a reflection on our learning that day. We use a template to prompt our critical thinking.

Please sign our petition

Please sign our petition

Rōpū Ngaio have created a national petition to lobby government to think harder about the unnecessary wastage from free school meals. If you click on the link above it will take you to the petition. Thanks for your support.

Music with Jade

We are loving music with Jade up in Kahikatea. We are learning rhythm and a new song by lab.

Vocabulary building

We have been exploring words in Rōpū Ngaio. We are looking at synonyms for words We use to build our growing vocabularies and make our thing even more exciting.

School Lunches

Rōpū Ngaio have been looking at the waste generated by our school lunches. After surveying the students we interpreted the data and discovered that only approximately 1/3 of students actually eat the yogurts that cause the most issues in our landfills. We think that the people that eat the yoghurt consume quite a lot and take spares home. This could be disguising the low number of yoghurt eaters.