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 * 1) 2011: Our projects this year...

Rocky Shore: we have completed an inquiry on the Rocky Shore with help from Lloyd Esler. We visited Argyle Beach in Bluff and with what we have found out we made movies to enter into the Green Screen Environment Movie awards.

Change and Matter: We are learning about changing and separating materials.

Last night we won a merit award at the Green Screen Awards for our Enviro movie: Marine Debris in Bluff Harbour. We have also been making instructional videos for how to do or make or bake....

For Maori Language week we found this great website and made our own books.



Welcome to our Wikispace.... 2010 : Our projects for this year: Zero waste Sound and Music ( How can we design and make a musical instrument using our knowledge about sound?) Me in My Environment Prayer and Boys garden Herb Garden Wow! We are at the end of 2009 and have achieved so much over the year. On November 2oth, we sighed the Enviroschool's Agreement at a special opening of our garden and chicken coop at the school. THe chicken coop was bought by us on a trademe auction and we have 4 chickens residing in it, Survivor, a bantam that was the only one of a flock of 15 hens that were attacked by a dog, to survive, hense the name and KFC, Tweety and Tom named by the kids on the garden opening day. They are producing eggs and seem to be enjoying life in the coop and run, amongst the veggie gardens.

We have just entered the Fresh and Fruity competition growing strawberries in Yogurt containers and these have been thriving in the classroom despite the low temps in Bluff!

We are coming closer to being Zero Waste, we now use only one houshold waste bin which is collected by the council every Friday and we also use a recycling bin for cardboard and plastic. We have reduced our rubbish from a huge skip to these small bins and are very proud of this as we are saving the school lots of money! We are going to be working on reusable lunch containers next year to cut down even more on waste.

History of this wiki: On this space we will be letting you know about the work we have been doing at St.Teresa's School in Bluff, Southland, NZ. We are a small school of less than 40 students aged 5 to 11. There are 2 classrooms at St.Teresa's, Room 1 has the year 0 to year 2 students, and Room 3 has the year 3 to yr 6 students. Our teachers are Ms Maynard and Ms. Coyle. We had a busy year in 2008 studying such diverse topics as The Bluff Oyster, Matariki, Keeping ourselves Safe (incorporating Road and Cycle Safety) and we have started planning a community garden at the school, hoping to grow our own vegetables and herbs.





1n 2009 we are concentrating on adding more beds to the garden and planning and designing before building a chicken coop so we have have fresh eggs and chicken manure for our garden. We have become an enviroschool and have been looking at our Precious Energy and how it is wasted, and at becoming a zero waste school. In writing for term 3 we are looking at Poetry. Look on our pages for our poems.

St Teresas is located in [|Bluff,] [|Southland]-New Zealand

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