Over two days, we have been painting the school's compost bin. We have painted flowers, butterflies, and a lot of other things. Mrs Kingi thinks it really lights up our garden. We hope you like it.:)
by Nina, Lucy and Fern
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
compost bin
Over two days, we have been painting the school's compost bin. We have painted flowers, butterflies, and a lot of other things. Mrs Kingi thinks it really lights up our garden. We hope you like it.:)
by Nina, Lucy and Fern
Mara Kai - The Interschool Final
Today Anna, Ella, Carlos and Natalie all represented Wainui Beach School at the Interschool Mara Kai challenge at the Poverty Bay Golf Club. Carlos and Natalie created a brilliant presentation about our school gardens and spoke to the audience about how we do things at Wainui Beach School.
Ella and Anna re-created their Quesadilla dish from round one for the judges showing off their cooking skills and our school garden produce.
Read on to hear about our fantastic results!
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| Ella and Anna sliced and diced - Anna even managed to slice her finger but with true Akuhata Brown resilience she carried on no trouble at all. At the end of the competition they won Most Creative Dish and Best Presentation. Awesome outcome girls! |
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| Carlos and Natalie impressed everyone with their presentation and won awards for - Best School Garden and Best Produce Presentation. Go the Lands! Go Wainui Beach School! |
Gadget Challenge 2016
Congratulations to all our Wainui Beach kids who took the time to create something for the annual Gadget Challenge this term. You were inventive and presented some original and creative ideas ranging from cell phone holders to cord tidys, portable desks to barbells.
Here's Lucy at the prize giving with her cardboard desk invention...
Here's Lucy at the prize giving with her cardboard desk invention...
Mara Kai - Round One
Check out the Master chef action at our school a couple of weeks ago! We had beautiful aromas coming out of the hall all afternoon as our chefs got busy with the produce from our garden, dicing, slicing, frying, boiling, mashing, creating....delectable dishes for the judges to taste!
We had so many yummy recipes submitted that we are planning on putting together a recipe book, so watch this space!
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| Perle and Caitlyn whipping up crunchy Kale Chips and Vege Omelette |
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| Izzy and Sarah with their yummy vegetable fritters. |
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| Carlos and Natalie checking on their delicious frittata. |
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| Ella and Anna with their winning quesadillas. |
Health Check for Hamanatua
Today some of our older children from the Envirogroup headed down to our awa - Hamanatua to do some water testing. At the stream to help us out were Amy Hardy and Murray Palmer from...
Nga Mahi Te Taiao
First, we collected information about the salinity (how salty the water was), the PH level, the temperature, clarity and the conductivity of the water. Overall the results were good! The water had a clarity level of 75 - the clearest of water would score 100 - not bad Hamanatua! Salinity, PH and temperature all came out at levels that would be expected at the site. The only high reading was the conductivity which is something we need to do a little more research about.
We compared the results with the testing we did two years ago and things have stayed stable.
After we had collected our test information, we then got busy collecting samples of bug and fish life in the water. Shaking our nets under logs and the grassy bank we collected lots of different types of tiny creatures and even two little fish (named by the catchers - Frankie and Bob). Finding the creature was lots of fun and confirmed that the water in Hamanatua is pretty healthy.
On such a lovely sunny day, it was hard to leave the stream and head back to school, but hunger got the better of us in the end so we said goodbye to Frankie and Bob and strolled back to school to share our results.
Thanks to Amy and Murray for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us. We learnt loads and had heaps of fun! We now feel like qualified water testers and have some ideas on going and testing at other sites around Gisborne so we can make some more comparisons to our Hamanatua.
Nga Mahi Te Taiao
Environment and Natural Resources
First, we collected information about the salinity (how salty the water was), the PH level, the temperature, clarity and the conductivity of the water. Overall the results were good! The water had a clarity level of 75 - the clearest of water would score 100 - not bad Hamanatua! Salinity, PH and temperature all came out at levels that would be expected at the site. The only high reading was the conductivity which is something we need to do a little more research about.
We compared the results with the testing we did two years ago and things have stayed stable.
After we had collected our test information, we then got busy collecting samples of bug and fish life in the water. Shaking our nets under logs and the grassy bank we collected lots of different types of tiny creatures and even two little fish (named by the catchers - Frankie and Bob). Finding the creature was lots of fun and confirmed that the water in Hamanatua is pretty healthy.
On such a lovely sunny day, it was hard to leave the stream and head back to school, but hunger got the better of us in the end so we said goodbye to Frankie and Bob and strolled back to school to share our results.
Thanks to Amy and Murray for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us. We learnt loads and had heaps of fun! We now feel like qualified water testers and have some ideas on going and testing at other sites around Gisborne so we can make some more comparisons to our Hamanatua.
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