Thursday, July 28, 2016

Blue Crew (Terms 1 & 2)
 2016 Project





Gus's Water Filter
1. My filter works by allowing the water to go through the top and down a bottle and through another bottle with stones and through a cat food can and down the pipe and into the tank.

2. My filter is made of 2 bottles, 1 cat food can and a piece of pipe.


3. My filter has a hole in the top of the top bottle to let the water in. It goes down the bottle into another bottle with stones then into the cat food can and out the pipe.

4. I made my filter by putting the the top bottle on a large milk bottle which I cut a hole in it and hot glued a can with a pipe in it.

By Gus




Yuosmunea, Caden & Lorenzo's Water Filter

Our water filter works like this you put water in the top and there is plastic netting at the top of the filter. At the bottom of the filter there is a lot of stones and at the bottom of the stones there is a sponge.

The first part of the filter is the plastic netting that get’s rid of the big leaves the stones get rid of the dirt.we made it like this we cut the top of a sparkling water bottle and then we got a  milk bottle and cut a circle in it and then we got a bottom of  a bottle and cut a line in it and made smaller and glued it together and then we got the bottom of the sparkling water bottle and put a sponge  at the bottom  and then we surround it with stone’s and then we glued it on to the rest.


We made it like this: We cut the top of a sparkling water bottle and then we got a  milk bottle and cut a circle in it and then we got a bottom of a bottle and cut a line in it and made it smaller and glued it together and then we got the bottom of the sparkling water bottle and put a sponge at the bottom and then we surrounded it with stones and then we glued it on to the rest.

By Yuosmunea, Caden & Lorenzo








Owen and Sarel's water filter

It is made out of big stones, little stones sticks and bottle netting. We made it by getting a small bottle and putting small stones and small sticks in it. Lastly, we put big stones at the top.

Finally, we glued netting on the top and cut a hole in the side of the bottle then we got a tube or top of a different bottle and glued it to the side for a overflow system then we were done!   

By Owen and Sarel

Thursday, November 5, 2015

BINS

As you can see we have changed the recycling bins at Tahunanui School. 

There are green and yellow bins. In these bins you can put in muffin wrappers, sandwich crusts, egg shells, fruit peelings and carrots. 

At morning tea the bins are outside Rm 4,5,6 and 7. On the Junior side they only have one bin which is outside Rm 11 and 12. At lunch time the bins are beside the pool, outside the Library. 


SO MAKE SURE YOU USE THE SCRAP BINS TO DISPOSE OF YOUR FOOD SCRAPS.


By Tessa And Maddie

Thursday, October 29, 2015

CENERGY
Tahunanui School  has been using way too much power this year, so  the Blue Crew has created a light bulb character called Cenergy. 

Cenergy is there to help everyone to remember to turn off the lights. We have made small posters that have been put in all classes at our school.
So when no-one is around...flick the switch. 

Written by by Eva and Maggie   

SMOKE-FREE SIGNS

The blue crew have decided to update our school's smoke-free signs to make them bigger and brighter.

The reason we decided to do this is because the older ones are too small and dull and you cannot see them very well. There are only seven in our school and people don’t seem to notice the signs as there are often lots of cigarette butts left lying in our school ground.

Our signs will be brighter which will make more people hopefully stop smoking in our school.

By Emily, Jayla and Ruby.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Paper4Trees

At Tahunanui School we recycle as much as we can.  We are lucky that The Body Shop NZ sponsors us for recycling paper and cardboard.  The more we recycle the more we get rewarded for trees to plant around our school.
Watch these video to see what we have been up to:

Thursday, August 6, 2015

The Green Ninjas

                       The Green Ninjas 


The Green Ninjas are a yr 5/6 Enviro group from Tahunanui School.We have achieved our bronze award.  This was started by us rewriting our guiding principles that run throughout the program.  The five guiding principles are:
  1.  Learning for Sustainability,
  2. Empowered students
  3. Maori perspectives,
  4. Respecting culture and diversity 
  5.   Sustainable communities.
We have adopted a section of Jenkins stream to clean. At the moment we have visited Jenkins stream on Pascoe St and discovered that there are not many signs of life,and then we visited another part of the stream but further up this time and found much more life.We think that it may be because lower down near our school there are lots of houses nearby and that they leak unwanted things into the creek we also think that it may be because lots of oil trucks drive over the bridge that is above the stream.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Enviroschools Workshop


On Friday March the 8th Lindsey the Nelson Enviroschools co-ordinator came to room 4 to work with The Blue Crew and The Green Ninjas.



The first activity we did was learning more about the Enviroschools guiding principles then we had to match up pictures of students doing the guiding principles with the actual guiding principle.




Then we did a small group activity using a 'consensus mat' about what we would like our school to be like. We recorded our ideas down and then together decided which things were similar about everyone's ideas.



It was a really enjoyable experience. Thanks for your help Lindsey.

By Tara & Hannah