Beach Clean up

Today Room 13 and Room 6 headed down to the beach to collect all the rubbish we could find. We thought it was a great thing to do for Conservation Week this week.

Beach clean up

On an usually sunny Wednesday afternoon we took our Room 3 buddies down to the beach to search for rubbish! At the same time we made a tally of the rubbish we collected to assist us with our statistics unit. We collected a total of 515 pieces of rubbish!!

We plan to collate the data and present it in a graph. (watch this space)

Thanks Room 3 for your fantastic help!

Green Gold Celebrations

We had a fantastic day last Friday to celebrate receiving our Green Gold Enviro Award. Amazing Powhiri and very yummy hangi. Well done everyone!

Jigsaw Reading

Last week during inquiry we were investigating animals that live in the catchment. Each reading group read a fact sheet about one animal, either the mayfly, cased caddisfly, the banded kokopu or the long-finned eel. After becoming 'experts' on an animal we then split up and went to another group to present our findings and listen to others about their animals.
We are now 'experts' on all four animals!

Schoolgen

What a fantastic day we had today! The day started with a powhiri to welcome visitors from Genesis Energy and Schoolgen. They were visiting us because Muritai School are the first school in Wellington to have solar panels installed on our roof!

Later on in the morning we spent time with Mike and Maggie from Schoolgen who told us more information about the solar panels and how they create electricity for our school.
In the afternoon we checked out the schoolgen website where we could see how much electricity our solar panels were generating over the day. We could even compare ourselves with other schools in New Zealand.
At the end of the day we visited the Senior School to check out the solar panels first hand. We then went into the Enviro Room to check out the hot-e box and inverter that converts direct current (dc) to alternating current (ac).
We sure did learn a lot today. If you would like to know more about solar panels and Schoolgen programme visit the website by clicking on the link in the sidebar.