Entertainment Books 2013

Coming soon - Entertainment Books.
This year these will sell at $60 and we get to keep $12 from every book. They offer lots of two-for-one and discount vouchers. If you don't want one yourself, please try and sell to a family member, neighbour or friend. They are well used throughout the district and very popular. Take into work places and see how many you can order. We are hoping to raise enough money for an I-pod and speakers as many of our popular cd's are scratched and we want to keep up with modern technology. Music is an important part of our curriculum and we use it every day.

Order forms will be coming in March or contact us for an order form.

Enviroschool update

Collecting rain water for the veggie gardens.

Watering the new corn.

Our baby pumpkin. We want this to grow HUGE so we can enter it in the competition at Te Kowhai school harvest festival.

We are very excited this term to be visited by our Enviroschool facilitators in April to see if we are ready for our Bronze award. Taking care of our environment is a huge part of our philosophy and curriculum. The children chose what veggies and fruit to plant before the holidays and we have come back in this term to find the garden blooming. The mixture of heat and summer showers over Christmas has helped the pumpkins, tomatoes, strawberries, snow peas, feijoas, apples, mandarins, lemonades and grapes grow. Unfortunately a sneaky possum has eaten the grapes and lots of apples. Part of rural living !  We harvest the water from the roof of our carpentry shed and use this to water our gardens. Our silk trees are in full blossom too and look stunning. Our children are learning to appreciate the natural beauty and seasonal changes in our garden.  

Welcome Back Everyone

It has been great to catch up with all of you as everyone returns from holiday. We have been so busy already and recently had our annual 'Water Fun Day'. The children arrived with all sorts of water toys including some huge super-soakers...all set to wet their friends and the teachers! We had lots of fun and laughs and got to enjoy eating an ice-block at the end of the morning. Well deserved I say. Have a look at some of the photos.

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