EPA News Report

After completing our investigation as part of the KBS EPA we worked as a team to make this news report to help educate everyone in our school. We used iPod touches to film our clips and we all helped with making our report.

Keeping KBS Beautiful!

What are we going to do now we've finished our EPA Investigation?

We had a meeting to discuss what we found when we carried out our investigation of the KBS school environment. Then we decided what action we would take to help keep KBS beautiful. Here is a list of what we have decided to do:

* We want to keep the 'KBS EPA' (Environmental Protection Agency) going.

   (We will collect rubbish daily to keep the environment clean)

* We are going to organise a promotion to stop littering. We are in the process 

   of designing posters which we are going to put around the school and in our

   KBS newsletters.

* We are going to share our message at Whanau time (During 'Keep NZ 

   Beautiful Week'). We are putting together a movie / slide show to show

   what we discovered and what we want to do about it. Our message is:

   "If we don't look after our environment it will end up looking like a rubbish

    dump!"

* We are going to encourage the 'Four R's' - Rethink, Reuse, Recycle, Reduce

  (especially composting and recycling which do happen in the school already).

WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE BETTER CHOICES ABOUT WHAT THEY DO WITH RUBBISH AND OTHER WASTE.

EPA Investigation: Day 5

Day 5: Monday 10th September 2012

Day 5 Observations:

* People have been throwing out perfectly good food again! (Yoghurt, apples)
* We found more things we wouldn't expect to find at school. (Cigarette
   packets, empty cans, Toy World mailer)
* Group 4 found some kind of electronic device. Group 2 found a small ball.
* There was lots of canteen waste from Friday. (Empty juicy & noodle packets)
* We collected lots of zip lock bags that could be reused.
* And there were lots of chippie packets again!!!
* We found more cup cake wrappers from the cup cake day last week.

EPA Investigation: Day 4

Day 4: Friday 7th September 2012

Day 4 Observations:

* We found more things that we wouldn't expect to find at school (e.g. beer 

   bottle and cigarette packets).

* Zone 2 had a lot of rubbish today.

* Zone 1 had hardly any rubbish at all - Yay!!!

* Zone 2 had lots of zip lock bags that could be reused.

* Most of the rubbish found in Zone 2 today was hidden in the bushes.

* Lots of chippie packets again / most of the rubbish is food wrappers again.

* Good food being wasted again.

* Cans and bottles were found that could be recycled.

* Lots of compostable stuff collected again.

* Canteen rubbish was found - Flavoured milk bottles and tin foil from garlic 

   splits etc. (Friday is the only day of the week our school canteen is open)

EPA Investigation: Day 3

Day 3: Thursday 6th September 2012

Day 3 Observations:

* Most of the rubbish collected is food wrappers again.

* Zone 3 had the least rubbish today (but the year 5/6 kids are away at the Cultural Festival).

* Zones 1, 2 and 4 all had the most.

* We found more perfectly good food wasted.

* And more things that could be composted.

* There were heaps of cupcake wrappers today as well (today was cupcake day for the SPCA). 

EPA Investigation: Day 2

Day 2: Wednesday 5th September 2012

Day 2 Observations:

* Zone 4 had the most rubbish again

* Zones 1 and 2 had the least

* Lots of glad wrap and food wrappings again (this tells us people are littering instead of using bins or taking their rubbish home!)

* We found lots of things that could go in the compost.

* Sooooo many chippie packets!!!

EPA Investigation: Day 1

Day 1: Tuesday 4th September 2012

Day 1 Observations:

* There was a lot more rubbish in Zones 3 and 4 (Senior end of school)

* Most of the rubbish we collected was food wrapping, glad wrap etc.

* We found some things that we wouldn't expect to find at our school -   

   McDonalds paper and a lighter

* Some people had thrown out perfectly good food - a whole orange was found

Inquiry Investigation

Kaiapoi Borough School EPA

After in-depth discussions we agreed we would take on the challenge put to us to be part of the first ever 'KBS EPA' (Environmental Protection Agency). We decided before we could take action we needed to gather some information to help us decide what we could do to help our school. 

Our plan is to collect litter from different areas around our school over the course of a week. Once we have done our collection we would analyse the rubbish and determine outlying factors that may impact of what we find.

Keep watching our blog to see our daily results and observations.

A Letter From Mother Earth!

Inquiry Term 3

Today Miss Shirley shared this letter with us. She had a dream that she was talking to Mother Earth and she had a message to share with us. Here is what she had to say...

Keep watching our blog to see if we take up Mother Earth's offer to be part of the first ever 'KBS Environmental Protection Agency'. What action will we take to help protect the future of our environment?

The Final Frontier

Patiki Production - 'The Final Frontier'

Thanks to everyone who came to support us on Tuesday and Wednesday for our production. Both performances were very successful and we all had heaps of fun. If you would like to get a copy of either shows they are now available for purchase from the KBS office.

Production Next Week!!

Patiki Production next Tuesday and Wednesday

This term is flying by and it's hard to believe that next week we will be putting on our production. We hope to see plenty of whanau and friends there to support us in our show. To help cover the costs of staging this we ask you to donate a gold coin. Mr Maindonald will be filming both performances so if you can't make it you can purchase a copy of the DVD from the office soon after the show! Thank you for all your support with this production!

KBS Olympic Ceremony

Wednesday 15th August!

After two weeks of awful weather we were finally able to have our Olympic Celebration. It was great to see all of the KBS team supporting different countries from around the world. We sang our National Anthem beautifully. We are proud of our school and our country. As part of our ceremony we also got to see some of the amazing talent that we have at our school. Who knows... maybe one day we see one of our team in the Olympics! 

We have been supporting South Korea as well as New Zealand for these Olympics.
Here we are about to head over to the hall for our Olympic Ceremony.

We all had a great time at the KBS Olympic Ceremony.
Afterwards we got together for one last photo to remember the day. 

London Olympics 2012

Olympics 2012

As the Olympics draw to a close we have been reflecting on the New Zealand team's success.  We have loved watching the games and seeing our heroes compete. Now we all want to have a go at new sports we have been watching.

As part of our Olympic learning we created the following silhouettes of Olympic sports for art. We think that they look pretty fabulous!

London Olympics 2012

2012 Olympics

We wrote about which events we would compete in if we were able to go to the Olympics. We put our thinking hats on and thought about how we might feel if we won a medal at an Olympic Games. Here is Isabella's inspirational writing...

London Olympics 2012

2012 Olympics

We have been enjoying following the New Zealand team at this years Olympics. It is great to see so much success and sportsmanship. We are all very proud of the Kiwi's competing!

We have been doing some writing in different genres about the Olympics. Check out Madison's amazing Olympic acrostic poem.

Recycle, Reuse, Reduce and Rethink

This term we have been focusing on our impact on future environments as part of our 'LIFE' inquiry. We have been learning all about Recycling, Reusing, Reducing and Rethinking. We made these recycled signs for Lesley who came to visit us about the four R's! She is going to use them to help other school children learn how to care for the environment when she visits other schools! 

Welcome to our new blog!

           Here we are at last! We're looking forward to sharing our learning experiences with you!