Our long awaited BAKE SALE is finally here!
This year we had Room 2 (year 6) and Room 5 (year 4/ 5) baking during their sessions and then helping to sell at lunchtime.
There was a great buzz from the whole school about what treats they wanted to buy!
Our top sellers, as always, were the beetroot brownie and herby breadsticks.
We collected in $683!
We are looking to update some of our kitchen equipment using this money.
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| prep time! |
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| setting it all up |
This week at Garden to Table we celebrated a milestone:
harvesting the first of our kumara for the season!
David and the senior students had worked hard creating an excellent
new kumara bed, and we are hoping for a great crop this year!
Before the harvest, we said a karakia (blessing). Following tradition, the first harvest of kumara is presented to a respected elder,
and this honour was given to Mrs Hurley.
This tradition reflects practices that many Māori growers still follow:
Begin harvest with karakia
Respect Rongo-mā-Tāne
Keep first-fruit traditions in some form
Emphasise careful handling and curing
Room 5 and Room 2 have been busy the last few weeks!
Other exciting activities they have been doing include:
The great compost bucket race!
Building Bliss Ball snowmen
Eating lots of juicy greens from the garden in our veggie pasta
Getting a good dose of Vitamin C with the first of our lemons
Discovering carrots can be RED!
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| Find out more by clicking on the image above |
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| We measured how everyone has been getting to school recently so we know our starting numbers... now we have to try and improve on this. |
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| Beautifully illustrated by Ella - how Room 4 use the beach |
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| Year 1 students chose 4 items from the table to draw |
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| stunning feathers found at local beaches! |
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| Saddening to learn about the amount of trash on the beaches |
Last week we promoted getting to school in an active way;
WALKING or WHEELS
The Travelwise leaders gave all students a small 'passport' to get signed off each day that they used active travel to get to school.
We had posters up to promote this, a chalk art work and reminders in the daily notices.
We saw lots of bikes, scooters and umbrellas during the week!
This helped ...
* Our bodies get active and strong
* the environment with less pollution
* our road be safer with less cars
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| Luna the friendly cat often comes out to meet us! |
In term 1 we recorded 249 walking school bus trips! This was from 24 different students that walked with us during the term.
Students that used active travel during the WoW week had their 'travel passport' signed off. Then they went into a prize draw. Lucky winners received fantastic prize packs which included notepads, pens, drinks bottles and even brand new bike helmets!
AND that's a wrap for Room 1 & 4 for their first block of Garden to Table sessions!
Each class has 5 lessons then 5 more later on in the year.
The highlights of these sessions were...
* Picking pretty flowers and making posies
* Learning how to cut with a knife
* Cooking the different foods
* Planting things in the garden
* Eating the chop suey!
* Having feijoas
Our long awaited BAKE SALE is finally here! This year we had Room 2 (year 6) and Room 5 (year 4/ 5) baking during their sessions and then ...
