Student Led Inquiry

As a follow on from our Zero Waste Unit our class has split into groups to see what we can do to make a difference at Ashhurst School.

Here was what we got up to today...

RECYCLING

• called PNCC to ask for reccyling bins for our school- they will call back
• wrote letter to BOT to ask for recycling bins if the council won't give us some
• We need to think about how we are going to get our recycling to a recycling centre
• Checked out the paper recycling- lots of people are putting rubbish in their recycling bins - how can we prevent this from happening?

COMPOST

• Looked at compost- it needs be turned but we couldn't find a fork
• We are asking our community to help us with a compost club
• Found some info on composting- we need to have layers
• Notice in the news letter to ask for help

REDUCE/REUSE

• Making posters to start a club using recycling
• Organsing a sack to collect all of our classes rubbish over 1 day
• We need to think about how we can reduce the amount of waste we are bringing to school in our lunch boxes everyday

GARDEN

• Looked at garden- needs more dirt, it has lots of rubbish, not looked after
• We need to turn over the soil
• Need to ask the gardening centre to donate soil
• Could ask compost club if they could give us some compost 

FOOD SCRAPS

• Ask Mr Salmon if he had a rubbish bucket so we could collect food scraps over 2 days
• Looked on internet but struggled to find how much food scraps we should put in a compost

 If you can help us in any way please post us a comment :)

Please help us with our inquiry

The compost group need your help with our action packed inquiry!!!
we need parent helpers to supervise us and help with our compost club.
Work will take place at lunch time (1.00-1.40 ) please leave a comment if you can help or contact bwalker@ashhurst.school.nz.
about 2/3 helpers will do.
thank you.
Kind regards Peita,Reuben,Samantha,Ciaran and Jacob

Check out our cool posters...

http://www.schooliscool.org.nz/

TEAM CUP CHALLENGE

Room 7 have set our next task... Top class score on Mathletics after 2 weeks.

Come on Room 6 we need our cup back! Campbell you are on the right track to get us our cup.
Congratulations on making the top 100 students in NZ!

Wizards follow Campbell's lead and get us on the score board!!!

Dear Solider letters.

 us showing the shop lady the size of the letter to see how much it cost.

 Time to post

 "How do we get the stamp on?" asked Reuben "Ya lick 'n' stick!" Peita explained while licking and sticking it!  

Us all posting the letter (Reuben, Kayla, Ciaran, Peita and Jasmine.) see ya later letter.

On the 14th of June walkers wizards got a ration pack from Mrs Amos's husband we tried lots. There was even cheeses in a can. There was things that you had to cook.

We have lots more questions we would like to ask the soldiers. Leave a comment if you have any of your own questions.

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