Duffy Books

On Tuesday (Term 3 week 6) we got an exciting delivery from Scholastic New Zealand. 
We are now a Duffy School, this means we are able to celebrate our reading enjoyment and progress in a range of ways. 

Check out our box unwrapping! 
We're so excited to take these books home and share them with our friends and whanau. 

Thank you Duffy Books in Homes!

Recycling station

This term our concept focus has been sustainability. We have chosen to focus on environmental sustainability, in particular to ensure that:

'We're tidy kiwis and we promise to put litter in its place!'

We learnt about where our rubbish (which we throw in the general rubbish bin) ends up.

Once the rubbish truck picks up our rubbish they take it to the landfill. Here rubbish can take 1000's of years to decompose (break down). 

Illustration by Jason

So we decided we needed to do something to make sure we send as little rubbish to the landfill as possible. We created a rubbish station in our class to sort our rubbish into the correct bins. 

Our 5 bins are: 

• Organic (goes to our school worm farm) 
• Plastic (Some goes to Countdown for soft plastic recycling) 
• Aluminum 
• Paper & cardboard (goes to the recycling center) 
• General rubbish (goes to the landfill) 

As you can see the General rubbish bin now has less rubbish, and our rubbish is being redirected to be reused and recycled.

We hope more people realise how important our environment is, and try to do their bit to reduce, reuse and recycle. 

Winter writing and art

Brrr it's cold!!!
It sure is cold out there. So we decided to write about our favorite thing to do in winter.
Some of us used our 5 senses (feel, taste, hear, look and smell) to describe winter.

We used crayon and dye to create our art pieces.

We hope you enjoy reading our winter writing pieces.

Smart E-profiles

Cottier class have been learning how to make a smart digital footprint. 
This means what is safe & not safe to share online. 

Check out some of our smart footprint profile's we created.

They show information about ourselves which is okay to post online. As well as information about our school and learning which is okay to share with other people. 

Thank you to Gerhard, who has been making sure we are safe online. 

What do you think our profile's are safe to share online? 

Matariki Art

Happy Matariki! 

As part of our Matariki celebration we designed and created holographic stars to show the arrival of Matariki. 

Holographic: when something looks 3D. 

We hope you enjoy our creations. They have lit up our classroom. 

How many stars are in the Matariki cluster? 

MOTAT

On Friday 22nd February, room 1,2 and 7 went to MOTAT to learn about flight. We had a super fun packed day. First we saw lots of old aeroplanes and learnt about the 4 forces of flight (lift, weight, thrust and drag). Then we caught the tram to MOTAT 1 and got to go see the Above and Beyond exhibition. This exhibition was very interactive, we got to Soar up high like a bird in the 'Spread Your Wings' flying experience, and design a Jet plane which we could fly on a 3D interactive simulator.

Cricket coaching

We have been very lucky to have a cricket coach come in on a Friday to take us for some cricket lessons. He has been teaching us different cricket techniques. It has been a lot of fun! 

Welcome & Buddy Reading

Hello Cottier Class & Whanau, 
What a great start to term 1!

Each morning we have been meeting in the hall as a whole school for breakfast, followed by buddy reading. It has been a great success!