Kaikoura Suburban School

We travelled into our community to find out their points of view as to whether McDonald’s should come to Kaikoura or not?
We surveyed 72 different people from business owners, residents, tourist and school children.
The results told us that 48 people oppose the idea. The main reasons were extra rubbish, enough businesses already, our recycling centre has already enough rubbish, and obesity issues. 22 agreed to the idea. Their reasons were that it was a cheap meal option, a safe place for teenagers to go and it will attract people to stop in Kaikoura and take time to admire our town in the hope they would return at another time. 4 people were undecided.
This completes our research and we wait to see what happens in the future.

Room 3, Year 4, 5 & 6 students, have collectively agreed that McDonald’s should not come to Kaikoura!
We are off into town on Monday to see what other people and businesses say about it.
We will summarise our findings and publish a blog once the results are released.

The Year Six students created this presentation to show how we use Enviroschools at Kaikoura Suburban.

Val our Enviroschool teacher came to teach us about the 5 ‘R’s” –  REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE , RECOVER and RUBBISH.  We sorted our school’s rubbish and found that there was a large amount of waste that can’t be reused or recycled.  This waste goes to our landfill, which is filling up real fast!
We discussed ideas and options on how to reduce this from happening.  We decided that we would prefer paper wrapping, reusable bags and containers for our food.  We identified that glad wrap and chippy packets were the worst culprits.  
We did a costing exercise and found that a big bag of chips or crackers or biscuits are more economic to buy and split up and send to school in a plastic container.  Food for thought!

Reducing waste at Kaikoura Suburban School

Marzanne and Ilsa came to our school to share their experiences with us about life in South Africa.  We began our experience by eating bovers (sausage) and koester (plaited deep fried dough in a sweet syrup). The food was tasty and delicious.
 Following this we listened to a South African fable about a wild dog, a man and a jackal.  The moral of the fable was how a dog became a man’s best friend.
Dirk then showed us the souvenirs his family has brought from South Africa – bush men, Springbok hide and  a Garfield comic (in Africaans).  We learnt a song and watched a powerpoint of different images from South Africa.
We learnt lots about the South African culture and dankie (thank you) to Marzanne, Ilsa and our friend Dirk.

The sausage and the plaited dough with the sweet syrup.

Sharing the souvenirs - bush men.

Powerpoint of different South Africa images. This is the South African flag.

First met, already laughing.
Crazy, wild, untamed children laughing until their tummies hurt.
All eyes given to the special guest.
Suddenly balls flying everywhere.
Quick fast hand movements.
Laughter continues louder and louder.
The special guest concentrates trying not to make a mistake.
Left with strange but fascinating thoughts.