Kaikoura Suburban School

Treaty of Waitangi
As part of our Globalisation Inquiry we have all been learning about New Zealand history and places. The Treaty of Waitangi is a very important part of past, present and future New Zealand. It is therefore very important that we all have some understanding of how and why events took place. To help make this more possible for all the students The Treaty of Waitangi was brought to school by Year 6 students and teachers last week. Enjoy the attached movie!

What a fabulous day we had at Lynton Downs School on Thursday 11 August. We were so proud of our Fyffe Force learners running and participating so well.
A huge thank you to Mrs Blue, Miss Wilson and their whole school community. It was a well organised day.
See results below:

Kaikoura District Cross Country Results
Held at Lynton Downs School Thursday 11 August 2011

Key: KKPS = Kaikoura Primary School; KKS = Kaikoura Suburban; STJ = St Joseph’s; HAP = Hapuku; LD = Lynton Downs; WB = Woodbank; KKHS = Kaikoura High School; HS = Home-schooled
1st 2nd 3rd
Yr 1 Girls Liberty Perkins LD Blaise Lyons KKS Francine Presado STJ
Yr 1 Boys Sacha Barker KKPS Issiah Niblett STJ Tyler Perry KKS

Yr 2 Girls Rose Armstrong KKS Jessica Pattison STJ Kailani Ngawhau HS
Yr 2 Boys Xavier Davis KKPS Ethan Walker LD Oliver Burra KKS

Yr 3 Girls Elyse Sutton STJ Samantha Irvine KKS Anna Schmidgall KKS
Yr 3 Boys Fergus Perkins LD Makhaleo Endacott KKPS Reuben Lyons KKS

Yr 4 Girls Ruby Armstrong KKS Danielle Pattison STJ Steffi Burra KKS
Yr 4 Boys Jaden Mcherron STJ Kayden Hole-Manawatu KKPS William Rattray KKPS

Yr 5 Girls Allie Miller KKS Saraya Brown STJ Jade Hole KKPS
Yr 5 Boys Dartell Rarere HAP Karn Marshall KKPS Grayson Flavell KKPS

Yr 6 Girls Dee Clark KKPS Helena Bowater STJ Savannah Hole-Manawatu KKPS
Yr 6 Boys Max Simpson STJ Adam Ford STJ Broc O’Conner STJ

Yr 7 Girls McKenzie Baker-Flynn STJ Claudia McHerron STJ Anna Pacey STJ
Yr 7 Boys Jake Knowles KKHS Anton Schroder STJ William Bartrum STJ

Yr 8 Girls Neroli Lancaster STJ Hannah Spencer KKHS Jessie Vaughan KKHS
Yr 8 Boys Harry Rattray KKHS Jake Calvert STJ Oceon Grady KKHS

Wow what a great week we’ve had with our new area.  Great work Kevin and Evan who designed and built our target wall and Fulton Hogan for laying the asphalt.
This has provided lots of extra space for our students.  This has been timely with the purchasing of our new scooters and skateboards.

New skateboard and scooters on new asphalt beside new target wall

We are loving our new area!

Jen, from Enviroschools, and Ralph Hogan came and spoke to the Pukeko class about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling our rubbish to prevent too much residual waste (landfill waste).
We looked at the pyramid of rubbish and identified the important layer, the bottom layer, was to reduce the amount of packaging. We found that by buying in bulk we can reduce our packaging. Often we identified that the packaging could be reused and or recycled.
We kept our rubbish from yesterday and found there was only one piece of rubbish we couldn’t recycle. This was the plastic wrappers that have the silver lining. See photo for examples. The museli bar wrapper at the bottom of the photo we can reuse as it is a clear plastic.

Quotes from the students sharing their new learning:
Allie reflected, “Silver plastic wrappers can’t be recycled or reused. We need to find some without.”
Felix reflected, “Kaikoura allows us to recycle most of our plastic.”
Katie reflected, “Reduce means to buy in bulk to reduce the amount of rubbish and to reduce the cost.”
Hannah H reflected, ” We need to reuse our packaging more eg. plant seedlings, water bottles, food storage..”
James reflected, “Reduce is the most part of the ‘Rubbish pyramid.”
Stacey reflected, “Kaikoura people should be strict with their recycling to prevent our landfills filling up.”

It would be exciting to see all of our rubbish that leaves our school go into the recyclable bins with no rubbish for the landfill!

Our students had the most incredible opportunity this week!

They celebrated Matariki with an exciting jam packed day full of activities with Brett Cowan at Takahanga Marae.

Our students managed themselves perfectly to participate and cooperate in the following activites:

• Planted 230 native trees with Department of Conservation on Kaikoura peninsula.
• Created Matariki telescopes and mobiles.
• Made kites.
• Cooked in bull kelp
• Created meals to share.
• Made Putiputi flax flowers for their buddy.
• Sung 3 waiata.
• Set new and exiting goals for 2011.

Then many of the middle and senior took up the challenge of staying the night at the marae and face an unknown task in the evening. ………….

The students were given a Maori legend in the form of a book that they had 45 minutes to recreate into a play for the audience. It was a colossal challenge but as always our Fyffe Force Learners reached the summit. The resulting movie will be shown after assembly this Thursday, or see Sue Rogers for a copy on dvd.

Thank you to Brett Cowan, the whanau of Takahanga marae, all the incredible parents that contributed to this unique experience and to the students for demonstrating The Force and key values of the school.

Congratulations to all that took part in the day!

The senior Pukeko class have been learning about proceduaral text.  We have had fun seeing how these are a good text form to learn about kitchen chemistry. These are all the things we have made.

Icecream in a bag,  made glue and cheese from milk, fried green eggs by adding the natural juice of a red cabbage  to the egg white.  The natural juice is an alkaline which changed the egg from white to green.
Over the weekend we have had a hardboiled egg in vinegar.  As vinegar is an acid this reacted  with the calcium carbonate of the egg and it’s shell.  We found that the acid had totally dissolved the shell of the egg and the egg was bouncy.

We have broken into groups to share our own choice of kitchen chemistry.
One of the group made  rock candy and that is setting and forming crystals, another group has made  a folding egg, another group is going to make a lemonade volcano and another group made a speedy reaction with coke and mintos.

Kitchen chemistry is a cool way of learning about procedural text.

by Taylor and Hannah H

Katie preparing for the reaction