Paint down our drain - Jamie and Ryan's video

Paint down our drain - Emilee, Millie and Bella's video

Paint down our drain - Stephen and Levi's video

Paint down our drain - Gabby and Charlotte's video

Paint down our drain - Jake and Daniel's video

Paint down our drain - Millie and Ella's video

Paint down our drain - Kadin, Connor and Joe's video

Paint down our drain - Cameron and ET's video

Paint down our drain - Bri, Teiria and Lylli's video

Paint down our drain - Ethan and Oliver's video

Paint down our drain - Ranger, Abi and Bella's video

Paint down our drain

Our classroom sink

_{Our classroom sink}

_{We were cleaning our paint trays and paint brushes in our classroom sink.  Paint was going down our drains and to the Waste-water Treatment Plant. Barry, our guide at the Waste-water Treatment Plant, told us that removing paint from waste-water is expensive and uses a lot of energy. Barry also told us it is better to send paint waste to the landfill rather than putting it down the drain
Mrs Griffin told us that she and lots of other teachers do this.  They have been doing it for many years.
This is not good, we need to do something about this!}

_{The Problem:
How can we lessen the amount of paint going down our drains?}

_{Groups researched different ideas and then decided on the best solution to this problem.} 

_{We made advertising videos to persuade teachers and students to change their ways.}

Water Cycle Displays

We created display boards to show what we learnt about the water cycle.

Waste water

Do you know where our water that goes down the drain goes?

We visited the Taupo Waste Water Treatment Plant to find out.  We were amazed at what goes down the drain!!!

Do they really need this sign???

Yes...it was very smelly!

Our Water Cycle Bags

Our Water Scene Pictures

Green and Keen Class Treat

On Friday the class decided what our class treat would be.  To my surprise they wanted to spend their Friday afternoon picking up rubbish in to park near our school! Our kids are AWESOME!!!

Welcome to your newest student...Bella

Our beautiful Bella

Class Celebration

Today we had our Class Celebration for being "Green and Keen" learners.  We had a dress-up 80's disco and a shared lunch.

Back to the 80's!!!

Olly Jackson

Girl Power!

Pink is back!

The  'Hair and Now'  girls

Which is better... the dark glasses or the star glasses???

The names Bond, Joe Bond.

The names ...ummm, I forget!

Letter from Emma

We received this email from Emma a few days ago...

Hey guys,
Whats up nothing is really going on around here except from great shops, a new school and in wellington there is a smiggle shop bigger than the rm 3 class room don't mean to brag anyways I miss you all so much and cant wait to see you all again sometime I hope you guys had a great time on camp and I would love to hear back from you all and hear how much fun you had. In my new class there are 51 student including me and we have 2 full time teachers called Mrs XXXX and Ms XXXXX we also have Mrs XXXXX on Wednesday and Mr XXXXX on Friday and we have our Italian teacher who teaches us Italian its a bit busy but everything gets done in the end    so who are the new student councilors I want the details.
Bye for now respond back
yours sincerely Drama Crug(Emma)

Our sweet beautiful Emma (AKA Drama Crug)

We could leave a reply to Emma here as a comment.