Saturday 17 September 2011

Yusssss! Rubbish bins and water bottles complete. Congratulations Inquiry Teams 1 and 2 for your social action!


Time pressure: 45 minutes to get the water bottles filled safely! Goal achieved.










Going around the classes to explain what they can find in their team emergency bins.






Putting batteries in the radios which then go in the First Aid Kit



Bins complete!

Filling the emergency bins.



And still counting!

Still dividing the rain ponchos into 4 piles for the bins..............

Counting out the rain ponchos for emergency kits.

Putting batteries in the torches.

Our funky, freaky and fun mufti day raised enough money to buy ponchos for the whole school.

Friday 2 September 2011

An answer to our American e-pals question: This is what New Zealand money looks like.

Liam, Nant and Jessie entered the 'Doodle for Google' competition 'My (disaster free) wish for New Zealand.

Callum researching diamond disasters!

Ben and Hamish begin creating their powerpoint on volcanoes.

We Are Learning to make digital stories to share our information about disasters.

Hundreds of wet weather ponchos.

"What's in here?"

600 ponchos arrived for our emergency packs today!

Thanks to Meridian energy for providing twelve radios with batteries for our emergency packs!