In an effort to raise awareness of poor mans stream and the environment around drains, Nayland Primary School participated in the Nelson City Council Drain art in collaboration with Countdown. We held a competition to see what art work we were going to paint around our drain. Bo Kessler won the competition and went with Whaea Chelsea and a couple of friends to paint the drain.
It went well until the rain came down. We had to go back another day to finish it off.
Wednesday 7 December 2016
Thursday 11 August 2016
Bringing birds back into the school
In room 7 students have been researching and learning about how they can bring birds back to Nayland Primary school. The students visited The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary in Term 3 to find out more about birds, their predators and what they can do to help the birds at our school.
Students wrote letters to our principal, Mrs Gulbransen, to persuade her to help them in their efforts to provide an environment for the birds.
Students wrote letters to our principal, Mrs Gulbransen, to persuade her to help them in their efforts to provide an environment for the birds.
Dear Mrs
Gulbransen
In my opinion, I
think it would be great if we could create a safe environment at Nayland
Primary so native birds could have a place to live without feeling threatened
by predators.
Firstly, we would
need to plant more trees that had the right sort of food for the native
birds. If their food is close, they
won’t have to fly far to get it.
If we hear lots
of birdsong, we know that there are lots of birds near. If we don’t hear any we
know that either there are no birds or they are not singing. But if there are lots of safe places the
birds might not feel worried and sing more often.
Also, if we learn
about what the native birds eat we know what type of plants or trees to
plant. If we have the right sort of food
and environment, the birds will feel like Nayland Primary is their home.
To sum up, I
think we could plant more trees so the native birds can live here and we can
protect them.
Yours sincerely
From Joanna
Dear Mrs
Gulbransen
I want to bring
bird life to Nayland Primary, there isn’t much.
The birds need
more food because all the introduced birds are eating it. Also, people are feeding our birds junk food
which is bread. Bread is not good for them, it makes them
sick.
We need to set
traps for the bird’s predators, which are: ferrets, weasels, stoats, possums,
rats and mice. If we do not do this we
will have very few native birds, and we do not want this to happen.
Helping our
native birds will be good for the birds and us too. This is because we will be able to observe
them and if we can observe our native birds we can learn about them.
To sum up, I
think we need much more bird life at Nayland Primary. I hope I have convinced you.
Yours sincerely
Fiona McLellan
Harakeke Posts
At Nayland Primary School every year creates a harakeke post for the harakeke garden.The harakeke garden, if you don't know, is a special Maori thing that they usually do every year. We do it about everything in our classroom and what we do like our attitude and how we run! The harakeke posts are a maori tradition and it’s special to them. Kaid and Liam were in room 4 last year and we had a harakeke post that was a blue and green colour.
In the harakeke garden we have flax bushes as well.Liam, age 10 from room 3, said “I think our harakeke posts are a cool thing in our school and they show a lot of artistic genes in us.”
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Nayland Primary Enviro Projects
Over term 2 Nayland Primary students conducted research, learning, reflections and actions to help and support our communities environment. Each class had a different focus which ranged from bringing birds back into our school to reducing the pollution in poor man stream to looking at how the dumping of plastics effects our land and oceans.
Room 3 created a news report to show the exceptional and inspiring learning that Nayland Primary students have achieved over term 2.
Room 3 created a news report to show the exceptional and inspiring learning that Nayland Primary students have achieved over term 2.
Thursday 9 June 2016
Tuesday 17 May 2016
New flax bush for Room 3
Room 3 now have their own flax bush in the harakeke garden!
Here are some picture of the flax bushes!
Here are some picture of the flax bushes!
It is only a baby plant, so to help it grow we had to add better soil! We also need to water it regularly and make sure that it is protected.
New Chickens For Nayland Primary School
New Chickens For Nayland Primary School
Nayland primary has got some new chickens! They are free range chickens so when they grow up we may collect their eggs! Our Principle Mrs Gulbransen has happily brought us lucky kids chickens to watch.
Here are some photos of them.
Thursday 12 May 2016
Tyre Playground
Last year Moana children designed a recycled tyre play area. It has now been created and is being enjoyed by many children.
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