Showing posts with label Melville Primary School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melville Primary School. Show all posts

Monday, 19 September 2016

EnviroSchool - Worm Warren

Everyday our Enviro Agents perform a range of tasks that help keep our school waste sustainable. One of these very important tasks is caring for our tiger worms that live in the 'Worm Warren'.

According to Wikipedia ~ About Our Tiger Worms~
Eisenia fetida, known under various common names such as redworm, brandling worm, panfish worm, trout worm, tiger worm, red wiggler worm, red californian earth worm, is a species of earthworm adapted to decaying organic material. These worms thrive in rotting vegetationcompost, and manure
Eisenia fetida worms are used for vermicomposting. They are native to Europe, but have been introduced (both intentionally and unintentionally) to every other continent except Antarctica.



Every day our agents collect all the food scrapes that are suitable for worms. Our worms can not eat citrus, bread or meat. Once all of the worm buckets have been emptied they head down to the worm baths where the vermicomposting occurs. 

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

May the 4th be with you

The Star Wars Name Generator

Your SWTOR Star Wars Name



Your Star Wars name is:Stanch MantaltA slave from The Dalonbian Sector

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Melville Primary Relay Race

Our flag Referendum

Today in class we had a discussion about the current New Zealand Referendum. Some of us were excited that our flag could change while others wanted to keep the current flag.

We opened the letter with our teacher and looked at the different brochures. We then had the chance to place our votes and placed them in our post box. 

Once all of the votes were posted we opened the box and counted them up

The results were very interesting and made for great discussion.



Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Duffy Theatre

Jumping with excitement the children raised their voices yelling "yay".

The Duffy Theatre came all the way from busy Auckland with its 3 actors. It was a great experience.

They did a unique show about a young Duffy going back in time to save Ruby's dad who was fighting in World War 2. Duffy wanted to save her dad so she could read.

Thank you Duffy Theartre for an awesome show.

Te mata,   KATI.


Monday, 22 February 2016

Preparing our garden

Friday afternoon B1 went to the back of the school to prepare our garden beds.


We started by weeding the gardens by using the garden forks to get at the surface and feeding the chickens the plants that had gone to seed.



Next we watered the garden and tidied the garden up.  
We are now ready to plant our garden with the plants we received from The Plant Place.


Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Our Garden

Yesterday we received a batch of plants from The Plant Place. Mr. Munroe popped down to collect them, at lunch time. We are so excited to be able to plant the vegetables into our gardens. We want to say thank you to Bruce at The Plant Place and well be planting the vegetables soon.








Sunday, 31 January 2016

Welcome to 2016




On Tuesday 2nd of February students from Melville Primary School will be back in their classrooms.  This is our first year of blogging and we look forward to connecting and making new friends as we look forward to an amazing year. 

This year our class has a new teacher Mr Willis and 27 amazing Yr4 & Yr6 students from the Meriwera (Melville) community.  As we are new to blogging we are excited about making connections with other classrooms. If you wish to do so please drop us a line. 

If you want to contact Mr Willis directly you can do so at: lukew@melville.school.nz

We look forward to a great 2016!