Students paint the storm water grates

Room 2 Children Paint The Grates

The students wanted to paint the grates with sea creatures to remind people and students that it is very important that rubbish is not put down the grates. Their message is that we must take care to keep our rivers and seas pollution free. Look after the sea. The children explained to the rest of the school why they are doing the paintings.

 

Irrigation

March 2013

Our Irrigation programme has begun. Mr Rodney Walton (Parent/plumber) is working to collect water from the Rms 1,2 & 3 roof. This water will be used to irrigate our Native Tree area during the long hot summer months. Every Summer we lose a tree or two because of lack of water.

 

Milk Bottles Collected to Make a Hot House

Mr Rodley kindly offered to lead a group of students in building a hot house out of plastic milk bottles.  Term one saw milk bottles by the 100s arriving at Netherton School.

 

Room 2 make friendship bread

The smell of Friendship Bread cooking in the oven made Mrs Mitchell and Mrs Adams feel very hungry. The children of Room 2 worked in groups to make 4 loaves of this bread. The bread took 10 days to grow. Every day we fed our bread or we stirred it. At last it was ready to be made into bread and cooked. We thought the bread was

delicious.

 

The Hill

 The Hill

This term it was too dry to plant the hill. Dondy came in with his digger and landscaped the hill for us. He also got some huge rocks and placed them on the hill. Next term we will plant the hill with grasses and flax. The hill has now been renamed as The Wild Area.

 

Monarch Butterflies

Kaitlyn Coldicutt and  Jordan Keeys did an outstanding job this term at  looking after the monarch butterflies. When the caterpillars got quite big they would transfer them into the shade house which they kept supplied with fresh swan plants. The swan plants were planted in to pots this year and they were kept rotating so that there was always plenty of food. The caterpillars were put into the shade house and shut in so that they would go in to their chrysalis in a safe place. Once the butterfly hatched it was left untouched for 12 hours and then it was carefully put in to the butterfly garden, where there was a lot of orange dahlia, orange zinnia for it to drink the nectar from. We also have these flowers growing in the shade house so the butterfly doesn’t go hungry waiting to be freed. There are also  a lot of swan plant growing around the school. This year the girls would have freed over 100 Monarch butterflies. Very few butterflies were damaged.

A Fantastic Effort!!

 

Our new penny farthing bike

A Cartwheel is turned into a Penny Farthing Bike

It was decided to create a penny farthing bike out of objects lying around at home. We were given the large cart wheel to start with. The handles are handles from off an old lawn mower. The seat was carved out of wood. The pedals were off an old bike and the small wheel at the back was in Mrs Walker’s garden. Mrs Walker got her neighbour Mr Williams to do the welding and Mr Walker came up with many of the ideas. We love this bike in our school garden and it always has children riding on it.