Goldfields School is welcomed

At Netherton School we celebrate cultural diversity.  This term we welcomed Goldfields School from Paeroa who spent their time with us teaching us how to sign the National Anthem.

Creating A Bird Haven At Netherton School

Mr John Gaukrodger from DOC suggested that if we were to encourage Native bird life back in to Netherton School we could plant a bird Island for them. We decided to make use of the tall trees that are already there and surround them in flax and edible trees, such as feijoa, guava, coprosma, persimmon. We took action and invited a group of parents to help us create such an island.

 

An Old Hen House Is Restored

Mr  Coldicut worked with Jacob, Zane, Dylan and Brooklyn every Wednesday to create this wonderful hen house. Mr Buchanan provided us with an old hen house from off his farm. Zane and Jacob made up a plan with the help of Jacob’s Grandfather.

We are now looking forward to hatching eggs and raising chickens.

 

The boys worked very hard with Mr Coldicutt to build a hen house. We all think it is amazing.

 

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.