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Worm farming with Jos

Tomarata School has started a worm farm! Thanks to Mr. Davies who kindly donated a bath tub for our worm farm to be in and Mr. Tischik for building the frame around the bath tub, we are soon going to be able to be more environmentally friendly. To make sure we do it right, we have begun researching on the internet how to make a worm farm. Our worm farm is going to be very colourful once we paint on the wooden base. Each classroom is going to get one part of the base around the bath to paint on. We all hope our worm farm is going to be as successful as the one at Rainbow Valley Farm. Hannah

water for everyone

Our class has been discussing the Water for Everyone water bottling company being run by some All Blacks. We sent a letter about water for everyone to the Rodney Times. They published it. A little later a parcel arrived in the mail. We got very nice gifts from water for everyone company- a shirt and two water bottles each. The water is very nice and the shirts are very compfortable. Its good that people who buy this product are giving 5c to charity.
Below is our letter.

Dear Editor
We have heard that three All Blacks are advertising a new bottled water company called Water for Everyone.
We think this is a great plan by them.
They are doing something good for charity because they are donating five cents per bottle to the KidsCan charity. It might be only five cents but it's better than nothing. The KidsCan charity will be very grateful.
Water for Everyone is spring water. Bottled water is easy to take around.
You can reuse the bottle and since the three All Blacks sponsor the bottlee it makes it even better. We love the All Blacks and we wan to support them.
We will definitely buy this product. We hope the charity gets a lot of money.
This is a great thing that the All Blacks are doing.
Trent and Scott

Editor: Daniel Carter, Richie McCaw and Ali Williams are backing the project but have been told by their bosses the five cents should go to community groups- not directly to official All Blacks charity KIdsCan.
That's apparently because of contractual obligations and implications the water may be seen as an All Blacks product.
The trio are reportedly shareholders in the Premium New Zealand Trading Company behind the the brand. It has its own charity, the For Everyone Charitable Foundation, so KidsCan may be able to apply to this charity for funding along with other applicants.


By Scott & Trent

We trialled Mrs Morrow's Afghans today. They turned our pretty good.

The Worm Farm

In the weekend Mr Tischik built the framework for the bath we are making into a worm farm. So now we are all ready to go.

book chractor dress-up day!!!

On Friday the school hade a dress up day we saw some great book charactors from Room1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Briar dressed as Puss in Boots was the best dressed character in Room 1.

The interactive story

This week is library week and we have all been contributing to the Interactive story on the Library Week website. The first part of the story was writtn by Fleur Beale and each day students are invited to continue the story. Today Aimee's part featured so we have been continuing her part of the story. Well done Aimee.

Cooking this week involved measuring, mixing, machines and making. They tasted pretty good. We made gingerbread men and a few other inivative shapes with the shortbread mix like kiwis, stars, and letters.

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Bottled water- Letter to the Editor

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Bottled Water, Letter to the Editor
In our class we have been discussing the ad about the new "Water for Everyone". These ads have an All Black image, and we have been debating whether this is a good or a bad thing. Here is a letter from one of the students, we sent to the Advocate editor.

Dear Editor

If you have been watching the television recently, I’m sure you would have seen the new ads advertising a new range of bottled water. This issue has been raising conversation in our class, and we have been debating whether this is a good or bad thing. The ad boasts that this is “the water for everyone” and that “5 cents will go to a Kids Can charity”.

I think that this is not a very good thing, because there are too many bottled water brands already, filling up landfills and tricking the consumers into spending our hard earned money on water we can get from our taps for free. The war for our money is already big, and the whole “5 cents goes to charity” is a scam that many people will fall for. Personally, I reckon, if you are going to give money to a charity, at least make it a good amount.

I also think that putting the All Blacks image on the ads is a scandal. Our teacher asked seven boys in our class what bottle would they chose if every bottle was the same price and size, and all of them said they would chose the All Black brand. This is ridiculous because the All Blacks sponsor already has a brand of bottled water, and they don’t use the All Blacks as bait.

Personally, I would go for the cheaper brands, and reuse the bottles, as this is the most environmentally friendly way. But this is a matter that the consumer should decide, as it is their money to spend. In a world where brands use famous sports players to sell water, who knows what silly scandals they will come up with to try to lure us in next.

Aimee Stevens, Age11
Room1, Tomarata School
Posted by Tomarata at 3:24 PM 1 comments

Hi Class

That's a great letter to the editor. I find it awesome that these sort of issues are getting discussed in class. Your awareness of being marketed to at such a young age, and the cynicism towards big companies marketing efforts gives hope for the future.

I am also interested in the wasteful bottled water industry and it's environmental impact and I want to do something about it. What would you guys think of a brand of bottled water where the plastic was made from plants and is bio degradeable, and where all profits, that's 100%, go to help people who don't have access clean water?

Jared

Making Lemon Honey

The Year 6's made Lemon Honey today. We used the lovely yellow unblemished lemons from Mrs B's lemon tree. We spread the honey on some toasted bread buns and agreed that it was very zesty.


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