Pink Shirt Day

Today is Pimk Shirt Day.  Pink Shirt Day started in a school in Canada.

It was established in countries worldwide to raise awareness and help stop bullying in schools. By wearing a Pink Shirt on the 14th of April, we  show our support against bullying where we live, work and play.

We had a Pink Shirt Day at school to show our support of the Anti-bullying message. Lots of children and teachers wore pink to show that we think bullying is not OK and we do not want bullies in our school.

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Get Firewise Presentation.

This term we have been learning how to keep safe. One of the things we learned about was how to be firewise. It is really important to know this so if there is a fire you know how to be safe and stay alive.

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Room One's Garden

This term we have started a garden by the class deck. It's exciting to have a place of our own to grow things.
First we got Mr Boase to make a little garden bed and put some compost in for the garden.
Then we planted the tomato seedling we had found growing in the playground at the start of the year. We had been looking after it in a pot in our classroom until it got too big.
We found lots of kikuyu grass under the compost and tried to get it all out so it wouldn't spoil our garden. It was too hard for us to do by ourself so we asked David to help dig it out for us.
The next week we planted some calendula plants. They all died, so last week we tried again and planted some more. We found lots of worms in the soil and a caterpillar on our tomato. We like worms!
Our tomato plant is looking good. It liked all the sun and rain. We picked two ripe tomatoes and cut them up to share. They tasted yummy.


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School safety checks

Our caretaker, Mr Boase, helps keep us safe at school by checking all the electrical appliances. We watched him do the safety checks in our room. He puts stickers on the cords if they pass the test to tell us that they are safe. If they are not safe he takes them away.

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