Water Testing with the University of Otago Chemistry Outreach Team

Dave the scientist and his helpers Beth and Sam visited Taieri Beach School. They brought  Shihah, a teacher from Malaysia, who was very impressed with the science our children were doing.

Paddy and Liam collected water samples from the river,  the bend in the river, by the bridge and by the sandbar.

Harry and Louie, along with their scientist friend Sam, tested for phosphates.

James and Ethan, along with their scientist friend Beth tested for oxygen and Delrio and Hunter worked with Dave the scientist to check the pH. 

Buddy Reading: Devon and Taylor

Buddy Reading: Nate and Ethan

Great tennis skills, Nate

Careful balancing of the tennis ball, Louie

Great work balancing the tennis ball Ethan.

Run quickly Louie if you want to get Ethan out.

Cricket skills with Gemma the Sports Activator

Warm up session with Gemma, the Sports Activator

Recycling Plastics

On Friday afternoon October 27^th and following our weekly visit to the School Library Jeannine spoke to the children on why it is important for everyone in our community to help reduce the use of  plastic bags and plastic containers that we all use in our daily lives.

Jeannine showed us many different varieties of plastic that are causing harm to our environment especially plastic supermarket bags which are clogging up the landfills and harming wild-life in our oceans.

Jeannine then asked questions on how we could reduce using plastic in our homes and school.
Here are some of our responses

·       recycling plastic bags

·       purchasing bags that are biodegradable

·       putting our used plastic items in rubbish bags securely so they are not blown away

·       looking for the re-usable plastic signs when we visit supermarkets,cafes and restaurants

·       encouraging the use of other materials to use such as cardboard containers to store items in
     

School Garden

The children have been working on their school garden.

Taieri Beach School Limo

Ethan, David and Harry had lots of fun at lunchtime today constructing their own special stretch limo.
Any chance of a ride in it boys?

Truck Safety

On Tuesday, we were visited  by Arthur and Calum from the Dunedin Carrying Company and Constable Hugh Tait from the Police Commercial Vehicle Investigation. They came out to tell us about truck safety because we have logging trucks going past our school.

We learnt that you need to be at least 2 metres away from the truck so the truck driver can see us. Trucks can take a long time to stop especially when they have a heavy load of logs.

We all had a turn at sitting in the driver's seat and had fun pulling the wire that make the horn sound. The horn was very loud!

Thank you Arthur, Calum, and Constable Tait for teaching us about being safe around trucks. 

Science Supper

At our end of term assembly Dave, Geoff and the scientists put on a variety of hands-on exciting science experiments for all our families to enjoy.

The excitement of having had their hands on fire!

An electrifying experience for David!

Seeing the world through different types of lenses.

Fun with changing colours using pH indicators.

Using methanol to make our pictures really colourful.

Mmmm! How did this happen? It was supposed to form a stalagmite on the tinfoil!

Making ice cream with liquid nitrogen. Yum!