Year 5 explore How Active Journeys help the Environment.

 Today, Year 5 looked at ways active travel can help the environment.

We tackled some big concepts today. 

Finding links between Fossil Fuels, Exhaust Emissions and Air Pollution. 

We then looked at a community with a challenge.

We identified signs of pollution, waste and poor infrastructure. 

We thought about how this affected the people living there. 

Then we came up with solutions!

Next time, we will create our own urban communities, 

looking at all the possibilities for a clean, green future.

Being Kind with the Youth project.

 This term, Claire from the Youth Project will be working with all our tamariki to explore what kindness is and how we can be kind to our environment and the community.  Each year group will take a different action to care for our tangata.

We learnt that there are 3 aspects of kindness: 

1. Being friendly 

2. Being generous 

3. Being considerate 

All these things are FREE.

5th May

Year 5, we made hearts for our local heroes

Travelwise Leaders, Leading the Way

 Today, our Travelwise Leaders had a visit from Maggie, who works at Auckland Transport. She works closely with Travelwise Leaders in lots of schools in Auckland.

We looked at what makes a good leader. Did you know that all our Travelwise Leaders used an active travel to school today!

We looked at actions we could take this term... Maybe a Big walk to school? or "Look out for us" campaign.

Zara the Zebra Mascot Crossing campaign, or Red Man/ Green Man crossing campaign.

Mia suggested A bike check at school.

We all liked the idea of Red Man/Green Man crossing Campaign.

We are going to book Maggie for a SPEED RAIDAR Activation to measure the speed of the cars outside our school gate.