Composting day

Yay it’s compost day. Ms Roberts from Zero Waste education  is here to show us how to compost.

First we checked out old compost and it was full of rubbish and weeds. We decided to start a new one.

First we found a new spot for the compost pile. Then we started. It was hard work but it paid off.

We put the hay on the ground in a square shape. Next was the horse poo. It was mashed up with paper and cardboard. I got to mix it. It was fun but disgusting.

Layer by layer it started to build up.

Then we did the worm farm and we had a lot of worms. We covered it up with wood.    By LH

Andrew with his horse poo.

Zero Waste

Last week Mrs Roberts from Zero Waste education came to Oueroa School in Waipukurau in New Zealand to teach us about composting. We decided the old compost needed a makeover. First of all we gathered all of the ingredients. We got horse poo, straw, saw dust, dead plants, paper or cardboard and vacuum dust. These are all browns or carbon wastes.

Then we got the greens or nitrogen wastes. We got food scraps and weeds then we put it into layers it went green brown green brown. I cut the branches on a tree down with the secateurs. It was hard work. After that I took photos. It was fun. I didn’t want to place anything down on the compost heap because I didn’t know what to do. The last layer was carpet.

Finally it was done. Then the bell rang. Ding ding! It was lunch time. Thank goodness. Yum yum, I was hungry.    

by H.

Composting

A big fat worm

Me and some horse poo

On the 24th of august a lady from ZERO WASTE EDUCATION came.Her name was Ms Roberts.After she told us a bit about composting we got cooking. We showed her our old compost and she said "this isn't right"so we decided to make a new compost. We cleaned out our old compost and got the "ingredients" to make it.The ingredients were nitrogen wastes,carbon wastes,horse poo,vacuum dust,food scraps,branches, straw and dirt.We put in on layer by layer until the top layer .We found lots of worms and can you believe how much rubbish there was? In the end Ms Robert got a picture of me and the finished compost. I hope we have another day like this because this day was awesome!                                                                                     

Me and the compost

Poo, poo glorious poo.

My wonderful teacher Mrs Harding

                                                                                                              

A busy week

Our Planting Day.

On the 8th of August, on a beautiful

Monday, Oueroa School had a planting day.

The sun was blazing down on us as we prepared for the planting day.

I think that the school has been waiting for this day. 

The whole entire school has grown these plants from seeds which brings back the history of our special little school (which means that when you come back you can say “I planted that tree ‘and “I grew that tree”.)

The school loves to get involved in planting trees and native plants.

After morning tea the school met by the steps where we were going to plant.

Megan, our planting coordinator, demonstrated how to plant Ringa Ringa Lilies. After the demonstration we got stuck into planting.

Gary brought his hole digger and he dug all of the holes before we got to planting the plants. So we saved alot of time not digging holes and we got more plants planted. We planted a lot of trees. We thanked Gary a lot.

We planted along by the top retaining wall so it looks tidy. We planted along the bank down to the bottom pine area. It made the school look more awesome than it already was. It took one whole day to finish the project     

She is right into our planting, just like I said

Thanks to Kim, we got cupcakes, juice and chocolate after all of our hard work.

Thank you Kim and thank you to everyone who helped out on that day. The school really appreciated it.

That was the coolest planting day ever.

Kids shoveling dirt off the truck.

Megan our planting coordinater

Planting trees is fun.

Riley, our cat, resting after a long days work.

                                                             

Megan was very helpful and as you know Riley did a lot

This is what we like to see.Two kids working together.

This is our 'after' photo.

One of our littlest loves planting

Boy oh boy, he missed the camera

He loves digging.

Onga onga 7s

ONGA ONGA 7S

The ballons before they were released.

Yesterday (which was the 10^th of August) was Onga 7s. We had a cracker of a day running round and kicking the ball although we lost 2 games and won the rest. Year 4s up to year 7s at Oueroa School had a really cool day. It was sunny and hot. My favourite part of the day was when a few of the Onga School kids released some balloons into the air. During the parade we kept spying them getting higher and higher. BOOOOOOOOOM!!!

we're free at last

Everyone jumped; some people knew what it was. My friend told me that it was the cannon that we saw and that an army man himself had fired it. Sherwood roared “booooo!”  as the announcer cried “and we pointed the cannon towards Sherwood!”

we rock!!!

After that we marched around the field and then each team charged to the grounds where they would be playing. All of the junior soccer teams jogged or ran to field number 3.

Talking tactics.

Our school, which is Oueroa, was hardly noticed among the other 18 schools. Our school was really close to going into the finals if only we had won 1 more game but it doesn’t matter because it was all about having fun: that is the rule Oueroa follows. Most of the seniors at our school like soccer, so do our junior kids. In our first game (which was at 10.30) we faced Omakere and lost 0-1                                       and we played again at 10.50 and lost to Waipawa 0-1 then again we played at 11.20 and won 2-0 then again at12.00 we won again 1-0 and again at12.30  we won 3-2. 

A keen team

We had an awesome time and enjoyed the food as well as the sports. At the end all the schools came together for the prize giving and all the schools that didn’t get a cup or prize at least got a well-done pack, as I call them. They are filled with 4 or so posters and loads of milky-bars and a few other odds and ends

ONGAONGA 7 A SIDE TOURNAMENT ROCKS

Getting the goody bag.

Introduction to Oueroa School

Hello I'm a senior student from Oueroa school.
Our school has a school cat called Riley. A tabby cat that was found under the senior classroom. We had to trap her.  That was harder than we thought. Her name is Riley because she's wiley Riley.
We feed her morning and night as part of our duties. We get paid to do the cleaning of the school for our school camp at the end of the year.  On our camps we go together as a school not a class because there are only 15 of us. 

We have native area where year 8 students plant a native plant when they leave for college. The plants are grown in one of our two shadehouses from seeds that we collect ourselves.

Riley, our kitten, gets lots of cuddles.

Oueroa School is a fun place to come to and to learn at.