Nadia Tomarata School speech finalist

On windy days at Tomarata School there is litter blowing around everywhere! – paper, gladwrap, muesli bar wrappers and small chippie packets.

It looks horrible.

How can we make our school litter free?

We can make less litter if we use containers instead of gladwrap.

You can use lunch wrap instead of gladwrap.

Did you know that gladwrap never breaks down in the landfill? So don’t use glapwrap or there will be plastic rubbish everywhere.

You could make your food instead of buying it in a packet. That will be cheaper for you and we will have less rubbish at our school.

I think everyone should not litter at our school and if you have a litterless lunch with no gladwrap or wrappers or plastic bags then we would have no litter at our school and we would have less rubbish in the landfill.

Can you make a litterless lunch?

Yes you can!

Nadia

Lisa wins the interschool speech finals!

Why Do People Litter?

Look at all that litter on the ground! Empty packets of chips flying around in the wind. Squished fruit on the steps – Yuck that looks disgusting! Someone’s crusts that they don’t want to eat. Gladwrap flying across the deck. Why do they litter? Because they are too lazy to put their rubbish in the right bin. That empty packet of chips should stay in your lunch box. Don’t drop your fruit on the ground so that someone slips on that banana! Put it in the compost bin so the worms can have a tasty treat. Eat your crusts you big baby! Or you could feed them to the worms in the compost bin. Don’t even bring gladwrap to school, use wax paper around your sandwiches or you could put food in to containers. But don’t leave your containers at school. I think everyone should just put there rubbish in the right bin and not litter. If people keep on littering our school is going to be a rubbish dump. Would you like to go to school in a rubbish dump? No way! So don’t litter, think about having a litterless lunch. By Lisa.

Maori carvings by Room4

Maori carvings on PhotoPeach

Fun Run by Michaela and Holly

On the Fun Run we had to run for 40 minutes, and that was really,REALLY HARD! because we had to run for a long time. We jumped hay bales, we went under a big heavy mat and we got wet when we went past the sprinkler.After that we got a juicey and that was the best part.
We got sponsors to give us money and we raised    $3,000:00          for Tomarata School. Then we got to choose a reward for participating and getting all that money. I got a clutch purse and Holly got some monster pens - everyone who did the fundraising got something and it was like Christmas when Naomi and Vanessa brought it all to our class and Mrs Dunn gave it to us.

Red Sock Day by Michael and Jasper

RED  SOCK'S DAY

Friday 29th  of June was red socks day. It is a day to support  leadership in action and what in means to be a New Zealander. We brought red socks to support the Sir Peter Blake Trust who run leadership programmes for kids.

Omaha Marae by Mia and Renee

On Thursday  Tomarata went to the Omaha marae and room 5 and 6 got to have a sleepover .
We got to sing "Utaina ma and Haera mai and Te Hei Maoriora."
 We all got to do games at the marae. The games were nuckel bones, flax flowers and also string games, stick games, poi, myths and legends - there was a lot  of games.
We also  saw a whales jawbone at the entrance to the marae and when we walked in we went under the backbone of a whale .
We had a really good time.
 

Soccer hockey day by Callum and Wyatt

On Wednesday we went to the soccer grounds to play soccer & hockey. It was fun and we won all of the games but one. It was the best day ever.Bryson was in my team but Callum wasn't in my team but that doesn't matter. We won some games. Bryson was good being the goalie.

I like the soccer the best because I got to be the goalie and I got to pick the ball up in my hands.

In hockey you can smack the ball further than if you are just kicking it.

It is fun to try new sports.