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Archives for March 2019

Garden to Table Update

March 23, 2019 By Tania Savage

Garden Group
This week was another fantastic week for the GTT team. We even had visitors from 1% Collective who came along with Victoria (our specialist from the Garden To Table programme who supports us and helped us set up the programme at Cardinal McKeefry).
The garden team showed them around and explained how the gardens work at our school and what a great job the students are doing (with fantastic guidance from John and Liz) growing the produce.
The gardeners were very busy weeding, doing pest control, working on the compost and planting seedlings. The harvesting this week was fabulous and made it easy to create delicious dishes for the students to enjoy.

Kitchen Group
The kitchen people were very busy this week tackling quite a few different dishes. Over the last month students have been foraging for blackberries that we have been storing in the freezer and this week some members of the team made blackberry jam. The hall smelled wonderful as the jam was cooking and everyone was very excited about the jars of jam that were created. A big thanks to the members of our school community who collected berries and brought in jars.
The rest of the kitchen group worked on preparing coleslaw and tomato salad freshly harvested from the garden. Another group of students made scones; one batch of sultana scones to have with blackberry jam and cream, and the other batch was cheese and they added fresh silverbeet. The end result was enjoyed by all. The recipe has been included in the newsletter so please remember to send along a picture of any students making GTT recipes so we can include them on our GTT page. We were also very lucky as Victoria gave us an awesome gift of some new aprons and a cookbook.

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Prayer Service Monday 18th March

March 16, 2019 By Tania Savage

We will be holding a prayer service on Monday morning after the events in Christchurch yesterday. All are welcome.

Some links to information to support your children through this time of grief.

https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/emergency-management/managing-stress-emergency/helping-children

https://www.orangatamariki.govt.nz/caring-for-someone/support-and-training/talking-about-traumatic-events/

Our thoughts are with Christchurch and those affected. It can be hard to know how to talk to children about terrorism…

Posted by Children's Commissioner NZ on Friday, March 15, 2019

https://theconversation.com/how-to-talk-to-children-about-terrorism-78290?fbclid=IwAR2y3Js4jUoEZxkC2HAWGAOZLBaG3YEZfIu_jn8vhZGwc6MmEBT5YYNtHrM

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Our Playground Upgrade

March 7, 2019 By Tania Savage

Thank you for supporting our PTA

Senior Playground Hand GripsSenior Playground Hand Grips
I like the new handle bars that we can swing across.
Oscar
Senior Playground Cargo NetSenior Playground Cargo Net
I love the new playground and it is complete, the flying fox is far more smoother and not rusty. I love the colour blue of the new ropes. Poppy
Junior Playground Rope BridgeJunior Playground Rope Bridge
New Flying FoxNew Flying Fox
Senior Playground Lilypad RopesSenior Playground Lilypad Ropes
I think it is really good it looks is much better and new and it is much safer. The ropes are better because they are not frayed. Nell
Senior Playground Slat BridgeSenior Playground Slat Bridge
I like the new playground because when we were on the bridge the old rope was rough and it gave me a scratch. The new rope is so much softer and better and there is loads more equipment to play on so it feels like there is more space.
Ananyaa
Senior Playground Climbing RopeSenior Playground Climbing Rope
I think the new playground is really good because there is new equipment and the way it is designed for use is really smart and fun to play. Ava.
Junior Playground Climbing RopeJunior Playground Climbing Rope
New Junior playground Cargo NetNew Junior playground Cargo Net
Junior Playground PlankJunior Playground Plank
Senior Playground Cargo BridgeSenior Playground Cargo Bridge
It is so much better because there are not wires sticking out and they used to hurt your hands, no one used to go on it. The ropes are so much stronger and heaps of people play on it. Eva.
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