I'm going down to the garden to eat worms!

No, not really........but we DO have a worm farm at Wentworth Primary School.

As you know we have been working hard at Wentworth Primary to reduce the impact our behaviours have on our environment.  We have made, and are using Beeswax Wraps to reduce the amount of rubbish we create.  To align with this initiative we have decided to use a worm farm to turn our waste into something more valuable.......COMPOST!

Mrs Graham (Tilly and Ben's Mum) gave us a worm farm which we have started to use.  We know that worms love to eat our fruit and vegetable scraps (not citrus fruit though).  They do not like to eat chocolate or any other junk food but they love egg shells and vacuum cleaner dust!  

Have a look at the photos below and pop in and see our worm farm the next time you are at school.

Marble Run - Tech Challenge

We finished off our fabulous Term 2 with our Marble Run Technology Challenge.

We had to work with only cellotape and cardboard boxes to make a marble run.  This excellent challenge enables us to develop our leadership, teamwork and communication skills.  Working with children of all ages encourages us to ensure that our team works together to achieve a common goal.

It is also fun as we watch the marbles make their trip down our creative and unique marble runs!

Paper making

During Term 2 we discovered how paper is made.  As we have been learning about recycling, we decided to use our 'old' paper to make 'new' paper.  

We enjoyed refining our fine motor skills to ensure that our paper pulp was made up of very small torn pieces of our recycled paper.

  We discussed different textures as we felt the water mix with the paper fragments to create a pulp.  We mixed the pulp by adding a marble to a container to mix it really well!  

We carefully spread out our pulp into thin layers so we could let it dry and become our 'new' framed paper.  

Have a look at the fun we had learning the craft of paper making!

Tearing up our recycling.

Mixing our paper pulp using a marble in a closed container.

Spreading out our paper pulp into a thin flat layer.

Our freshly dried and framed 'new' paper.

Row, Row, Row your boat!

Kiwi can SWIM!

Our Term 2 swimming lessons at the Leisure Centre were an absolute SPLASH!  

These intensive daily lessons provide an excellent opportunity for our Kiwi to improve their swimming skills ensuring they are safe, in and around the water.  

Check out the fun we had!