Category: Greening the School
Class 5′s Climate Week Presentations
| November 12, 2011 | Posted by daniel under Activities, Greening the School, News |
The climate week gave the students an opportunity to work in groups, harvest their existing knowledge and research into the causes, effects and impact of climate change. Each also put their ICT skills to the test to produce colourful and dynamic presentations summarising what they had discovered. Below are their Google Document presentations. Congratulations class…
Theme Week: Climate Change
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by daniel under Activities, Greening the School, News |
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As part of our cross curricular studies the children have been working hard to produce presentations and displays to teach others what they’ve been learning about climate change and what steps each of us can take to reduce our impact on the environment. See some of the presentations that class five produced on Google Documents…
Grape Picking 2011
| October 6, 2011 | Posted by daniel under Activities, Greening the School, News |
It’s harvest time in the hills, and around Castelli some of the best wines are about to be made. Our school is lucky to be set amongst the vineyards and as part of our integrated education programmes, we take the children out to learn about the ancient practice for picking grapes. The children learn lots…
Building an Ecological Greenhouse
| May 16, 2011 | Posted by admin under Activities, Greening the School, News |
Castelli kids have been busy working to try and reduce our environmental impact. The huge number of plastic bottles we use normally get carted off to be recycled, but we decided to put them to a different use. By cutting the bottles and then assembling them in to walls, doors and a roof, we’ve made…
Rural for Kids
| April 27, 2011 | Posted by admin under Activities, Greening the School, Rural 4 Kids |
The elementary school made a video telling the story of how Senza Crapa (the brainless monster), an environmental menace, lost his brain and found it again with the help of the Fantastic Four: Clima-boy, Aqua-girl, Bio-Kid and Baby Energy. All the children, from classes 1 – 5 took part creating the story-board, drawing the pictures,…
