20.9.2019 - St. Mary’s Green Gold Enviroschool Medal

Yesterday, The 19th of September 2019, was Silver Reflection Day, It was the day that everyone was excited about, Kauri and Kirsty were going to award our school Silver Enviroschool medal. Our school was as clean as a gem, later on it was the welcoming ceremony we sang different songs and the boys from the whole school did the haka and the boys were as serious as thunder there were students from campion, some of them studied here at St. Mary’s a long time ago. The enviroschool team did their amazing speeches in front of the whole school. After that we had our last song and all of the classes left, our class (Room 3) was the last class to leave. After leaving the wahi nui we moved on to doing arts and crafts. Some of us brought toilet paper, soda bottles, egg cartons, CD discs, yarns, jam jars and beads.  Firstly I did the DIY planters out of soda bottles, I made a Pandicorn (Part Panda, Part Unicorn) and even before I made did the painting I designed how the pandicorn was going to look like in the cut soda bottle, after designing and drawing I had the perfect design so I picked a soda bottle that I would use and then I started cutting the soda bottle and painting it, took me morning block and the middle block to paint and later on in the afternoon after I finished painting I dried it and placed it in a newspaper so that I wouldn’t get paint all over my desk. I moved on to the Manu Tukutuku. (Kites made out of bamboo sticks) Ms. Wagner brought us the Toi-Toi (Bamboo Sticks) that we were going to be using for the kites, we each grabbed 2 toi-toi, we also needed a brown yarn to tie the toi-toi up and a scissor to cut the toi toi we needed to cut the toi-toi as a size of our arm. While we were making our kites Kauri and Kirsty came to our class to talk about our waka (including the silver enviroschool team) but they’re almost running out of time so they rushed to visit the next class, so we packed up the classroom and by the time of 2:25 we did our prayers and by the time of 3:0) I went to the bus line to wait for the bus to come to pick us up, the next day Miss Hickling announced that we were awarded a green gold enviroschool medal instead of silver enviroschool medal! Our class especially the whole school was happy, our school was as happy as a sunny day.