The End Of The Term

Today is our last day in leader ship and communication class I have so far learnt a lot about the river and learning hoe to test what the river was like. I have thoroughly enjoyed this term. I have learnt a lot about the river and cleaned it up and what we can do to avoid it from being polluted and how we can also get the word out to the community.
I would like to say a big thank-you to Mrs. Hansen for being our teacher this term as I thought that I have learnt a lot from her this term and she has really helped us to get the word out to people about the river all over the world. As a sum up I think that we have made a impact to the community and also to the people at school and even people around the world.

Movie Making( with a struggle )

Today we made a very interesting movie based on the river pollution for our assembly at school to show the students what they are doing to the river and what there parents may also be doing to the river.
Scene one: was based on Michael in the studio
Scene two: Main Street dropping rubbish
Jess: reporter
Marika & Cassandra: dropping the rubbish on the ground
Josh & Becca: pollution police
Ariana: filming
Scene three: Washing Car
Teri: filming
Cassandra & Marika: Washing car
Jess: reporter
Scene four: Fertiliser
Ariana: filming
Cassandra & Marika: dropping fertiliser
Becca & Josh: pollution police
Jess: reporter
Scene 5: Behind the pools
Teri: filming
Jess: reporter
Scene 6: Michael in the studio
Teri: filming
Scene 7: everyone saying thank-you for watching our movie.
It was really well done considering that we didn’t have time to muck around and plan ahead. We will be showing the movie at our school assembly on Tuesday next week.

Today We Did........

Today our class was writing to five different newspapers as we are now trying to get the awareness of the community. This is where we can step up and tell the truth about the river and let everyone else know what is happing to the river. We are also going to be setting up an assembly for our school and show them what we are doing to help the river and possibly how they can also help us to keep the river clean.

Today We Did........

Today our class was writing to five different newspapers as we are now trying to get the awareness of the community. This is where we can step up and tell the truth about the river and let everyone else know what is happing to the river. We are also going to be setting up an assembly for our school and show them what we are doing to help the river and possibly how they can also help us to keep the river clean.

What We Did Today

Today our class is deciding to go on a trip to Wellington and go into parliament.
Today we watched an expiring video called “An Inconvenient Truth” it was a really great movie about Al Gore and his truth about global warming and he is getting the awareness out to everyone.
Our class will be going to Wellington next week on the Thursday and we will stay the night and a hostel place.
We will be also watching in parliament as they will be having a meeting on the Thursday and hopefully will have a good look around parliament.
Our class has achieved a lot this term and hopefully we will be able to clean up the river for good and have no more pollution left.
Next term when we finish on the river we will be studying the cinema and trying to get it up and running again which will be very exciting.

Busienss Visiting

Today the 1st of June we went to Hautapu Pine and Byfords Readi-mix to investigate on there pollution.
We found that Byfords Readi-mix do not pollute the river as they recycle there concrete and it gets turned into builders mix which them gets sold.
The Hautapu Pine was very interesting we were told how the pine is treated and what are the steps that it has to go through. The pine gets put into some large tunnels which are enclosed, the pine then gets steamed up to be prepared for the chemical treatment before the pine is allowed to then be sold on. We were also told that the water that drips out of the pine goes into a pond which then gets cleaned out every three years and the overflow from the pond then goes into a stream which then goes into the Hautapu river. We were also very concerned about the bark peels that get dumped into the paddock that is next to the Byfords Readi-mix. We found out that they have a recent so they are allowed to dump it there but it is still a damage to the river.
I found this trip interesting and found out a lot of information.

River Investigation

Today the 25th of May we went down to the river to test how badly polluted it is. We come up with some really good things to see if our river is clean our dirty. We also found some bugs which indicate how dirty our river is with a scale of one to ten. We also took some tests of the river and we will get them sent away to see how bad it is. I also took the temperature of the river and found it to be 10 degrees. We were testing the clarity and flora of the river and lots more. Our water testing kit was from horizons and we would like to thank them for lending it to us as it was a lot of help.

First Meeting

Today the 11th of May we had our first meeting for the river clean up. Our meeting was about our river project and how we are trying to clean it up and what we have to do to make that happen. We had a great discussion and i think it made us stop and think about this a lot more. Jess and Michael got in contact with Horizons and left a message on there machine require to the water pollution water level was. We are hoping that they will get back to us and tell us as appose to how we will clean the river up.
We are also going to leave a comment in the Taihape Times to tell everyone about the pollution and what will happen to the river if this does not get any better. This was a great meeting and am looking forward to the next one.

Thank-You

To everyone who has left a comment or who is going to thank-you very much for it.

River Visit

Last Friday on the 4th of May we went to the river to see how dirty it was. As a result of this we found broken pipes that had lead to no where and also a old concreate building that we do not know what it was.
As due to much discusion Mrs Hansen had much to think that Byfords Redi-mix had poluted the river but in fact i have found that it is not true for they have a recycling reclaimer that recycles the concreate and turns it into builders mix which then gets sold to poeple.

Issue Decided?

Our Issue was Decided
We have finally decided our issue over a class debate. The issue that we will be discussing is the river pollution in Taihape. We had a very close debate as we were fighting over weather we should do the cinema, rubbish recycling or the river. We decided that the river would be the best option as if we were to do the cinema we would be caring more about our selfs than the enviroment. The reson we chose this subject is that we thought that it would be a good idea to clean up the river because in the next genaration the river will be polluted and our kids will not be able to swim in there ad also our kids, Kids will not be able to because it will be poluted from people just dumbing there rubish in the river.