Recycling tip of the week

The group working on getting Bokashi Buckets into our school to compost food scraps, went to Kaiapoi North School to check out how the system works there. Kaiapoi North have been using the Bokashi Buckets for a long time. The children came back with plenty of enthusiasm and several buckets. There will be a trial of this system in Room 20/21 for the rest of the term. Huge thanks to Zaneta and Michelle for providing transport and parent help. We couldn't do without you.

 Meeting with the eco person from the Waimakariri area.

 The caretaker showing the larger compost bins the scraps get put into.

 Taiao with her treasure pile of buckets

 They even met the school cat.

A meeting to find out about the bokashi system.

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Have you seen the little triangles made out of arrows surrounding the numbers from 1 - 7 on plastic?

They tell you what type 

The Recycling Factory in Wellington

of plastic it is! - Did you know until now, we had to send our plastic overseas to be recycled, but now... New Zealand has a Recycling Factory all of its own! It is located in Wellington.

Recycling tip of the week

You should buy things from an  Eco Shop. If you buy things from the Eco Shop you are reusing items so they don't have to go to landfill. It is on Blenheim Rd, Riccarton, Christchurch

Hitting Roadblocks

A few of our groups are hitting roadblocks at the moment. With new people added into the groups the dynamics have changed.

Our worm farmers are creating a google sheet survey asking parents whether they would like a portable worm farm on its own, with soil or with soil and worms. They have also contacted Mitre 10 for advice on materials in the hope that some may be provided for them.

Our scooter mudguard team are creating a single page website and finalising designs. They are also due to work with Dave this afternoon to create some more models.

Our coffee cup team have contacted Fava to see if they are interested in trialling their cups. They are also contacting Ideal Cups to ask for a few free samples that could have logos placed on them.

My Board Mate are making a small website and working with Nerhys' dad next week.

Our plastics group have decided that they would like to initiate the placement of a soft plastics bin at St Martins School. They are making contact with the company.

Tristan's mum has been in teaching the group how to make recycled paper in preparation for them to be able to teach small groups in our school how to do this.

Recycling tip of the week

 Please put all lids in the red bin including ice cream lids NOT IN THE RECYCLING BIN

Building a Website

Today we welcomed Mel Opie to S'Mart Tank to teach us how to build a website.

• Today there are a number of free apps that allow people to put together a website without needing to write the code
• What do you want to achieve with your website?
• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." Steve Jobs
• We need to be really clear on what we are selling, who we would want to sell it to, why we are different
• Don't forget that we are kids selling to an adult market, that is a really great point of difference!
• We need to include a small blurb about S'Mart Tank to include in each site (Ms Saxon will compose this)
• What is your domain name? How does this read - be careful!!  www.childrenswear.com :-)
• Simple language that is spelt correctly!
• Branding - how will you make your product stand out? Colour, font, logo, language
• We are going to use www.wix.com

This is such exciting learning! Thanks to Mel for her awesome input. We can't wait to see the websites up and running.

Getting Real!

Today in S'Mart Tank we began to get real!!

We have our six groups -

Plastics	Recycled Paper	Coffee Cups	My Board Mate	Scooter Mudguards	Portable Worm Farm
Ida	Tristan	Ashley	Nerhys	Abby	Alice
Jacob	Sam R	Jonah	Payo	Sam	Maya
Cruz	Ben	Sophie	Noah	Oliver	Jack
Sol	Amy W	Sofia	Lace	Hugh	Rowan

Today we made timelines and thought about who was doing what and what we needed to do in the next ten weeks to get our products out there! How exciting!

Ms Saxon was soooo proud!

Last week we made Ms Saxon and our mentors so proud! We pitched out ideas like true professionals.

After much deliberation the following products were selected to be taken further:

• Scooter mudguards
• Boardmate
• Automatic worm farm
• Paper making
• Ida and Jacob's plastic
• Ashley's cups

Ida	Tristan	Ashley	Nerhys	Abby	Alice
Jacob	Sam R	Jonah	Payo	Sam	Maya
Cruz	Ben	Sophie	Noah	Oliver	Jack
Sol	Amy W	Sofia	Lace	Hugh	Rowan
		Amy S

Today we began thinking about the strengths in our team and the jobs that we will now need to undertake.

• Web design
• Marketing manager
• Head of operations
• Money master
• Writer
• Office manager (Order tracking)
• The face
• Designer
• Engineer
• Project manager
• Artist
• Graphic designer
• Builder, architect
• Salesman
• Quality control

We have also contacted our amazing mentors to discuss where to next.

What this space, we are amazing!