Fair trade?

Kia ora koutou!

It's Creative here. I have been a lucky little monkey today.... I joined the International Club, one of Borough School's Friday afternoon enrichment options. The students got to experience what international trade can be like.

I was given the very important task of helping operate the Bank for an activity. I paid the students for the things they produced.

The students producing lollies got a lot more money than the sugar cane farmers who had to work really hard and with fewer resources. I felt a bit bad about that actually, especially when the sugar cane farmers complained that it wasn't fair. I agree with them actually, it wasn't fair, but what can you do?

The students looked rather glum after investigating the consequences for those who don't get paid fairly for the work they do. And even more so when they found out how much of the money their parents pay for a bag of sugar actually gets to the farmers.

Thankfully they learned about the possibility of buying fair trade goods and ended on a high note by sharing some Singaporian treats... I liked the little green pancakes the most. YUM! Almost as good as fair trade bananas!

George assisting with a science challenge. Room10

George learnt how infectious diseases can spread quickly when people share body fluids.Tiny organisms are carried when sneezing or coughing.Our body tries to protect us either with acid in our stomach,mucus in our lungs or scabs on our skin.If the microbes get past our natural barriers Our body uses white blood cells to attack the infection.It's a good idea to imunise non-infected people and/or quarantine infected people.

Making Hay While The Sunshines (ABS)

During one of the rare fine moments this week Year 7 and 8 decided to sneak out for a game of Sneak and make the most of the sunshine. Creative was a little confused to begin with but quickly got to grasp with the complicated rules and soon joined in. He had a lot of fun and tried to stay out of the mud.

Where in the world is Curious george?

Could this be our Curious George stealing bird food in some tropical paradise? And if so, what has he done with his rugby ball?

Still Life at Lauriston!

The George Brothers got right amongst it when the year 3 & 4 class were doing their Still Life painting last week. The banana had a lucky escape - you can see Curious reaching out for it. Creative was more interested in creating than eating, thank goodness! What beautiful paintings.

Cooking with the year 3 & 4 class. (Lauriston)

Mmmm! Making yummy baked potatoes and potato soup with potatoes from our school gardens. Creative and Curious can't wait to try the soup but they don't want to burn their tongues.

Monkeys love to play (Lauriston).

I'm swingin' in the trees like my wild monkey cousins

And I'm scoring all the goals, yes dozens and dozens.

I'm ridin' on a rabbit and I'm hangin' on tight

And I'm being really nice so he doesn't get a fright.

Yeeha! Woohoo! Monkeys love to play,

We play all night and we play all day.

Swing it! Kick it! Hang on tight!

Playing at Lauriston is simply out of sight!

Lunchtime kapahaka at Lauriston.

Two helpful wee monkeys making poi with the kapahaka group.

The George Brothers at Lauriston School

Our theme this term is food and how it is necessary for our survival. Creative George shares a healthy, energy boosting banana at fruit-break time. "Don't eat the skin, Creative! That goes in our worm farms." Next week the years 3, 4, 5 & 6 students are having a famine sleepover at school to find out just how important food is to us, and to raise money to help children living in places where food and clean water are not always available.We don't think The George Brothers would handle it -they're always sneaking into our lunch boxes looking for bananas!

Curious & Creative having fun with photobooth and the year 5&6 students.

The year 5 & 6 students run 'Action Projects' throughout the year. Curious George is helping the Hen House group decide what their next step is. He is checking out the netting to make sure the hens won't escape until they are ready to be free-ranging. The group has until next Friday to put on a door and build nesting boxes and a perch, because the first two hens are arriving on that day. Will they make the deadline?? We'll keep you posted.

Creative George at ABS

CREATIVE George looks like he is having lots of fun without his brother CURIOUS at Ashburton Borough School. Hopefully neither are suffering from an identity crisis and are looking forward to being reunited...soon?

Where in the World is Curious George?

Curious George might have headed for a warmer climate. But maybe his plans have backfired and he's getting wet instead?!

BREAKING NEWS... The Brothers distant relative found!

Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.
Ida is 47 Million years old!

Could this be a distant relative of the George Brothers?

Find out more here
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html

Curious George Visits Room 14

On Wednesday the 20th of May, after playtime, Room 14 was delighted to have Curious George join them in an activity.
At the time, they were carefully following some fun instructions for 'rainbow writing'. All the students loved chatting to George while they created rainbows with pastels. They even took turns to help him to make rainbow paper.
Unfortunately we had to say goodbye to C.G. at lunchtime as he had to go to another class. It was a surprise the next day though to see that C.G. had left a rainbow thank you message for us.
Ka kite ano Curious George!

Where in the world is Curious George

Curious George goes missing.
Has he run away to sea? Gone exploring in the mountains? Or maybe stowed away in someone's flight luggage?
Last seen on Tom Smith's desk, Mt Somers Room, Lauriston School. We think he may have gone walk-about. Any information leading to discovering his whereabouts is welcome.

Minimising R 15 miscellaneous waste

Curious was very busy in R 15. He is showing students how to reduce what goes to the landfill.

Much of what was in this bin actually ended up being reused or recycled.

Curious is a very clever bear!

Recycling Waste with the Room 15 students

Curious is hard at work minimising what is sent to landfill.

Curious comes to visit Room 15 at ABS

Curious enjoyed visiting Room 15 students and took part in listening to three Ashburton College International Exchange students sharing some interesting ideas about the countries they came from. Curious thought the Room 15 students listened well and asked lots of intelligent questions.

Room 3 & Curious George

Room 3 have been on a visit to Wastebusters. We are learning about Waste.

Teaching Games For Understanding

The children of Room 2 at St Joseph's School are participating in "Defend the Cone" target game.
The George Brothers joined us on court as we competed against one another. Bree was our "Chief Photographer" for the day!

Just in the Nick of Time

Yesterday Curious and Creative joined Room 3 at St Joseph's during pack up time. They helped all the children with their duties, and watched as Room 3 worked together to keep their room tidy. One of the duties is to sort the recycling and put it out to be collected on Wednesday mornings. This week Victoria and Harrison had forgotten. So, they raced outside with Curious and Creative, fingers crossed, hoping it hadn't been cleared and luckily the recycling truck had just arrived. What great timing!

The George Brothers are impressed!

WOW!

When the George Brothers came to Room 4, they wanted to know what was sitting by the fish tank. It was the new St Joseph's Wastebusters Award! We got it because we picked up rubbish in the St Joseph's School playground. Curious and Creative thought the awardwas fantastic!

Please be Seated

This is the George brothers hanging upside down parachuting

In 2008 two new classrooms were built at St Joseph's School. The next step of this is the landscaping. For a starter we have a big concrete slab that will eventually have built in seating around it, with a sun shade over top. This is where our whole school can have jump jam and assembly on it.



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Autumn Fun with the George Brothers.

Room 8 invite the George Brothers to their playground

“Hey Creative, look at this. autumn must be here” yells Curious.
“I can see that”, said Creative .”What a beautiful tree. Aren’t the kids at St Joseph’s lucky to have such a beautiful tree in their playground?”
“I know its autumn because the leaves on this tree are all scarlet and crunchy.” says Curious as he climbs higher into the tree.
“My favourite autumn pastime is to cover myself in leaves and pretend I’m a hedgehog,” squeals Creative.
“Come on lets” laughs Curious as he jumps down from the glorious scarlet tree.

Curious and Creative have a sing along!

The George Brothers Visit
Room 1 St Josephs

Curious and Creative George had a wonderful time with Room 1. They listened to and watched us do our maths, writing and reading and were even lucky enough to come over to the church with us and sing!! Curious and Creative George were great singers :)

"By George" Hand Hygiene!

St. Josephs Year 8 students Caitlin, Libby, Alvern and Daniel are giving tips on hand hygiene!

Hand Washing!

When you are washing your hands

you should count to 20 slowly or sing two

Happy Birthdays!

Hand Drying!

Drying your hands is very important! Dry for 20 seconds, using first one towel and then a second dry one.

Towel Disposal!

After all your careful hand washing and drying, it is very important to dispose of your unwanted waste in the rubbish bin!

The George Brothers Get Fit with Room 4

Last week Curious and Creative got fit at Jump Jam. They loved 'Who Let the Dogs Out' and 'The Coconut Song'. It was a cold day, but tucked inside Paige and Eimear's jerseys, Curious and Creative kept warm. Curious had his glasses on, and he was able to see all the children doing their exercises. Creative was looking for someone to play rugby with, but there was no grass inside Eimear's jersey, and he couldn't move his arms!