creative caring kids - school beautification project

Creative Caring Kids –room 6

What could we do to make our school more beautiful?

Our first thoughts were…Pick up the leaves – CharlesDo more paintings – Lewis

Paint the big kids playground – SammyPaint the little kids school, walls and stuff – Lily

Pick up the rubbish – ZaydenMake a real big castle outside – Carson

Chop off the tress – HaurakiWater all the flowers and tress – CharlizeBuild a rocket ship and take turns – Noah

Spray the walls with paint, like graffiti – AalyiahPaint rainbow colours outside – Amina

Then we went for a walk outside to have a look.

We love these pavers.

We liked the big rocks.

These plants look lovely.

These fences look ugly.

We found lots of things we liked and loads of areas we thought could do with some beautification.

The grass has been worn away near the hall – we could put in totem poles?

Why is this area out of bounds? Could we not fence off an area for the children?

This looks ugly!

We would like to make this area look more magic (totem poles?)

This would be a great idea of sunken tyres to play on.

A fence would go really nice here to stop the balls going into the cars.

This looks like a jail.Ouch, this could be dangerous if we catch ourselves on this rusty metal.

Pot holes are dangerous.

We would like to paint this.

This wall would look lovely with a pretty painted picture or chalk boards.

This wall would look lovely with a pretty painted picture or chalk boards..

We love these signs.

Could we please get these fixed?

Could this be more beautiful?This wall would look lovely with a pretty painted picture.

Could we paint the poles different colours?

Beautiful.

We think tiles down the side would look nice?

Painting the wall would make our classrooms look more exciting.

These edges could do with a tidy up.

The poles would look great with snakes going up them.

It would be nice to have a fresh coat of paint on the pictures.

Could we have games painted on the ground?

This looks beautiful.

We found lots of rubbish at centre stage.

We love these pavers but looks like we need a few more here.

Then we had another talk about ways to beautify the school and we did some research on the internet.

We have come up with loads of exciting ideas now. We hope you like some of them.

We think these would look nice on the back of the junior block.

We would love these on the walls outside the side of room 3.

We could make mobiles and hang them high in the trees.

Stepping stones and tyres outside the back of room 3 would be a great adventure for us.

We have some designs in mind to thread in to the fences outside our rooms.

This looks so exciting, could we find an area to build a stage or at least paint the background?

We could decorate and attach to the fence or make mobiles.

Could we talk to the council about painting our bins?

There’s that tyre idea again.

We have plain brick under our windows, could we liven them up?

These totem poles would look great oustide the side of the hall and on the verges to stop the kids running and ruining the grass.

Corrugated iron pictures on the walls.

Mobiles in the trees

Tin can totem poles look awesome.

Bottle top art around the school.

Mosaic ply wood.

Drums to plant flowers.

Mobile ideas for the trees.

Next we talked about what materials we would need to get these projects

done. We helped Miss Edwards write a ‘wanted’ list to the parents

asking for donations. But before we send that off, we have to send this off to Miss Joplin to find out which

of the projects we are allowed to do.

In our topic this term room 5 & 6 are being ‘Creative Caring Kids!’ Our aim is to identify areas

outside the junior block that we could beautify as a syndicate project.

We have had lots of great ideas already and now we need to get the materials to help us achieve

our goals.

Do you have any of the following you could donate to use please?

Pallets Old spoons

Beads, jewellery (for threading) Wire, all sizes

Old tyres Wooden posts to use for stepping stones

Blackboard paint Ply wood or similar

Rocks (size of children’s head. Outdoor paint, all colours

Undercoat Old CD’s ? DVD’s

Gems etc for collage ($2 shop) Glitter, googly eyes, pipe cleaners etc

Long wooden posts for totem poles Corrugated sheets to paint pictures on

Mosaic tiles Old tin cans, clean please

Bottle tops/plastic lids Large drums for plating plants in

Ribbon, wool, buttons, string Shells and driftwood

Plants and bulbs Long rolls of plastic (like the police ribbon for

crime scenes.

concrete Nails and hammers ( hammers to will be

returned)

Sawdust and old pantyhose Flax plants

Scrap material

Any donations would be gratefully received. Please check with the class teachers before delivery of the larger

items as we will need to organise storage.

We will also be asking for lots of parent help, especially with cutting of ply and jigsaw work. Please let you class

teacher know if you can volunteer to help.

Thank you in advance

Carolyn and Sandy

On a separate note, do you have any old clothes you can donate to our classes for children to use in case of

an accident? We are looking for underwear, shorts and skirts. Thank you.

We showed our presentation to Miss Joplin and she liked all of our ideas.

She said she would ask Graham to build the bridge for us –exciting!!

We have to take photos of where we would like the

playground to go and do a design for it.

Here are some photos of possible bridge ideas and tyre playgrounds.

http://www.tyreplay.com/tyre-parks.php

Room 6 made an appointment to go and see the PTA to show them our ideas. Carson and Noah did the speaking for us. We told them we would love to have the playground pictures re-painted and also have a stage area made for us to perform in. “Can we please have some money?”

Wow – we got a mention in the newsletter.

Miss Joplin took us outside to start

looking at the layout of our proposed tyre

park.

Next step was to measure the area for the proposed tyre playground and come up with some designs. So off we

went to do this.

Next we drew our designs.

Hall

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This is our proposed area.

Hall

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How it measures.

14 m

11

.2 m

In the meantime we got on with making items in the classroom to beautify both inside and outside of the school.• Paper Mache hot air balloons.• Mobile made from shells, pumice, beads and

driftwood.• Tin can people.• Painting the outside of our classroom with the

book, Stomp.