Taiari Times of Thames

Hi Everyone, We have had some great Autumn rain and sunshine for our garden. Our plants are growing well, soon we should have some broccoli and cauliflower to enjoy. Room 2 and 4 will be able to harvest their radishes soon and then wait for their baby carrots to finish growing. Students have already been busy in the kitchen making the most of our fabulous crop of lemons. Room 7 feasted on very professional looking lemon cheesecakes. This week room 6 is baking lemon cake with lemon juice glaze and no-bake lemon cheesecake. Rooms 5 and 9 made smashed egg and lettuce sandwiches to use their delicious lettuces. Toa even made a sandwich for Mr Brock! Next week room 3 will also be whipping up some delicious lemon cheesecake. Last year we planted some strawberry popcorn, it was very slow growing! Over the holidays we dried out the kernels and rooms 9 and 6 have tried popping them. They popped into snowy white popcorn and were very tasty, the children are keen to grow some more.   The childr

  Laying the new drains during the holidays. Dear Parents and Caregivers, We are now at the start of the third week of the new term and so I am hurriedly trying to get this term two newsletter out before the term is over. Property issues and development During the holidays we had a major piece of infrastructural work carried out which you may not even notice. Some of you may have been aware that we have been dealing with the Ministry of Education over an extensive drainage problem. This was remedied in the holidays, much to our relief. The problem had developed about two to three years ago and was steadily deteriorating due to old pipes and ground movement. It took the contractors the two full weeks of the holidays to remedy the issue.   This year we are likely to be having work being done at school for most of the holidays. If things go according to plan, (emphasis on the if), we are looking to replace more of our roofing and put in a COLA (covered outdoor learning area). Th