PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS FROM NEW ZEALAND

Dunstan High School - Alexandra

We are a class of Year 9 students from Alexandra, Central Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.  We are a chatty, sociable class who enjoy doing hands-on activities.  We are looking forward to being involved in this project and sent this picture to say a 1000 words!!

Upper Hutt College - Upper Hutt

Nestled in the beautiful valley of Upper Hutt New Zealand is the 1,300 strong school named Upper Hutt College. Our class 9I is proud to say we belong in this community. 9I is the Year 9 accelerate class and we have nicknamed ourselves the 'nerd' class. We are hard-working, intelligent and heaps of fun to be around. Our class always has a laugh, no matter what class we're in and no matter what we're doing. It really makes our lessons totally awesome.
We've become pretty close friends this year after all of our birthdays, shared lunches, movies and just normal class discussions and projects. We've even devised a homework reminding system and a 9I Nerds of 2010 website! Sometimes we can be a bit of a handful but we're so awesome it should be illegal! To top off this great year, we would like to go on a field trip somewhere, so hopefully one of our teachers, or all of them, would let us!
We're very excited to take on this new project for Oxfam's Water for
Survival Programme as we're sure our creative minds will produce brilliant ideas.

Malfroy School - Rotorua
Lynmore Primary School - Rotorua

St Josephs School - Upper Hutt

Room 5 at St Joseph’s School is a Year 7&8 class with 22 students – We like to make our learning as fun as possible and our class mascot is a beaver named ‘Just-A Beaver’.  ‘Water’ has been our focus topic of study from many different aspects and we are looking forward to participating in the Wara Bilong Life Project.

R12 Elective Class - Hukanui Primary School - Hamilton

We are a group of Year 5 and 6 students who are very excited to be involved with this project.  We like to make our work fun and we know our efforts will benefit others.  Our aim is to be able to help both PNG people but also others who are not as privileged as us.

St Patrick's Catholic School - Taupo

Room 11 at St  Patrick's Catholic School, Taupo are excited to be involved in this project.  We live next to the most beautiful lake in the world (and it is the largest in New Zealand).  We are concerned about keeping it clean and beautiful, we use the water in the lake to drink and for use in our homes.

Churton School - Whanganui

We are designing a water saving device to help the people in Papua New Guinea because there is not enough water. The water saving device will help people wash their hands in a little bit of water or reusable water. We each have our own design in our book. We  have  9  people  in our group and there  names  are  Reuben,  Shiloh, Ben, Jaden, Julian, Lily, Arran, Te Paea and Majre. We are year 3 and 4s in Ruma Whitu at Churton School.

Room 15 - Kohia Terrace School - Auckland

We are a class of Year 7/8 students aged between 11 and 13 years old. Our school is in Epsom, Auckland. We're very lucky to have plentiful rainfall in this region and a good water infrastructure. We are looking forward to exploring innovative ways of saving water for our friends in PNG!

We are passionate about changing the world and in particular our environment. We started this journey off last year, when we investigated how to change something in our school that we thought was a relevant issue. During our study and through our speeches that we presented to the school this year, we found out that we care our planet and the people in it. We understand that water is a limited and precious resource and that in New Zealand, we are very lucky to have clean drinking water and the knowledge and resources to wash our hands often. We are excited about this project and looking forward to another exciting learning journey. 

Room 9 - Kohia Terrace School - Auckland

Kia ora! We are an intermediate class consisting of 25 students. We are located in Epsom, Auckland surrounded by beautiful Pohutukawa trees. We have been lucky enough to have loads of rainfall this year, and we have a plentiful water supply. We are all very excited to be participating in the WBL project, helping kids like us from PNG for 2010.

Lyttelton Main School - Lyttelton
Glenfield Intermediate School - Auckland

Weymouth intermediate school - Auckland

We are having so much fun with this unit... We have made some really cool board games and comic strips. Despite my class being ESOL they are doing really well and are understanding the concepts. Today we are going to start our b/s and draft copies for our tippy tap.

Torbay School - Auckland
Mamaku School - Mamaku

Corinna School - Porirua

Kia ora, talofa, hola, kia orana, malo lelei and warm greetings to you all from Room 8 at Corinna School Porirua New Zealand. We are a year 7/8 class of different cultures from around the Pacific and Columbia. We enjoy new challenges and really like the idea of being connected to you all through this exciting project.

Hamilton West School - Hamilton

We are a class of year 7/8 students consisting of 16 girls and 6 boys aged 11 to 13 years. We come from a variety of backgrounds and a number of different countries. We are enthusiastic about our learning and have had many opportunities so far this year to think critically about our own environment and the impact we have on it. Studying and thinking about how other societies live within their environment is something that we have not thought about too much. We are looking forward to finding out about Papua New Guinea and the types of challenges students in the Eastern Highlands face.

Room 19 - Hamilton West School - Hamilton

Room 19 is a year 7\8 class with 14 girls and 13 boys. We have an enthusiastic class full of various talents and skills. We have a variety of different cultures in our class such as: Japanese, Fijian, Indian, Chinese, Sri Lankan, Scottish, Maori, Filipino and New Zealand European. We live in Hamilton which is an inland city in the North Island. We are looking forward to taking part in this exciting project.

Room 21 - Hamilton West School - Hamilton

We are a Year7/8 class of 24 students. Nine of us were born outside of NZ.
One from Russia, three are Fijian Indians, one each from the Philippines, India, Zimbabwe, South Africa and England. Two of our students have experienced the hardship of having limited water available. We are now reviewing our own practices as we realise what a privilege it is to have access to unlimited water and how we could all be more conservation conscious.

Taieri College - Dunedin (observing)

Room 24 - Hukanui Primary School - Hamilton

Kia ora! We are Room 24 from Hukanui School in Hamilton, New Zealand. We have 26 children in our class and we are Year 3's. Our teacher is Ms Erin Walcroft. Most of us are turning 8 this year or early next year. We have a class mascot, he is a little dog named Dyson. He visits our homes with us on weekends and holidays.
We are really excited about the Wara Bilong project, we are doing this with two other rooms from Hukanui School - Room 23 and Room 17. Yesterday we had an immersion morning where we started making some discoveries about Papua New Guinea and about the importance of clean water. We were surprised to find out that not all countries have safe water to drink like we do. We already know the importance of washing your hands.
We look forward to finding out about all of you and working with you on this project.

Room 17 - Hukanui Primary School - Hamilton

We are from Hukanui School in Hamilton. We have 25 people in our class and we are year 2 (aged 6-7). Our teacher's name is Miss Hopkins. We are working on this project with some other classes from our school. We really like to do art and we are very excited to learn about Papua New Guinea.

Room 23 - Hukanui Primary School - Hamilton

Kia Ora! We are Room 23 and we are a year 4 class at Hukanui School. We have 14 boys and 14 girls. We are a lively bunch, who like to have fun while learning. We have just started to think about what life is like in Papua New Guinea and are looking forward to finding out more. Our whole school has a passion for the environment and helping others. So we are very excited about being part of this project.

Opononi Area School - Hokianga (observing)

Maranatha Christian School - Lower Hutt

We are Room 7 from Maranatha Christian School in Lower Hutt, & our class is made up of 27 Years 6 to 8 students who have been learning a lot about water & how important it is to others.
Since we are a Christian school, we are enthusiastic about using this knowledge to help make things better for the people in Papua New Guinea.
We are excited to participate in a project which will benefit children’s health and we hope that our ideas will make a significant difference to their living conditions.

This is going to be an awesome experience helping children and is a great way to improve our creative design skills.

Porangahau School - Waipukurau

The children in our class write: Porangahau School is a small village school
of 21 students on the East Coast of New Zealand next to Cape Turnagain.
Being a rural farming area we know about water problems and hope to share
our ideas in a way that may help others. Our school is working towards being environmentally friendly. We want to look after our Kaimoana and our
beautiful environment.

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Korobosea International School - Port Moresby

Korobosea International School is location in the Capital City of Papua New Guinea which is Port Moresby. My name is Miss Lucy Aisa and am the teacher of a Year 6 class. We call ourselves 6LA. There are 31 unique children (18 girls and 13 boys) who are from different parts of Papua New Guinea. We also have a little African girl in our class. All these lovely children have variety levels of understanding and experience. The whole class is hyper and likes to learn new things. They all like to tell stories and share their experiences with other students.

We are all looking forward to working with you all and learning as much as we can.

Gordon International School - Port Moresby

PARTICIPATING SCHOOL FROM KENYA

Igwamiti Primary School (Click here to learn more)

My classes 5-8 are between ages 9 to 12 and we have an average of 40 pupils per class. We have what we call free primary education programme supported by the Kenyan government and some international donors, so pupils don't pay school fees at all. We learn subjects like social studies, science ,English language, maths, Kiswahili language, religious education, physical education and creative arts.

It's wonderful getting in touch with you once again. We are looking forward very much to learn more from various schools. Its good to hear about a new school from Uganda our neighbours.

OBSERVING SCHOOLS FROM UGANDA

Crane Education Centre (Nursery and Primary Schools)