Participanting

schools

Houghton Valley School - Wellington - NZ

Sacred Heart College - Lower Hutt - NZ

Waimataitai School - Timaru (Y4 - 2 classes, Y3 - 2 classes, Y3/4 - 1 class) - NZ

Hi, we are Year 3 and 4 students.  We have 12 boys and 15 girls in our class.   We are looking forward to helping children in another country.  We will enjoy finding out about Papua New Guinea and the importance of sanitation.  You can visit our class blog to keep up with our progress.  http://waimataitai.blogspot.com

Hello. We are Room 4 from Waimataitai School in Timaru. We are Yr 3 students. There are 26 children in our class. It is going to be fun doing this project because we like building. We think it will be hard too. We have done some drawings about art from Papua New Guinea. We have a website you can visit at www.waimataitai4.blogspot.com. Good luck everybody.

Room 3, Waimataitai School,

We are a class of 26 children, who are in Year 4, working with the other classes in our Learning Team.  We enjoy discovering new ideas and information, especially about things we do not know about.  We have found information on the websites and are looking forward to a visitor from Papua New Guinea who is coming to visit us.

During this year we have had many adventures from school – visiting our local wetlands, Skating at Lake Tekapo on the ice and visiting a local Chinese Restaurant for lunch.

We also enjoy many different types of sport – anything from basketball and netball to cricket, soccer, and rugby.  We are all enjoying practising for athletics and look forward to these coming up soon.

Our class has just had a lot of fun performing a play about early New Zealand and the Maori Myths and legends that we read, wrote and discovered during term 3.

At the moment we are finding out information about Papua New Guinea and enjoying it.  We look forward to finding out more about Papua New Guinea and hand washing.

Hi we are Room 1 from Waimataitai School in Timaru.  We are a year 3 class with 17 boys and 8 girls.  We have been learning about Papua New Guinea and why it is important to wash your hands.  We are all looking forward to helping out other children and working on this project. 

We are from Room 15 at Waimataitai School. We are a group of year 4 children, 12 boys and 13 girls. So far we have been talking about why we need to wash our hands. We have also tried covering our hands with paint, then washing them blindfolded to see how clean we could get them – not very! We have started learning about Papau New Guinea and what it is like to live there. We will share our learning on our blog http://rm15waimataitai.blogspot.com  

Goroka International School - Eastern Highlands - Papua New Guinea

Waikouaiti School - north of Dunedin - NZ

Kia ora from Room 4, Waikouaiti Primary School. We have a class of 29 children, 17 boys and 12 girls in Years 3 and 4.

Waikouaiti is 30 minutes north of Dunedin, but when you are zooming through on the main road you  do not see our beautiful lagoon and beach. Both have interesting wild life. This term we are looking at how we can improve the environment for our wild life.We are also very interested in learning about other countries and in helping there too.

Rabaul International School - East New Britain Province - PNG

The International School Of Lae - Morobe - PNG (3 classes)

St Joseph's International School - Port Moresby - PNG

Queenspark School - Christchurch - NZ

Te Puke High School - Bay of Plenty - NZ

Kia Ora from the Bay of Plenty. We are a class of 30 Year 9 students at Te Puke High School in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.  We range in ages from 13 to 14 years old.  Our school is home to approximately 1025 students and is technologically literate.  We enjoy challenges and we are looking forward to the Wara Bilong project. Our contact is Whaea Patsy, our teacher for Social Studies. Kia Kaha, Year 9C Social Studies.

Ngunguru School - Whangarei - NZ

Kia ora Koutou. We are two composite classes of year 5 and 6 with a combined total of 56 students between us. Ngunguru School is 19kms east of Whangarei situated on the Tutukaka coast. We have approximately 203 students ranging from year1 through to year 8 and look forward to collaboratively working with other schools in the Wara Bilong project.

Kelston Intermediate School - Auckland - NZ

Talofa Lava, Malo e lei, Fakalofalahiatu, Nihao, Namaste, Sou Sday, Kia Orana, Talofa Ni, Vanacome, Bula, Es Salaam Aleikom, Hello and Greetings from Room 4 at Kelston Intermediate School. We are located in West Auckland. We are a class of 28 year 8 students and our teacher is Ms Mannix. As you can tell from our greetings we are a class of many cultures that loves to learn together. Our focus question for this term is How can we make it work better, so we are looking forward to designing our prototypes to help other children in another country.

Casebrook Intermediate School - Christchurch - NZ

Ohakune Primary School - Central North Island - NZ (3 classes)

Nawton School - Hamilton - NZ

Download Nawton School introductions in Maori and English as PDF files for - Pounamu, Jordana, Damian, Holden, Haira, Huiao, Te Rina, Jaymie, Hinemahaerangi, Taisha, Moeau and Kahika.

Welcome Bay School - Bay of Plenty - NZ

Kia Ora, we are Room 8. We are made up of Year 3 and 4 students from the Bay of Plenty. We have 28 children in our class, 16 boys and 12 girls. Our focus question for this term is, 'How do we impact on sanitation in our global world?'. We are interested about life in other countries, especially children in other schools and comparing their lives to our own. Hopefully we will have Room 9, our other year 3-4 class join us for some fun and important learning.

Botany Downs Secondary College - Auckland - NZ

We are a Year 9 class, 9E8, with 26 students aged 13 – 14 years. Our school, Botany Downs Secondary College, is located in east Auckland. There are approximately 1600 students in our multi-cultural school. We are a very kind class, caring towards each other and are ready for a new challenge such as the Wara Bilong Life challenge. Our Social Studies teacher, Miss Brodie, will be supporting us through this project.

St Mary's College - Auckland - NZ

Hi there! We are Aimee, Neda, Adelaide, and Caitlyn from St Mary's College, Auckland. We are all in Year 8 and we are called Team 1. We enjoy music, sport and reading. We are located in Ponsonby and are close to the city. We are an extention class and are looking forward to helping create a hand washing system for schools in Papua New Guinea. We feel special to be able to do something for a country that is needing this. We hope to create a system that is compatible to their needs.

An introduction from us: Year 8 team 2 St Mary’s College. We are a team of four Year 8 students from St Mary’s College in Auckland. We are entering the Wara Bilong Challenge because we come from a Mercy school and believe in equality throughout the world. We are really looking forward to the challenge especially since it is for a good cause.

Hi Everyone. We are Emily (Year 10) and Annabel (Year 9) from St. Mary's College in Ponsonby, Auckland. Our school is full of heritage and history as it was established by the Mercy Sisters in 1850, and charity and helping those is need is a very large part of what we are taught at our school. We have never taken part in this programme and we are interested how we as individuals could help the wider world. We are also interested to compare the life and facillities we have in Auckland, a large city by New Zealand standards, to the way of life and facillities in Papua New Guinea.

My name is Rachel and I am in year 10 at St. Mary's College in Ponsonby, Auckland. In my spare time, I do Kiaido Ryu Martial Arts (as an orange belt) and practise my viola. I am interested in geology and when I grow up, I would like to be a volcanologist. I live in South Auckland with my parents, younger sister and my two cats, Maxie and Oscar. I also enjoy Science Fiction Movies, such as Serenity, Final Fantasy and Back to the Future, and my favourite books are the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer.

This is Alisha, Annie and Danielle and we are all in Year 9. We are St Mary's College Year 9 Team 2. Our school has a special Mercy character and we believe that with our Mercy spirit and values, we can help the students of Papua New Guinea to find a way of reliable hand washing methods.

Hey everybody! We are a group of Year 9 students from St Marys College, Auckland.
Our names are Tahlia, Emily and Waverley. We have been working as a team for almost
a year now and really enjoy it. Tahlia enjoys ballet, Emily horse riding and Waverely art. We are all united in our love of the Twilight Book Series, Peanuts, Ducks and Future Problem Solving. We loved the idea of working towards such a great cause, and we all loved working together, so here we are! We are very excited about starting this 'Water For Survival' programme as we are sure it will be a very fun and challenging event, and we know it's for a great cause!!

We are Stephanie, Annabel and Kate. We are all in year 9 at St Mary's College in the
heart of Ponsonby, Auckland. Our school is very passionate about the needs of others
around us, hence why we do different mission activities throughout the year. We want to do this particular activity to further enhance our knowledge of hygiene around the world and out of our school's Mercy spirit. We hope we are able to assist the hygiene issues in Papua New Guinea and we look forward to taking part in this activity.

Enner Glynn School - Nelson - NZ

We are some year 5 and 6 children from Enner Glynn School Nelson. We are a part of a group called C.W.S.A (Children With Special Abilities). We have been focusing on different issues to do with the environment:

We have set up a paper recycling system in our school and have joined the paper for trees programme and have been involved in some competitions.
Also on E-day we learnt about E-waste and what we can do with electronics on E-day. We have taken a trip to our local landfill and we learnt lots of facts and percentages about landfills. Just recently we have finished some projects that we have chosen on different environmental matters.

We live in a city named Nelson. It is often nicknamed Beautiful Sunny Nelson. It is situated in the northern end of the south island and we are the centre of New Zealand. It is beside the sea and we have lots of nice hot sunny days to spend at the beach. We are happy to lend ideas for your hygiene problem and learn more about Papua New Guinea and how it is different to New Zealand WARA BILONG LIFE.

Upper Hutt College

Hi we are a Year 10 class at Upper Hutt College, located near to the Hutt River. During Term 2 we did some student surveys about the physical environment at our school. That state of our toilets was an issue, so we know how important the issues of hygiene and washing hands are. Let's introduce ourselves:

Hi! We are Natalie, Laura and Lauren. We are working to increase the hygiene standards for school children living in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. We are 4 enthusiastic people wanting to make a change in the world for the better.

We are Vinura, Shaun, Joel and Jordan.

Our group consists of two girls: Hana and Amy, and three guys: Zeke, Alex and Kieran. We stand for truth, justice, freedome and the hygiene of less priviledged children.

We are ....... Emma! Chaneen! Bex! Felicia! We want to help, so that's what we're going to do! Peace!!

Hay! We are Jess G, Jess T, and Hannah P. We are going to find a way to wash hands using plants with medicinal properties, found in PNG.

Heya, we are Shameela, Amy and Kelsi :-) We're gonna try and make an awesome project to help those Papua New Guinea students. Yay!

Hello, we are the group trying to make a difference. Our group is made up of me (Peter), James and Grant.

We are going to try and find a good solution to the water problem that we are faces with. Keyword = "try". So support us, Jason, Mike and Cameron.