End of Year

Our school year is coming to an end so there will be no more posts or videos for a while and a huge farewell to all our year 8s (and Cara) we are going to miss them, but next year will be AMAZING. We have an end of year sum up as well.

                            MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Reviewing the Initiatives from every Classroom at our school!

All 28 classrooms at our schools got involved over the two Service Weeks!!

Room	What they are doing
1	have not been told, chosen and acts of kindness
2	Implementing our inquiry and getting things for the less fortunate
3	Acts of Kindness
4	School Cleanup, Baking and cards for the staff
5	Activity morning and visit of the preschoolers from Little Earth Montessori
6	Washing RI staff cars
7	Visit to Best Start Ascot Early Childhood Centre - reading and making crafts
8	Washing the lost property.
9	Collecting things too send too Nepal (maybe).
10	Cleaning up the train station -- that lots of students use.
11	Shoe polishing.
12	Bake sale for Cancer charity
13	Cleaning desks and food bank parcel
14	Paper Christmas wreaths for around the school
15	Making get well soon podcasts for Starship patients & reading stories to kindergarten kids
16	Fundrasier for SPCA
17	Bake sale
18	Spring Clean Class - bins, Lunch Box, Windows, Shelves, Surfaces, Cupboard....
19	Gifts, baking or/and cards for Ronald McDonald House and Starship
20	Gifts, baking or/and cards for Ronald McDonald House and Starship
21	Gifts, baking or/and cards for Ronald McDonald House and Starship
22	Gifts, baking or/and cards for Ronald McDonald House and Starship
23	Make a Difference Campaign
24	- Spring cleaning of the HUB ready for 2020 students- exterior and interior SUPER SPRING clean
25	Whole school RUBBISH pick up - including EXTREME clean of drains.
26	Cleaning Chromebooks.
27	Projects based on making a difference
28	Making Eco-Friendly Cleaning Spray for Teachers

Thanks to everyone for getting involved and putting others first to show kindness.

Lots of love and appreciation from all the students in The Social Changency

Service weeks classes!

This week our school has been celebrating the first of  two service weeks, twenty-five classes will all be contributing and showing random acts of kindness to others.

So far we've had an amazing first week, from Room 11 shining shoes at lunchtimes, to Room 25 making eco-friendly hand sanitiser for teachers! One class was washing cars!! 

Service week is going great, and we hope it stays like that!

PLANT A TREE

We all know that trees are one of the most important parts of our planet. Why don't you plant a tree? lots of us talk about planting one AND LETS DO IT. :) Get some friends and plant a tree together and save the earth.

Launching Service Weeks at an Assembly for the whole school!

At this Monday's Assembly, the members of the Social Changency stood up and kick-started the Service Weeks for our school! We showed our Service Weeks posters with the school: Here's what they look like!

Have great service weeks!!

xoxo, the Social Changency

All of us gathered at the front of the Hall

How to be happy the triquel!

How to be happy no. 3 is up and running on our Youtube channel!

It teaches people how to make vegan mug cakes and lots of other really good things to allow us more joy in our lives. We ask ourselves serious questions as to why we should be happy and how we can make others happy.

Please watch it and share it with others. Spread the joy. Make others happy and the world can be happy.

Thanks

Refugee Mufti Day!

Some of our students went the extra mile in our make a difference inquiry when they organised a mufti day where all the profits went to the refugees at Mangere Refugee Centre. We are so happy to share our country with our new brothers and sisters.

If you would like to learn more about the Refugee Centre please watch this video. Remember, everyone is amazing :)

The Social Changency's party!

Today we are celebrating.  Everyone that is in the Social Changency and their friends. We are watching a Baha'i documentary to participate in Baha'i holiday that people all around the world are celebrating. We are all having a great time!
We have lots of snack food, but that's definitely not what we're here for.
The documentary was really good and we've learned heaps about many different people and their lives.

Baha'i holiday

Start thinking about ways you can help for service weeks!!

Service week is coming up, and we're happy to give some ideas on what you can do! Our hope is that there are service projects organised by each class.
You can do these in a group, or by yourself. Try to get as many people involved as possible!!
Go find some sites that explain service to get some ideas :)

Everyone is amazing

The University of California, has just announced the launch of a research institute dedicated to the science of kindness. One of our core morals is being kind to one another. As a goal for today why don't you show  someone you care for a smile and tell them how amazing they are. 

Term 4 is here

Term 4 is here!!!!

It is service week/term!!!!

Everyone is so excited as this is probably the term that everyone has been waiting for. It is the time of year when you give to others and don't expect anything back. 

Service weeks will be happening at school in the two weeks at the very end of the term (in weeks 7 and 8). Hopefully every student at Remuera Intermediate can get involved.

:)

UN 2019

UN 2019 has started, many great speeches have happened. Gretas Thurnburg's amazing speech "how dare you" is an amazing speech, and most people there are trying to sort out climate change.

Jacinda is also there trying to make the Christchurch call more relevant and is trying to push it into action.

Donald Trump isn't realising what is happening though, but what is new?

Activities for More Learning About Peace

This term's Social Changency topic is promoting peace. Below is a set of activities for our school that we have created.

Peace activities for the classroom

Internetional Showcase'

Year 8 Starburst Performers Show - 'Internetional Showcase'

This performance took place on 8 August at Remuera Intermediate School in Auckland, New Zealand.
The group is made up of 25 students aged between 12 and 13 performing an original show in front of students, teachers, parents and other friends. Please share this video with more people.

How many resources does the average person use up? find out here

The best places to plant trees

As we all know, trees are crucial in saving the planet. But now, scientists have identified where best to plant them. The researchers calculated that under the current climate conditions, Earth’s land could support 4.4 billion hectares of continuous tree cover. That is 1.6 billion more than the currently existing 2.8 billion hectares. Of these 1.6 billion hectares, 0.9 billion hectares fulfill the criterion of not being used by humans. This means that there is currently an area of the size of the US available for tree restoration. Once mature, these new forests could store 205 billion tonnes of carbon: about two thirds of the 300 billion tonnes of carbon that has been released into the atmosphere as a result of human activity since the Industrial Revolution.

BTS helps out on UNICEF

BTS went to UNICEF for international friendship day. The UN wanted these famous people to spread a positive message. They did well. It has spread around heaps.

Amazing people

Some people really are trying to change the world! Watch these amazing videos about people helping our environment. Number one is Versova beach              (in Mumbai) clean up. It started with one man.  

Number 2 is a city in japan where they have no waste.

The conversation (Placeholder)

Recently, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg for a conversation for a Guardian article (link at end of blog)

One of the main points was, they'd been criticised,was that a 'taboo' is to not politicise children, because that's abusive. (Who decided this? Children can do what they think is right to save the world!)
This is also a very bad point, when in America the Koch brothers have brought most of the fossil fuels.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate

Our viewers

Over the last couple of weeks we have taken a look at where the viewers to our blog have come from. The diversity we saw on this page astounded us. 

6,063 people in New Zealand have viewed this page. 
1,670 people from USA have viewed this website. 
Also 943 people from Russia,
 197 from Turkey, 
164 from France. 

Those above are our top 5 countries for views. 

Coming after them are Japan with 158 views,
 144 views from both India and South Korea,
 114 from Ukraine and 101 from Australia. 
That's our top 10 countries that have viewed this website the most. 
Thank you for visiting our site, please tell your friends so we can be visited by more and more countries and we hope you visit us again.

Themes in school!

At RI the value for this term is Creativity. So awesome.

For the Social Changency we are planning for our next project which relates to International Day of Peace which happens on 21 September.

Each Year level have different topics that they are learning about.

In year 7 we are learning about immigration, the hardships of it and what happens when you migrate. We are learning about the different types of reasons to migrate, push and pull reasons, and so on.

Here is a great link to a  non profit website GAPMINDER. they basically talk about how the world is doiing economically.  https://www.gapminder.org/ 

We are back!

We are back and better than ever!

This term is going to be all about peace. We will have a peace day with lots of cool stuff to do. More information on this term will be posted. Peace is a big thing that we need in this world. There isn't much of it, which is really sad. this term will be all about inspiring people to bring peace and to show why we need it in our life. PEACE

Love, The Social Changency.

Cool Videos to prove you can go waste free!!!!

Here you go!

Ocean plastic pollution

Imagine that you are a turtle, happily floating in the calm blue sea. You see what looks to be a jellyfish, floating towards you. You reach out, about to eat it but suddenly you feel something around your  neck! The strange jellyfish is suffocating you, and your vision fades to black.

That weird jellyfish is a plastic bag, and turtles mistaking them for jellies is happening more and more which makes the turtle population less and less. It is also so many other sea life animals face the same threats :(

the enviro tree.

Last week, lots of people helped make these leaves for the amazing enviro board. People came during lunchtime  to paint. ( see earlier posts) and it ended up making this!

Thank you so much Mr Zemke, Mrs Sturgiss and Miss Hunter for all the help and effort. Also thank you all for all those who helped.

Enviro game

Last Friday we had the Enviro Challenge, This was a gameshow that questions your knowledge about our beloved environment, EARTH!
Well done to the following teams who came in 1st,2nd and 3rd place:
3rd place:Group 5
2nd place: Group 2
1st place: Group 6 
A huge well done to all the people who participated in the gameshow.

Here is a game from the game show!
https://www.recycleright.co.nz/ 

Today we hosted the movie Our Planet: Jungles in our school hall. We were delighted to be greeted by a vast crowd of eager children, wanting to learn about the jungles of the world.
Here are some photos from todays movie.

Rubbish Cleanup!!!

Today, we organised a big rubbish cleanup for our school!!!
About 50 students flocked the vegetable garden to help the Enviro Squad and The Social Changency!

Here are some moments from today.

The first activity for enviro week

Today, we had our first enviro week activity: Painting leaves to add to the cutout of the tree in the Saint Vincent's foyer.