Room 1 Superstars: Visiting with the Bees

Room 1 Superstars: Visiting with the Bees: Because we are so excited about insects right now Room 4 were kind enough to let us explore their Beekeeper suits.  How exciting trying them...

Mrs Fergus' Class: Lavender Bag making and our first distillation of ...

Mrs Fergus' Class: Lavender Bag making and our first distillation of ...: Our first distillation of the year was done on Good Friday (today) for the open-school as part of our 125th Jubliee.  We will be selling the...

Room 1 Superstars: Tomatoes and other gardening fun

Room 1 Superstars: Tomatoes and other gardening fun: Well a lot has been happening in the Toko School garden this term.  Room 1 have been have a spicy time with the tomatoes and other produce. ...

Miss Jury's Class: Honey Extraction!

Miss Jury's Class: Honey Extraction!: Last Friday the day we have all been waiting for finally arrived! We were finally able to collect the honey from our hives.  The day began ...

Toko School Bees: Bee Update Week 6

Toko School Bees: Bee Update Week 6: In this picture above it shows the hives. The tall hive is the older one and the smaller one is the new hive. Last week Raul came in a...

Miss Clegg's Class: Little Gardens

Miss Clegg's Class: Little Gardens: Joe is amazed by how long the roots have grown on our little gardens!

Room 5's Class Blog: Chicken Coop Prep

Room 5's Class Blog: Chicken Coop Prep: This week we have been working on tidying up and maintaining our chicken coop. The chickens are stoked with their new nesting box hay and a...

Mrs Fergus' Class: Curious Minds

Mrs Fergus' Class: Curious Minds: Last week the big-chiefs from Curious Minds and the Stratford Press came out to visit us and see what we were up to with our distilling.  Th...

Toko School Bees: Bee Boxes

Toko School Bees: Bee Boxes: As well as our bee suits arriving this week Raul the Beekeeper dropped off some hive boxes for us to decorate and put together. Once we have...

Miss Clegg's Class: Butterfly Gardening

Miss Clegg's Class: Butterfly Gardening: Yesterday Room 2 went out and got started on our Butterfly Garden. We removed all of the rocks, trimmed the hedge and have now placed some c...

Toko School Bees: Bee Suits

Toko School Bees: Bee Suits: Our bee suits have arrived!!!  We have purchased 6 bee suits using our Fonterra Grass Roots Fund money. We also got 6 pairs of gloves and ...

Toko School Bees: Our hive arrives!

Toko School Bees: Our hive arrives!: This blog post was written on Thursday 28th September when the bees arrived.  Today has been a super exciting day for Room 4 as our beehiv...

Miss Jury's Class: Raul the Beekeeper's Visit

Miss Jury's Class: Raul the Beekeeper's Visit: We have just had the most fascinating visit this afternoon from Raul the Beekeeper who is committed to helping us get beehive established an...

Room 5's Class Blog: Our Chicken Incubator is Ready to go!

Room 5's Class Blog: Our Chicken Incubator is Ready to go!: Our chicken eggs are in the incubator and in 21 days time will be ready to hatch. We will update you as our chicken journey progresses. ...

Room 5's Class Blog: Business Brainstorms

Room 5's Class Blog: Business Brainstorms: Leah, Bianca & Hayley thinking carefully about our chickens. We have been developing ideas about how to develop our chicken busines...

Room 5's Class Blog: School Wide Research

Room 5's Class Blog: School Wide Research: We have been conducting research with other classes about our chicken businesses. With partners we developed questions about how we ca...

Room 5's Class Blog: Our Chicken Business

Room 5's Class Blog: Our Chicken Business: We have been talking about our chicken business. We have decided it is not a good business because we are losing money. Here are some idea...

Mrs Hancock's Class: Art

Mrs Hancock's Class: Art:  Our wonderful works of art are nearly finished and are looking fabulous! Here's a few of the finished ones. Check out your child's ...

Toko School Room 7: Go-Karts

Toko School Room 7: Go-Karts: Today we went for a spin on the go-karts that the year 7 and 8 children made at Technology.  Here we are as the pit-crew.  It was awesome. ...

Toko School Room 7: Lavender - where should it go?

Toko School Room 7: Lavender - where should it go?: We have been wondering about where and when to plant out some lavender.  This is us working out how many plants we might need.