Keep NZ Beautiful Week: 20 - 27th August

Did you know...

In one month New Zealand's rubbish would cover one rugby field and pile it 30 storeys high!

What can YOU do to help this huge problem? Visit www.knzb.org.nz for ideas.

McCain's Veggie Patches

It's that time of the year again and we are collecting barcodes off McCain's frozen veges. There will be a collection box in the office to put them in.

Try and persuade Mum to buy McCains frozen veges this month and in September. Our school will earn points for the barcodes we collect. We can get cool stuff for our school garden.

Thanks from Oxfam

Porritt School have been awarded a 'certificate of appreciation' for helping to raise money for Fair Trade with our recent school baking sale. This certificate is on display in the Library. Well done to everyone who was involved.

Raising money for Oxfam

On Friday, the Eco Kids Club brought along delicious homemade baking to sell at our baking sale. The food was amazing and sold very quickly. We raised $167. This money will go to Oxfam who work with farmers who are struggling to develop their farming systems, like irrigation. We can also help them by buying Fairtrade foods.

Chocolate taste test

On Friday, the Eco Kids met and watched a DVD about the struggling farmers in developing countries. They found out that these farmers are very poor. They also found out that by buying 'Fairtrade' labelled food from our supermarket, we can help those farmers.

Taste test:
We had two plates of chocolate. One was Whittaker's Dairy Milk. (This chocolate is made using cocoa from Fairtrade farmers). The other chocolate was Cadbury's Dairy Milk.

Out of the 15 people who tried the taste test, 10 preferred Whittaker's chocolate. Five preferred Cadbury.

Next time you are at the shop, see if you can find any food with the Fairtrade label.

What did you do for Earth Hour?

Did you remember to turn off the lights on Saturday night? What have you decided to do to help our planet? It doesn't have to be a huge thing, just something that you can do easily.

Tell us what you will do by posting a comment to this message.

Starship Mobile Phone Appeal

We need your old mobile phones! Porritt School is registered for the Starship Mobile Phone Appeal. We can collect points for the phones we recycle and these are redeemed for ICT equipment for our school. All of the money raised from the recycling of these old phones goes to support the Starship Air Ambulance Service.

All you have to do is spread the word! Drop the old mobile phones into Porritt School in Napier or phone for collection. Tell everyone you know. Let's get behind this worthwhile cause and help our school at the same time.
For more information have a look at the Starship website: www.starship.org.nz