Bug Hotels

At our school we believe that homework should relate specifically to the learning that happens in 

our classrooms. 

Each term we try to have an interactive homework task that children and parents can work on together.

Our recent Social Sciences learning involved reviewing our Enviroschool projects that we did last year 

to improve our school environment.

As part of this, the homework task was to make bug hotels. 

Bug motels can encourage beneficial insects into our gardens.

Here are our amazing bug hotels!

What are your favourite bugs?

How can bugs help us?

It's Unanimous! - Our Heritage Buildings Inquiry

We have been inquiring into 

our town's heritage buildings. 

We were wondering if it is worth spending time and money to keep them tidy and useable, or should we build new buildings.

As part of our inquiry, we had a local expert come and talk to us about the 

history of the buildings.

We also visited some of the buildings and looked at the architectural features both inside and out.

Inside the old Court House

Inside the schoolroom of the School of Mines

Inside the Sacred Heart church

For interactive homework, everyone chose a building and made a model.
(Thank you so much to the B4 families for helping your children with the models, and for answering our questions - the models look fantastic and certainly helped with the learning)

We answered our individual inquiry questions about the buildings.

Finally, we made our decisions on our inquiry question 'Old or New -What's Your View?'
Everyone in B4 thinks the heritage buildings in Reefton should be 
looked after and maintained, because ...

• lots of people come here to see them
• it makes our town special
• it would spoil the town if they weren't here

What special old buildings do you have in your town?

Do you agree with our thinking that the heritage buildings should be looked after?