Last weeks meeting

Hi everyone welcome back.
Last week we had a very important meeting about what our jobs as individual students were going to be and what we wanted to achieve in the time left of our class. We assigned different jobs to everyone and set out tasks. Unfortunately our teacher was absent during the meeting but it also gave us more responsibility and let us make decisions for ourselves and not to rely on everyone else.

First Meeting

Hi everyone welcome back.
Today we had our first meeting as a group and discussed our focus issue and what some more ideas were to improve the Hautapu river awareness of it's pollution. We allocated certain jobs to everyone and everyone took part.We thought it would be a good idea to put an article in the Taihape Times and get the Community supporting us. Also we had some students ring Horizons and get some more information about Hautapu river.We also assighned Michael to be our facillitator and Jess is our note taker. We will also be updating our wiki some time. Don't forget to send in all your ideas on how we can improve the Hautapu river.

River Exploration

Hi everyone welcome back. Today we went for trip down to the local Hautapu River to see if we could find any possible pollution problems. We saw quite a lot of rubbish and pipes with a lot of unknown sludge and other slimy things lying around.We also found an old concrete system that could have been an old water treatmant or even the old swimming pools.We also went for a look down Papakai where there has been a lot of flooding and the cliff is slowly slipping away. Hopefully we will carry on looking for the main cause of the Hautapu River pollution

Personal Goal

Hi welcome back to my blog, today we are setting goals and my main one for this term is to focus on the work needed to be done and hopefully make a change to the Hautapu River. To do this I must contribute ideas and work as a team with all my classmates.throughout the term we will have a lot of opportunities to go down to the River and find out what's polluting it.

ISSUE DECIDED!!!!!!!!!

After a long hard debate we have finally decided on cleaning up the Hautapu River. We thought cleaning up the river would be a better issue to focus on as it targets on the Residents of Taihape and can make Taihape a better place. We decided on this particular issue because we thought our other options like re opening the Cinema was more for ourselves and that the cinema is not as neccassary as the Hautapu stream pollution. For the remainer of the term we will be focusing on cleaning the Hautapu River and hopefully we can make a change. If you have any ideas or suggestions i would like to hear them.