Go All whites

All the Clifton Terrace kids and even the teachers wore white clothes to school to help bring the All Whites good luck in the football world cup.

Celebrating Matariki

Room 15 had a crazy hair day to celebrate Matariki. Matariki is the Maori new year. It is when the first new moon can be seen after Pleiades returns in the eastern sky. The Pleiades star cluster is sometimes called the seven sisters because you can see seven bright stars. We had a delicious shared lunch.

The Founders' Book Fair

At Clifton Terrace School we try to reduce, re-use and recycle everything we can. Buying second hand books at the book fair was a fun way to re-use books that somebody no longer wanted. We love reading books!

Where Do Butterflies Go In The Winter?

This autumn we tagged eight of the monarch butterflies that we raised in the classroom, before we set them free. We got the tags from the Monarch Butterfly trust. We have entered  information about our butterflies on the Monarch Butterfly trust's website and if anybody finds one of our butterflies they can tell that it's ours by the number on the tag. One of our butterflies was found in Marybank two days after we set it free.

This way we hope that we can find out whether our butterflies are surviving the winter and where they go.