The Alexandra and Wanaka STAR Programme kids met up in Cromwell and learnt about composting and got to enjoy the worms at the Worm Farm.
Delicious yummy worms!
S.T.A.R. term 2 INVENTIONS June 19, 2009
Awesome chindogus! Maia helped me with the captions but I need your help for descriptions. To contribute, leave a comment, the page will be updated with it 
Amber modelling Acacia's invention
Ryan's portable bookholder
Michaela's "Get rid of your food-inator" (c)
Do you not like what’s on your plate? With the “Get rid of your food-inator” you can secretly push your food through the hatch and down the pipe, into the dog’s bowl without anyone knowing!
SCM's chindogu
Sean modelling Cameron's invention
Amber's invention
Celebrating Gifted Awareness Week 14-20 June June 10, 2009
Maia's Chindogu invention
Check out this Moustache Brush and Beard Curler!
The Upper Clutha S.T.A.R. programme kids are creating Japanese Chindogu inventions – useless (or are they?). Click to see more of their works ( micronations) and what they think about S.T.A.R.
Danielle Nicholson, facilitator of the S.T.A.R. programme, is offering an information evening for interested parents and members of our community to share and discuss how we identify gifted children. Come along Wed 24th June, 7.00pm, room 12A, Wanaka Primary School.
The S.T.A.R. (Students Thinking Achieving Reaching ) programme enables children professionally assessed as gifted, to gather once a week for a programme designed to meet their emotional, ethical, social and academic needs. Research shows that gifted children learn in a different way, often need help to achieve, and thrive when they are working with like minded peers. This programme is administered by Central Otago REAP.
Children are born gifted – regardless of their socio-economic or cultural groups. The future of the S.T.A.R. programme is threatened by lack of funding – can you help save this valuable programme? Donations, big or small, can be made by contacting Central Otago REAP 0800 267 327 or admin@coreap.org.nz
S.T.A.R. students thoughts June 5, 2009
For those that would like to use the kids thoughts for applications and our blog site, here are the parental approved comments. Wow what amazing kids we have and isn’t it great to actually read what they really think about it ?
Click here to read S.T.A.R. student thoughts
Excursion To The Local Recycling Centre June 2, 2009
Helena says: We went to Wanaka Wastebusters for “The Meeting of the Minds” last week. (“The Meeting of the Minds” is a chance for us to catch up with other gifted students from Central Otago). The team at Wanaka Wastebusters work very hard! I could not believe how much rubbish was there – I was especially amazed by the amount of technological rubbish (such as computers and printers). The team showed us the process of recycling all sorts of rubbish. (This was very interesting) and how a single unsquashed plastic bottle with its lid on can make a half tonne crate of compressed plastic explode!
Danielle wrote: "Here are the photos Jilly took while we were at the Wastebusters---looking into the considerations inventors need to have made to ensure their invention does not have a major negative impact on the environment. We also viewed some socalled worthless items and how they could become valuable to us if adaptations were made."
River Heights – a micro nation May 11, 2009
The students from the Alexandra and Wanaka S.T.A.R programmes created micro nations: they thought up fact files, decided on economies, created national costumes, produced maps and models. Then they met together to present their micro nations to each other – they came dressed in their micro nation’s national costume and bought with them their national food to eat!
River Heights Micro Nation (c)
This is River Heights:
A folder, a photo board and a diarama was produced to introduce other students to this micro nation.
River Heights National Flag:
River Heights Flag (c)
“The blue horizontal lines represent the calm flow of River Heights amazing River. The fish represents the freedom of swimming up and down the river on your own accord and the white stands for purity”.
“Motto: Just go with the flow! There will be obstacles in life , you just have to swim right through them and go with the flow.”
Introducing River Heights Costumes:
The national food is shrimp and salmon on toothpicks, dipped in thousand island dressing.
Meeting of the Minds in Alexandra April 25, 2009
The last day of term 1, the children got together in Alexandra to present their Micronation.
- they dressed up as citizen of their nation,
- they created a display which explains their micronation: flag, map, fact files…
- They shared their national food
- And had lots of fun!
Micronation Presentation (c) Maia
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