2011+Term+3+-+Sustainability



**__Sustainability__**

**This term, Room 5 students are looking at "Sustainability" in terms of** :**“being given dominion over the earth by God.” We are going to look at environmental sustainability as a biodiversity issue and specifically how we deal with and catergorise "pests". This will occur for the first eight weeks and in the last two weeks we are looking at the sustainability of faith in terms of the "World Cup". We are working with Environmental Canterbury and the Department Of Conservation on an eight week long unit on pests and will end by adopting a section of the stream that runs through the local reserve****.** **In Bible Study we are going to discuss faith as described biblically and the implication of "foreign invaders (the media) in terms of worldy culture" on the sustainability of our faith. ** ** In Reading we are going to review many reports on various NZ pests and environmental issues. In Writing we are working on reports on pests and creating a power-point based seminar on the pest of our choice. We will then form teams of two and have mini-court cases in which each member of the team will try to argue why their pest in the most dangerous to New Zealand's environmental sustainability. In Health we are look at the impact of the media on how we perceive ourselves and others. In Social Science we will look at how people respond to community challanges (i.e., biodiversity issues and environmental sustainability issues). In Maths we tackle "Statistics" and strenghten our numeracy strategies involving multiplication/division of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers. We are also specifically looking at long division this term. It will again be an exiciting and rewarding term of 10 weeks. **
 * Cheers Mr. Goulet **