Why we want solar panels at school.

I am Curtis Turner, and I am writing to you about why we should have solar panels at Paroa School. 

I think we should have solar panels at school because It helps the environment even though it uses more money but some people can make them cheaper. it helps the environment because it absorbs energy, from the sun and the clouds and you have to pay for the solar panels once so it all eventually adds up. 

Solar panels cost around $17,000 each or for two solar panels, I'm not quite sure how many. Solar panels can be cheaper but it depends on what company you buy them from. some schools have solar panels on their roofs but we will be the first on the west coast.

To cover the main 3 roofs and power the school we will need 47 solar panels at our school. We would need to fundraise a lot of money but eventually, it will work. We would still need the wifi obviously because that can't be powered by solar panels.

In conclusion I beleive that we should have solar panels so please think about it happening.

Today we have been writing letters to the pta and this is what I have written down, I hope that if you are reading this and you are apart of the pta you can do this for us. I liked that I had a couple of ideas so that made it a little bit easier. I didn't like that I had to think for a while because some of this I made off of my head.

Solar panels and the cardboard map.

 

For the last 2 weeks, we have been making a couple slides and a map of our school. I liked that it was Harry, Jesse, and I so that we could finish it faster and make it better than we probably would of and, I tried my best. I didn't like that it took so long for me to do it. I hope you enjoy or did enjoy what I made and wrote down with my friends that wanted to help me with the project and the ones that actually came to school. I learned that solar panels are $17,000 and the solar panels use around 1.7 to 1.8 kilowatts or kw which is short for kilowatts. I also learned that to power our school with solar panels, we would need 47 solar panels which is a lot of money and solar panels.

Energy.

 

For the past two weeks, we have been researching how Tokelau gets their energy from that far away. I liked that it was easy and I tried my best next I will have a cardboard map of my school unless I don't finish it in time. I didn't like that it took me longer than I thought because some people are already done so I have been pretty bored because I wanted to do the cardboard creation stuff.

Energy.

 How do wind and the sun affect your daily life? The sun affects your daily life by giving you light and some people power. The wind affects your daily life by being able to fly a kite.

What activities do you do that engage the energy of the sun and wind?

I go outside and play with my dog by throwing a bone or a dog toy for her. I also go to the beach and feel the breeze when it is really hot so I don’t faint.

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The ways Tawhirimatua influences us.

He influences me by making me want to try bodyboarding because the waves he makes look cool and fun to bodyboard on.

This week we have been researching more energy stuff. I liked that we had a book to read off of. I didn't like that it was hard to find the stuff I wanted to wright down.

School rock climbing wall.

Dear PTA and whoever is reading this. For the last couple of weeks, we have been doing persuasive writing to try and get some stuff from either our parents or a company. I liked that I tried my best even though it was hard. I didn't like that it took me over a week or over 2 weeks to actually finish. I hope that you enjoy or did enjoy what I wrote please consider doing but you don't have to do it. Sincerely Curtis Turner.

T shaped literacy.

 

This is I and my friends' T-shaped literacy activity we chose to make a boat for wind energy. I liked that we tried and were successful. I didn't like that it took a long time but in the end, we were successful so I don't care how long it took.

T shaped literacy

This is my T-shaped literacy activity. I liked that I tried my best to do what I did. I didn't like that it was somewhat hard to do what I did.