Students on Holiday!

Hi there everyone.

I thought I would just come on to the blog and let you know that the UK students are on holiday for the next two weeks. However, if any of them have access to the net at home then maybe they will put a brief message on the blog to let you know what they have been doing recently.

Also I thought that your idea of a cake sale at the sports day was fantastic and well done for raising so much money for the Orang-utans.

Would it be possible for one of you to contact the Adelaide Zoo and ask them if they would like to link with us. We may also be getting in touch with Jersey Zoo, here in the UK, whom we already have links with, to see if they are interested with the work that we have done.

Just one final thought. Our school is now linked with three schools in Mauritius and three schools in Ghana in West Africa. We know that Ghana has small numbers of Chimpanzees in their most Northerly rainforests. Perhaps it would be good if we included them in the blog and then they may think about a possible project to help protect the Chimps, particularly as they appear to be growing oil palm over there and that this is having a similar affect on their environment as it has in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Cheers.

Mr Seaton

Hey!

Hello,

I am now a new active member to the blog!

I am sure I can help the commitee anyway,
As you have heard we recently were fundraising and we have collected a staggering $180 (83 pounds)

how are things happening in the UK?

BHS Sports Day Fund-raiser

Hi all,

Last Friday we held our annual cake stall at the Sports Day. It went very well, and raised about $180, so it well and truly covers our orangutan sponsorship of $100 fund-raised per year.

Here's some photos of the day. I put some notices in the newsletter and daily bulletin asking people to donate cakes, slices and muffins, and we also made "orangutans" - spiders - our drink of soft drink and icecream. 'Twas a good day indeed!

First photo was later in the day after the wind blew our roof off and nearly everything had been sold!!

Bye for now,

Lynton

Save the Orang-utans! Speak out!!

We can help make a difference in a very simple way, expand so people hear our voices.

The students of Birdwood High are planning a fundraiser we encourage others to follow.


Your's sincerely,

By Chris and Rekahn

no governors meeting

Hi.

We have had some news about the governors meeting, our head teacher has cancelled it, but we hope it will be next week instead. we have also split from the boys in our group because we have some ideas to raise money for the orang-utans ophanages in Borneo.

Rebecca

Spreading The Word!

I'm so proud of the students at Tanfield and the students at Birdwood. Maybe the next task could be to make a very short powerpoint presentation to show to the governors next Wednesday evening. This could highlight the work you have done so far and how you all plan to help the Orang-utans in the future. This will make everything a lot clearer for the governors and perhaps we could adapt this resource to show other students. This would really spread the word! What would be even more powerful is if the Australian students did the same and we could also show their presentation.

Thanks guys.

Mr Seaton

hi im john and i am part of the tanfied group saving the orangutan and me and steven have made a letter and we will show you soon.

what we have done

hi so far we have been writing letters to major businesses that are using palm oil in their products but now we are making promotional videos and having meetings with our school governors to try and raise awareness about the palm oil problems. what have you been doing?

Caitlin

Hiya my name is Katrina,i am one of the members of save the orang-utans at Tanfield Comprehensive.How long have you being doing stuff to save the orang-utans?Got to go bye!

Great to hear from you!

Hi there,
We are looking forward to reading whatever you can tell us.
When you look at the blog-site, at the end it says "Older Posts" - there are some good comments on there for you to read too,
Cheers,
Lynton

Brilliant work to all of the students!!

At long last some of my students here at Tanfield School have overcome their technical problems and have posted short messages on our web blog. They are also about to feed back to the head teacher and the school governors about all of the fantastic things they have been doing during their thrice weekly meetings. I would like them to communicate with students from Birdwood on a regular basis. So if the Birdwood students could reply to my students and then you can begin asking each other questions about the work you have been doing and sharing ideas for future work. Well done guys! Keep blogging!

PS. Can you all scroll down the list of blogs and click on the link that Mr Vonow (Lynton) has put on and check out this link below that I have found. They are really cool!

http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/

Mr Seaton

Hi

hi i am rebecca and hve just been invited on the site. I think it is a really good idea and tryig to stop people using plam oil not just because of the enviroment but because it is not good for poeple to eat as well. i will write back soon bye for now

hi i made a dvd for this project it will be viewable soon

Greetings

Hello aussies! :oD How are you? Mr Seaton just invited me to get involved with the site and I think it's great. I'm hoping that we can stay in touch. I'm one of the ICT Technicians here at Tanfield School.

Well Done!!

Thank you to Lynton and all of the students down there in Oz. You are doing some tremendous work and the pictures and web-link that you have posted on our site are fantastic. I will ask my students to communicate regularly with you guys as soon as we return from our half term break. Then you can all share your excellent ideas.

Keep up the excellent work!!

Regards.

Mr Seaton

Hi there,

Here is Pusing from our Adelaide Zoo.

Keep smiling,

Lynton

Great website

Dear all,
I've just found a great Australian website, with lots of resources, sample letters etc. Please have a look.

www.palmoilaction.org.au

Cheers,
Lynton

Hi from Australia

Hi guys,
We're back from Summer holidays. It's great to hear of the gathering momentum in England in regard to saving the orangutans. A couple of students have asked me here at Birdwood if I can set the first date for the orangutan group meeting already, so the efforts continue. Let's have a great year, raise some money, write in those letters to companies, keep hassling them until they change their use of palm oil, write to politicians, and learn more ourselves. I think it would be good if we could find out more about the 'Safe Palm Oil' movement, and about the development of bio-fuels as a world industry.
Let's let each other know what we are finding out too.
You (in England) should hear from our students here soon,
Cheers.
Lynton,

PS. Please send us a copy of your DVD
to
Lynton Vonow
Birdwood High School
Shannon Street,
BIRDWOOD 5234
AUSTRALIA

On-going work

I'm really excited with the work the Orang-utan group at Birdwood School have produced. Mr Vonow and his team of students are doing a wonderful job. Especially with the money you raised last year. Can you give us some tips to follow over here. Our students have also been working hard and are about to send some really good letters to local business persuading them not to use palm oil because of the devasting effects it has on the Orang-utans habitat. The students have also checked out their canteen here at Tanfield School and the canteen manager is now aware of the issues and has pledged not to use any products with palm oli in the ingredients. They have also produced a promotional DVD which I would like them to show to the rest of the students at Tanfield School. So well done to Caitlin and Stephen and the rest of the crew at Tanfield!

Mr Seaton

dear allie

It is great that your school has gotten involved in the orangutans and i can not wait to see your photos. At our school we are just starting to get properly involved with this and me and a couple of my friend are running a club at school for anybody else who wants to get involved. Hopefully at our school we will be able to get enough people interested that we can really make a difference. What have you been doing? I will let you know when we do something really good at our school . CAITLIN

Tanfield School Update

Just a quick message to all those avid Orang-utan fans out there in Australia. My students are now back at school but have gone to Jersey for a week on a school excursion. This excursion will involve the students observing Chimpanzees and other apes not sure if there are Orang-utans at Jersey zoo. Hopefully the students will be given some information about these wonderful creatures. I will then be asking them to share that with you guys down under.

Hope all is well at Birdwood. I really miss all of your smiley faces.

Richard

to Caitlin

To dear Caitlin,
how long have you been interested in the orangutans ?
I got interested in the orangutans since mr seaton had told us about them last year.
I hope you had a great summer break!!
This year I'm doing work experience at the Adelaide zoo I hope to work with the orangutans there. I will send some photos to you after November.

Hey everyone at Birdwood High School, thank you so much for your fantastic messages that you have posted on the Orang-utans web blog. I have been particularly impressed by your enthusiasm which is obviously guided by Lynton and Harry and the wonderful work you are doing in your "save the Orang-utans group". I will share your blogs with my students and ask them to reply when we return to school in September. I will also ask them about how they propose to raise awareness and funds to sponsor a baby Orang-utan which you seem to be doing already (what a great idea!). Well done to everyone involved. Keep cheering for those fantastic orange apes!!

Richard Seaton

SAVE THE ORANGATANS!

Hello fellow orangutan lovers,
I am a big fan of saving the orangutans and I would like to know what your doing to save them.
And I'll tell you what we are doing.
KYLA

Hey everyone out there! Check out the blue! We should all save the animals otherwise I'll change the colour of my writing to red. But if we save them, I'll change it to pink! OK. Ctach ya later!
From orangutan_luver101
P.S SAVE THE ORANGUTANS!!!