And Now We Wait...

After 2 months of hard work, the Colgate Carton Race has officially finished, but we don't find out results until mid-July so we will wait eagerly to find out! The creative competition results will be posted on the Colgate NZ Facebook page once votes have been validated, but the main competition will take a bit longer I imagine as judges have to come out to the top schools to verify carton counts. The top schools will be notified next week so I shall let you know if I hear anything!

Thank you to all of you who gave us boxes or voted for our design, the support we have received has been unbelievable and we most definitely wouldn't be where we are without you! We finished with a grand total of 6049 boxes, which is an awesome effort! It's now in the hands of the toothpaste gods and we are now officially on school holiday for 2 weeks, whooo!

Only One Day To Go!

There's only one more day to go in the competition and we have just over 5,200 boxes in total! A pretty amazing effort, and something we couldn't have done without the help of the generous support of all our friends and schools who have helped us along the way! Thank you very much to everyone that has given us and sent us boxes in the last 2 months... it's been an awesome journey and a fantastic learning experience for all of us in Studio 21 :)

We're on the News!!

Colgate Colour Splash!

We have been learning to use an ipod application called Colour Splash!

We're going to be on TV!

Newsflash: We have the CTV (Canterbury Television) crew coming to interview our class on Monday morning!! Hopefully this will help us get a few more boxes and votes! Will post a video when we have it :)

Newspaper Article!

Our class effort with the Colgate competition made it to the local newspaper!

Colgate Box Mufti Day!

Today we had a Colgate box Mufti Day and managed to collect 347 boxes, plus some extra money that Mr George is going to use to buy toothpaste. Tyla and Nicole were the ones who came up with this great idea and it proved to be a really good one by taking our total number of boxes past the 3000 mark! We also received two other packages full of Colgate boxes; one from South Canterbury, and another one from New York, which was really exciting!

Tuesday... Another Good Day!

We had another good day today and managed to collect 257 boxes! Only 18 more days to go in the competition so keep up the good work and keep voting :)

Best Day So Far!!

Wow! What an amazing day today!! 529 boxes... the most from any single day so far!! A massive thank you goes out to PS / IS 266 in New York who sent us 395 of them! You guys rock!! We are also in first place in the creative competition so keep those facebook votes rolling in :)

Our Design

Hello everyone!

My class in Canterbury, New Zealand has worked incredibly hard to produce an entry for a competition we are competing in at the moment. The criteria for the competition was to produce something creative using Colgate toothpaste cartons that relates to the 2012 theme of sports/athletics. We came up with an original design called the 'Triple Action Triathlon' and, apart from the black background, it's made completely from empty Colgate boxes. We created and developed concepts, and played around with different colour schemes and images before deciding on our final design. After settling on our final design we took photos of individual boxes in front of a green screen, removed the backgrounds, then pasted, rotated, and resized them digitally to make up our final design. This took a long time and lots of patience, but we are really happy with the final result!

We were lucky enough to have our design selected for the top 10 in the competition and now it just comes down to facebook votes. It only takes a minute to vote by following the link below, logging into facebook, and voting for the design by Kaiapoi Borough School. If you like the look of our entry, we would really appreciate you taking the time to place a vote and pass the link on to as many people as possible. If we win, our school will receive $5,000 worth of brand new P.E gear, which we desperately need to help our school rebuild from the earthquakes in our area over the last one and a half years.

As part of this competition we have been looking at the power of communication, so with your help we can produce a real life example of the amazing power of the internet and how it can be used as a very effective communication device! We really hope that if we get enough votes, we might be able to get Colgate to sponsor a nationwide triathlon event called the 'Triple Action Triathlon', which will encourage young children to become more active and live a healthy lifestyle. 

Thank you for your time, and if you would like any further information please feel free to join our edmodo group by visiting www.edmodo.com and using the group code apae5h :)

http://www.facebook.com/colgatenz/app_374675092562981?sk=app_374675092562981&app_data=school%7C2

Voting is Easy!

Colgate Carton Race - Kaiapoi Borough School

www.facebook.com

Your vote could win this school a share of $10,000 worth of sports gear vote wisely as you only have one vote so make it count!

Please vote for us!

Guess what?! Our creative design (attached) has been chosen as one of the top 10 entries in the creative competition! This means that, as of Monday 11th June, you all get a chance to vote once for your favourite entry. 

For all of you that have facebook, all you need to do is log in and 'like' the 'Colgate NZ' facebook page. From there you get one vote, and the winner gets $5,000 worth of P.E gear for their school, plus there are also 2nd and 3rd prizes. If you thought collecting Colgate boxes was a lot of work, then this is a piece of cake - will only take a minute :) 

You can really help us out by voting yourselves and getting as many people as you can to vote for our design. We can definitely win this, especially through word of mouth on edmodo and other networking websites! We will update you with more information when we get it. Voting closes on June 29th. We are really excited about this!! :D

Wednesday's Winter Wonderland

Here are a few shots of our school being transformed into a Winter Wonderland on Wednesday...

Snow Snaps!

Here's a couple of photos of the recent snow in Christchurch. Yesterday was a snow storm all day, but today we awoke to a chilly -5 degrees celcius frost! Lots of the snow on the ground turned into ice so it was very slippery, but very beautiful! School was closed for the second day in a row, so unfortunately we couldn't update our toothpaste box total any further.

More Snow!

 More snow again today so school was closed again. We're not going to let that stop us though!

After two days without school, lets hope Friday brings us more boxes!

SNOW!

The snow has turned our school into a Winter wonderland, and has meant we are closed for the day! So obviously, no toothpaste boxes today, but we look forward to a big haul next time we're at school :)

Hooray for the Long Weekend!

We had a fantastic day today and managed to collect more boxes than we have on any other day with 472!! The long weekend did us wonders! We've maintained our position at the top of the table and are looking forward to another good week! We have sent out a few emails to various different people around Christchurch and there are some exciting opportunities on the horizon. Watch this space!

Creative Entry!

These are our finished entries for the creative aspect of the competition. The whole lot, besides the backgrounds are made from Colgate boxes. We had to change our initial idea because of copyrights to do with the Olympics. We chose the one with the black background for our final entry, so If it gets selected in the top 10 you have to vote for us :)

Another Good Day...

Another good day in the competition and we've managed to retain our position in first place. We collected a total of 88 Colgate boxes today, including 60 from our own classes and 28 from a couple of schools who are helping us. We have been so lucky to have such great support so far and we are always on the lookout for other schools/businesses/families who might be willing to help out. Keep spreading the word so we can end the week on the top of the table :)

Reasons 19 & 20...

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1st Place!

This week has been a great week for us so far! Yesterday we collected the most boxes we have in one single day with nearly 400, and we hit 1st place for the first time! This has been awesome for the motivation of the students and school and now we just need to maintain it for 30 more days! We have been discussing many different strategies to get more boxes so watch this space... :)

Our Goal!

Okay, this is the winning school from last year. 9,077 boxes!! What an amazing effort! We really have our work cut out, but we can do it! We need all of the help we can get to try and break the record! :)

http://www.localist.co.nz/milfordtakapunadevonport/articles/big-win-for-local-school

Monday's News!

97 boxes today and the in-school competition we organised is hotting up! After being assigned a class each, we have been busy encouraging, collecting boxes, and updating our classes on their position in the competition. The few of us who didn't get assigned a class to represent have also been busy collecting and analysing data, opening and sorting boxes, and making sure our edmodo site is up to date! We're really starting to work as a team and hopefully we've made up some ground on the top 2 schools!

Reason 7...

Ice Cream Poster

Edmodo Group

Join our edmodo group by typing in the group code apae5h. By becoming a member of the group you will be able to view photos, videos, and graphs of our progress in the competition so far. You will be able to see world maps of all the helpers we have from around the world and you can ask questions and communicate with children from different parts of the world (including all of us from Studio 21). It's getting bigger by the day, so become part of this awesome learning experience with us! :)

Buy Bulk!

No one saw the marmite crisis coming, so what better way to prepare for future crises than by buying bulk?! Why not stock up on 10 tubes of colgate toothpaste next time you’re at your local supermarket? 

... No room in the bathroom cabinet you may be thinking? 

Well let us take those bulky colgate boxes off your hands! Kaiapoi Borough School needs your help to assist us in collecting as many empty colgate boxes as possible! We specialize in colgate box retrieval and will gratefully accept any empty boxes you have to help us try and win $12,500 worth of sports gear for our school. So brush those pearly whites twice a day and hold on to those boxes! Competition finishes June 29th.

Ice Cream + Colgate = Delicious!

Why buy mint flavoured ice cream when you can buy vanilla and chuck some colgate toothpaste on top! Who said ice cream was bad for your teeth?! 

Kaiapoi Borough School needs your help! We need as many empty colgate boxes as we can get! So brush those pearly whites twice a day and hold on to those boxes! Competition finishes June 29th.

Good morning tooth brushers!

Good morning tooth brushers! When you next treat your teeth to a cleaning, ask yourself... "am I using colgate?" If you are shout, "Wohoo, now I can help Kaiapoi Borough School by keeping the box!" If you aren't, then think... "Next time I'll buy colgate so I can help Kaiapoi Borough School by keeping the box!" And if you've thrown the box in the bin, feel guilty for 10 seconds, then fish it out. Or take that guilt all the way to the supermarket where you can buy another tube, yussss!

Our school is collecting empty colgate toothpaste boxes in the colgate carton race and we're currently in 3rd place! We need all the boxes we can get so if you have any, hold on them and we can come and pick them up or you can flatten them out and send them to our school. Any help will be massively appreciated :)

Chur!

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Aftershock!

After learning about the science of earthquakes this afternoon, we experienced a 5.5 magnitude aftershock... talk about coincidence! Aside from that, we've maintained our 3rd place in the competition leading in to the weekend. This week has been the our most successful week so far in terms of collecting, so lets keep the momentum going!

Calling All Tooth Brushers!

We are a class of 25 eleven and twelve year olds from Kaiapoi Borough School in North Canterbury, New Zealand and we are collecting empty COLGATE toothpaste boxes as part of the ‘Awesome Colgate Carton Race’. 

We are entering two aspects of the competition. The first is to collect as many colgate toothpaste boxes as possible, and the second is to use our creative skills to turn those boxes into a masterpiece so we can win one of the creativity prizes.

This year the theme of the competition is athletics and sports, so we are hoping to create a life-size Olympic sculpture with a New Zealand athlete standing at the top, using the boxes we collect. The more colgate toothpaste boxes we have, the more elaborate our sculpture will be, and the better chance we will have at winning a prize!

The school who collects the most empty colgate toothpaste boxes will win $12,500 worth of brand new sports equipment for their school, and there are also prizes for coming second and third. There is $5,000 worth of brand new sports equipment up for grabs in the creativity section as well, so we are very excited at the prospect of potentially winning some fantastic prizes for our school, which is still somewhat rebuilding after the series of earthquakes that have hit Christchurch over the last year and a half.

If anybody is able to assist us in our quest to collect empty colgate toothpaste boxes we would be hugely appreciative! Whether you’re from Kaiapoi, Christchurch, New Zealand, or overseas, you can help make a difference from something as small as keeping a colgate toothpaste box, instead of throwing it in the rubbish. So ring your relatives, speak to your sports teams, talk to your neighbours, and ask your workmates; any help will be gratefully accepted! The competition finishes on the 29th of June 2012 so we don’t have too much time.

We have created an edmodo group and are in the process of making a website to keep all of the people who help, up to date with our progress throughout the competition. We will be updating this regularly with photos, videos, graphs and blogs of our collection and Olympic sculpture, and the link will be attached to our school website www.kbs.school.nz.

Any empty colgate toothpaste boxes (flattened is fine) that have been collected can either be sent or dropped off to the address listed at the bottom of this page, or a pick up from a house or workplace (even if it is in the city) can easily be arranged by calling us on 327 7231 Extn 221 or emailing class teacher Dan George on daniel.g@kbs.school.nz. For your convenience, we are aiming to put collection bins outside the local Kaiapoi supermarkets, so you can remove the toothpaste tubes and put the boxes straight into the bins provided.

Any additional information on the competition can be found by visiting www.colgatecartonrace.co.nz.

Thank you and kind regards,

Studio 21

Kaiapoi Borough School

Hilton Street

Kaiapoi 7630

North Canterbury

New Zealand

General Information

Hi everyone,

Our class from Kaiapoi Borough School, North Canterbury, New Zealand, is currently involved in a competition to collect empty colgate toothpaste boxes and we are trying to recruit classes from all over the world to help us. We would love it if any classes/schools out there would like to take up the challenge and collect some empty boxes for us. We have already had teachers from USA, Canada, Australia, England, Indonesia, and Spain, express interest, which is fantastic! 

The competition been an awesome learning experience for my kids and we have managed to integrate maths, literacy, and geography as well as learning all about marketing and advertising. The children are a very resilient and deserving bunch from a school that was hit hard by the Christchurch earthquakes last year, and we are hoping to win $12,500 worth of sports gear to replenish our P.E sheds in a tough financial year, which has seen our school roll drop to the lowest it's ever been.

After discussion with the class we have decided to set our sights high. We have created an edmodo group to show our progress in the competition, and we now have the goal of trying to get one class from every state in America to join and help us with our collection. We are also keen to get as many classes/schools from as many countries as possible onboard so if you are interested please let us know!

All classes that help us out will be able to collaborate with our students and will receive letters from us to thank them for their efforts. So if you're keen or know people who might be able to help out, reply underneath or pass on the message and we can let you know all of the details. It's amazing what a little school in New Zealand can do with the help of others.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Studio 21

Kaiapoi Borough School

Kaiapoi

North Canterbury 7630

New Zealand

Maths Link!

Our maths class have been using our collection of colgate boxes to help us learn about volume. We have been measuring the boxes and calculating how much space is inside them. It has been very interesting to compare different sized boxes and see how much bigger and smaller the different volumes are. We have also been applying mathematics to our competition by graphing our progress and working out how many boxes per person, our school has collected so far. It goes to show that maths is all around us!

Third Place on Thursday!

Today we moved into the top 3 for the first time since we began collecting colgate boxes, which was very exciting! Due to close nature of the competition we moved back to fourth place after Ponsonby Intermediate updated their tally, but we fought our way back to end the day in third place after Mr George received a bag of 40 boxes from one of his friends. The in school competition seems to be going well, and we nominated a Studio 21 member to represent each class in our school and collect the boxes from them each day. Tyla, Nicole, and Shannan also put forward a proposal to Mr Maindonald, that we have a mufti day, where instead of donating money, people donate a colgate toothpaste box! We look forward to updating our total that day! :)

New York Poster!