Enviro Care Code Sign

4 Envirokids- Sophia, Ella, William and Ciara have worked hard at designing a picture Enviro Care Code for display somewhere outside at our school. We love the design- well done team! Now we have to get it to the signwriters.

Pohutukawa Trees Ready

The pohutukawa trees we have raised from tiny seedlings are now ready for planting. Mr James from the Council would like us to plant them on the river banks at Timona Park. Mr Mason who gave us the seedlings to raise about 5 years ago, will be happy to see them planted out in the community.

Project Water Tank

The Project Water Tank action group worked with Mr Barratt this week to plan measurements and possible locations for the water tank we are hoping to get. Thanks Mr Barratt for sharing your knowledge and skills. There was lots of measuring, calculating, questionning, discussion, problem solving and a whole lot of THINKING going on. We are another step forward on the project!

Project Jonah

Project Jonah is one of many community groups made up of wonderful volunteers in New Zealand.

Learning How to Help Stranded Whales

It's a good idea to know what you are doing. It wouldn't be good to do something thinking that you are helping, but actually you are doing the wrong thing!

Conservation Week 2013

What's your whanau doing?

A School Tank Project

Some ideas for us to think about as we are busy planning for our own tank.

Looking After our Gardening Tools

We have lots of gardening tools and keeping them organised and tidy in the shed is a job we seem to be doing all the time! The Green Team thought of some rules for looking after tools.

Veggie Gardens

The Green Team have been busy in the veggie gardens. We had lots of weeding to do, some planting of seedlings and some harvesting of broccolli.

Think Soil...Think Compost

We have been learning about what is in soil and what is in compost that makes it so good for our soil .

New Gardens for Rooms U and V

The Junior Green Team have been making our environment look beautiful. They planted plants into the gardens outside our new classrooms. Thanks Junior Green Team.

I Care for the Earth in my Heart

I care for the earth because I see things and I pick them up like litter. I feel angry that people put their litter on the ground. I reckon they should go to a place where they know there is a rubbish bin and they should put their rubbish in there. The litter makes the world yukky for us and the plants and the animals. If animals eat litter they might die. So I want to tell people put your rubbish in the bin. Libby, Junior Envirokid

2 Junior Envirokids Want to Say...

I love the earth because it's got nature. Nature goes like a life cycle because it goes over and over again. The best thing is caring about the animals and plants and that's why I like being an Envirokid. Bonnie,7 I like being an Envirokid because we get to learn about the world and learning about animals that live in the environment like kiwis. Kiwis are native so we should keep them safe. We should make special places for them so no predators like stoats and rats and dogs and cats get them. Akira,7

What are Natural Resources and do we Need Them?

Litterless Lunch Reflection

Envirokids Arwen, Molly and Jack have been reflecting on how litterless lunches are going. Room M has been doing a great job with handing out litterless lunch tokens at lunchtimes. We have given them a questionnaire to fill out to give us some feedback on how they feel it is going. When we have this information we will decide what the next step needs to be. This great team of Envirokids already has some ideas on where to next. Litterless lunches are a step towards sustainablity for our school. We are creating less waste to send to the landfill, we use all our food scraps in the worm farms and we use the worm farm products to fertilise our plants in the nursery and in our gardens.

Mr Belk, the Best Caretaker in the World has now completed the extension to our new bird aviary. A bird aviary in our nursery has long been a goal from our Enviroschool Vision. Room N now has the class enviro job of looking after our aviary. They will be organising birds and all the things birds need in their home to keep them healthy, safe and happy. All will be revealed on Enviro Action day later this term!

Junior Envirokids Hunt For Native Seedlings

They hunted under trees in the Native Grove at the top of the field. It was hard work around all those scratchy branches.Now we will pot up the seedlings in our nursery and look after them to help them grow into strong healthy plants. The Junior Envirokids saw lots of weeds up there so we will need to spend some more time up there!