Enviro Kids are busy!

Yesterday we spent a happy hour ripping magazines and collaging our sign for our upcoming enviro display in the library. We have done an amazing job. The letters are decorated in our rainbow colours and look amazing! Well done Enviro Kids!

What a bunch of busy bees...

Pasting the rainbow colours

What a co-operative hard working group

Autumn Activity in the School Gardens

Autumn means FEIJOAS and we've been harvesting and eating them! Any feijoas that are bruised or rotten we cut up and mash for our worm farms. We rake up autumn leaves and put them into our compost bins. Rose is spreading crushed egg shells over a worm farm.

Plant to Plate

The Green Team was so lucky to get to work with the Plant to Plate volunteers. We planted vegetables and we prepared, cooked and ate a healthy lunch in the school hall. We cooked 1. Vegetable fritters 2 Apple and zucchini muffins 3 Veg pinwheel scones 4 Leek and bacon tart 5 Feijoa and cream cheese muffins 6 Magical Fruit smoothies and 7Apple fritter bread

If you want any of the recipes see Mrs Cowan

Worm farming- Vermiculture

Learn how to set up a worm farm. Let the worms turn your waste into rich fertiliser for your gardens. Check out the worm farms in the school nursery.

Congratulations Enviro Team Representatives

Last Thursday an amazing group of students from our 3 enviro groups went to a council meeting with a proposal. They want toileting facilities in Kitchener Park. They spoke beautifully with a lot of knowledge and clear, thought out justifications for this spending. 

They must have been amazing because as reported on Stuff and in the Feilding Herald the council has agreed with the proposal and are now starting the process to implement composting toilets.

Way to go MSS Enviro groups, well done!

Currator Gavin Scott

Excerpts from the article: 

Manchester Street School's green team, consisting of nine pupils, have taken their views to the Manawatu District Council in a bid to get a public toilet installed at Kitchener Park.

They have the backing of the community, with the council receiving seven submissions to build a toilet at the park, and no-one against the concept.

Georgia Palmer, 8, said other groups that regularly visited the park would also benefit.

"We would like to do more planting at the park next term when it is the right time to plant trees," she said. "We can never stay long because we need toilets and there is nothing at the park for us and all our parent helpers to use.

"We love Kitchener Park. Lots of us visit with our families and we always look for places we have planted trees."

Something as simple as a unisex portaloo would suffice, Georgia said.

Aimee Worsley mucking in at Kitchener Park

Slugs- Watch Out!

It's the time of year when slugs can be found lurking under our pots in the nursery. We can see that they have been coming out at night and eating our young seedlings!
Today we looked high and low and found lots of slugs to feed to the birds.

Naming our Bush Walk

We brainstormed names for our Bush Walk, had a big discussion and then voted. The name for the bush walk is now Te Paparahi Piwakawaka-The Fantail Track We all wanted the name to recognise the fantails that live there and flutter around us around when we are in there.

Remote, uninhabited South Pacific island becomes a plastic wasteland

A really sad article that was on Stuff.  Article link: 
It is talking about plastic waste on a remote island beach.
Almost all the rubbish they found was plastic. Something to think about...

JENNIFER LAVERS / UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA

Henderson Island is far away from civilization. But it's still trashed

Which Chooks the Enviro Kids Like the Best?

Poppy, Ben, Jonty, Eliah, Liam and and Milla like the Plymouth Rock chook.

Taylor likes the Buff Orpington.

Ella likes the Cochin breed.

Maia likes the Brahma breed.

Willow and Lydia are fans of the Polish.

Peyton likes the Faverolle.

Karta and Paige like the Easter Egg hen.

Isobel, Elaina, Leslie, Ariah, Summer and Susannah Grace are big fans of the Silkie Bantam.

Charlie and Corbyn like the Wyandotte.

What a lot of different chickens and they all have pros and cons. We will enjoy choosing our chooks for school.

Mrs Palmer's favourite chicken is...

Hmmm, best type of Chicken?

Today the Enviro Kids looked at lots of different  chicken breeds to try and decide what would be the best for our run at school.

There are lots of different breeds with lots of different characteristics that would make suitable school chickens. What a big decision.

Cheeky Little Fantail Song

Piwakawaka

Piwakawaka