Celebration Time!

The brown pelican has been on the endangered list for 40 years- and it has just come off it.

Thanks to the efforts of many-the US Government, conservation groups and dedicated individuals there is now a very healthy number of thses beautiful birds.
They will still be monitored by the groups in the future. Well done to all those people who cared enough to do something about the declining number of
brown pelicans.

Taking Action at Opoho School in Dunedin

The children and teachers of Opoho School Dunedin, planting trees, clearing rubbish and checking water quality.

Your vege garden in November

November Gardening

Vegies to sow in November.

No matter how tiny your garden, you’ll be able to grow some chillies – just one or two plants will be enough for most families. And now that it’s warm, chilli seeds can be sown straight into a pot or garden bed.

Trailer for 'EARTH' movie

Please watch this movie! Everyone who sees it loves it. You will always remeber parts of it. This planet of ours is simply amazing...

For the Children- A song

This songwriter has written a song he felt needed to be written to help the environment.

Do you like it?

Enviro wise students at an Australian school

Students at this school are asked to talk about the enviro wise things they do at home and at school.

Amazing fact...

Only female bees sting!

Water Clocks

Check this out-

• water clocks do not need environmentally unfriendly batteries or electricity


• you fill the tank with water and some lemon juice


• there are two metal electrodes inside the water tank


• water ions create a charge between the electrodes


• this makes the energy to run the clock


• you just need to refill the tank every few weeks

Sailing in a boat made of recycled plastic bottles!

David de Rothschild is making a boat out of 100% recyclable plastic bottles and will be sailing 10,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean. He is an amazing environmentalist.

The First Lady in America Planting a Garden with School Kids

Watch the First Lady, Michelle Obama, who is planting a kitchen garden with American school children in the grounds of the White House.

Useful Tips for Going Green

Here are some useful and simple ideas for helping the planet.
How many of these things do you already do?
What new thing could you try out?
How can you spread these ideas to your friends and family?:

Litter!!

It's not just us that hate litter!

Litterless Lunches

A message from Sophie, Room H Envirokid

If you love the environment and want to make the world a better place to live in you will bring a litterless lunch to school each day.

You will make a difference to the world if you bring a litterless lunch every day.

Every Wednesday we have a litterless lunch draw. You can get a fruit kebab or some popcorn.

We like people that bring litterless lunches!

Giant Blobs

Read this in the paper- sounds very strange...

'Giant blobs of jelly-like mucus are spreading in the Mediterranean Sea, threatening marine life and posing a potential disease threat to humans, an Italian study says.

The marine mucilages, which grow in warmer sea temperatures, are said to attract bacteria and viruses, including e-coli.'

NZ Herald, 15 October

Karori Sanctuary

The Karori Sanctuary is in Wellington- really close to us for a weekend or school holiday visit. It's a bit like Mt. Bruce where lots of us visited last year.

There are signs of spring at the sanctuary now. Kowhai trees are flowering and the kaka are feasting on the kowhai flowers.Hihi are laying eggs, bellbirds are being banded, shags are feeding chicks and the saddlebacks have been seen building nests.


Did you know...
One of the kaka was taken to the Wellington Zoo hospital earlier this year because it had been suffering from zinc poisoning.He's fine now thank goodness.

Check out the website for the sanctuary
www.sanctuary.org.nz

Weta Motel

Check out the weta motel hanging in the Wilderness area at the back of the school nursery. It's up high at this stage so that it can settle without being disturbed.
The Kiwi Conservation Club has a really good information poage on wetas- including some interesting facts!
Check the website link in the column at the side of the page.

Growing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d26AhcKeEbE

What does being an Enviroschool mean to us?
We are all working together to become a more sustainable school.
We have created a wonderful school nursery from our old swimming pool. This is a place where we propogate plants for our school gardens and for our community.
We are trying to reduce our school waste by recycling, reusing and by having litterless lunches.
We try to use energy wisely and not waste precious resources.
We are always learning about how we can act in ways that care and protect the world around us.
We care for our environment and try to make our school environment a beautiful, healthy and special place.
We all have special enviro responsibilities and act as kaitiakitanga for our school environment.
We beleive that this planet is a wonderful place and we want to protect it for the future.
We are trying to take the enviro friendly practices we follow at school into our homes.