Springtime Class Gardens

Growing Time in the Nursery

There's lots of growth to be seen as you walk around the nursery. The potato buckets are looking good- so are the potato plants in the tyre gardens outside the nursery.

Giant Care Code Pencils

We are loving the giant care code pencils! They are colourful and fun and definitely improve our environment. The pencils were a 2013 student House Leader project.

The school budgies and canaries have been very busy! We need to be thinking about what we will do with the new birds... Big thanks to Room N for looking after the canary aviary and to Room C for looking after the budgie aviary and to Mr Harber for being in charge!

Sustainable School Award 2014

Mr Parker and Mrs Clark came to a school assembly to officially present our school award and prize of $2,000.00. Molly responded with thanks from all of us.

Keep New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week

Our Clean Up was a week late due to our school production being on the actual week of the nationwide Clean Up. The Envirokids cleaned up Victoria Park and The Green Team cleaned up the Uenuku Walkway which had very little waste,and the Makino Pools park. We collected 6 full rubbish bags of litter. Quite shocking!

Green Team Works to Keep Our Gardens Looking Good

The Green Teamers sure know how to weed properly. No roots get left behind!

First Signs of Spring

When the Green Team were working in the orchard Nolan spotted blossoms!

Junior Envirokids talk about Class Envirojobs

At our school every class has an envirojob because we are all caring for our environment.

Class Envirojobs

Room H do a fantastic job for our school by looking after the school paper recycling bins. The area around them is kept tidy, cardboard boxes are flattened and any 'extras' that shouldn't be in there are quickly taken out. Thanks for taking your job seriously and demonstrating commitment to our

enviroschool Room H.

Giant Pencils

The new giant sized pencils are looking good. We love to see the Care Code on each pencil. This was a great project to enhance our environment.

Thank you from WWF- New Zealand

The money we raised from the sale of a painting from every class was $1,149.60. Go Manchester Street School!!

Art Auction to raise funds for WWF- Maui's Dolphins

What a fantastic fundraiser idea this was. We are so proud to be taking positive action to help save the Maui's dolphins from extinction.

Green Fingers

Green Fingers, our Green team mascot loves going home with his friends.

What can we do?

How we can help...

Growing Tomatoes

Great tips for growing tomatoes

Maui's Dolphins- DOC

Maui's Dolphins on 60 Minutes

Hector's and Maui's Dolphins

Maui's Dolphins Talk

Through the Dolphins' Eyes

Maui's Dolphin video

Surfing with Maui's Dolphins

Spot a Maui's Dolphin

What do orangutans sound like?

Save the Orangutans

The Plastic Bag

All About Tomatoes

Hydroponics

Time Lapse Tomato Plant

Growing tomatoes

Save the Maui's Dolphin

Let's Get Gardening

Gardening at the Rainbow School on PhotoPeach

Endangered Species

Not good news for our very special doplhins!

We are learning about the new weather station we have at school. Mr Baratt has been teaching us about the different parts of the weather station and showed us the screen in the office area that we can look at to find out things like- the temperature, the wind speed, the wind direction and the level of humidity. We are really excited to have this here.

Some of the Green Teamers went along to a Community Planting event last weekend. A few of them shared and reflected on their experience with us

Places we love...

Places We Love in our School Environment on PhotoPeach

Some Junior Envirokids have been checking the school paper recycling bins. They hoped to see flat paper- not scrunched up paper, flattened cardboard boxes and no plastic. Everything was just how it should be. Well done school.

Have you checked out the new Bug Farm in the Bush Walk area? Come along and poke around and be nosy to see what creatures you can find hiding away...

A group of 6 Envirokids and 1 Green Teamer made a presentation to the Mayor of Feilding and the Councillors all about being an Enviroschool.

The Junior Green Team are learning just how special trees are to us.

Our Envirokids' mascot is Top Takahe. Find out more about takahe birds.

Green Teamers - bring your plastic bottle to school so you can make your own terrarium

Making a Raised Garden Bed

What in the World is a dugong?

Isn't it great to see people taking responsibility for the future of these lovely animals?

Go Green Team!

Green team at work on PhotoPeach

Envirobooks

take a look at some covers and pages in some of the Envirokids' books on PhotoPeach

Solar Roadways

Save the Orangutans

The Green Team investigate the trees in the orchard

15 Ways

20 Ways to Help Save the Earth

New Home for Worm Farms

The Junior Green Team  have moved our worm farms from the Nursery, into the old blue shed  by the nursery- the one with worms painted on it! It is cooler in there and we hope the worms will be very happy and keep making us lots of wonderful worm tea. What a great way to use our food scraps. This is a positive action we take for the environment at our school. 

Food Glorious Food

We have crops of peppers and lettuce and beetroot ready for harvesting very soon. What meals could we make from them we wonder?
Growing food from seed is lots of fun. We are learning skills that we can use for the rest of our lives. 

Budgie Aviary

Our new bird aviary is now up and running. Mr Belk laid a concrete pad for it and Mr Harber water blasted and painted it for us. We have 7 budgies so far. Students from Room C look after this aviary and make sure the birds always have plenty of food and fresh water. We are learning to respect and care for living things.

Forest Gecko Enjoying the Sun

We were lucky to spot one of our geckos sunning himself on a branch. He is looking very healthy and happy. It is a very big responsibility caring for an endangered  species.  

Busy Gardeners

The Envirokids have been helping Mr Harber to plant the griselinia trees in the new garden behind Room K. Great team work!
 This area is looking really good with a new fence and a new garden. We will need to look after these trees carefully for the next few months until they are well established.