Enviro Silver Award

Enviroschool

Enviroschools Information

Our school is now a Silver Enviroschool. This happened in 2012 when we reflected as a school, with the help of the Enviroschools Facilitators, on all the work we had done in recent years to work to make our school a sustainable, environmentally aware school. We documented the learning that has taken place and the systems we have put in place and were proud to accept our Silver Status at the final assembly of the year.

In 2013 we were proud to win the Toroa Award at the Conservation Awards. This was for our work on the stream restoration near our school. We worked with the community to clear rubbish and planted the area with native plants. We are hoping the stream will become a healthy habitat and the area a lovely place to visit.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Stream Restoration - Parent Working Bee



It was great to see principals, teachers, parents and children giving up their Saturday afternoon to help transform our stream.They weeded, put down sacks and shifted over three truckloads of woodchips. Thanks guys it is looking great!Our plants are thriving.
They shifted woodchips.

Weeded and put down sacks.


Wow, over three truck loads of woodchips were spread.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Stream Restoration - Room 1's Working Bee

The Room 1 human chain!!
Wow it doesn't take long to shift a trailer load of woodchips.
Tomorrow there is a community working bee at the stream. Room 1 thought they would help out and have their own working bee. We formed a human chain and shifted heaps of woodchips in next to no time.

The Best Time in the Garden - Harvesting and Eating!

Today we harvested our potatoes and Diana helped us scrub them clean.
We baked them in the oven and then put some sour cream and chives on top.
We shared them with our classes. They were GREAT!

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Autumn Working Bee

We had a big tidy up in our school gardens. Holly, Gus and Jamie are emptying the compost and putting it in garden beds.

Felix is harvesting the potatoes ready to bake.

Wow lots of potatoes.

Mrs Sharma is very impressed and so is Pepe

Monday, March 24, 2014

March Meeting


We are checking out our garden! Lucky it rained over night to water our garden!

We have a new garden bed and will put compost in it to make healthy soil to grow our vegetables.

Envirogroup World Savers
25th March 2014

Present: Ariana , Rory, Jayden, Ella, Ashley, Keira, William, Tristan, ,Noah, Jack, Ellie, George, Claudia

What we did
·      We looked at our gardens and saw things had grown a lot. We had our photo taken by the sunflower
·      We noticed a new garden bed
·      We talked about digging up ( harvesting) our potatoes to make room for the new plants
·      We talked about needing to have working bees at lunch time to fill the new garden and put compost on the other gardens so the soil is healthy and ready to grow new plants.
·      We will put notes in the day book and invite other children and teachers to help us.
·      Then we will need to plant the new plants and water them.
·      Once we have dug the potatoes we will wash them. We talked about how we could eat them and decided to bake them and then put sour cream and some chives on top and share them with the children in the school.
·      We saw lots of rhubarb and hope to bake a cake and put rhubarb on top – yum!
·      We looked at our care code  and will talk about this our next assembly
·      We are having a working bee at the stream this weekend.
·      The rubbish is being picked up by each class and it is Room 7 this week. It is working well and the rubbish is getting less and less
·      Mrs Hawker has made a new blog for envirogroup
To Do

1. Enviro children need to remind their class to put food scraps in buckets then empty and clean them each Friday.

2. Remind children not to drop rubbish

3. Work at lunch time and spread the woodchips and compost to make our gardens healthy and tidy

3. Make sure lights are turned off when not needed

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Weeding Our School Gardens





We have been weeding our school gardens. We are hoping to make a soup garden and grow plants that will taste great in a soup for winter.

We are Learning How to Make Compost

Each Friday the enviro representatives from each class empty the class compost buckets into the school compost bins.

They then scrub the buckets and take them back to the class for the children's food scraps.

Envirogroup World Savers
12th Feb 2014

Present: Ariana , Rory, Jayden, Ella, Ashley, Keira, William, Tristan, ,Noah, Jackson, Charlie, Ellie, George, Claudia

What we did
·      Talked about why we want to be in the enviro group
·      We emptied the food scrap buckets from the class into the compost bins
·      We learnt how to wash the buckets – enviro children need to do this each week!
·      We talked about how the compost works – we need to cover the food scraps with soil, manure  or grass clippings. The compost will break into nice soil to feed the gardens.
·      We weeded the gardens and put the weeds in the compost!
·      We planted lettuces and watered them
·      We named all of the plants in the garden
Our garden has – rhubarb, potatoes, carrots,tomatoes,lettuces, corn, spring onions, beetroot, sunflower, pumpkins, silverbeet and cougettes.
·      We looked at our care code  and will talk about this our next assembly
·      We went over to the stream to see how much work has been done to restore  it and make it beautiful!
To Do
1. Enviro children need to remind their class to put food scraps in buckets then empty and clean them.

2. Remind children not to drop rubbish

3. Make sure lights are turned off when not needed

The Term 1 2014 Enviro group