Litter Free Lunch draw

Well done to Yi Lin and Theya on a brilliant presentation at whole school assembly. We have some very happy students who have got awesome prizes for bringing a litter free lunch.

Year 5 (Room 21) water the plants daily.

 William and Mason water the garden daily as they are Garden Monitors for this term.

Kaitiaki Kids take on the worm farm

The Kaitiaki Kids spent their lunchtime and most of the last block cleaning out the worm farm. It had become very clogged due to some plastic that had been put in the bin. We found a tuna can, a pencil sharpener, pie wrappers and lots of other plastic in the bin.

We took some castings from the worm farm and put them on our veggie gardens. We might use the veggie gardens to grow some awesome veggies to cook, but also to share with the community.

 

2021 Kaitiaki Kids explore Eye on Nature

 The Kaitiaki Kids were invited to attend Auckland Council's Eye on Nature fun day at the Botanic Gardens. The theme this year was mai nga maunga ki te moana, ko te wai te oranga, from the mountains to the sea, water is life.

We had a great day visiting the Gardens and learning lots about the importance of our sea life. Here are some photos from our day.

 

  

  

Middle School Clean Team

Room 30 were on the playground and noticed there was rubbish there. We picked up rocks, sticks, rubbish and old broken off plants. 

 

To help our environment in the middle school playground area, we did a tidy up. If we leave these things around on the footpath, people can trip over or slip which is dangerous. People can also get injured and hurt themselves. 

 

Responsible Rubbish Rising Stars

On Friday Room 12 & 13 raided the shed to collect rubbish bins and tongs. We were a little bit disappointed to see some rubbish around the school, but it felt really good being part of the clean-up crew and keeping our Middle School and Field Area super tidy. Some of the unusual objects we discovered was a Harry Potter wand, big pieces of wood and a screw. We hope to see less rubbish around so that we have a tidier environment.

2020 - Caught being good!

Room 6 were caught being good! Instead of playing a game for their brain break activity, Room 6 went out and picked up all the bark that had come out of the junior playground. They were showing the value responsibility - taking care of our environment. Mrs Yates was so pleased, she gave everyone a token (including Mrs Kumar). Ka pai Room 6!

Room 2 takes on Bugingham Palace

Room 2 has been taking care of Bugingham Palace this year.  We visited as often as we could, and cleaned out dead leaves and branches, and added some fresh leaves and branches. The students of Room 2 would try their best to find new bugs and insects to add to the Palace, but this did prove to be quite tricky at times. In the classroom we would discuss the importance of bugs and insects in our environment. 

2020 Term 3 Stream Clean

This term the Kaitiaki Kids went down to our local stream to do a clean up and see what sort of rubbish is being left around the community. It was very tricky to even get down to the stream because there was lots of overgrown trees in our way. We did find a lot of rubbish along the grass close to the stream. There is also a local hangout called "the tree" which had lots of rubbish in it. Altogether we managed to collect 6 bags of rubbish.

What's next?

• Write a letter to our local government asking them to trim the bushes around the stream so we can go and do a stream clean up - we could see a lot of rubbish but couldn't get to it.
• Write a letter to our local government to ask about cleaning up around "the tree" as there is a lot of broken glass. We also want to ask them to trim the branches and remove the dangerous tree hut that has been made.
• Write a script and speak at whole school assembly about the amount of litter found and what we should be doing as a school.

2020 Butterfly Garden Planting

  

We really enjoyed helping plant the seeds to attract butterflies to our garden in spring. (Chloe & Elizabeth)

First we helped to remove all the weeds. (William) 

Then we used shovels to turn over the soil. (Noah)

Alex used a rake to smooth the soil where we planted the seeds. (Rory & Callum)

We used watering cans to gently water the soil. (Ida, Yi Lin & Thea)

We can't wait to see how many butterflies will come and visit us soon. (Brooklyn & Elenoa)