Year 5 (Room 21) water the plants daily.

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

Room 22's Enviro Scavenger Hunt

 Room 22 went on an Enviro Scavenger Hunt to search for things around the school that are environmentally friendly. Here are some of the things we found!

2020 How to make worm tea

Ali and Ava from Room 22 have helped Miss Donnell to make this awesome 'behind the scenes' video on how we make worm tea at Elm Park School. If you are looking to buy some, Room 22 are selling it. 

 

2018 Kapa Haka Festival

2018 Stream Clean Up

 

The Year 5 students went out to our local stream to do a stream clean up. It's disappointing to see so much rubbish being dumped in our community but great to see that we have so many tidy kiwi's committed to cleaning up our environment.

2019 Bread Bag + Tag Collection

        

A Facebook post from Mrs Allen to ask for our community's help in collecting bread bags and tags to be recycled. We are still collecting these so if you have any please bring them into school.

2019 Tiritiri Matangi Trip

Some of the Year 5's (Room 23 and half of Room 24) went on an amazing trip to Tiritiri Matangi today. It was a bit of a rocky ride on the way over in the ferry but once we got to the island we saw lots of beautiful endemic birds, trees and scenery. We also went on a Scavenger Hunt, visited the light house, watch house and Hobbes Beach amongst other things.

A huge thank to the Tiritiri Matangi Growing Minds funding programme which allowed our students to have a free ferry trip to the island, and also the very knowledgeable TIritiri volunteers who were our fabulous guides for the day.

2019 Celebration Concert

Elm Park held a Celebration Concert as a way to showcase our fabulous cultural and dance groups. Each year level had a song to perform and there were a few whole school songs.

Groups that performed included our Indian dance group, Year 3/4 Hip Hop, Year 5/6 Hip Hop, Korean Fan dance and our Elm Park School Kapa Haka group. We also had a surprise performance from our fabulous teachers!

It was great to have so many parents and caregivers along to help us see out another successful year.

2018 Bugingham Palace

Check out Room 25's blog about the creation of their bug hotel 'Bugingham Palace' located on our school field. 

2020 Our Worm Farmers

Room 22 are in charge of the worm farm this year. They have been learning how to make worm tea so they can market and sell it to our school community. Mrs Meikle took a group of worm farmers and showed them how to take the worm castings out of the worm farm. They had to sort through the castings as there had been so much plastic put into the worm farm. Once the castings were sorted, water was tipped into the buckets and left to sit. This creates the dark colour of worm tea. 

               
              

Welcome Post

Kia ora! Welcome to our Elm Park School Enviro Journey.

This blog is designed to share our journey through the Enviroschools program, from Bronze to Green/Gold. The work you see comes from the students and the classrooms who are invested in their future on the planet. From experiments to planting to work from the Kaitiaki Kids, you will see a variety of hard mahi on this blog.

All our our work is underpinned by our Enviroschools Guiding Principles.