Envirogroup

Today the Tiaki Taiao Envirogroup (open to all students in the school) met for the first time. Our Enviro-leaders have chosen Parakore/Zerowaste as our first action project, so today the Envirogroup started with a brainstorm on rubbish. This drew out lots of ideas, knowledge and questions - some of our students know heaps about rubbish and where it goes! We then had a chat about our different rubbish options at Victory - general rubbish, recycling, compost and bottle brick rubbish. Next week we'll start on a plan for how to reduce our rubbish at Victory.

Gardening Club 11 April

This week we had fun planting our sensory garden. We planted cornflowers, violas, Stevia (sugar plant), a marigold (Mexican Mint), Golden Marjoram, Pizza Thyme, Roman Chamomile, Purple Sage and Vietnamese Mint.

 

Gardening Club 4 April

Heaps of kids turned up for gardening club today! First we walked to the community gardens to get trowels and a wheelbarrow. Next we loaded the bags of compost onto the wheelbarrow and took them to our garden beds. We spread the compost over the gardens and dug it into the soil. Next week we will do some planting.

 

Gardening Club

On Thursday at lunchtime we had our first gardening club session. We are going to look after the 3 raised gardens on the end of the Maitai unit. First we introduced ourselves and shared what we would like to grow, the tamariki want to grow flowers, roses, pumpkins and apple trees. Then we pulled all the weeds out of the gardens, we put the weeds in a big bin so they could dry out before we compost them. Next week we will add compost to the soil.

 Some of the weeds were really hard to pull out!

 Tereme and Tevita worked together to finish cleaning up. 

Ka pai ō mahi kōrua!

Waste Audit

On Wednesday we carried out an audit of all the waste our school created in one day that would have gone to landfill. Sarah Langi and Lindsey Fish work with the Enviro-Leaders to sort the rubbish into categories and then weigh it.

 Yuck!

How could we reuse our yoghurt pottles?

 The whole school had a chance to visit the hall and see our rubbish. Sarah discussed with us ways we could reduce, reuse and recycle our waste.

What a lot of rubbish!

Enviro-wall

Yesterday some of the Enviro-leaders worked on completing our Enviro-wall in the library - come and check it out! On it you will find our completed vision map, photos of tiaki taiao projects and maps created by students as part of our vision quest in 2012.