Thanks HVDRT

Take a look at our thank you card for the wonderful helpers at HVDRT (Hutt Valley Disable Resources Trust). Have a look at the post below this one to learn about all they did for us.

Clearing the Gardens ready for Term 4

We have been so lucky to have the help of the strong women and men at the Hutt Valley Disable Resources Trust (HVDRT) who volunteered to help clear our school gardens ready for term 4. After winter the gardens were overgrown, but now, with all the help, the gardens are already being planted by all our classes from New Entrants to the Year 5 and 6 classes, including the Enviro Group Greenies.
Take a look...

A great result! Thanks HVDRT.

COMPOSTING REVIVAL!

WE NOW HAVE COMPOST BUCKETS IN EVERY CLASSROOM! YAY!
We are composting all our food scraps into the compost and one junior class is feeding our 2 work farms. Thanks again to Mr Rubick for building our composting bays by re-cycling old wooden pellets!

Planting with the Greenies

A new take on "Diggers"

Our gardening Greenies have planted out herbs, vegetables and flowers into some of the school gardens. Yum! Can't wait to try some of those fresh edibles!

Composting system

We now have 2 new composting bays for our school food scraps. Mr Rubick kindly made these bins for our compost and now we are ready to get composting in all our classes.
Just remember that we don't put meat or chicken bones into the compost.

These composting bins can be found next to the worm farm in the school gardens. Thanks Mr Rubick!

Fonterra Milk - recycling

At school we are starting to get milk delivered from Fonterra. After lunch someone from the class will go and get a box full of cartons of cold milk and hand it out to the class. After that we have to fold it in a certain way. When all the cartons of milk have been folded and put in special bins they get sent all the way to Malaysia and get  made into roof tiles and booklets for people. 
I think the idea of having milk at school is good because milk makes your bones strong.

Bee-autiful Day

Four senior students went to Epuni School to learn how to care for bees last week.

 We met a bee keeper and tried eating comb honey.

We planted sunflower seeds. Bees love sunflowers.

We made gifts of packets of seeds to give away.

It is really important to care for bees. Without bees plants cannot be pollinated and so will not grow. Plants provide us with food, so bees are very important for humans to live. We need to plant flowering plants that bees love.