21/08/2026
Enviroschools today…
- The Cooking group made Afghans, ginger crisps and Santa's buttons biscuits as a thank you to Ardgowan school for the use of their staging 🙂🥰.
- The Gardening Group had a lovely day in the garden today. The planter boxes were pruned and weeded. We planted seeds - having a greenhouse means we can get them in much earlier! The labels look very artistic!
- The Action Group shelled our dry walnuts with hammers on the court. These were from our own tree here at school and we have been drying them. The Cooking Group will use them in their baking. We also brainstormed some ideas about waste minimisation for at school after watching some short videos on recycling ♻️.
- The Community Group thought about creating and decorating a Pataka Kai ( Community Pantry). They researched some patterns used in Kowhaiwhai panels and started to make their own. This will be an ongoing project for the next few weeks.
- The Junior Envirogroup tipped out Kea Room’s rubbish bin! We found that there were a few wrappers, tissues, a dried-up glue stick, a raisin and lots of off cuts of paper. We looked at which things could be reused or recycled. We looked at all the paper and began thinking about ways we could reduce, reuse and recycle it. With the assistance of our helpers we shared what we knew about paper. Next we read a book called One Little Bag - it was an interesting book because the drawings were all black and white except for the little brown bag but, more importantly, the book had NO WORDS! We had to read the pictures! We finished off watching an episode of The Moe Show where MOE goes to the paper mill. Over the next few weeks we will be reusing and recycling paper.
- The last few photos are from Golden Time in Pukeko room - dress ups, loom bands, Lego, and creations with boxes. Some awesome robots today, and a cat house!
What a great day of hands on learning! Have a good weekend everyone!
