Thank you bees - Our Year Rua Display

 

Litter free lunches & composting with year 3

Mrs Morrisson's and Mrs Kaur's class have been looking at our lunchboxes... We have been looking at what is sustainable and what is not. Which lunchbox items will breakdown and which will be junking up the earth for a long time ...

The excitement is building

 Mrs Berry's class have some new visitors, they are waiting patiently to see what happens next.

Room Whitu go Weeding

 Hector "I squished the petal and my hands are purple"

Emily "We're picking plants so we can grow new ones that are nicer"

Josiah "I found a caterpillar. I know that caterpillars turn into butterflies"

Max "we'll put the weeds in the compost bin"

Thank you for caring for our Senses Garden!

Learning about our Enviroschool Guiding Principles

 We're a GreenGold Enviroschool! Piwakawaka Toru Tekau went on a scavenger hunt to learn more about the five guiding principles:

Empowered Students 

Sustainable Communities 

Maori Perspectives 

Respect for Diversity and Culture

Learning for Sustainability 

We brainstormed things we do at school and how they fit into the Guiding Principles. For example all the food and the bins at our Carnival were examples of Sustainable Communities znd Respect for Diversity and Culture. Our class pepehas are one way we include Maori Perspectives.

We loved running around outside to learn about being an EnviroSchool.

Year Rua taking action to help our pollinators

 Year Rua are learning about pollinators and taking action to help them. We created flower seed packets so we can transport seeds home & plant flowers at home for the bees.

Be A Litter Free Legend

 Year One have been learning about litter and taking action to reduce it.  

Room Tui Room Toru made this video to encourage Wakaaranga to bring litterfree lunches:

Be a Litterfree Legend

Wastefree Winners in Tui Room Rua

These Year One's received positive choice awards for supporting our Litter Less programme. Well done packing litterfree lunches!

Litter Less - a home learning challenge

 

Click on the link to find out about different types of litter and how long they hang around:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tgYn3XSr0RRQsQiYkYGNqnGeUcMRpxI4vWSQwjkoBcI/edit?usp=sharing

Well done to Molly & Milla for taking up the LitterLess challenge! They're helping to protect our sea creatures and birds.  Have you been on a litter hunt yet?  Send pics to daniel@wakaaranga.school.nz.

Super work collecting soft plastic Aston: