Year Wha have been thinking about what makes us a GreenGold Enviroschool. Check out our ideas in our Flipgrid videos:
Monday, 12 April 2021
Where can you see the Enviroschools Guiding Principles at Wakaaranga?
Sunday, 11 April 2021
Why do we keep Chickens?
Our heiheis (chickens) help us breakdown our biodegradable waste into nutrient rich soil, just like our worm farms and compost bins.
Unlike our worm farms and compost bins our heihei give us eggs and they've got great personalities too.
Year Three are our chicken experts. Today, they went on a scavenger hunt to learn more about our feathered friends.
Learning and Taking Action with Sustainable Coastlines
Waka kids are kaitiaki of our oceans. We've been working with Sustainable Coastlines to learn about how to protect our moana by acting sustainably. We took part in a beach cleanup. Look at all the plastic we found. It doesn't breakdown and it hurts our sea life when they mistake it for food.
Can you help too by avoiding single use plastic and picking up rubbish when you see it?
Year 5 Investigating the health our local waterways with Watercare
Today Year Five helped to test the health of the Wakaaranga Creek with Kathryn from Watercare. We learnt about the common risks to our loca...
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Year 2 focussed on the Kereru, our very special wood pigeon. We went on a walk around our kura in search of native trees that Kereru love...
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Today Year 2 discovered that bees communicate with each other by dancing. Next we learnt some dance moves. Then we choreographed our own d...
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Year Five acted today to share our Travelwise picture books with Year One and Two. We loved reading the picture books and talking about ho...