Maungaraki Enviro Meeting

1st June 2016

Present: Ruben, Mrs S, Al, Heather, Sam, Grace, Yuda, Ashleigh, Neha, Nitika, Dylan, Aarlin, Jayden, Zena, Tegan, Leo

Absent:

Grace is going to do a table to for Colgate. The current leaders are R1

Today they are going to record the black bins and they are also going to do that on Friday. They are taking photos of the bins. Sam and Tegan are mainly looking at volume. Now we should have a constant measure of our waste.

The Enviro Team blog is now on the school facebook page.

Constuction: The girls were cutting up the poles and they need more bambo sticks and 2L bottles! A note needs to go out saying that we need more bottles. Ash will sort all of the advertising.

Going to start drafting a note for the newsletter.

Gardening Gang: The gardening gang is still ticking over, we need to get a rain gauge, so that we know how much rain the plants are getting. There might be a rain gauge in the Maths Cupboard.

Plans are going ahead to start a milk bottle igloo! Tegan will sort a note to get out to the public.

Grace is going to talk to Mrs C about the Nood Food, progress has been made.

Seniors need to divy up to talk to classes. Grace 9/10, Sam Heather 7 / 8, Al + Jayden ⅘ Neha 3 Ash 2 Nitka 1

Room 1 and 3 don’t need any help yet and Room 2’s teacher wasn’t there so will report back later.

Another Video About Recycling

There are lots of ways to improve the way that you recycle.
I have another video with the link here. 

What Do You Recycle?

Take part in this Recycling Survey! 

The 5 R's

Enviro Minutes for the 25th of May

25/5/16: Present: Mrs S, Al, Ash, Sam, Grace, Ruben, Zena, Neha, Nitika, Aarlin, Flynn, Heather, Matthew, Yuda, Tegan, Leo

Absent: Josephine, Amelia

Construction: Nearly finished first panel, one more row to go. Extra meeting at lunch. Mrs S talked to Mr Marsh about corogated purspects because more bottles aren’t coming back in. Posters are to be made to advertise for the bottles. Grace is to let Mr Cowman to know about the bottles, for facebook page.

Garden: Everything is growing quite well, we need to make sure that we are protecting the younger plants from the wind.

Bin Competition: Totara isn’t winning the bin competition, Nikau and Kowhai are tied at the moment. Suggestion is to remove the black bins completely. Al will talk to Mr Marsh about getting a big version of the Purple (General Rubbish) and Yellow (Citrus). Mrs S thinks two people should do the bins all the time. The roster system doesn’t work very well. Tegan and Sam will be doing the bins everyday. Matthew is the backup.

Worm farm:

Diane has reinstated the worm farm last week.   The original compost was nice and damp all the way through with the occasional worm in it and the bottom layer of food scraps had lots of worms, big worms and baby worms.  The top layer of food scraps did have too much bread (She put some of this in the other compost bin) but otherwise was okay, not really smelly, sludgy or otherwise disgusting, too many fruit flies but we felt that can't be helped.

One comment though, it is very wet around the bin and she had to wheel it out of the enclosure to work on it.  I noticed Sean (or someone) has put a whole lot of mulch around the "lake".  If more mulch is available, can a layer be put around the bin area too please. Perhaps we could get some treated for hardwood pallets to place down as a temporary flooring.

Working Bee: potentially in term 3 depending on weather - on hold as we gathered ideas last time.

Idea: is that we have a general picking up rubbish model (lead by example)  in our lunch times and playtimes.

Colgate: Counting collections will be on Friday. Grace is drafting a blurb for the school facebook page and the school newsletter. The current leader is Room 1.

The report was filed with the BOT, they would like to know if we need any help with our Green Gold which we are aiming for.

Mr Cowman will be putting the link to the school enviro page so more people can see what we are doing.

Meeting ended 10.55

Next Enviro Meeting

When: Wednesday 25th May
Where: Room 11 (At The Yellow Table)
Time: 10:30am (Morning Tea)

Maungaraki E Team Minutes for the 17th May 2016

Present: Al, Yuda, Jayden, Sam, Flynn, Dylan, Ruben, Neha, Nitika, Grace, Zena, Heather, Ash and

Mrs S

Ab? Josephine apologise at library, Vanessa, Amelia.

Gardening gang: turning the compost every second day - gardening gang will do this. Worm farm needs to stop having bread in it. Yesterday found some weeds - nightshade and ragwort.  All keep eye out for berry type weeds that need to be pulled out.

Options for working bee

under gardening would be to build bee/weta/critter hotels.

Construction gang - we are still building the first wall - we all know what to do, we have bottles, wood etc and materials. By the end of T2 we will have the walls done. Working bee early T3 we can begin building the structure around in the friendship garden - suggestion to us a old pallets down as the floor to stop flooding.  Need more bottles, need to make sure the note goes in the newsletter

Due to dance splash the team is now meeting on Tuesdays so we can fit it in.

Bin competition - Sam is going with Tegan on Thursday - she will be taking photos to give evidence in terms of the competition.

Colgate - Grace; going good, she is counting up all the collections by Friday. She will be sending them off end of T2.  

Working Bee Ideas: (potentially Term 3)

Tyres down the bottom field, filled and planted out (seeds).

Finish murals.

Friendship garden/seat (we purchase and the working bee concrete it in).

Bottle greenhouse build.

Build bee/weta/critter hotels.

Enivro Blog up and running again

Notes taken by Mrs Sutherland

Next Enviro Meeting

The Next Enviro Meeting is going to be....

Where: At The Yellow Table - Rm11
When: Wednesday 11th of May - Morning Tea

Compost!

Hey Everyone!

This week the Enviro Team are making a new space for our composting. We will be using sustainable materials like wooden pallets, we are also going to be using recyclable materials.

Reminder: This is on Thursday the 12th of May. Bring some mucking in clothes and your A-game.

Grace

Assembly Enviro Update

Hey guys!

So some you may know and some of you don’t. This year, Maungaraki School is shooting for the EnviroSchools Green Gold. So far we have achieved Bronze and Silver, but now we are pushing it for Gold. We want to prove that Maungaraki School is environmentally friendly and have a space of sustainability.

One of our main goals is reducing our waste that goes into the landfill, the things you put in the black bins. As you may know, each syndicate has their own colourful bins, labelled plastics, food scraps, citrus and general rubbish. We want to see your lunch rubbish end up in our colourful bins rather than the black ones. So for two weeks we will be tracking where your waste goes. We are having a bin competition to see which syndicate is best at using our colourful bins. It is simple, put your food remains in the colourful bins, the more you help your syndicate to win a special prize. The syndicate with the least waste in their black bins, wins.

This year, Colgate (the toothbrush brand) is holding a competition. Colgate wants to reuse products you have used to make more. Maungaraki School is participating in this and we need your help. Here is your job, if you have any old or used dental products, bring them to school. You can bring in Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Dental Floss Containers, Mouthwash and of course the cardboard We will ship your used products to Colgate which adds more points to our school. You can bring old toothpaste tubes, toothpaste boxes, old toothbrushes, dental floss containers. For every product you bring we can make a little bit of money for it.  The school with most products shipped wins $1000 dollars from colgate.

Remember you can do your part to help our school win Gold. Simply putting your rubbish in the right place and bringing your old dental products to your classroom  is playing a big part to help us.