Our community garden is up and running!!
Newsletter 10 March 2017
The community garden is finally happening...yay! Thanks to Diane, Wendy and her ready team of helpers, not to mention our core gardening gang!! Well done everybody.
We had a garden sign competition and these were some of our finalists...
We even had a plan of action
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How awesome does a finished seated/shaded area now look? Yay! A special thanks to Mr Taylor (Cameron + Jared's Dad) for all the tools and hours of work. Also a big thanks goes out to Richard and Sophie Jackson for their can-do attitude and link to KiwiBank staff who erected the pergola. Thanks again to the community and local church that pulled up on the working bee day to lend a hand. The e-team have dreamed this projected for two years and its now completed - thanks guys!
www.gw.govt.nz/national-pest-plant-programmes
Our whole
school participated in the Keep Hutt Beautiful 21 September - Totara went down to
Percy's (they had a photographer from Hutt News in tow - check it out!)
Nikau did the Maungaraki shops/church and basketball court. Kowhai did
our local school. Lots of rubbish was collected and we brought it back
to sift and sort. :) Well done E-team for sorting it all...
We
reduced the 11 bags of general (landfill rubbish) into the appropriate
bins (paper/plastic) and blue bags for glass and metal. We are doing
our bit to reduce the landfill, especially now we have seen what it
looks like at Silverstream!!
www.gw.govt.nz/national-pest-plant-programmes
We're gearing up to celebrate the upcoming Conservation Week we hope to join in some of the fun!
Check out the link - Greater Wellington are running a project to swap a weed for a native. The E-team think this is a great idea.
Our school has planned to do the "Keep Hutt City Beautiful" on Friday 21 September - the juniors will do the fields and school, Nikau will do the community shops and Totara will do Percy's and Dowse Drive.
Now Room 10 can start planting on Wednesday 18 July 2012. Yahoo!
McCain’s Vege Patch Program
Our school has signed up for the McCAIN School Veggie Patch program. This helps equip students with invaluable knowledge and hands-on experience that will continue to grow with them, well into the future. Itʼs a fun and interactive way to challenge kids to learn more about the world around them. Not only will students benefit from fresh veggies to turn into delicious meals, they will also discover how vegetables are grown and why itʼs so important to eat them every day for good health.
Earn Equipment For Our School
This is a great opportunity to promote school spirit, increase the childrenʼs learning and receive great new equipment to use during the school day. Every McCAIN frozen vegetable pack purchased by families and teachers will earn our school points towards gardening tools and seeds.
Helping Kids Grow
This is a points based program, and itʼs free for all schools to join. You can help us get started by collecting the barcodes from all your McCAIN frozen vegetables packs. Simply cut out the barcodes from your pack and pop them in the box located at the front office, or send to school with your child and they will go towards our McCAIN School Veggie Patch tally. Collect barcodes now for our primary school with any pack of McCAIN frozen vegetables 400g - 800g bags = 10 points 1kg - 2kg bags = 20 points.
Benefits To Maungaraki School
Last year, due to the fantastic support from our community, were were able to redeem our points to purchase the following items: 4 x wheel barrows; sheep pellets; gloves, liquid fertiliser and potato hessian bags.
Our school has signed up for the McCAIN School Veggie Patch program. This helps equip students with invaluable knowledge and hands-on experience that will continue to grow with them, well into the future. Itʼs a fun and interactive way to challenge kids to learn more about the world around them. Not only will students benefit from fresh veggies to turn into delicious meals, they will also discover how vegetables are grown and why itʼs so important to eat them every day for good health.
Earn Equipment For Our School
This is a great opportunity to promote school spirit, increase the childrenʼs learning and receive great new equipment to use during the school day. Every McCAIN frozen vegetable pack purchased by families and teachers will earn our school points towards gardening tools and seeds.
Helping Kids Grow
This is a points based program, and itʼs free for all schools to join. You can help us get started by collecting the barcodes from all your McCAIN frozen vegetables packs. Simply cut out the barcodes from your pack and pop them in the box located at the front office, or send to school with your child and they will go towards our McCAIN School Veggie Patch tally. Collect barcodes now for our primary school with any pack of McCAIN frozen vegetables 400g - 800g bags = 10 points 1kg - 2kg bags = 20 points.
Benefits To Maungaraki School
Last year, due to the fantastic support from our community, were were able to redeem our points to purchase the following items: 4 x wheel barrows; sheep pellets; gloves, liquid fertiliser and potato hessian bags.
We have got 15 trees, for all of the paper we recycled in the past 12 months.
Mr Marsh planted the 15 trees in the garden, with the help of Mrs De Villiers.
This garden will continue to grow with the adding of any new natives that come into the school.
We plan to turn it into a pebble garden.
By Alistair, Amelia and Molly.
Thinking and acting sustainably can be supported through your child’s school if they are part of the hugely innovative Enviroschools programme.
Here’s what you need to know about Enviroschools and how your child’s school can move towards becoming one.
Hinewai – a reserve on the very tip of Banks Peninsula – is host to the hum of excited voices. Groups of children are moving through the tracks, stopping to smell, touch and even taste plants. A flock of fat kereru swoops by overhead, causing everyone to pause for a moment to watch. A muffled beep beep noise is heard as another group gets close to their target: a bird with a transmitter strapped to its back and hidden in the trees. These are Enviroschool kids in action at a workshop, learning about biodiversity and how everything is connected.
Enviroschools started as a small community programme in Hamilton. 10 years later, it has spread nationwide, involving tens of thousands of people throughout New Zealand.
In simple terms, it’s a national environmental education programme that encourages children, their schools and their families, to think and act sustainably.
How can I help make our school an Enviroschool?
The philosophy behind Enviroschools is that it’s student-led. And you can help them to start their journey by being good sustainability role models at home. Talk to your child and let them know that even small changes can make a difference.
Enviroschools is also about community, so get involved. Be active in your school and support your child’s learning where you can. Contribute your own unique skills to support sustainability projects they initiate.
Go to the website and find out what it means to be an Enviroschool and how it can be incorporated into school life. You can start making changes before signing up to the programme, in fact this will help your success.
http://www.totstoteens.co.nz/2012-06/Eco%20parenting.pdf
Check out the mosaics - what a great job Miss Postma and her team did!
Great photo's Sophie!
We had an awesome turn out for our Working Bee! We finished our 200 sausages, had an estimate of 100 people pitching in all throughout the day. The Maungaraki Baptist Church provided the food, scones, soup, sandwiches, sausage sizzle, our Home School provide fizzy drink and our community provided the labour - what a great team! Check out what we achieved.
Sophie
A big thank you to the Taylor family and their little digger - we have dug the post holes ready for the posts. This will mean we can begin the pergola on the working bee day June 10th Sunday. :) Yay!
Tuesday 29th May 2012
Today in enviro-team we have Mr Collingwood at our meeting because he said he can get more people from his church to come to help us at our working bee. Also he said he can get some of the church people to help us with lunch. Excellent! Today we are doing more work on the working bee, Sophie Casey and Bailey are ringing New World (Mrs Sarah Williams) to see if they can get some bread, sausages and tomato sauce. They rang New World and Countdown, Randwick Meats and Mad Butcher for the best deal. Great news we have decided to go with Mrs Williams at New World with tomato sauce @ $5.89, 200 sausages for $70 and 10 loafs of bread free!!! Thanks to New World for giving us a great deal.
Sophie
Thanks to the families that have already registered interest/help and materials. WE STILL NEED MORE! We have one concrete mixer - yay! We are getting quotes together to see which company can offer us our materials cheaply. We have decided not to build the bridge as we feel the most important aspect will be finishing the sandpit, seat and pergola. We think the concreting of the tyres will be the hardest/muckiest job - if you are able to help that would be awesome. We also need about 5-8 car loads of big, flat river stones to build the wall. We have been able to secure a BBQ so will have sausages hot and ready. Check out our great posters around the school - thanks to Casey and Alistair. Fingers crossed the sun will shine for the Sunday 10th June. Hoping to see you there!
Date: Sunday 10 June 2012
Time: 10am-4pm
Yes the whole community is invited! We want adults, Kids, teens...anyone who is willing to lend a helping hand!
Some of the things that we will need to be done are:
· Sand pit tyre's concreted in
· Seating and shade wall built
· Walking bridge over the sandpit
· Gardens weeded
And so much more!
If you think you may have any tools (and hands!!!)That might help us that would be greatly appreciated as we have limited tools and money. We hope to see you there! Any help at all will be so cool! There will also be a sausage sizzle nibbles and drinks for sale!
Equipment needed!
· Concrete mixer
· Hutt River provided they are collected by hand and put into the boots of cars.
· Own tools and shovels for gardening (we do have enough for kids but not adults!)
· Weed eaters
Sophie
Maungaraki School
Dear Parents, Caregivers and KIDS!
The Enviro team is hosting a beautification working bee on Sunday 10th June and WE NEED YOU!
Date: Sunday, 10 June
Time: 10am - 4pm
Yes, the whole community is invited! We want adults, kids, teens just anyone who is willing to lend a helping hand!
Some of the things that will need to be done are:
*Sand pit tyre’s concreted in
*Seating and shade wall built (wavy wall)
*Walking bridge over the sandpit
*Gardens weeded
*Bushes/Trees trimmed
And so much more!
If you think you may have any tools (and hands!!!) that might help us, that would be greatly appreciated, as we have limited tools and money.
We hope to see you there! Any help at all will be so cool!
There will also be a sausage sizzle, nibbles and drinks for sale!
Equipment needed!
Concrete mixer
River stones are free from the Hutt River provided they are collected by hand and put into the boots of cars.
Own tools and shovels for gardening (we do have enough for kids but not adults!)
Weed eaters
There will be an Activity List available in the Library during the 3-Way Conferences in Week 5.
Thank you
Kind regards
The Enviro team
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ROOM 4 Companion Planting
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ROOM 8 Can-tabs for the Kidney Kids
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ROOM 9 Can collection for SPCA and Plunket
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Maungaraki School is having a clean up day around Maungaraki. Senior Syndicate went to the Maungaraki Church and down Barberry Grove. Nikau went to the park and the dairy. Rata Syndicate went around the school grounds. All the Syndicates had to collect Rubbish and Recycling.
As you all know we are going to build a shaded seating area and sandpit.
so far we have met Jess,Veeral and Mitch.
Last week Mitch worked with our design team and gave them instructions on how to draw our design from the top view.
Jess worked with our project managers to make a time line of our actions.
Veeral is coming in one weeks time but last time he came he showed us two tools,a shearvain and a tool that we cant quite remember, we are going to ask Veeral next time he comes in.
On Monday we had a cupcake day for the SPCA. Lots of people bought in cupcakes that we sold to raise the money.It turned out we had to sell them over two days cause there were so many cupcakes.We raised about $407! It was a success.By Sophie&Ryleigh.
In the Enviroteam, we have been very busy making plans for a new play area between room 7 and room 6. In that space there is going to be seating and a sand pit with a wave wall. The people in the team all had a job to ask someone in there family or to do some research about our plans. We have just talked to Jess, the engineer about are plans for the play area. She said it was a very good plan and then we all shared what we had done at home with Jess.
Alisha got some plans of the school from her Dad to find out if there was any thing under the ground where we wanted to build. We were worried that there might be sewer pipes or electrical cables. They said that there was nothing under the ground near where we are doing the play area. Tanya, Dipwanita, Priya and Jhanvi drew an amazing scale model of our design. Jess was very impressed! Hannah Shaw, Casey and Haylee were working on getting quotes for some boulders, and Laura and Hannah Burdan have consulted with school children about our plans.
Then she shared some plans and ways for us to organise the project. She also had some amazing stuff to tell us. She told us what engineers do. They do so many different things!
By Sophie.
We're gearing up to celebrate the upcoming Conservation Week we hope to join in some of the fun!
Check out the link - Greater Wellington are running a project to swap a weed for a native. The E-team think this is a great idea.
Our school has planned to do the "Keep Hutt City Beautiful" on Friday 21 September - the juniors will do the fields and school, Nikau will do the community shops and Totara will do Percy's and Dowse Drive.
At the end of term 1, Mr Marsh told us that he wanted to get a recycling bin for the school and he wanted our help. Nikki, Alana and Mrs Sutherland sent an email to Waste management and Enviro waste. Then at the start of term 2, Natasha and Kayleigh found out which was the cheapest bin. Finally it was time to tell Mrs Jennings and Mr Marsh what we thought was the best idea. We thought that getting a bin from Waste Management was the cheapest option. Me, Josh and Alana did that and found out that we had chosen the wrong sized bin. So Mr Marsh told us what we he wanted. Unfortunately that took an hour of our work which made Mrs Fox very unhappy, but Mr Marsh took our suggestion and made the decision for us.
By Thomas.
What an awesome sight to see...Kiwibank employees have given up a day at the office to come and help our project out! Thanks Richard Jackson, Nicola Wood, Damion Ranger and Anoop Negi!
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