The Working Bee

Kia Ora Everyone!
I'm so sorry I haven't posted for a while.

This term is going to be our annual working bee! We have so many projects like the construction of our bottle greenhouse to pulling weeds out of the garden and planting new flowers and vegetables.



The facts are:
Where: Maungaraki School
When: Saturday 26th of November, roughly from 10 on-wards
What: Bring your own gloves and tools!

And, of course, a huge thank you to the local church for planning a fabulous morning tea for the workers.

Yates Gardening.....

This year we'll be putting our gardening gloves on!!!

The Challenge............

Wrap Free Wednesdays

This week, Maungaraki School tried out a new scheme. Wrap Free Wednesdays.

We were inspired by other schools. Instead of plastics, we used containers to put our food in. The enviro team monitors each classes progress using a graph.

Please join in! It's a competition.

Maungaraki Enviro Team Minutes

E-team 15 June 2016

Ab Grace

Nikau won the recycling best bins - we are making the award to give to them. Sam and Zena will sort.

Bottles were announced at assembly - we are collecting them for the bottle green house still and now the igloo milk containers, we have had a good start.

Construction - meeting today - have more materials to thread bottles, completion date depending on the collection of bottles but hoping to finish this term.

Gardening gang - plastics in the composting so need the bins people to sort out (Tegan). Tegan will ensure that all the worm farm stuff goes to worm farm and all other food scaps to the compost - our gardening gang will turn the compost.

Tegan and Sam will chat with Mr Marsh to ensure we are using all bins properly.

Nude food - Grace not here

Colgate - Grace not here

Meeting ended 10.49

Bins

Kia Ora Whanau! 

Lately, there has been a lot of cross-contamination in our bins system. We've got oranges in the fruit scraps bin. Which for our worms, is very dangerous. Please remember to put your scraps in the right bin! 

Thanks!

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.