Flower Pots, Flower Pots. We Need Flower Pots.

If you have a spare flower pot or pots that you are sure you won’t use please can you donate them to Room 4, Wainui Beach School. Room 3 and Room 4 will use them to develop an area of our gardens. Thank you so much for your kind donation. We really appreciate it.

By Kaya, Daniel and Room 4.

Have YOUR Say

School Community have YOUR say!

Our Enviro Vision!

As part of our Enviro programme we  need to decide on a whole school statement to drive and guide what we do.  

In term 1, Room 4 completed a workshop that looked at the Enviroschools Guiding Principles and examples of vision statements from other schools.  Below is the vision statement that Room 4 wrote for our school.

At Wainui Beach School, we care for each other and respect and sustain the environment. 

Now, we want to know what YOU think...

  

Does this statement cover it for our school?  Do you think this statement sums up how we operate and and what we are trying to achieve in our Enviro programme?

Things we considered in making our statement...our school values...RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY.  And the Enviroschool Guiding Principles...

Sustainable Communities

Learning for Sustainability

Empowered Students

Respect for the Diversity of People and Culture

Māori Perspectives

A good Enviroschools programme, involves the whole school community.  Please have your say about our vision statement by leaving a comment below.  Thank you!

One Potato, Two Potato

Room 4 has been planting potatoes.

We have to dig trenches out behind room 4 before we plant them.

Carefully, we picked up our new potatoes and placed them into the holes very gently.

                                                                   

So far we have planted  2 rows of potatoes.

Soon we will plant more potatoes and keep working on our potato garden.

We can't  wait until our new potatoes grow!

Thanks for the Grapes

Dear Ailsa

Thank you very much for the grape plants. I love grapes so much! Mr Shand let me plant 1 grape plant. We can’t wait till the grapes grow! There are loads of people who like grapes in our school. There are loads of vegetables in our garden and finally some fruit! Thank you very much again.

From Antonio and Wainui Beach School

                                    Parcels of Parsley

This has been our first parsley harvest this year. Each class planted some Italian flat leaf parsley and it has been rocketing away lately.  It was time to cut it back a bit so it doesn't go to seed and so we can use some of it's yummy flavours!

Room 3 has been helping out with the gardens a lot.  The children of Room 3 cut the parsley making sure each piece had along stem.  They then tied the stems up in bunches and put them in water to keep the parsley fresh.

Parsley is really tasty on eggs and in salads it is full of great stuff like calcium so it is really good for you as well as yummy!

Our school is an Enviro school we will be selling bunches of parsley at school. They will cost one dollar a bunch. We also have been growing other things in the garden.

Written by Zoe Solomon, Kereama Rogers and Mrs Saunders