Sunday, December 13, 2015

Finishing the year on a high note!

Last week our wonderfully hardworking Enviro team worked with Kauri for a day reflecting on our progress, past actions and future direction as an Enviroschool.  It was a really fun, interesting and full on day.  We looked at the guiding principles of Enviroschools and then reflected on the things we have done over the past two years to see where they fitted in amongst the guiding principles and to see if we have done enough to recognise all five principles.  After that we deconstructed the Bronze award statement to see if it could be applied to our school.

The good news is...that Wainui Beach School has now achieved Bronze Status 
in our Enviroschools journey!  Fantastic effort EVERYONE!



Here's our Enviro team with our reflection tree at the end of the day.  
The branches represent the five guiding principles, the leaves represent how we have reflected those principles at Wainui Beach School.  As you can see, we were pretty excited about our achievement!  Go team Wainui Beach!!!:)

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Sweet Beetroot!

Last term we harvested a small mountain of beetroot from the Room 3 garden!  Last week we made yummy chutney and this week we used some of the frozen grated beetroot to make a chocolate beetroot cake!  Look at that colour!  Yum, yum, yum!

Even MORE Happy Harvesting!

Look at this beautiful head of broccoli we found hiding in the garden!  
We found two of them in fact big and beautiful and perfect for picking!  
We also found some more yummy onions up in the top gardens!  



More HAPPY Harvesting!

We have been harvesting more produce form our gardens!  This time we picked some yummy little cabbages and a beauty big fresh onion from the top gardens.  The children of Room 3 and 4 have been busy weeding and watering theses gardens so they got to take these veg home for tea.