Planting at Hamanatua Stream - Room 2 Rocks!

Last Thursday Room 2 went down to our awa - Hamanatua.  They planted 50 trees and flax that had been grown in our school shade house.  They also planted 150 other trees provided by Kauri and Tui.

 That's  a total of 200 holes that were dug, a good cubic metre or two of mulch that was moved and a grassy hillside that's now been transformed into grove of native trees.  

The students from Room 2 worked very hard to get all of this done in one morning!  Ka mau te wehi!

If you have a chance - walk down to Hamanatua and check it out!

Flag the Bag!

Here's Room 3's little movie that won second place in the Flag the Bag movie competition!

Go Moana Kaitiaki!

Helping to Restore Titirangi

A couple of weeks ago, the Envirogroup and some keen beans from Room 2 went to Titirangi to have a look and help out at the native tree project.

It rained and rained and we wondered if we would go...but...go we did and the rain went too!  Not only did we strike a break in the rain for our planting session but the sun even came out making it a superb morning on Titirangi to hear all about it's history and some of the special native trees there.

After a bit of a tour we helped out at the planting site planting lacebark, kanuka, kawakawa and karo trees.  Everyone that helped out got to plant a tree (or two) and got their photo taken with their tree.

We now consider ourselves kaitiaki for these trees and will watch them grow with interest.

Thanks to the GDC, Enviroschools and Ngati Oneone for giving us this opportunity!