Shadehouse Expo

This week the team from MLH who have been busy working in the shadehouse hosted an expo showing the rest of the school what they have been doing. 
Love your work team!

Enviro Heros

Meet Mako and Angus...

I want to acknowledge these two today and the hard work that they have been putting in behind the scenes at our school.  At the beginning of this term these two awesome young men kept turning up at the gardens and asking if they could help.  Some of the things that they have achieved this term have included; empting the compost bin into the gardens and around the fruit trees, weeding and mulching in the orchard transforming it from an area that was geeting a tad overgrown to a lovely looking corner of our school and organinsing a team of helpers who empty the class compost bins every week. They have also been raking leaves and making sure that our scraps are covered with a brown layer so we can keep away pests and also to give our compost a good balance of nutrients.  AS WELL as all of this...they have also been part of the team who have been beavering away in the shadehouse!!

These boys have been extremely hard working and self motivated often carrying out tasks I have asked them to do in their own time as well as coming up with ideas themselves.

Kau mau te wehi e tama!  You really know what it means to be kaitiaki and you have really shown that you care about our environment!

Enviroschools Diary Term 1

2019

It's 2019 people!  Time to revive the good old Enviro blog!  We would love it if you could follow us and if you like what you see leave some encouraging comments or give helpful advice. 

It’s been a busy term so far tidying up and getting things back in place after
the summer holidays. Here’s a roundup of some of what’s been achieved so far...

 The shade house team have been busy with Kauri, propagating more seeds and getting things growing in the shade house. There are 40 native plants now ready for a new home. They are going to go to the Te Wherowhero Lagoon to help with the waterway restoration there. The original funding for the shade house came from the Sisterson Lagoon Trust so it feels good to be able to give back.

 The orchard has been weeded and all the trees have had some of our beautiful compost spread around them as well as some fertiliser.  They have also all had mulch blankets put around them and are ready to grow strong through the Autumn.

 The compost team have been HARD AT WORK!  These guys really deserve a medal!  They have emptied the compost bin of all it's wonderful contents topping up our vege gardens and giving our fruit trees a boost.  They have sent out new compost buckets to all the classes and got our new compost up and running!













We have begun to establish a butterfly garden and after a bit of a slow start, we now have oodles of caterpillars and have lots of chrysalises starting to appear too. It's so lovely to see the tamariki out at the garden everyday checking up on the caterpillars.

The class gardens have been weeded and the strawberry plants thinned.  Then we planted them up  with lots of new vegetables and herbs ready for us to eat and for some Wainui Beach School Masterchefs to have a go at Marakai 2019!

 Enviroteam...this year we have decided to not have a formal application process but rather just open it up to any child who wants to help with the real "keen beans" ending up with special responsibilities.  It has been awesome to see so many of our students coming out to help.  Ka mau te wehi Wainui Beach School!