Nikau Garden

Today a group of senior students visited Nikau Garden to learn about planting up young plants and cuttings. We learnt how to work with seddlings, cuttings and division of plants.

While we were looking at the seedlings the mist spray came on and we all got wet!!!

Ecofest 2010

This year our Junk Shop Rock Band played on instruments made from recycled material collected from the Nelson Recycle Centre.

To hear our piece look us up on You Tube: The Junk Shop Rock Band.

Eggs!!!

Our chooks are now laying eggs!!!!

Under our ecohut we have a chicken coop with three chickens. They are called janice, Isobelle and Darryl, named after the last three principals of the school. They are heritage chickens. We have a Rhode Island red, a white wyndote and a dorking chicken.

They love the children and enjoy the scraps from our garden.

Stream Monitoring Term 2 2010

Our Stream Group 2010

We have completed our termly monitoring and once again found Poorman Stream to be in excellent health. The water temperature was 7 degress, clarity nearly 1 metre, conuctivity 140 and the PH was 5.5. All excellent results.

We then found plenty of macro invertebrates. The bug finding is always the best part!

Electric Fishing

Our Enviro Club went electric fishing at Poorman Stream. We had Lawson from Fish and Game using his electric fishing wand. This stunned the fish in the stream to allow them to be caught in a net and put into a container for us to see what fish live in our stream.

We found a lot of fish. Many eels, a large fresh water crayfish and many small brown trout.

We know that our stream is very healthy and supports a lot of life.

Worm Farm 2010

This year Rooms 8 and 10 are going to look after the worm farm.

Sarah came and taught us all about worms. We then put together our own worm farm.

We will have lots of fertiliser for our vege garden.