Planting at Poorman Stream

Yesterday a group of senior syndicate students helped Steve from Nelmac plant out some native plants alongside Poorman Stream. We planted harakeke, grasses and kowhai.

This is our third year of planting at this site and it is starting to look better with plants from previous plantings getting established. Despite this, however, this site also hosts every bad weed possible according to Steve.

Lets hope that with continued planting and a helping hand from Nelmac that one day this part of the stream becomes an attractive riparian site.

Movie Makers

Members of the Enviro team have been transformed into movie makers creating a movie for The Outlook for Someday competition.

Our movie is called, 'Taming the Litterbugs.'

It has been lots of fun.

Ecofest 2010

This year we took Susie to Ecofest.

Susie has a wearable art costume designed by Room 10 children based on native plants. She is wearing harakeke, manuka flowers, pohutakawa flowers, a kowhai necklace and a tree fern.

Learning about soil

We did an investigation into what bugs are in our soil. We found heaps of worms and centipedes.

KEGS at Work

We are now a part of the Kids Edible Garden programme so each week our facilitator, Lyndsey, works with children in the garden.

This week we were putting coffee grinds around the garden as free fertiliser. We then made our own fertiliser with chamomile.

We also got to play a game to teach us the Maori names for the vegetables.

More Planting!

Today it was open to the school to help get our seedlings planted up into the root trainers.

Well done to all the juniors who came up so enthusiastic! They filled the root trainers so the middle and senior syndicate children could pot the seedlings.

What a great school team effort.

Plant Propagating

Senior students had their first experience of potting up seedlings into root trainers today. The memorable thing from their first experience must be ANTS!

Yes, ants were happily nesting through the root trainer box. Hence some children were on the task of eliminating ants while others started to pot up some seedlings donated by Titoki Nursery.

However, at the end of the day the ants won and we retreated until we can deal with the invasion!

Roll on ant stories next week.