Planting at Poorman Stream

Today we went with Nelmac and planted 100 native plants along the banks of Poorman Stream next to our school. We planted flaxes, kowhai, manuka and some other native bushes.

Our aim is to plant the stream banks in natives to attract birds and provide shade for the stream. Previously there were a lot of self seeded trees that are classed as weeds like plum trees. Nelmac has cleared many of these so we can plant the natives.

The children will be able to watch their trees growing.

Stream Monitoring Term 3

Our stream monitoring for Term 3 found the stream in excellent health. We found lots of mayflies which are the most sensitive macro-invertebrates.

We were joined by a group of Broadgreen Intermediate students. It was fun sharing our learning with them.

Zero Waste Prize

Sarah Langi and Bronwyn, from Bunnings, came to our school assembly to present our prize from the Zero Waste challenge.

We were thrilled to get a wheelbarrow full of all sorts of gardening equipment. Thank you Bunnings!

We will certainly use all these in our garden this spring.

The Zero Waste Challenge

At the end of May, the month of the Zero Waste Challenge, classes were asked to create an artwork from the collected lunch rubbish. The results were amazing with things like flowers to robots to bags! They are now on display to show just what can be done with rubbish!

Stream Monitoring

On Wednesday 27 May the stream group monitored Poorman Stream. This is completed once a term and results are entered on the GLOBE website.

We found the stream to be in very good health from the tests we conducted, with some sensitive invertebrates, but there was not a lot of stream life found. The water temperature, conductivity, PH and clarity all came out excellent.

Mrs Gulbransen joined us and a parent. We welcome any interested people in the community to join us on these occassions.

Chippie Bag Collection

As part of  The Zero Waste Challenge children have been collecting the empty chip bags from children's lunch boxes. They then strung them together to see how long the collection would be.

This was shown at our whole school assembly on Friday.

The challenge is:

To reduce the number of chip bags at school next week.

At the end of this week they will string the bags together again and compare the two lengths.