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.

Tasman Nelson Environment Award

We were very excited to win the Tasman Nelson Environment Award for 2009. This year has been a very busy year for all the students involved in enviro activities.

Rooms 1 and 7 have been making GOOS pads all year.

Room 7 has collected food scraps every lunch time and added them to our bokashi and for Poppy the pig.

Room 6 collects the food scraps from the staffroom and adds them to the bokashi.

Senior students have regularly monitored Poorman Stream.

Other senior students planted out 100 natives along Poorman Stream.

Room 16 have feed and watered our worm farm all year.

The whole school entered the Waste Challenge and made amazing art from food rubbish.

Year 5's are well on the way in planning their ecohut- Whare Takiwa.

Room 10 has planted the herb garden.

Next year we have a new garden planned where children can play in the native plants.

Governor General Visits Our Garden

On Thursday 22 October the Hon Sir Anand Satyanand and his wife Lady Susan Satyanand visited our school. They were very interested in the things we are doing as a school to help our local environment.

Two students escorted the Governor General and his wife up to our edible garden and talked about the vegetables that have been planted, the bokashi and future plans at the garden.

One student gave them each a GOOS (Good On One Side) pad made from scrap paper, and talked about how the pads are made and then sold to children and parents.

Lady Satyanand gave us many good ideas for improving our garden. Did you know rhubarb spray is good to stop insects eating the vegetables? Corn likes to talk to each other so plant them close together.

This photo was taken by The Nelson Mail.

350 Aotearoa

Today three Nayland Primary students joined Nayland College students to create big feet and murals to take action against climate change.

Did you know that 350 ppm is the safe upper limit of CO2 in our atmosphere- we're at 387, and rising?

On the 24th October thousands of New Zealanders will be taking action on the International Day of Climate Action.

Our students enjoyed working with the college and taking part in this.