Enviro group

This year May Road School's  Enviro Group have been planting sunflowers, lettuce, strawberries's and beans.

 We are really looking forward to looking at the plants we have planted. We really did a great job planting. 

The radishes are hot and crunchy!

More planting....

We are going to have lots of parsley in the garden! Here is Fifita and Harriet planting lots of parsley seeds.

Richard, our Enviroschools Facilitator, helped us plant some herb seeds.  Once they become seedlings we will transfer them to our planter boxes.

 Look at the beetroot from our school garden!

Bunnings Visit

Team Work!

Thank you Bunnings!

A big thank you to Bunnings for their donation of two compost bins and a worm bin. 

The pictures below show us working with Bunnings to clear out the old compost area and put in the new bins. 

Butterfly Creek

Congratulations to last year's Enviro Team. They won a trip to Butterfly Creek after entering the Butterfly Creek Conservation Week competition.
 Read their winning piece of work.

Our School Planting Day

May Road School was fortunate to receive young native shrubs, plants and trees from Kaipataki Project. We were happy and excited!

As part of our Matariki celebration all the students at May Road were involved in the school project of creating new native gardens around our school.  Our senior students dug the holes for the shrubs, plants and trees. The middle school students placed the plants in the holes and then got some fertilised soil, mixing it with the original mud, making it smooth with their feet around the plants and trees. The junior children had helping hands too!

As a school we are responsible for changes to our environment. Planting trees and shrubs helps keep the air clean and gives us oxygen. We can monitor and notice change, as the trees grow tall and provide us with shelter and shade.  By planting trees and shrubs in our school we provide habitats for animals that help nature. For example, the local birds will have trees to build nests in for their eggs and baby birds. We are providing a home for bugs and insects, like bees. We can make bird feeders for our trees. The fruit trees can provide us with fresh fruit, which can then be shared amongst the students. The waste from the fruit can be returned to our gardens through composting. It is a beautiful environment to learn in. It gives us an opportunity to care about living creatures. The variety of trees we have in our school will take care of different creatures. Our pictures show us standing in front of some of the young plants, shrubs planted around our rabbit hatch and as an Enviro Group we will monitor the change in our shrubs and trees, measuring them over time, recording change.

May Road Enviro Group (Year 4 Students)

October 2014

Gardening

Over Summer our rainbow garden and vegetable gardens became a little overgrown. So, one of our first jobs this year was to clear out the weeds.