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.
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
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