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February 7, 2023
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Building a Sustainable Community through Kids Edible Gardens

Initially organised for the beginning of the year to kick start our focus on Sustainable Communities, it was great to finally see this workshop take place in term 4.  Tamanuitera shone, though Tawhirimatea made his presence known, and we were able to start in the Kids Edible Gardens of Blenheim School talking about some of the companion plants we could see growing and nibbling on the new leaves of the prolific broad beans. Identify Getting down to the nitty gritty we identified what a Sustainable Community could look like.  We found that in building a Sustainable Community we are also building our hauora as we connect with nature and foster relationships with people around us.   Explore Kids...

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Nature Play
January 20, 2023
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Nature Play – Springlands Kindergarten

Under the warm rays of Tamanuitera| the sun the tamariki| children at Springlands Kindergarten gather together ready for their weekly hikoi| walk to McKendry Park. A place that they have become very familiar with and comfortable to explore, discover and play. As they pass through the kura| school grounds they wave and say hello to past students before arriving at the large open space. The park is spotted with multiple plum trees and a gentle stream running down one side. Identify Recognising the importance of connecting with nature and the benefits it offers, the kaiako at Springlands Kindergarten decided that they wanted to find a way to integrate more of this into their programme. They identified...

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Renwick tamariki
October 6, 2022
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Renwick Kindergarten Enviroschools journey with Rousehill Reserve

When we started out on our Enviroschool journey in 2013, it started out with wanting tamariki | children and whānau | families to have a sense of belonging here at Renwick Kindergarten. We never envisioned what we would learn, create and change along the way. Our decision to weave the Enviroschools guiding principles into the fabric of our Kindergarten saw us gain Bronze in June 2014; Silver in December 2016 and GreenGold in February 2019. Bringing in water to water the trees Identifying the current situation: As part of our mission towards Silver, our practice and thinking evolved. From promoting sustainability within our own Kindergarten, our eyes looked towards the horizon to...

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Richmond View at Taylor Awarenesses
September 27, 2022
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Classification of Living Things

The students at Richmond View School became Botanists this term as they explored the classification of native plants on the Taylor Awa. People have always given names to things that they see, including plants and animals. So, of course most of us turn to names as the first form of classification.  It was a scientist, Linnaeus, that first developed a hierarchal naming structure (of 7 parts no less). This conveyed information about what a living thing was and also its closest relatives. Earlier this term, if you happened to be walking your dog down the Taylor Awa, you may have come across Richmond View School students studying the Tui to Town plantings. Their inquiry for...

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Matariki planting 7-2
July 20, 2022
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Matariki Planting Project

Credit: video by Toby Bell Teamwork makes the dream work ….. What a great team we all made. Matariki 3 days 3000 trees 15 schools 206 students  60 parents and teachers  12 organizing volunteers per day 3 planting crew   -1 C frost 1 awesome native ngahere planting project!!!

After weeks of rain, Tamanuitera made his presence known by bringing us beautiful fine weather as we came together to plant a new ngahere to celebrate Matariki. We had put an invitation out to all Marlborough Enviroschools to take part in a collaborative planting project on the Wither Hills and had a great uptake. We were blown away by the enthusiasm and spirit of the students who participated.  Each session of planting was finished in record time, with...

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May 23, 2022
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Wētā houses at Picton Kindergarten

The tamariki at Picton Kindergarten have been learning all about Wētā. This evolved through their exploration of te ngahere and how to care for the native flora and fauna through pest control. It began when one of the tamariki discovered a wētā family in her woodshed. She recognised it as one of our native insects and sent in photos to Kindergarten for everyone to see. Jo, then bought in a real live wētā from her home and they made a habitat for it. This lead to learning about what they like to eat, where they live, how many eggs they lay as well as what predators endanger them. When the tamariki learnt that cats, dogs and hedgehogs endanger wētā, they...

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St Mary's enviro 5
May 9, 2022
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St Mary’s Fruit Tree Orchard

St Mary's School Enviro Team wanted to provide fresh fruit for their hāpori whānui and community. They wanted to encourage students to eat more fruit, learn about growing and taking care of fruit trees as well as encourage wildlife to their school like insects to pollinate the flowers. To do this their Enviro Team proposed a space that they thought would be a great place to make an orchard. It was beside an existing garden shed, sheltered from the wind and easily accessible by vehicles. The area was very dry though and the rainfall in Blenheim is often low. So they knew they would also need to think about how they could provide a watering...

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