Identifying Hazards at Sheps’ Park
Springlands Kindergarten students identify park hazards on their Nature Connection excursion and take action to get changes made.
The students at Springlands Kindergarten regularly use Sheps’ Park as part of their Nature Connection programme. When they arrive the teachers and students do a walk about and check for hazards on every visit.
On one of their walkabouts they noticed some things that could be dangerous for them and others. The students and teachers contacted the Parks and Open Spaces team at Marlborough District Council (MDC) to see if they knew of these and could help. Rachel Hutchinson for the Parks and Open Spaces team met with some of the students, teachers and part of our education team to see if we could come up with a plan to identify and then fix the hazards. As a result the council took photos and plotted the issues on a map and shared this with the council contractor who fixed them the next week.
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- Students showing the waratah they discovered
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- The identified waratah
The students from Springlands Kindergarten might be small in stature but they were big on ideas and used their voices to share the hazards they had found and get action taken on them. What a great example of Empowered Learners.
Read more here https://marlboroughapp.co.nz/news/articles/68364f6e02f72e87c5feecd7