Tagging butterflies in Room S.

Come and see our display about our butterfly garden journey. Find out how it started, the many stages to get it what it is today and of course, what next. Like many Enviro ideas it takes a long time and many people getting involved to nurture something interesting and fun.  
 

Friday Wk 9...

Don't forget next Friday is our Silver Enviro School judging day. It is the day where they will decide if we move from bronze to silver. It would be a lovely gift to farewell Mr Wheeler, our Eco Warrior with.

Rm I's Inspiring Enviro Action Day

What a wonderful day we had. Check out what we got up to below...

A big thank you to Atisha and Jason for all their help today!

Planting our fejoa tree

Te Mahia telling us about the pou: Rongo Ma Tane

Making and enjoying all our smoothies!

Well Done Enviro Team, Happy Toileting!

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Congratulations Enviro Team Representatives

Last Thursday an amazing group of students from our 3 enviro groups went to a council meeting with a proposal. They wanted toileting facilities in Kitchener Park where they spend time helping with planting. They spoke beautifully with a lot of knowledge and clear, thought out justifications for this spending. 

They must have been amazing because as reported on Stuff and in the Feilding Herald the council has agreed with the proposal and are now starting the process to implement composting toilets.

Way to go MSS Enviro groups, well done!

Beautiful Enviro Display

Last term each class created a picture displaying their class garden on Enviro Day. There were some amazing finished results, we are all very creative and clever!

Come and check them out in our office foyer.

Manchester Street School Environment

At Manchester Street School we care for the environment by watering our plants, caring for the geckos, looking after our class gardens, making weta hotels and more.We all have a class enviro job. Last year Room H were the Papery day at school, Room I hand out litterless lunch tokens. We all try and have a litterless lunch so wr Recyclers - we wonder what our job will be this year. Evee can ge Big Ted.

We love our environment and we. love our school Nursery. If you have free time at lunch time come into the nursery. We would love to see you looking after the environment and caring for one of our gardens.  At the end of the Hall is the Room H class garden. We are looking forward to doing some work in it on Enviro Action Day.  All part of "Taking positive action for the Environment."

Olivia and Kade

PLANT TO PLATE

Manchester Street was very lucky to be part of Plant to Plate in November and Room H was VERY lucky to one of the 4 classes selected to participate.  How lovely it was to see Mrs Duker again.  We had a very busy morning working in the garden and cooking lunch.  We learned heaps about growing our own vegetables and cooking our own healthy food.  Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers who helped us.

Enviro Action Day Term 2

Enviro Action Day for Term 2 was Friday and what a great, busy day we all had. We kicked off our day of action with an enviro assembly featuring special guest; RowenaBrown. Then onto some gardening, looking at invertebrate habitats, litter less lunches, more gardening, writing a PMI chart, finding Wally and  his friends and last but not least...a little more gardening! 

Come visit the new art gallery

This term Room M & S have been working together to create different collaborative art projects. We are lucky to share a cloak bay to display our work. Please come up and see how colour has brightened our space.

As part of this term's enviro day we created a Kaitiaki ika (Guardian fish). Everybody made a CD fish to show how each one of us are responsible for getting rid of their rubbish and not letting it go into our ocean systems. The Rainbow fish picture book was our motivation and showed us how sharing is caring.

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

Please DON'T LITTER! 

When you litter it can go down storm water drains and lead out to the ocean. It could kill birds, turtles and sea animals. Plastic and rubbish can get stuck around their bodies, or they might eat it. They think it is food and then it gets stuck in their systems. Some birds have been found with gruesome items suffocating their organs. 

Are you an ANIMAL KILLER?

SORT IT OUT. Put your rubbish in the bin. Or even better recycle or use less rubbish.

Kane and Kees

The Animal Kaitiaki ( Animal Guardians)

Zero Waste

As an enviroschool that is currently involved in a Zero Waste programme our waste bins by our eating areas are a bit disappointing. We took some pictures to show you.

Remember to use our recycling and food bins. We are seniors, we need to be the perfect role models. 

Ella and Lauryn

Food scraps that should be in the food bin

Milk container! Paper and plastic that should be in recycling bins

Lots of food scraps, yogurt container.

Lots of plastic that needs to be recycled!