Summary for 2017

Water feature
This year in enviro we have gotten the water feature team up and running again (they probably need 4 more weeks to finish it) we are grateful that Mr Paynter is allowing us to use his workshop. He is sharing his skills with us.

Enviro stall
The enviro stall has been ongoing on the last Friday of every month, our last was just before Easter so there were lots of homemade Easter goodies.

Plating out Kahikitea Stands
There has been one re-potting (where we take the plants from root trainers and put them into potting bags) afternoon that lots of hub children participated in. We are planning to plant out another stand at the end of the term.

The Whanaungatanga day

Last Friday 12 of the people in the enviro group went up to the Kauaeranga Valley to celebrate that everything is connected. All of the groups brought a jar of water and we mixed all of the water together in a giant urn that Mike O’Connell brought along.

There were eight workshops and each child got to participate in four. All of the workshops had an expert who shared their passion and knowledge with us. Topics covered include Lizards, Kiwi, Miranda Shorebirds, Bush Detectives, Water Journey, Wai, Kauri Dieback and Nature Awareness. We all had a very good day and it help to appreciate precocious our earth.

Clean Up Week 12 - 18th September 2016

The Cut

Awaiti Road

Total rubbish collected

Doing our bit! We were shocked at just how much rubbish we collected in our local area.

Sustainability Issues

On Thursday afternoons a group of children have been going out to work on an environmental project using video or animation.  The point is to educate others about important environmental issues in a fun and interesting way. We have made three videos and one animation, they are almost ready to present! Watch this space.

Potting out and pricking out

This week some of the hub children prepared some new seedlings to put into our Trees for Survival unit. These will be ready to plant next winter under another kahikatea stand in our local area. We prepared: Mahoe, Karamu, Cabbage tree, Manuka, Harakeke. The Kowhai seedlings are not quite ready, Beccy Dove will drop them off to us when they are ready. Thanks Beccy!

Kahikatea Tree Planting

Last Thursday we went out to the Corlett's farm and planted 500 tree saplings, we also collected some of the self seeded saplings to put in our irrigation unit. We had all worked hard and did the planting efficiently.

Kahikatea Planting

On Thursday 18th August 2016 we will be planting underneath a stand of Kahikatea Trees on a local farm on Pukahu Road.  This will be the second stand that Netherton School will underplant, it follows on from an action inquiry children did around 'how can we bring native birds back to the Netherton area?'  The school contributes trees grown in our 'Trees for Survival Unit', and is supported by Waikato Regional Council.  Our long term goal is to underplant fenced existing stands on as many farms as we can into the future.  This a real and sustainable legacy the children of Netherton School can leave for future generations.  Photos to come!