Te Kaupapari

We have been enjoying the fruits of our labour in the  garden recently. The loquat tree has been extremely popular, with its  sweet and juicy yellow fruit drawing crowds during  break times. We have also been harvesting lettuce, spinach, celery, snow peas,  broccoli, cabbages, beetroots, kale, silverbeet and carrots to share  with some of our whanau. Labour weekend is the traditional time to plant tomatoes in New  Zealand, so Whakatōtanga and Tupuranga students have been busy  getting our cherry tomato plants into the ground and we can’t wait  for a delicious harvest when we get back to school after the summer holidays. It’s a great time of year for our students to be getting  outside and working in the garden! Enviroschools Principles in action here: -  Empowered Students   are enabled to participate in a meaningful way in the life of their early childhood centre or school. Their unique perspectives are valued for the...

You may have noticed that some new fruit trees have appeared around the school grounds over the past couple of weeks.  This is because we have been extremely fortunate to receive ‘Love Your Neighbourhood’ funding of $500 from the Eco-Matters Environment Trust, supported by the Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board. Plus our Parent Group very generously matched this amount.  This enabled us to purchase 22 fruit trees, enough for every class in the school to plant one. The students enjoyed getting outside, getting dirty and learning how to plant a tree. We can’t wait until our students have fresh apples, pears, peaches, plums, peachcots, guavas, mandarins, lemonade lemons, figs, guavas and cherimoyas to snack on during morning tea and lunch times.  Our sincere thanks to the ‘Love Your Neighbourhood’ fund and our Parent Group. Room 3 planted a ‘Packham’s Triumph’ pear tree   Room 7 planted a ‘Silverhill’ mandarin tree   Room 2 planted a ‘Yellow’...