Garden to Table - becoming a model school and more awesome work by Room 17 & 2

 We are very excited to announce that our school has been selected to be a model school showcasing our Garden to Table programme to other schools in East Auckland! 

We have started off by hosting a hui last week and inviting other schools to share some of the things we do at Garden to Table.  

We asked the students what their favourite things were to do in Garden to Table:

I love cooking! 

I love trying all the new foods.

Trying to guess what all the leaves are when we look at them on the table.

🍎🍎🍎 We have been lucky to have received a very large crate of apples! 

Many we donated to families, ate during the school day or gave to local food banks. 

We kept a good amount though to bake apple muffins and apple and rhubarb crumble! 

For all the recipes we have made this term click HERE

The ever popular herby breadsticks- great use of leftover crusts!

In the garden shed

Using some of the apples!

Year 3/ 4 Adopt a Park #3

 This week our Year 3/4 Enviro students visited William Green Domain for our third trip. 

Today's focus was planting 100 native trees along the river bank.

We planted harakeke (flax), tī kōuka (cabbage tree) and some native grasses. 

It was amazing how quickly and efficiently we got them all in the ground! 

After some lunch and a play we headed back to school.

Sadly we spotted A LOT of rubbish around - we all picked some up on the walk home and easily had enough to fill a bin bag. 

 

Term 3 Garden to Table - Room 17 & 2

 So far this term it has been a great time for lots of warming winter soups with the herby breadsticks - always a favourite!  The dessert options of crumbles and warm muffins have gone down well too! 

For a list of the recipes we have made so far this term click HERE 

There has been lots of "greens" used from the garden in our cooking and we've started to have a few extra lemons to sell at our weekly enviro stall on Wednesdays. Pop by after school Wednesdays to see us! 

Kea classes learn about natives

This term Kea rooms 11, 12 and 14 are learning about native birds and trees. 

They have learnt why they are so special and how to help these species. 

In the first lesson students loved going outside to try and spot some native birds. We saw seagulls, blackbird, sparrows and magpies. Sadly no native or endemic birds. 

In the 2nd lesson we looked at the four whanau trees of our school. The whanau houses are: Pohutakawa (red),  Puriri (blue),  Kowhai (yellow) and Totara (green).  

We looked carefully and drew or coloured what we could see.

Room 7 Mandalas

 It was a beautiful sunny winter day today so a great time to collect leaves and make some amazing mandala patterns. 

It was wonderful to see students getting to explore nature through looking closely and touching and handling things. It was good to enjoy what Papatūānuku, the Earth, gives us. 

Students said...

"I love looking at all the beautiful leaves"

" Look! I found a butterfly wing!"

" This leaf looks like a sunset" 

"This is so fun! I love what I made"