THANK YOU to Howick Local Board
for donating these trees to us.
Toady we were every excited to have some visitors from Sunnyhills Primary School; Mrs Daniels and some of their eco leaders. As their school is a Green Gold Enviro School we were keen to impress!
We created a map with all our enviro areas.
During their visit we showed them...
* Our 'Traffic Light Bin' system and other waste minimisation initiatives (like the class enviro challenge)
* Our Garden to Table programme and the veggies gardens - we also handed out some cookies made yesterday as part of Chinese language week,
* How we minimise waste and use natural resources through our compost systems and the water tank,
* Ways we are trying to restore the natural environment with tree planting and our native garden,
* Our lizard lounge to attract native skinks,
* Our 'Green Room' - our hub for meeting, recycling and brainstorming ideas!
To celebrate Chinese language week we have made dumplings and sesame cookies this week in Garden to Table.
They were both really delicious and the students all loved making them.
Some students showed they had a really talent for dumpling making!
We put our own "HPS twist" on the dumplings adding cabbage, carrot, onion and bok choy.
There was some excellent chopping going on!
Despite the weather on Sunday we had a success time creating pathways in our native garden.
A massive THANK YOU to all that braved the weather and came along!
Mr Earl, Mr Hamilton, David, 'Snowy - Kate, Elvin, Rianka, Emily J and her Mum, Ari and her Mum & Dad, Sean and his Mum, Hazel and her Mum, Aimee and her Dad, Mason and his Dad.
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| Loading up the wheelbarrows! |
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| Adding scoria to the pathways |
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| Making a start on the weeding too! |
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| Snack time! |
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| Creating an open space to sit and relax! |
Its citrus time of year!
Lemons and oranges are a plenty in the Garden to Table kitchen - the students just love eating these; even the lemons! Our recent recipes have included lemon slice and lemon bliss balls.
In other areas around the school we have used lemons to make herbal tea.
We have recently added some orange trees to our fruit orchard.
We have been given a $200 KINGS PLANT BARN voucher by Howick Local Board. Due to the popularity of the citrus fruit, we have used this money to buy 5 mandarin trees to further complement our Garden to Table programme.
We are so excited to have fruit right here at school! Less food miles, cheaper and fresher too!
Today we planted 14 native trees in our native garden area. THANK YOU to Howick Local Board for donating these trees to us. We planted 6...
