Minimising our waste in MANY ways!

We are passionate about reducing our waste to LANDFILL! 

Today we we watched the awesome 'Savvy & the Stolen Recycling' show by A Fool's Company. 

The play was really funny and a great reminder to recycle...

* HARD plastic with 1 - 2 - 5 on it  and plastic bottles

* Cans

* Glass

* Cardboard - like pizza boxes

Another way we are reducing our waste is by trying hard to have a wrapper free lunch. 

It has been great to see some students who, back in term 1, found this a challenge and have now started having a wrapper free lunch every day! 

💚 lots of healthy fruit and food bought in bulk

💚More fruit and popcorn and chips from a BIG packet

💚Mandarins, grapes and treats from BIG bulk packets 

We also have some enviro superstars that have set up their own 'rubbish patrol' at lunchtime! 

Well done Eden, Annie, Kimberley and team! 

Planting Natives

 It's tree planting season again! 🍃

The students are getting ready for our BIG planting day coming up 

in a few weeks time by planting in our school native garden. 

We were lucky to receive some FREE native trees to plant: 

- Ake Ake

- Titoki

- Coprosma 

- Pittosporum

With thanks for their wonderful support by donating these trees:

* Paper 4 Trees

* BlueSky Community Trust 

* Te Whangai Trust 

PLANTING UPDATE: 

While we were there we also checked on the native trees we had previously planted. This includes: 

- flax 

- rewarewa

- lancewood

The students were fascinated by the young 'fierce' lancewood trees! 

The young natives are making great progress;  the area is fast becoming a native forest! 

Our great big GARDEN TO TABLE BAKE SALE!

Our long awaited BAKE SALE is finally here! 

This year we had Room 2 (year 6) and Room 5 (year 4/ 5) baking during their sessions and then helping to sell at lunchtime. 

There was a great buzz from the whole school about what treats they wanted to buy! 

Our top sellers, as always, were the beetroot brownie and herby breadsticks. 

We collected in $683! 

We are looking to update some of our kitchen equipment using this money. 

prep time!

setting it all up

Kumara Season!

This week at Garden to Table we celebrated a milestone:

harvesting the first of our kumara for the season!

David and the senior students had worked hard creating an excellent

new kumara bed, and we are hoping for a great crop this year!

Before the harvest, we said a karakia (blessing). Following tradition, the first harvest of kumara is presented to a respected elder,

and this honour was given to Mrs Hurley.

This tradition reflects practices that many Māori growers still follow:

• Begin harvest with karakia

• Respect Rongo-mā-Tāne

• Keep first-fruit traditions in some form

• Emphasise careful handling and curing

Room 5 and Room 2 have been busy the last few weeks!

Other exciting activities they have been doing include:

• The great compost bucket race! 

• Building Bliss Ball snowmen

• Eating lots of juicy greens from the garden in our veggie pasta

• Getting a good dose of Vitamin C with the first of our lemons

• Discovering carrots can be RED!

Get Active: The Wednesday Challenge is here!

This term we are very excited to be further promoting using 

ACTIVE TRANSPORT 

to get to school by signing up for the nationwide 

WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE! 

Find out more by clicking on the image above 

WHAT IS IT?

This is a New Zealand initiative encouraging schools and workplaces to use sustainable transport every WEDNESDAY.

WHY IS IT A GOOD IDEA?

By walking, cycling, or busing, students reduce traffic and carbon emissions while improving wellbeing. 

HOW DOES IT WORK?

We log journeys via a web app to earn points, compete on leaderboards, and win prizes for our class and school.

We measured how everyone has been getting to school recently
so we know our starting numbers... now we have to try and improve on this. 

There's a video HERE that tells you more too! 

Congratulations to these classes that have already made a fantastic start to active travel to school: 

Want to join our WALKING SCHOOL BUS? 

email Miss Long: b.long@howickprimary.school.nz