Garden to Table session # 3

 Wednesday 24 March -  Going Green!

This lovely sunny Wednesday morning saw our garden team carry out the MAMMOTH task of moving ALL the green waste from the compost area to the carpark side! 

In true Howick Primary form, the children got on with the task in cheerful spirits enjoying the experience of a job well done in looking after their patch of earth. 

Little did they know what yummy nourishment was being whipped up and awaiting them after all this hard work!

 The Kitchen team were on task, blitzing up a Green smoothie, using spinach and avocados from an ex-teacher's farm (an awesome sense of community for the children!).  Silverbeet, spring onions and herbs from our garden were chopped and battered, with a bit of cheese for that extra zing, to create scrumptious greens and cheese fritters, Yummy! 

Accompanied with Kale chips, made from freshly harvested kale from our garden. 

A crunchy finish to the Garden to Table experience for the day!

By Kieran & Anita

HPS Movie and Carnival Night- Waste Collection.

 

On Friday 19 March, we organised a HPS Carnival

and Movie night,  we had food trucks outside the turf

and some activities to try. 

We are trying to have less waste in our school to protect

the school's environment. We sorted all the waste

to put in our worm farm or recycling.

We picked up the rubbish and put it in the right bin.

We tried putting less waste to the landfill bin.

We had 4 bins we had to sort, 

• Recycling- yellow, 

• Landfill- red, 

• Food Scraps- green and finally 

• Orange is for the soft plastics. 

We had food scraps the most and all of us were proud because there was just a little bit in the landfill. We emptied all rubbish bins in some food trucks and some people were commenting on us that we should keep it up. We also helped some people that had trouble sorting their rubbish.

FINAL RESULTS: 30kg of waste collected

-15kg of Food scraps (green)

-10kg of Recycling (yellow)

-1.5kg of Soft Plastic (orange)

-3.5kg of Landfill (red)

By: Isabella S. and Amelie :) 

Visy Recycling Open Day Sessions

Ever wondered how your kerbside recycling gets sorted? 

Are you sure you know what goes in the recycling bin?

If you'd like to learn more about recycling in Auckland you can go to this FREE session to find out more! 

Just register HERE to go along THIS Saturday.