On Wednesday the 9th of June, Howick Primary held an Enviro cluster meeting in our school hall. We had a lot of fun and a lot of schools and businesses came together to share their experiences in helping the environment.
As Howick Primary; we shared our experiences including talking about our traffic light bin system and how the red bin is for landfill rubbish, the yellow bin is for recycling and the green for food scraps going to our compost/ worm farm. We also made a game that everyone who came would be able to play. We handed out little game packs that included a piece of red, yellow and green paper. It also had pictures of different types of litter and we asked the players to sort out the pictures onto the right piece of coloured paper. These represented the different bins.
In the cluster we had special people to come up and present the moth plant pod competition winners. Everyone in the hall was feeling the exciting suspense. They had a lot of different categories such as kindergartens/preschools, Primary schools, Intermediates and Colleges. In the Primary category our school came third place! We collected 2388 pods. We learnt it was important to collect these pods otherwise the seeds inside of them spread and grow new pods. These new pods strangle and kill our native New Zealand trees.
-Emma Bloxham
Congratulations on your outstanding work getting rid of moth plant!
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