The Care Code -
Abi took this session with the staff, and took them through the Guiding Principles as part of our establishing the Care Code and being part of the Enviroschool Bronze programme.
These links will be posted up as part of the PD that took place. The next session in week 3 with Nicky Elmore our Enviroschools Facilitator from Auckland Council will take us on the next step to look at establishing our Care Code - that will have had input from all MBS staff 2016.
Trees for Survival
We have further saplings arriving with potting mix in the next week (week 2 term 3).
The saplings already with us have been potted on into the trainer pots and are looking well established with all the sun and rain we have received this winter 1st August. Now we will wait patiently for the rest to catch up.
Enviro School Gardens
Over the school holidays Noel has been busy rearranging the Hungry Worms to their new abode. They are now sitting nicely on a bench, which will enable the worm tea to be emptied into a bottle to sell. We think the worms may have gone into a dormant stage as there is little activity in the containers, because of the cooler conditions. Noel has observed this with his own worm bins at home. Important we don't overload these littlies at this stage!
Classroom Gardens
The classroom gardens are looking amazing with big cabbage coming out on Friday, kale and spinach. MBS Enviro Markets to commence this term. A generous amount of fertiliser will be added coming into spring to get the growth of new fruit and vegetables happening.
Saturday 30 July 2016
Wednesday 6 July 2016
The Colgate challenge of recycling all oral care waste packaging is now half way into the competition. A kilogram of recycled oral care packaging was sent off to Terracycle.
Nicky Elmore our Enviroschools Facilitator came into MBS to discuss our Care Code - The Ripple Effect and discuss the five Guiding Principles. In term 3 we will be having two Professional Development sessions around establishing the Guiding Principles and how this will look like in our school and the childrens learning.
Wednesday Litterless lunches are a focus for some classrooms in term 3. Room 9 did some great learning in the area of recycling with Mrs Laker. All the children bought their lunch boxes to the mat after lunch eating and discussed the amount of empty packaging there was for one lunch x by five lunches x by one month and then one year. No wonder the grounds of Mt Eden could account for the amount of rubbish accumulated over one year in a recent poster displayed around the school.
If we start small then bigger things will come out of what children are learning!! Like reusing plastic containers to hold our chippies, fruit etc.
The classroom gardens are looking healthy and a lot of produce has been taken out of the gardens in the past term for our MBS markets run by the Enviro Group. These are dedicated children who give up their lunch times to get involved in planting, fertilizing, weed pulling and general jobs around the school to make our environment that much more enjoyable to look at!!
Thanks to Julie Keane who donated a lot of her plants to local schools. We have an amazing mass planting of Dietes (Iris') outside the resource room - they will look blooming great in summer!!
Nicky Elmore our Enviroschools Facilitator came into MBS to discuss our Care Code - The Ripple Effect and discuss the five Guiding Principles. In term 3 we will be having two Professional Development sessions around establishing the Guiding Principles and how this will look like in our school and the childrens learning.
Wednesday Litterless lunches are a focus for some classrooms in term 3. Room 9 did some great learning in the area of recycling with Mrs Laker. All the children bought their lunch boxes to the mat after lunch eating and discussed the amount of empty packaging there was for one lunch x by five lunches x by one month and then one year. No wonder the grounds of Mt Eden could account for the amount of rubbish accumulated over one year in a recent poster displayed around the school.
If we start small then bigger things will come out of what children are learning!! Like reusing plastic containers to hold our chippies, fruit etc.
The classroom gardens are looking healthy and a lot of produce has been taken out of the gardens in the past term for our MBS markets run by the Enviro Group. These are dedicated children who give up their lunch times to get involved in planting, fertilizing, weed pulling and general jobs around the school to make our environment that much more enjoyable to look at!!
Thanks to Julie Keane who donated a lot of her plants to local schools. We have an amazing mass planting of Dietes (Iris') outside the resource room - they will look blooming great in summer!!
Sunday 3 July 2016
Kaupapa philosophy of creating a healthy, peaceful, sustainable world through people teaching and learning together.
Now Maraetai Beach School has entered the Enviroschools programme, we aim to make Bronze our aim for this year. This means the understanding of the five guiding principles under the banner of
Kaupapa philosophy of creating a healthy, peaceful, sustainable world through people teaching and learning together.
This means we have a whole school approach to the integration of sustainability into the:-
Place/Wahi - the physical surroundings including buildings and grounds
People and Participation/Tangata - how decisions are made, how people relate to each other
Practices/Tikanga - day to day operations
Programmes/Kaupapa Ako - the curriculum
Kaupapa philosophy of creating a healthy, peaceful, sustainable world through people teaching and learning together.
This means we have a whole school approach to the integration of sustainability into the:-
Place/Wahi - the physical surroundings including buildings and grounds
People and Participation/Tangata - how decisions are made, how people relate to each other
Practices/Tikanga - day to day operations
Programmes/Kaupapa Ako - the curriculum
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