Enviro Silver Award

Enviroschool

Enviroschools Information

Our school is now a Silver Enviroschool. This happened in 2012 when we reflected as a school, with the help of the Enviroschools Facilitators, on all the work we had done in recent years to work to make our school a sustainable, environmentally aware school. We documented the learning that has taken place and the systems we have put in place and were proud to accept our Silver Status at the final assembly of the year.

In 2013 we were proud to win the Toroa Award at the Conservation Awards. This was for our work on the stream restoration near our school. We worked with the community to clear rubbish and planted the area with native plants. We are hoping the stream will become a healthy habitat and the area a lovely place to visit.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Ter 2 Enviro Team

This is the Term 2 enviro team and we had our first meeting today. We are keen to do some gardening and noticed 7 big pumpkins growing. We thought it would be a great idea to make soup with them for mid winters day and share with the school. Here are the minutes of our meeting.

Envirogroup World Savers

16^th May 2014

Present

Rosa, Georgia, Orlando, Leyton, Emma, Olivia, Megan, Katie, James, Reid, Julia, Flynn, Gemma, Nova, Lucy

Agenda – what we discussed

1. Enviro children need to talk to their class about using their food scrap bucket

2. Every Friday we empty the buckets in the compost and we wash the buckets.

3. We read the care code and will share it at Mondays assembly.

4. We need to make sure we turn our lights off in the classroom and the staffroom on a sunny day. Enviro children to check each day.

5. We need to make sure the taps are turned off so we don’t waste water.

6. We need to look after our gardens and keep the weeds away.

7. We need to make sure we don’t waste paper.

8. We need to make sure we pick up rubbish even if it is not ours.

At the end of the meeting we went out and looked at the compost and the gardens,

We could name most of the vegetables growing in the garden.

We noticed 7 pumpkins and will use these to make pumpkin soup in winter.

We had our photo taken for the enviro display in the front office and to go on our Enviro blog.

Enviro children are to

Empty compost

Check lights are turned off

Check taps are turned off

Pick up rubbish when the see it

Be good role models

Macandrew Bay Care Code

This is special to Macandrew Bay School

1. We pick up rubbish when we see it and we put it where it belongs.

2. We are careful not to create too much rubbish.

3. We are careful not to waste things.

4. We save power.

5. We turn off the taps properly and use water carefully.

6. We grow healthy food so we can be healthy and strong.

7. We play safely and look after ourselves and others.

8. We care for our environment.

9. We care for each other in our community.

10. We care about our future and the future of the world.