2017 Enviro Leadership Team

A key part of being an Enviro School is student empowerment (whakamana). Students are expected to be part of what is going on; to have a voice, have opinions, be involved in designing solutions, choosing solutions, talking about issues, making the solutions into reality and continuing to maintain them.

At Pukerua Bay School, whakamana happens in individual classrooms, in small groups of students, and across the school through our Enviro Leadership Team. This year's team has representatives from all classes in the school.

Some of the exciting ideas the group discussed at their first meeting on Friday 9th March include:

• Developing a new climbing area and swings
• Having an area for digging
• Developing the Bike Track idea that was first suggested last year
• A duck pond, water park or water area under the boat
• More outdoor tables around the school
• New posters and signage around the school
• Developing access to the stream which borders the school.

We look forward to seeing what this group comes up with over the year. 

In the meantime, the next few blog posts will celebrate some of our fabulous student-led initiatives from 2016.

Local Litter Clean Up

In the spirit of Conservation Week, Kea Syndicate spent Thursday afternoon cleaning up the litter that has been building up around the school. We focused on Rawhiti Road and Wairaka Road, the Zigzag and the track to the shop. And what a success it was.  We collected bags and bags of rubbish from chippie packets and cans, to tyres and glass bricks. Thank you for your wonderful effort Kea Syndicate. The local environment will appreciate it too. 

It was a great reminder to put your rubbish in the bin!

Wha and the Nude Food Challenge!

Don't forget to pack only nude food tomorrow!

Replanting the Front Gardne

Year 6 students helping with replanting the front garden under the supervision of Ashleigh Price and other lovely parent helpers. A good job well done. Thank You!

Beach Clean Up

Thank you to Sustainable Coastlines for educating our tamarki about rubbish in the ocean and how terrible the situation is!
The whole school walked to Pukerua Bay Beach and picked up stacks of rubbish!
Check out Sustainable Coastlines Website below to see the good things they do.
http://sustainablecoastlines.org/

FOR SALE

Pop in to the office to purchase vegetable seedlings grown by the Enviro Goup!

A gold coin donation. 

Gardens are Growing

The garden is looking very exciting! The beds are about to be made deeper with the help of our wonderful parent helpers and our talented students. Watch out for our first feast! Coming soon.