HELP!

The Enviro Group is looking for some helpers!
We would like to build a three bay composting bin and need resources and people with building skills. We want to make something like this...

We also want to expand the vegetable beds to make them bigger and create a wheelchair accessible vegetable patch. We also need some vegetables, herbs, chillies, berries, delicious thing to plants. If you have the skills of the resources or you know someone who does please contact Ms Catherine Lunjevich or Mrs Jacqui Graham or Mr Andrew Wooster.

The Cloak of Protection Game Week 9-15 September!

Enviroschools Wellington just posted out our Cloak of Protection game ready for the Conservation Week Challenge. Ra Roa have been refining their understanding of the rules and working out some strategies ready to share with the rest of the school.

Get into the action by purchasing a game from kakarikigames.co.nz or claok.co.nz and click to support Pukerua Bay School.

Mayor Nick Leggett Judging the Poster Competition

Envirogroup Edible Garden Working Bee

What an amazing effort Envirogroup and helpers! We got the two big vegetable beds dug over and the four herb beds outside Te Motu prepared for some herbs and flowers.. Our hard workers dug, turned soil, weeded and bucketed worm laden compost. A job well done. 

Poster Competition The Creating an Image Step

Thank you Margaret Tolland from Pataka. Your expertise really inspired us!

Pukerua Bay! We have a problem!

Rawhiti Reserve is a dumping area for rubbish. The students of Ra Roa went for a walk with Ted Coates, Gay Hay and Dave from Porirua City Council Education as well as Dagma Pessendorfer.
We discovered a huge amount of dumped rubbish including old water tanks, ovens, plastic, asbestos and green waste.
The children were horrified and felt very sad that a place they could build huts and play in was being treated so badly.
We have decided we are going to do something about it!

Some of the rubbish found!

A map of the areas identified as being used as a dump.

Trip to Trash Palace

Ra Roa and Te Motu were invited to visit Trash Palace, Poly Palace and the Spicer Landfill. The trip was funded by the Porirua City Council and was very educational. Bobby our tour guide was very informative. We learned lots of new things including

• Polystyrene can be recycled into insulation for houses
• Methane and leachate from the landfill is dangerous and is collected and dealt with
• That different plastics have different purposes when they are recycled
• That we should reduce, reduce, reduce, reduce, reuse, reuse and them recycle. 
• Recycling takes energy
• New Zealand produces the equivalent of 1000 buses of rubbish every day! 
• Glass is sorted into colour, Plastic into number and Steel into type for recycling. 

Bobby

Checking out Spicer Landfill

Poly Palace. Made by genius Richard.

Recycling clothing bins

Recycled Eftpos outlets used to sort polystyrene.

The classrooom