Seaweek - Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē Beach Clean

Last Friday our classes went to Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē to do a beach clean as part of our Seaweek learning. We split into 2 groups and walked approx 2km either side of the ramp, picking up any rubbish that we could see. We picked up a variety of plastic rubbish including clothing, lighters, cigarette butts, lots of pieces of foam along with some alkathene pipe and a car part.  

We were pleasantly surprised to only gather 1 bag of rubbish over that 4km distance however when this is put into perspective, NZ has 15,000 kms of coastline. If we were to pick up a bag of rubbish every 4kms, that would be 3,750 bags of rubbish. Something to think about! 

A huge thank you to our whanau who supported us on the day with supervision and transportation and to the students who were fabulous 'Sea Cleaners'. The students certainly enjoyed their time outside the classroom and as an added bonus, they saw Miss Kolland too!

Lake Ngatu - Arbor Day Planting

Lake Ngatu is a taonga in our community and we are kaitiaki of this roto. Today our whole school helped to plant a varierty of trees and plants at Lake Ngatu, 1600 in total. We were supported by lots of our whanau; parents, older siblings and grandparents too and were rewarded with a yummy sausage sizzle before we headed back to school. Thank you so much to everybody who helped out today, we had a fantastic day!

Keep NZ Beautiful Month - Kaitiaki of Lake Ngatu

We are kaitiaki of Lake Ngatu and as part of 'Keep NZ Beautiful Month', we had the opportunity to plant trees at the lake with DOC and Ngati Kahu plus we did a lake clean up, while we were there. 

Due to the Covid-19 restrictions in Term 3, we had not been on any trips outside of school. We all absolutely loved being out and about, contributing positively to our community. It was our chance to live our school values of Kaitiakitanga (Caring for the Environment) and Porihanga (Community and Partnership).

The students learnt about the native plants and how to plant a tree correctly. We had a fabulous day out! 

 A huge thank you to Larell's mum Kyla for coming to help us out on the day!