Celcius Coffee Roastery

On Tuesday the 5th of July a group of 10 students from the envirogroup went to visit the Celcius Coffee Roastery. The Roastery has won the Green-Gold award for sustainability. We learnt about some things like: 
# Fair-trade Coffee means that the farmers that the coffee beans come from get a fair amount of money for the beans that celcius only buy fair trade.
# All the coffee beans that the roastery buy are grown organically.
# The roastery have designed and made there own compostable packaging.
# One of the only things celcius can not enviromentally control is the transport from were they buy the coffee beans (places like Colombia) to the roastery- a ship burns a lot of oil or fuel.
# The leftover coffee grounds that the roastery have are made into "sweetground" soil conditioner which they then sell to the Upper Hutt City Council.

The 10 students that went were Finn Nicky Lilly Carlie-Ann Garath Cayliegh Riely Ellen Abi and Piper and we all had a great day!

Envirogroup 24 06 11

1. We disscused our tree reasearch and shared it with the group.

Enviro Minutes

; Everone came

We talked about ideas, to try and reduce our schools power bill. Next week Maggie Twaddle is coming to visit our school from school gen. Ben, Isaac, Piper, Jarmell, Jess, Reilly and Jade have been chosen to start traing to become a part of school gen. We also talked about putting new buckets in the classes called cling film buckets.

Enviro Minutes 3.6.2011

Present: Ruru: Nicky Ronan Cayleigh CarlieAnn Corey Harry Garath Sam Sharntay Finn
Kea: Jade Reily Ellen Jarmel Jessica Abi Piper Ben.
Kiwi: Kade Bethany Gracie

1. we learnt how to write on the envirogroup page and to add photos.
2. SchoolGen Team is: Nicky Ronan CarlieAnn Finn Sharntay Sam. Maggie is coming on the 14th of June to meet the group again.
3.We talked about needing to remind the rest of the school of there class jobs. (Ben and Riely will be doing this.
4. We talked about our river project.
5. We talked about a new idea for a cling film project.

Enviro Minutes 4th/6th May 2011

On the 4th
Present: Ruru: Nicky (sec) Finn (sec) Garath Sam Ronan Corey Harry Lilly Cayleigh Sharntay Carlie-Ann
Kea: Jessica Issac Abi Ben Jade Ellen Piper Allie Jarmel
Kiwi: Gracie Kade
Tuatara: Abby Tilly Michela Shar Kayla Taryn
Pukeko: Elizebeth

1 We were trying to find the carbon footprints! (Miss Okeeffe lost them)
2 We talked about what the display would end up looking like (eg. Title pictures Boarder)
3 Miss Okeeffe found the footprints!

On the 6th
Present: Ruru: Nicky Finn Garath Ronan Sam Harry Cayliegh CarlieAnn Corey Lilly Sharntay
Kea: Abi Allie Riely Piper Ellen Jessica Issac Jade Ben Jarmel
Kiwi: Kade Gracie
Tuatara: Shar Michela Tilly
Pukeko: Elizebeth

1 We talked about what trees we are going to order
2 We continued doing our carbon footprints

Envirogroup Minutes Date: 13/4/11

Present:

Teachers: Mrs Hallmark, Miss O'Keefe, Mrs Homer

Ruru: Finn G, Nicky (secretaries), Cayleigh, Ronan, Corey, Harry, Sharntay, Sam, Garath, Carlie-Ann

Kea: Jessica (trainie secretary), Ben, Piper, Abi, Kyra, Allie, Ellen, Jade, Jarmell

Kiwi: Kade

Tuatara: Tilly, Abby Q



Activities/matters discussed:

1. We discussed some idas of how to downsize your carbon footprint.

2. We continued doing our carbon footprint.

Great Postcard Project!

We have been taking part in the Enviroschools Great Postcard Project.
In our Whanau Groups an older child and a younger child have been working together to write a postcard about what we do as an Enviroschool. We will be sending these to other Enviroschools, such as Greytown Primary School, Johnsonville School and St Benedicts Primary. We have used magazine pictures to decorate the postcards. We have been writing about things like: Movin' March, that we have the Silver Enviro-Award and what kind of projects we have around the school. Soon we will be sending these off and we will receive some for each of the classrooms.