Friday, September 18, 2015

The Plastic Reducers - Kids Connect & Avalon Intermediate





Here it is people!! Fantastic work by all the children and adults involved. A huge thank you to the team from Avalon Intermediate, they have done an amazing job putting this all together.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Kids Connect





Here is a peek behind the scenes of our music video, watch out for Yasmin and Ryan. Remember the full video will be available tomorrow for us to watch.

Plastic Reducers Music Video Coming Soon





Tomorrow is the launch date for the music video about waste. The children that attended the kids connect workshop last week will feature in the video. The full video will be live tomorrow so watch for the next post on our enviro blog.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Junior enviro 3/6/15

Today our junior enviro group met for our fortnightly meeting. We talked about how the birds during winter sometimes find it hard to find food to eat, SO we have made them some bird feeders. We used lard, peanut butter and bird seed. We stuck all these things onto a pine cone . We have hung some in the trees around School and some of us have taken ours home.

Thanks Tim for your help, we had a great time and the birds will now have full little tummys.












Enjoy your day.











Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Lupin time!


Now winter is here we need to plant the gardens with lovely lupins to fix nitrogen in the soil. Thanks to Alan and Glennis Sheppard and the students from Ruru that helped out.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Term 2 started with sunshine

First meeting of term 2 was a very busy one. We talked first about jobs and activities that we wanted at accomplish this term. The chickens and gardens were high on our list of things to do and learn more about. After we had a chat about these things we all got out into the sunshine and did some weeding. It turned into a bigger job than we thought so we will have to revisit it another day. The chickens enjoyed the weeds though, and we loved the sunshine and being together.








Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Junior Enviro group.

We had our first meeting today for the year 0  - 2  people interested in being part of the enviro group.
A Huge thankyou to Tim Hewitt ( Jack and Theo's ) dad for offering your time to come in a help us learn. 


We will be having junior enviro group every second Wednesday at lunchtime. Please check on the news centre on Wedneday to check when to meet.





Hope you all had a great lunch time at junior enviro group.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Very exciting news for the holidays!!

Today was the day that we finally got our chickens!!! They have been rescued from a  battery farm by the kind people at Huha . Mrs Brattle drove up to collect our five girls in the morning and delivered them to their new home at Plateau School.


The chickens are pretty pale and very bald. Unfortunately this is to be expected as they have lived in small cages with only artificial lights for their entire life. Carolyn from Huha said that they will be all feathery and healthy in about six weeks.
The girls seem very happy with their new home at Plateau School and we are sure happy to have them. Here are some pictures of Mrs Brattle putting the girls in their new chicken coop.






 Mrs Brattle wanted to make sure the girls were going to be warm and happy overnight so she went down to School to check on them. Two of the particularly bald girls were not in the warm part of the coop so Mrs Brattle lifted them in to where the nesting boxes are. To her surprise she found an egg!!!!! The girls must be very happy with their new home if one of them have already layed an egg ( Mrs Brattle certainly was VERY happy to find the egg).


Thank you so much to everyone who has helped/donated or raised money for our chickens. We are so lucky to be able to have them at School and I am sure they will help us to learn responsibility, empathy, and help us to learn more about being a sustainable community.




Thursday, February 12, 2015

Thursday 12/2/15

As you will have noticed Plateau School has a chicken coop, but we do not have any chickens yet. We have decided that we would like to offer a kind and safe home to some battery hens that have been rescued by Huha.
Mrs Brattle has contacted Sam from Huha, Sam thinks it is a great idea that Plateau School have some of their chickens but she had a few questions she would like answered. The enviro group had a meeting today 12/2/15 and we are going to answer these questions and send an email back to Sam to answer her and show that we will be a responsible, safe and kind home for the chickens. Please feel free to ask any of the enviro members how we are getting along, and keep an eye out for when the chickens arrive.
Also you can check the links above to find out more about huha and the chickens.