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.

 

Enviro Group Minutes 23.3.11

 Present:
 Ruru: Lilly, Cayleigh, Ronan, Carlie-ann, Corey,Harry and Sam
 Kea: Jess, (sec) Isaac, (sec) Kyra, Allie, Reilly, Piper, Abigail and Ben
 Kiwi: Kade and Gracie
 Tuatara: Abby
 Teachers: Mrs Homer, Miss O'Keeffe and Mrs Hallmark
We talked about how we can reduce our carbon footprint.
We did a whole class brainstorm.  Corey hand wrote a brainstorm on some newspaper print.
Lilly typed up our brainstorm using Kidspiration.
 here are some of our ideas.
Turn off television at wall. Turn off lights when leaving a room. Remind the teacher to turn off lights, Interactive whiteboard and computers. Do car pooling more often. Don't leave things charging longer than they need to be.  Use goose paper (good on one side paper) And recycle
we hope you like our ideas :)

Envirogroup Minutes 9.3.11

Present:
Ruru: Nicola Finn Ronan Corey Harry Lilly Sharntay Sam Garath Cayliegh CarlieAnn Kim
Kea: Allie Ellen Jade Reilly Jessica (sec) Isaac (sec) Abigail Ben
Tuatara: Tilly Abi

We continued reading the carbon footprint story
It is about a little dog finding little black footprints all around the house and it him who is causing all the mayhem!!

(Chapter 3)

Envirogroup Minutes 25.02.11

Present:
Ruru: Nicky (sec.) Finn (sec.) Garath Corey Sam Harry Kim Carlie-Ann Lilly Cayliegh Sharntay Ronan
Kea: Jessica Issac Kyra Jamel Ellen Abi Allie Jade Riely Ben

1. We talked about our carbon footprint display. ( It is going up in week 4 term 2 )
2. Mrs. Hallmark chose Jessica and Isaac to be trained up to be secs. next year.
3. The group went to do some Watering and Gardening.

Envirogroup. 16.02.11

Present:
Tuatara: Tilly Abby Michela
Kea: Jade Ellen Issac Abi Jessica Riely Jamel Allie Piper
Ruru: Nicky Finn Ronan Cayleigh Corey Garath Lilly Harry Sam Carlie-Ann Sharntay Kim.
Teachers: Miss Okeeffe Mrs Hallmark Mrs Homer

What Happened:

1. We talked about doing some gardening every week.
2. In the next week or so we will finish our river journey display and start a new display for the library (About carbon foot-prints)
3. After we learnt more about carbon foot-prints.
4. Mrs Homer came in and we welcomed her to the envirogroup (she will replace Mrs. Hallmark when she leaves)
5. Finally Mrs Hallmark started reading Carbon's Mysterious Foot-Prints.

Gardening

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The envirogroup met for the first time in 2011 last week and really got stuck in to the gardens!