Rose Garden Carpet of Colour

A huge thank you to Graham Wood for giving up his time to help the Green team plant out 406 alyssum plants over the last two days. Graham had the children working like a well oiled machine, trowels flying, and the plants were in the ground in no time. The children were so enthusiastic. It all looks amazing.

John Moore, one of our wonderful Lions helpers, joined Graham yesterday and they continued with weeding around the roses. John has offered to help us plan where to put some of the native trees we have recently received. Thank you guys, the Green team really appreciate your enthusiasm and hard work!

Bringing in the Birds

Today Room 4 and the Green Team, made pinecone birdfeeders. These were made by spreading peanut butter over the pine cones and then rolling them in bird seed! Mrs Douglas kindly provided the ingredients and we got to work. Most children ended up with more seed and peanut butter on them than the pine cones!!

Next the cones were carefully hung in trees around the classrooms and library.

We look forward to watching our feathered friends enjoy these treats over the coming days.

Green Team Update

We at the green team have so much news to share.

Potatoes in for Christmas
Now that spring is really and truly underway, we are pleased to report that our Jersy Benne potatoes are in. See the photo of Kahu and Tamzin finishing the planting at the end of last Term. They are up and almost ready to be mounded. (The potatoes that is!!)

The Rose Garden

After much pondering and discussion it was agreed that alyssum flowers would be planted into the two front beds. So in preparation Room 2 kindly offered to come and help the Green team weed these two beds and the rose garden as well! This took place last Friday and everyone was working so hard that Mrs Blackburn had trouble convincing her children to return to class to pack up the classroom! The children had great fun discovering all sorts of bugs and beetles. One was heard to say that they’d “ never done this before”, and another “I don’t want to go home, can we do some more after school?” Of course the whole of Room 2 has now joined the Green Team.

This week, wonderful Mr Wood and his trailer collected 4 scoops of soil for the beds. At lunch time a large group of Greenteamers and many volunteers worked a chain of buckets and emptied the trailer, very speedily, onto the garden. In no time at all the soil was spread, and is all ready to plant up. Thank you Mr Wood for helping us out!! We are just awaiting our plants now.

Vegetable Garden Mural

WOW!!! This is looking soooo amazing. Dorinda had a group working on this masterpiece last week, and it is just about finished. See the photos. Isn’t it stunning??? We have permission to paint up the rubbish skip and at this stage our plan is to disguise it as a chicken coop! The children will be coming up with their designs soon! Mega thanks to Dorinda who has given up several of her Friday afternoons to oversee this project.

The Vege Garden

So now it is time to sow and plant up our vege garden. Our own compost has been great and another bay is ready for use. So we will be busy over the next week filling up the vege beds with compost, seeds and plants.

Plants for Sale

In an attempt to raise some money for seeds and plants for next year, and as a way of literally taking home the green message, we plan to raise some plants in containers and sell them later in the Term. We will let you all know when the Great Green Team Plant Sale is on.

Plant and Tree Donations

A huge thank you to Chris Liddington, uncle of Jarvis, who has kindly given the Green Team seven native trees. These will be planted around the school, and a lovely totara will be used to replace the large tree by the library who’s roots were damaged in the recent earthquake and aftershocks.

Thank you also to Mrs Holland, our librarian who brings in native seedlings for us to plant around the school.