Showing posts with label Enviro Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enviro Schools. Show all posts

Sunday, 7 August 2016

Planting Trees for Survival

Today Room 17 and Mrs Daniel, with the help of Lynda from Auckland City Council, repotted TWO HUNDRED & FIFTY seedlings, as part of the Trees for Survival programme. The children were such enthusiastic and careful botanists.

Did you know Sunnyhills Senior School students have already repotted over 300 seedlings? We're looking forward to our tiny seedlings growing 30 cm in a year, then we'll be replanting them in a  local reserve for our native fauna to enjoy.

What a fantastic project; a wonderful learning experience with a really positive environmental outcome.













Friday, 6 May 2016

Enviro BreakOut with Mrs Daniel

On Friday morning the children in Room 17 discovered a mystery padlocked box in their room. Mrs Daniel said that the information they needed to start their new Enviro Schools project had been scattered across the school, and the code for the locked equipment box had been forgotten. Could Room 17 work together to solve the clues, find the facts and break the code? They were determined and seriously excited.

The children showed amazing team work  and communication skills to discover the solutions and find all the key facts about plants hidden in the gardens.  Back in the classroom everyone persevered to break the code and open the padlock. Great problem solving!








Inside the mystery box the children discovered the seeds, containers and other equipment they needed to launch an edible garden. They spent the rest of the day researching seed germination and planting up. Mrs Daniel can't wait to see how much  their bean, sunflower & pumpkin seeds have grown, when she returns later in the term, for another fun enviro day.