Edible Garden Working Bee

Drone Aerial View

Today enthusiastic whanau pitched in to help work on our Edible Gardens. Wheelbarrows, spades and rollers at the ready, young and old managed to finish muching around the beds and stain the fence black. Those with a super steady hand worked on our colourful garden signs too.

A little history:

Edible Gardens August 2016 - 12 beds

Edible Gardens August 2018 - 36 vege beds, orchard, Trees For Survival Seedling House, rain water tank, garden shed, worm farms, compost bins, irrigation, pathway, teaching area

This project began in 2015 when the senior school students began planning a replacement for our small vege patch, in the Senior Courtyard, that was due to be demolished.

Three years later with lots of research, experiments, fund raising, grants, u-turns, working bees, help from community partners and every child's involvement our Edible Gardens vision is close to completion.

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came today - your hard work and great attitude had amazing results! The Edible Gardens are going to be a wonderful place to learn for many years to come.

We're now reflecting on our next steps...how to celebrate our achievement... skink suburbs ...bug hotels... honey bees or chickens. The action learning never stops.

Thanks to Mr Trembath for the clever drone footage:

Day 5: Walking School Bus Week

Well what a fabulous week. Our school gates have been so much quieter - a lot less traffic.  Well done all our walkers and our fantastic school community who has got behind this week.  Hopefully lots of you realise that it is easy to walk to school or for those of you who live further away - to park away from the school gate and walk.

Look how full our tree and feet are

Day 4: Walking School Bus Week - Superheroes

Another fantastic response with walking today.  Lots of superheroes too.  Filling up the feet!