Sunnyhills School Environmental Blog

Today Year 3 learnt about seagulls in New Zealand.  They aren't often appreciated as they're a familiar scavenger at the beach, but ...

 Today Year Four conducted our annual garden bird survey.  We'll share the results with Landcare as part of their citiizen science proje...

 The native trees that were planted on the Western Boundary in 2022 are becoming well established.  The children were surprised to see that ...

Today we learnt about the pests that threaten our native tree planting. We were lucky to see stuffed versions of the pests, their paw prints...

 Every year Sunnyhills tamariki take part in the Garden Bird Survey 🐦 to assess the health of our environment and the success of our action...

 It's been a long wait, but finally this week, Year Ono launched their Sustainability learning journey with Mrs Daniel. Firstly, we remi...

 This week Year Rima have been rescuing our bird corridor trees from under an avalanche of kikuyu grass. Some of the trees have quadrupled i...

 This week Year Five spent time trampling the kikuyu grass around the native trees we planted.  Some have already doubled in size! We hope t...

What a wonderful legacy our Year 6's have left for the local environment today; 650 native trees planted on our western boundary thanks ...