Tread Lightly Caravan

The Senior School had a visit from the Tread Lightly Caravan in Term 3. Students participated in activities about sustainable practices. At the end of the session, students chose a pledge. Back in the classrooms they learnt how they could implement the pledge into their daily lives.

How does this help the environment? If you reuse things less resources are used and there will also be less rubbish. Cathy

How does this help the environment?
This will save energy which means less pollution for the environment.

How does this help the environment?
If e-waste goes into landfills the poison in them goes into the environment and also e-waste never breaks down.

How does this help the environment?
Soft plastics are things made from plastic that you can scrunch up and they go in a soft plastic recycling bin, bottles and jars go in the recycling bin and they then can be made into something else.

We Know Have An Orchard!

We Now Have An Orchard!

The senior members of the Enviro Group planted our fruit trees at lunch time today.  They've been in our vision for a long time, so it's great to finally get them in the ground.  We hope they feed Sunnyhills for years to come.

Experiments to test the soil to see if it is suitable for planting fruit trees

On Wednesday the 7 September the Enviro group conducted experiments to test the soil in the area where we are proposing to plant the fruit trees.  Fortunately the soil passed.  The next job is to work out exactly where to plant them so they get the maximum amount of sunlight and enough space to grow

                                                          Setting up for the experiment

                                                       
                                                             Collecting samples of soil

                                                               Discussing the results

                                                                      The results

Building Our Enviro Vision - The Project Completed in our August Working Bee

What a super successful working bee we had again at Sunnyhills.  A beautiful fine day and many willing hands.  Thank you to all the wonderful parents who came along and helped.

The Projects worked on were:
Our new sculpture garden at the end of Room 2.
Removing the pile of top soil from the car park 
Filling the Junior Adventure Playground with soft-fall 
Stacking the bricks ready for sale
Planting a camellia hedge along Room 14 and 15
Back-filling along the pathway to Fordyce.
Painting the seating at the end of Room 14 
Applying the first coat of stain to Tree Island

Our School looks awesome!

Working Bee - Tree Island - Soft Fall for Adventure Playground - Colourful Seating

August Working Bee Car Park Tidy Up

August Working Bee Planting of the Camellia Hedge