A retrospective look at Enviroschools at Greenhithe School

This post, written a few years ago, is a snapshot of what has happened in the past in Greenhithe School.


Enjoy!



Over the past few years we have been involved in lots of enviro projects in our school. Here are some examples of what we do at Greenhithe to help look after our planet.

All Greens

Children in Year 4-6 can apply to be a member of the All Greens, one of our School Enviro teams. In 2009 the All Greens made a video and planted over 200 native plants in our school grounds.

Worm Farmers

Children from all year levels help to run our worm farms.  We have six worm farms now, filled with thousands of very busy and hungry worms.  We save sending lots of waste to the landfill by feeding our food scraps to the worms instead. They produce wonderful worm wee which we sell for people to use on their gardens.  Sometimes we use it to feed the plants in our school gardens too.  The plants love it.

To buy some worm wee for your garden, email katherineb@greenhithe.school.nz

Power Savers

We have a team of year 4-6 students who are our ‘Power Savers’.  The Power Savers have made pledges to help our school save power.  All classrooms have been provided with awesome light switch frames created by year 3 and 4 students.  These frames remind everyone to turn off the lights when they leave the room.  We are also a Schoolgen school. We have solar panels on our roof generating power for our school.  To see how much power we have generated today check out the Schoolgen website: www.schoolgen.co.nz

Waste Checkers 

Another fabulous team of year 4-6 students are our waste checkers.  They check that classes are remembering to recycle and reduce the amount of waste they are sending to landfill.  The winning class from each syndicate is found each week and presented with the Waste Wise Award in assembly.

Travel Wise Team

Our awesome travel wise team checks up on how many children are walking, biking or scootering to school each week.  The best class can win the Golden Boot award.

Other Enviro Projects

In 2007 the Junior School planned and created a beautiful butterfly garden. 

They transformed this…

 into this… 

 

In 2008 the juniors created some beautiful murals around the school.  Some classes have made lovely mosaic tiles which you can see in the butterfly garden and the native garden.

In 2008 each child in the middle syndicate planted a native plant in our new native garden.   In 2009 the All Greens planted 200 more plants in there. 

With the help of lots of wonderful parents we have transformed this…

Into this…

We even have a kaitiaki in our garden.  We hope our plants will help protect the waterways and provide new homes for some native birds.