Kuranui School Environment Group

8/10/2019 Kuranui School Environment Group

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Kuranui School

EnvironmentGroup

Our JourneyPresented by: Bronlee, Bailey,

Dylan, Samuel, Madison.


2/23

Thank You Thank you for giving Kuranui School the privilege

of having a community recycling centre so we can

reduce and reuse.

We will endeavour to continue to educate families

and the community about the need to reduce,

eruse and recycle for the sustainability of our local

environment.

The paper and cardboard

rubbish generated at our

school per week


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Why recycling is important?

Recycling is important because the things we use

are made from certain things from the earth

Plastic is made from oil

Aluminium cans are made from a rock calledBauxite from Australia

Tin cans (steel) is made from black sand (iron ore)

Paper/cardboard is made from trees

Glass is made from white sand (silica)


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Me and my Environment 2009.

During this unit of work at our school we looked atways to enhance our school environment and to

make the environment a pleasurable place to be.

Room 1 created a vegetable garden, Room 3

cleaned up horse paddock and made plans for anedible orchard and Room 5 created the fernery.

In 2009 we created a vision map and the following is our journey toward

achieving our Silver Enviro-Schools Award.


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What has been

achieved since

the vision map

was created in

2009?


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Play Area:

The hole on the spider-web has been fixed.

We have stronger sandpit toys.

The sandpit has been fixed.

We have a new tyre swings in the junior

playground.We have a trampoline with a net around it.


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Field:

We have portable soccer nets.

We have a volley ball net.

We have a tunnel under the fort.

Concrete Areas:o We have new concrete markings.


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Energy:

We have a pool cover to help keep the pool

warmer and stop the water evaporating.

Lunch Area/Seating:We have picnic tables for eating at.

We have shade sails to eat and relax under.


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Fencing:

We have a fence around the playgroundarea to keep the balls out of the river.

We have a bus gate.

Buildings & Grounds:We have a sick-bay for sick children.

Beautification:We have had some murals painted in the

school on the target wall.


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We have a worm farm.

We have lids on the recycling bins.

We have rubbish free lunchboxes.

Creatures:We have a bird table. Planted more native trees to atract native birds.

back to our native area.

Zero Waste:


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Gardens:

We have replanted some of the gardens.

We have extended the vegetable gardens.

We have created a tyre garden.

We have planted strawberries.

We have planted more native trees.

We have planted fruit trees.


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We have even done an awesome project

that wasnt on the vision map.

Stream Planting

Why? To help keep the water clean.

To stop landslides.

To prevent pollution.


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Stream Planting (2011)

In 2011 willow trees that were blocking the

Waiomou Stream behind our school were

removed, and the students of Kuranui School

planted new native trees .


14/23

Cleaning up the banks of Waiomou

Stream.


15/23

Planting 2011


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Our Edible Orchard 2011. After much designing and planning in 2010 and

Mrs Jones efforts to find funding for our plans

from Fonterra, we started to build our edible

orchards with help from our teachers, parents and

a student form Waikato University.

Now it is completed and we are beginning to see

some fruit forming on our growing trees and

plants.


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Stream planting (2012)

In 2012 we planted another section of the Waiomou

Stream river bank.

The plants help the river stay clean by holding the bank

together.

Plants fliter the phosphates that are in the fertilisers

used on the surrounding paddocks to our school.


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Learning with Rien.

Rein, from Environment Waikato, helps us withour planting.

He taught us about were the streams and riverslead in our catchment.

He taught us about important places and landmarks in our local area.

Rein is great and teachs us heaps of importantinformation about the water in our area.


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Stream planting (2013)

Once again the students, friends and parents of

Kuranui School tackled another section of our

stream boundary to plant.

We enjoyed sharing our growing knowledge andunderstanding of planting and stream protection

with the new or younger members of our school.


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Stream Planting 2013


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Our school commitment to

Community planting programmes.

Each year Kuranui school children from Room 5

support planting programmes undertaken by both

The S.W.D.C. and Environment Waikato. Students

help to plant at the Te Waihou Walkway and at

Lake Okoroire.


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Our Journey has not ended!

Thank you for supporting the development of

learning around the protection and sustainability

of our environment for future generations!

Together we can achieve more .


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Thanks for Helping Us

!!!!

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