We are building a cold frame so that we can grow plants and trees for riparian planting. We are going to give them to farmers in our community. We use left over wood because we are a school that recycles.
Some of the boys have building a fence by the bottle house and the mara (garden) to keep the rabbits out. Like the cold frame all the stuff we used is recycled wood.
For the last 2 terms some of the boys have been digging out the agapanthus in the pool area. We don't want them there anymore because they are a weed and they have been taking over the area where people like to sit. In the spring we are going to plant new trees to give us shade when we go swimming in the summer.
In Term 1 for STEAM the whole school learnt to make paper model cubes. Later in the term we used these skills to make models of our sandpit designs. In Term 2 we had to vote for the top 3 designs and then the one with the most votes won. We asked the BOT if we could build a new sandpit and they said yes and they gave us $1000 towards it. Some of the boys have been helping to shift the dirt we don't need. Paul our caretaker is doing most of the building but we are allowed to help sometimes. We are using some of the dirt to fill in water puddles on the field.
To get our garden up and running we have started some new seedlings. We have made seedling pots out of newspaper and the trays that these pots sit in are made out of wood we have recycled. We made the trays ourselves. The seed trays will live in the bottle house until the weather gets warmer.
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