Marco School Car Park

This is a great achievement for Marco School Board of Trustees.

WE ARE GETTING A CARPARK!

Marco school worm farm

Marco School worm farm was made from an old bath and some posts. It was put together at the school working bee. 

We shred our paper (that has been used on both sides) and feed it to the worms.

The worms have a nice carpet on top to keep them warm.

The worm wee is used on the gardens.

Delicious preserves!

Marco School
Plum Jam Preserves

This is how delicious Marco School preserves are... One week and I'm nearly half way through! I look forward to plum jam on toast every morning.

Fruit trees

Marco School has a large variety of fruit trees. These fruit trees have been happily donated by Mr Stockwell, the Rural Woman’s Group and our community here at Whangamomona, Kohuratahi, and Tahora. But not all the money that is put into our fruit trees is from donations, we also buy fruit trees with the money from our preserves. Oh, sorry I forgot to mention that we also use the fruit that our fruit trees produce and we make preserves. We sell our preserves and make money from them.

Marco art

Marco School art teacher Miss Spencer comes about once a year. We have painted Marco Polo chasing the pig, and then it was the pig chasing Marco however the dog got killed. That’s why our school is called Marco School. We have also made a mural on our school changing shed of a forest with native birds and native trees on.

Earth Oven

Marco school earth oven

Our earth oven was made on a very rainy morning with Makahu and Huiakama Schools. We also had the help of Captain Enviro and his girlfriend (we think).

All the kids helped make it.  Mrs Spencer our art teacher, who comes up every 6 months, suggested making it as part of an art project.

Its made out of clay on the top, with glass bottles under the broken concrete to keep all the heat in. On top of the concrete are bricks, then clay bricks (which we made).  Rick (our handy man) made us the small wooden door from ply wood.

We've used it about 10 times - we made delicious pizzas and one time we cooked our pies in it because our power went out! It worked!

Welcome to Marco School

Welcome to Marco School, who are participating in the blog project. They are a small full primary school out past Whangamomona.