Miss Clegg's Class: Butterfly Gardening

Miss Clegg's Class: Butterfly Gardening: Yesterday Room 2 went out and got started on our Butterfly Garden. We removed all of the rocks, trimmed the hedge and have now placed some c...

Toko School Bees: Bee Suits

Toko School Bees: Bee Suits: Our bee suits have arrived!!!  We have purchased 6 bee suits using our Fonterra Grass Roots Fund money. We also got 6 pairs of gloves and ...

Toko School Bees: Our hive arrives!

Toko School Bees: Our hive arrives!: This blog post was written on Thursday 28th September when the bees arrived.  Today has been a super exciting day for Room 4 as our beehiv...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: New produce - Feijoas and Pumpkins

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: New produce - Feijoas and Pumpkins: Room 2 have lots of yummy feijoas to sell - $2.00 per kg.  We also have lots of pumpkins - $4.00 each.

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Hand Made Lavender Soaps

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Hand Made Lavender Soaps: Room 7 have hand made lavender soaps for sale for Mothers Day.  These will be on sale in Room 7 on Friday.

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: ACWW South Pacific Conference

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: ACWW South Pacific Conference: Today our Enviro Leaders hosted delegates from the Associated Country Women of the World South Pacific Area Conference. What a wonderful le...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Enviro Leaders Speaking at the Stratford District ...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Enviro Leaders Speaking at the Stratford District ...: On the 13th December our Enviro Leaders were invited to speak at the last Stratford District Council meeting of the year to share our school...

Room 4's Class Blog: Fairgo ad awards video

Room 4's Class Blog: Fairgo ad awards video

We came second well done Toko School, Room 4 and Mr Dillon!!!!

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: The Taranaki Floral Art Society visited Toko Schoo...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: The Taranaki Floral Art Society visited Toko Schoo...: Today our enviro class showed 67 ladies around our school to share our enviro learning.  It was a lot of fun and they bought lots of our yu...

Kohanga

Kia ora koutou.

Photos from some of my Enviroschool visits in the last couple of weeks.

Toko Green-Gold Celebration

Raising the Enviroschool Flag.

Tikorangi School at Parāhuka/Te Niho o Te Atiawa, Parihaka Pā.

Mangorei School

Mangorei students have been busy.

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Term 1 Enviro Cooking with Rhubarb

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Term 1 Enviro Cooking with Rhubarb: Click on the link to view our slide show.

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Cooking with Rhubarb - our thoughts

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Cooking with Rhubarb - our thoughts: Manu  I enjoyed cutting the Rhubarb because it's the first time I've ever done  it. I enjoyed washing the Rhubarb one by one.  I ...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Making Bunting for our Enviro Stall

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Making Bunting for our Enviro Stall: Bunting was really fun and interesting. We traced the letters onto special paper. We then ironed the letters onto the fabric we choose. Then...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: 2016 - Enviro Warriors Club

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: 2016 - Enviro Warriors Club: This year we have started an Enviro Warriors Club. The purpose of this club is to look at what we can do with the food we grow at school and...

Royal Visit!

Enviroschools Taranaki was invited to take part in the recent Royal Visit to New Zealand, given how interested Prince Charles is in sustainability and empowering youth. A party of around 50 represented Enviroschools in the region near the Te Rewa Rewa bridge.

Katie Sinclair & Bailey Bright from Opunake High School spoke with His Royal Highness and explained what they do within their school and the community to support sustainability within their region. Simon Fuller, Opunake High School’s Principal, was on hand to discuss with the Prince how great Enviroschools is for students and the school in general. In particular, His Royal Highness was impressed with the students’ community work and their recent trip to Bali where they volunteered at schools either teaching English or helping build a classroom.

     

Kim Waite, Principal, Marie Stark, lead Enviroschools teacher, & Keith Mitchell, BOT Chair, all from Toko School, were able to demonstrate the benefits of having the full support of the staff and Board to create success in an Enviroschool. Toko School is a prime example of this with their recent Silver Enviroschool achievement. Around 35 Toko school students from the Envirogroup were on hand to explain to the Prince the results of their investigations into the differences between rural and coastal waterways and what was required to sustain each.

Lauree Tito, Regional Coordinator for Taranaki Enviroschools & Esther Kirk, Resource and PD Manager for Toimata Foundation, were able to further explain the benefits of the Enviroschools programme to His Royal Highness. Lauree and Esther presented him with a copy of the 2014 national Enviroschools census report.

Lauree is really proud to have been able to showcase the Enviroschools kaupapa and thanks the students & staff for the fabulous job they all did of representing their schools, their whānau, their community & the province. It was an honour to be part of the day.

   

    

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Road Side Stall

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Road Side Stall: Today we set up a stall to sell lots of Enviro products.  We are hoping that lots of people out and about for the Taranaki Rhododendron Fes...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: The Stratford District Council Came Visiting Today...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: The Stratford District Council Came Visiting Today...: Kate and Neil, Stratford Mayor, popped in for a visit today.  Our students showed them around what we have been up to on the Enviro front.Th...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Fun in the sun

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Fun in the sun: Today we put sheep poo on our fruit trees.  We are on the look out for more of this for our orchard.  All donations gratefully  received. ...

IVHQ "Enviro Makeover" at Toko School

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Orchard Maintenance

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Orchard Maintenance: It was a busy day today in the orchard.  We had to copper spray our plums and peaches and we had a tidy up around the fruit trees.  We also ...