Stratford Primary- Enviro Super Sustainability!

Stratford Primary, Year 2's have been busy learning how to look after their Environment and how the Environment looks after us!

See the link below to check out what our Year 2 students have been up to.

Room 14 Year 2 Enviro Blog Page

Let's Go people. A challenge for all Enviroschools here for September

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Green Gold Enviro Movie 2016

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Green Gold Enviro Movie 2016

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Garden Rambles

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Garden Rambles: Michael Self, from the TV show Garden Rambles, came to visit today. He spent time with Room 5, our enviro class and our enviro leaders. We ...

Stratford primary school CAPOW!

Curious About Processing Organic Waste

At Stratford Primary we have formed a group of Year 3 - 6 students called CAPOW and we are investigating the best way to process organic waste on-site at school.

We want to be a more sustainable school and process our food scraps, weeds, lawn clippings and leaves so we can use the compost to grow healthy trees, vegetables and fruit in our school environment. We will be looking at different systems like worm farms, tumbler compost, bokashi, worm towers and hot and cold composts. One of the things we have learn’t is that the soil is living and it’s so important we look after it so it can grow our food.

Together with our sister school, Matapu, we were successful with our application and have received funds to help us setup and carry out the CAPOW project. The funding is part of Curious Minds Taranaki and Venture Taranaki helps make it happen. We would like to thank them so much for the money and help. We are one of eight community led projects in Taranaki that received funding.

All of us students are really interested in science and technology. We are excited to be working with a scientist Mr Coplestone from Industrial Chemistry Services, who is going to show us how a scientist investigates and works. We are also looking forward to working with CAPOW Matapu and visiting their school environment.

Stratford Primary School Waste Audit

 On Thursday 9th of June, 2016 a group of students from Year 3 to 6 did a waste audit in the SPS hall. All the classes rubbish was collected for one day.

Mr Archer and Nadine who is the waste minimisation officer from the Taranaki regional council helped sort and weigh the food scraps, general waste and recycling.

We found out how much waste we produce in a day. We also found we are still throwing out a lot of glad wrap and chippie packets. Compared to last year it was an enormous improvement. This time last year we were putting out twelve wheelie bins a week and now only two-three wheelie bins a week!

We would like to be the first school in Taranaki to be a zero waste school. To keep this up we need to use reusable containers, buy in bulk and being responsible for our rubbish and take it home.

By Michael Lobb and

Aiden Huttered

Tikorangi & International Volunteer HQ

Ka pai Tikorangi, what an awesome day! Ngā mihi nui ki ngā kaimahi o International Volunteer HQ!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/midweek/82622267/international-volunteer-hq-staff-muck-in-at-tikorangi-school

Check out the International Volunteer HQ's website  https://www.volunteerhq.org

Inspiring article

http://thisnzlife.co.nz/small-country-school-turning-profit-land/

Oakura sand dune planting at Weld Road

Ahititi: Kōkako

Ahititi have been learning about kōkako. This is very important to the students and community as the council are preparing to do a 1080 drop in the area beside the school in preparation for the release of kōkako back into the bush. Paul Prip from the Taranaki Regional Council visited to show the tamariki the traps they use, answer questions about the 1080 drop and talk about the kōkako.

Bronze: Spotswood Primary

A massive congratulations to Spotswood Primary for reflecting at bronze. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa!!

Check out all the amazing things happening at Kahikatea Kindergarten

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: West End School Came to Visit Today

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: West End School Came to Visit Today: Our enviro leaders have had fun sharing our schools journey today with two teachers from West End School.

Heidi's Blog: Leaf Collecting

Heidi's Blog: Leaf Collecting: On Monday Mrs Hinton found a recipe to make compost out of leaves. So Renee chose 4 people to go and collect some leaves with her and two o...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Pomanders For Sale

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Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Uruti School Visited Today

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Uruti School Visited Today: We have had a great day with Uruti School today.  They spent most of their visit learning about our environmental initiatives. They couldn&...

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: New Babies

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: New Babies:                                                Chicken Update Last week Richie (Mum) and Honey (Dad) had 8 baby chickens. One di...

Stratford Primary School students creating harakeke putiputi

Written by Ella 

Making harakeke putiputi with Pare and Jocelyn for the school gala day.

A handful of SPS Tui’s Enviro students took part in a workshop making harakeke flowers.

When making the flowers we learnt lots of skills like patience, manaakitanga and perseverance. An added extra was that we learnt the correct way to cut harakeke and prepare it for weaving.

The money we raised from selling the putiputi is going towards native plants for our fish pond garden makeover. 

We really enjoyed making the harakeke flowers, thank you to Pare and Jocelyn for teaching us!

Really fab to see the SPS Tui's supporting their DP in the best way they know how xxx

Check out the link here from the Stratford Press

SPS Tui's and Marlene send off Kerry in true Enviroschools style

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Avon School Visited our School Today

Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Avon School Visited our School Today: Our environmental leaders had a great time today sharing our environmental journey. Avon School gave us some plants. When they left we gave...