Cook Book Launch - Mahira

Eco System Services Year 8 Rich Task Rm 7 - Eleanor Preece- Honeysett

Waste Audit Balmoral School 2012

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Balmoral Farmers Market -Whanau Whetu and Koru market day

T.K the Tidy Kiwi

Kia Ora Te Whanau.


Introducing our Eco Friend T.K


T.K the Tidy Kiwi is a home traveler.  His passion is looking after our school  environment. His job?  To find out how Balmoral School Community  are looking after their enviroment.  TK visits classes with his own travel diary.  Classes are encouraged to write the good things that are happening within and around  their rooms. 


T.K is an award rather than a reward- He likes to acknowledge pro active behaviors around Waste Management the 3 R's, Gardens, Farmers Markets, Eco systems, Power savers, and all things sustainable.

T.K looks very forward to spending time in your classrooms.

 Rebecca :-)

Room 12 labeling, reducing, recycling, reusing - TK says Ka Pai.

Balmoral Eco Warriors Presents:  The Eco Disco

 Eco Disco are held outside with a battery powered boom box.  Entry is gold coin donation and  a good a
attitude. Funds raised go towards school gardens projects.  Thanks for all  of your kind donations.

Room 31 and Room 26 worked together to make an Action Plan for Waste Wise- we thought of ideas and actions to help our school with the 3 R's

Prison or Paradise- Looking after our Rocky Shore Room 26

Around our school we have waste stations to help us with recycling.  They are coded  in 3 colours.  Red for general rubbish  (Non- Recyclables), Blue for Recyclables (glass, plastics, not glad wrap) and Yellow for strictly cardboards and paper.  We encourage all brought packaging  from home to be returned  home by placing used rubbish back into our school lunchboxes, to be recycled or re-used at home.- thanks for helping us  look after our school environment- by being Tidy Kiwis!

Disco Man Makes a Change.

A film about making positive changes to the environment by making positive choices.  Created in collaboration with the Balmoral ICT club and the Balmoral Eco Warriors, (with help from the Auckland Council).-2011

Balmoral Eco Warriors- keeping it green since 2008.

Kia Ora and Welcome to Balmoral School's Eco Blog

Our Eco blog is an online community that shares ideas about Sustainability Education in and around our school community.

Our Eco blog was born from a think tank, called the Balmoral Eco Warriors.  The Balmoral Eco Warriors is an all age’s key environmental action group at our school who have a passion for keeping things sustainable since around 2008. The Balmoral Eco Warriors meet weekly on Thursdays in Room 26 – all new members are welcome.

At Balmoral School we endorse the New Zealand Curriculum key value of Ecological Sustainability. As educators we encourage this value, to be modelled and explored via embedding sustainability education through real life learning experiences, such as the inquiry process through cross curricular learning such as Art, Literacy, Maths, Rich Tasks, ICT and Philosophy, by utilising all of the Balmoral Habits.   As a school we work closely in partnership with the Auckland Council and their Educators around waste and gardening.

Our School is a Waste Wise School which means our school is on a contract with the Auckland Council to help educate our students and the community in ways to help reduce rubbish and recycle where possible such as paper, food scraps and general waste. We have approximately 50 kilograms of waste coming out of our school every day. Our goal and challenge as a school is to reduce this by recycling, reducing to ensure all lunchbox rubbish is returned home to be responsibly recycled. Waste found at school is to be placed in the school waste stations that situated around the school, Red coloured bins for general waste, yellow for recyclables and blue bins for strictly  paper.

We also have a school orchard on the far banks of our school field that we have worked in partnership with the community, planting, pruning, and fertilising.   We also have Whanau/Syndicates gardens wherein by classes are encouraged to grow vegetables with their classes and have garden to table experiences, explore and experience the process of the Farmers Market which will be held after school and/or the PTA Great Day Out and celebrate Matariki- the Maori New Year by planting vegetables as part of this annual celebration.

If you have any ideas and suggestions you would like to share about Sustainability Education please email me rebecca@balmoral.school.nz 

Together we can Manaaki Whenua - care for our land.

Room 21- Apple picking from our school orchard.

Room 12-Rich Task 2011.

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