Wonderful wonderful worms!

Some Eco Warriors interviewed Lyndsey, our fabulous worm caregiver about Balmoral's worm farms....

Kakapo market

Some classes from Whanau Whetu recently held a lunchtime market to raise money for the endangered kakapo, as part of their CIB learning.  

Two of our Eco Warriors interviewed some of the market organizers.  

Enjoying the gardens

Year 3 and 4 children sketching and observing in the gardens at Explorer Time. 

Lights out!

We noticed that classes were leaving their lights on when they were out of the room.  We decided to make some signs to remind them to turn off the lights when they leave.  We will save power.

Back to School Road Safety Campaign

This morning a group of Year 5 and 6 students were out on on the Brixton Road crossing with a road safety message for motorists.  The event was organised by Auckland Transport to remind the local community to respect road safety rules and look after our children by driving carefully near schools.  

Clearing out the Intermediate vegetable garden

We realized that the Intermediate's vegetable garden  was very overgrown with weeds.  We spent lunchtime doing a big tidy up. 

Year 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 children working together.  

Rainbow chard and broad beans are growing in the garden.  

Make sure you're pulling out the weeds, and looking after the vegetables! 

Great job! Lots of weeds for the compost bin! 

Fair Trade hot chocolate morning

On May 21st, as part of Fair Trade Fortnight, we held a hot chocolate morning.  The Eco Warriors sold lots of yummy hot chocolates to kids and parents.  We managed to raise $243.40, which goes to Oxfam to support their work with Fair Trade farmers around the world.  

Proud Eco Warriors with our Certificate of thanks from Oxfam.