Rangitaiki Independent School

Enviroschools

In 2004 our school became an Enviroschool.  During the year we established and continued with different ways to;

REDUCE WASTE AND CREATE WAYS TO REUSE AND RECYCLE!

 

At our school we:

· Have two worm bins. We put our food scraps in them.   The ‘waste’ from the worms go onto our new gardens

· Have compost bins.  When the worm bins are full, we put the food into the compost bins.

· Use paper on both sides.   All classes at Rangitaiki Independent have green paper recycling bins. Once the paper is used on both sides, we put it into big wool bags to be recycled.

· Take lunch waste home.  To reduce school rubbish, we take any rubbish from our lunchboxes home.  We try to bring lunch that doesn’t come from a packet.  All our food scraps get feed to the worms.  We only have 2 regular sized council rubbish bins that go out on Thursday for our whole school!  Sometimes they are not even full!

· Have a wonderful Enviro-Garden where students grow and take home vegetables.

 

A lot of planning took place within our envirogroup before deciding on what we wanted our enviro area to look like.  Envirogroup members held meetings in their classes to decide what the students wanted.

 

Enviro Garden

Our criteria:

·  Fruit trees

· A garden for each class

· A rotating garden system –permaculture

· Shade

· Places to sit

· Mosaics

· Move worm bins

· Use mainly recycled building materials

 

A competition was held to design the garden.  Nicole’s design, in the shape of the school’s logo was chosen.  We met a landscape architect. He helped draw the plan.

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