Thursday, 22 August 2013

Enviro award


More about Waste!


All about waste!

We had a visitor called Janet from the Sustainability Trust come and talk to us about waste. She presented a slide show to the middle and junior syndicate members of the enviro group. It was really interesting. 










Here is some of the information we learnt: 

Glass is made out of sand.
Plastic is made out of oil under the ground.
Food breaks down after a while.
If we run out of room at one dump, we have to cut more trees down. We need trees and can't just cut them down for more armlandfills, so landfills are not the best option.
Food comes from farms.

We got to look at look at waste and talk about how we would sort the rubbish.

Term 3 Week 2 and 3 - THE POSTCARD PROJECT!


Friday, 28 June 2013

Fair trade

ENVIRO GROUP WEEK 3 TERM 2 2013 1:30pm-2:00pm

Fair trade 


http://fairtrade.org.nz/

Huda: Fair Trade is about the process that it goes through, and how different it is to other kinds of bananas and where they come from.

Emily: Farmers which make the bananas and put lots of efforts into the bananas, they get them to New Zealand. They get the money from which we pay for the bananas.

We read “The World Came to my Place Today.”

The Enviro Group talked about fair trade, and where our bananas come from and what kind of foods come from New Zealand like dairy products milk, cheese, yoghurt, butter. apples, oranges, and so on. 

At the end of the day we were
talking a bit more about fairtrade
and we got some fairtrade chocolate it’s made by cadbury.

We watched the "All Good Bananas" fair trade information DVD. http://allgoodbananas.co.nz/

By Huda

Friday, 22 March 2013

Earth Hour 2013

Earth Hour 

The Johnsonville School Enviro Group has been learning about Earth Hour. 

Earth Hour is about helping to save the world by turning off your lights for an hour. It really makes a difference!- Huda

It saves energy and power. - Zinnia   

Earth Hour is a global event on Saturday the 23rd of March at 8:30pm. 

Turn off your lights, computers, tvs, phone chargers, tablets, iPads and everything that uses power!

Check out   http://www.earthhour.org/   for more information and fun activities and learning!!!!

Monday, 4 February 2013

Worms!

WORMY WORMS! 


A quick end of year post on... Worm farming! We spent the last enviro session for 2012 working on our worm farms.
We have a hungry bin already set up, but wanted to get our second worm farm going. We've spent a couple of sessions learning about worms.

Here we are setting up our "can of worms" worm farm.
Soaking the coconut fibre material that comes with the kit.


Meagan Miller from the Wellington City Council came in to work with us. It was great having her expertise and guidance! Thank you Meagan.


Transferring the material.






Woohoo! The worms will have a great time living here.

Tune in next year for an update!!!