Staff meeting this afternoon...

We were put on the spot - we had to write & share...(eeek...) Caragh (Ms Briggs) our Environment leader at school asked us to write a piece about what we have done at Greytown School .... we are now  a GREEN/GOLD Enviro School (yay).
P.s....this isn't a finished piece - but we were asked to share it to show our children that we have to write too (hehe).

Nau Mai, Haere Mai

As a staff member & a parent of Greytown School I am very PROUD to say that we are a GREEN/GOLD

Environment School. 
This MEANS that we are as environmentally sustainable as possible.

Now this didn’t happen over night - but it did happen!

What is Sustainability? (link de link!)

Over a number of years, many hardworking souls -  teachers, students, parents and members of our community have worked together to improve Greytown School’s Environment.
This is a venture that started as a group of minds coming together, it is a venture that will continue on into the lives of our future generations.

From crawlies flowing freely in the sparkling, running north creek to the pride of place gateway of tree laden Matariki garden. In between these two magical, mystical places is the gorgeous growing ground of Greytown School - growing  learning, SHARP, experimental, loving, kind  21st century students to work and play amongst a sustainable environment.

Where red and green bins are used to teach children to REUSE, RECYCLE, REDUCE!

Daily visits to busy classrooms to collect food waste, to then be presented to eagerly awaiting hungry worms - the circle of life, they eat...

Worm wees  and crusty compost to lie on top of our gorgeous garden...

The overflowing vegetable garden where golden carrots, crunchy potatoes, leafy green silverbeet, sprightly herbs and pumpkins heave out of their soils to produce hearty soups for children on a cold winter’s morn. These same vegetables are baked or cooked by the super hero Mrs Heard, who with her sleeves rolled up, she digs in, digging up the vegetables with a group of studious Environment group students.

The life cycle...we plant, we grow, we eat…

We want our children to be living in an environment like we were..

clean, green, mean machines!