Enviro News:

We have a huge team of BNZ “closed for good” workers here helping to enhance our school’s environment. They hope to stain the senior playground, replenish the sand in the junior sandpit, repaint games on the court, clean out compost bins to name just a few of things they will be doing. We are really looking forward to seeing what can be achieved and we would like to thank Stacey McLean for organising this wonderful opportunity for us. Thanks also to those families who have lent us their wheelbarrows for the day.

This term our enviro-agents are busy in our vegetable garden. They have just planted more winter veggies. They hope to have some ready for harvest in time for Matariki. They are also learning about and making preparations for growing strawberries.

A junior enviro-group has been started thanks to Ms Hooper. They have called themselves the “Greenie Gardeners”. They meet regularly and have already planted bulbs and undertaken the huge job of weeding our front entrance gardens.

We hope soon to start a regular stall on a Monday night selling our produce and worm wee. More info on this when we’re ready to go.

Please, please, please don’t forget to add your ideas and comments to our tree in the school reception area. Your input is vital to our planning. All comments and feedback are most welcome. Pick up your sticker from Mrs Allen.

Meet our Groovy Gardeners

Here are our Groovy Gardeners planting daffodil bulbs and cinerea plants.  These are a group of enthusiastic junior school children who are keen to help look after our environment at Woodstock School.  We are certainly lucky to have them involved in our Enviro Programme.

Hard at work

Here are some of the Enviro Agents hard at work in Vegie Heaven.  Thanks again to Ethan Johnson for these photos

Planting Time at Vegie Heaven

Thanks to Ethan Johnson for these photos of our latest round of planting in Vegie Heaven

We need your help

As part of our continuing “Enviro School Vision” we would like to gather ideas from our Woodstock School Community in order to reflect on the process we are undertaking. This will enable us to have a shared sense of inter-relatedness growing within our school, our community and our environment in regards to the direction we are taking.  To achieve this we asking each  group within our community, for example, students, parents, whanau, PTA, BOT, staff, Pasifika, Somali, other important cultural groups etc to record their thoughts on a colour-coded ‘sticky note’ and leave it on our tree.

We would like you to consider these ideas:

·       What do you see as the positive aspects of Enviro-schools for our children and community?

·       What do think should be the key priorities? (As they relate to you/your group)?

·       How can you help? – do you have any resources available that we can draw on to help us?

·       What could we do to make our school an even better enviro-school?

·       Any other comments you would like to add…

We appreciate and value your support with this. Sticky notes will be available at various meetings you attend as members of our school and at the office if you are a parent or a visitor to our school.

Your comments will be collated and published when this process is completed.
Many thanksThe Woodstock School Enviro Committee.

Times up for your Spud in a Bucket

How are those potatoes going? It’s the last weekend for watering and bestowing lots of tender loving care on your potatoes. The Annual Woodstock School Potato Growing Competition is Tues 13 Dec. Please bring your buckets in on Tuesday morning to your classroom and we’ll see who as the biggest and the most potatoes.

Meet our new Scarecrow "Sticky"

As part of Room 15's technology unit 'Making Plastic Fantastic" these clever boys reused milk bottles to make this wonderful scarecrow for our garden. His name is 'Sticky"  He will make a wonderful addition to Vegie Heaven

Meet Sticky