This year will be our 50th Jubilee. That means the school has been open 50 years.

Enviro group has been working hard to make sure our environment is at it's best. We have been planting new plants and tidying up our gardens. We want to be proud of the school.

We looked at some of the gardens and what a mess! The weeds took over during the holidays. As we weeded we found all sorts of lovely goodies and Janine and Olivia decided to use them to make a lovely salad. We were able to eat the salad when we finished. Yum!

Important Dates for Next Year
Feet First - leave your cars at home - all year
Arbor Day - 5 June
Conservation Week - 10 - 17 September

The compost has finally rotted and turned into earth. We dug it out and put it onto Room 4 and Room 15 gardens. They were then able to plant their new plants. We found thousands of worms in the compost.

Room Three's Potatoes
On Friday we were finding potatoes in our garden. We saw the potatoes under the ground and we saw worms. The potatoes were small. We used our hands to pick them out.
On Monday we washed the potatoes and cooked them. We ate them. They tasted delicious.
by Shyla & Melinda

On Friday we made soup from the vegetables in our garden. First we went around and harvested all the vegetables that were ready. Then Mrs Dale used some of them to put in the staff lunch soup. The rest were made into a soup for Room 13. We had to pick off the caterpillars and snails but that meant our vegetables were organic and had not been sprayed. It was fun digging potatoes, we had not done that before.

BNZ Closed for Good 9.3.11

We were luck enough to get 8 BNZ staff helping us this year. In the morning they finished the job enviro group had been working on by putting bark around the vegetable gardens by Room 15. They also put bark on the driveway garden, chopped down the privet on our native walkway and filled Room 11, 15 and 18 gardens with soil. In the afternoon they worked with the enviro group to clear and weed the walkway path.