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Room 14 Action Plan 2009
Hello everyone. Room 14 has been working all year on 'Water Usage' at Onehunga Primary School. We have gathered data from 2008 and 2009 and compared them month by month and term by term. The children have found a lot of differences between last year and this year - especially the usage over January when no-one is supposed to be at school. This is still a work in progress.

We have also been working on establishing our garden. Originally it was full of weeds and had no plants that anyone could see. We have weeded the garden and found 3 camelias, one of them is red. We have now planted lavendars to go with the rosemary plant that we also found. The garden is at the top of a gobe wall and many children use it as a shortcut so the Room 14 children have made signs to remind everybody to keep off the garden.

We have had a lot of vandals through the school since our garden was planted. This is very sad as they have destroyed many of our plants, which we tried to save but they have since died. We are waiting to have them replaced (one lot of vandals was caught and the police contacted), so at the moment our garden is not looking too good. In another attack on our garden they pulled off most of the signs and some of them disappeared. The others will have to be replaced. Thank you to all the children at Onehunga Primary for remembering to keep off the gardens, it does make it easier for the class involved to keep their gardens in tip top shape.