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= = =WE ARE A GREEN GOLD SCHOOL AND WE CONTINUE TO GROW = =On the 9th of June, 2017, Onehunga Primary School had a Green Gold Celebration. The students across the school shared amazing stories with our visitors, parents and students. =

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Our School Sculpture -We take pride to share the story
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__Enviro Celebration in school Friday, 24th N____ ovember - __ ** Students sharing their journey this year and new leaders welcomed for 2018. Parents attended the ceremony. It was followed by kai. **
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=__Enviroschools celebration on December 1st at Western Springs Community Hall__=

The students met children from other schools and discussed projects with them. They also thought about networking with other Enviroschools. =Teachers leading the waka-2017 = [|Link to our amazing stories] == ===[|The process before reflection] === = = =Amazing Stories 2017 =
 * Pohutukawa Team: Students sharing their story about how they collected rubbish and did an investigation. **

====**Totara Team: The Creative Club is very popular with students. Parents have worked hard with the students at lunchtime across the school to create projects. They reuse materials also using natural materials like seeds, shells etc **====

After the students attended the Sustainable Coastlines presentation on 21st February, they thought about the litter in our school and collected the same. They were surprised at how much litter they collected. The students will be involved in a beach clean up (Onehunga Bay) in Sea Week on Tuesday, 7th March. They are also learning about what creatures survive in the Bay. Room 9 & 10 spent most of our trip time along the boardwalk right at the far end. The children turned over rocks very carefully so they could see the animals that lived under there. They found a lot of crabs, sandhoppers and very tine fish. We also saw many different types of birds.
 * Karaka Team: **
 * The students in the Karaka Team shared Duality maps talking about their experiences and how proud they are to belong to two cultures. Dylan talking about the importance of the compost bin in our school.**

New Water Tank in our school- Thanks to the Roots programme



 * Puriri Team: **

__What is it?__ In 2016 we started the Growing Leaders programme. The Growing Leaders programme is an opportunity for our children to further grow into leaders. This initiative recognises self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and encourages students to see themselves as leaders. All Year 4, 5 and 6 students were invited to participate in the first year of this programme. __What did the students have to do?__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__What happened at the end of the year?__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Students handed in their completed booklets to Mrs Holley and Mrs Farley. They then received a bronze Growing Leaders badge at the Buchanans awards afternoon at the end of the year. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__What did we learn from this experience?__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Isabella - how to be a better leader by reflecting on what I could do better and what I could work on to be a better leader. I found out how to make money in different ways. You need to think about the people that you’re leading - will they like my choices that I make? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Hannah - don’t be shy about your ideas. There’s no wrong or right answer <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Elsie - that being a leader is quite hard because you have to think about your actions and choices all the time <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Brook - it helped me learn how to think - like thinking about my community service and realising how much people need things, e.g., ChildFund <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Rose - mistakes are proof that you’re trying <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Rosie - it’s important to be a good leader because then will it also help other people. It would help others because then they can learn from you <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__If we did it again these are the changes we would like to see:__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">-less of the writing, more community service <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">-maybe we could have set days when we come and work on Growing Leaders stuff <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">-we could do a presentation about a leader we’re really inspired by
 * __2016 Growing Leaders programme__ **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">They started with a self reflection where they rated themselves on a scale of 1 - 4, e.g., Reliable - I do things I say I will do, when I say I will do them. This self reflection set children up with their own personal goals.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Students had the opportunity to watch youtube clips about leaders
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Students had a booklet to keep on top of. This included diary entries, reflections about leadership and reflections about their personal goals
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Students had to come up with a community service project that they would work on throughout the year.

__How did we hear about it?__ · Our teacher (Mrs Tu’ugasala) told us that we need to help the people that don’t have homes and that can’t afford to buy things for their family for Christmas · She showed us ads about the Salvation Army asking for help · We watched a clip from the Paul Henry Breakfast show. He interviewed a lady from the Salvation Army. She told us that they needed to help 17,000 families and that there are likely to be even more! __How did we get started?__ · Our teacher made groups: accounting (count the money and the food), security teams that make sure everything is still there and put it away each night and bring it out each money so families can donate, display team who made the donation boxes, advertising who made posters, public relations team who talked to Mrs Holley about it and explained to people why we were doing it… one more · She chose which group we would go in __What next?__ · We made a class plan of what toys we wanted: 60 toys, how much money $200 (we earned way more than that: $700!!) · We made our own vision boards in our books about the positive things that happened · We had our own plans in our groups · We came up with ideas to raise money, e.g., bake sale, lemonade stand, sausage sizzle · Then we did the work __How did it end?__ · A lady from the Salvation Army came to school to collect the money and the toys… her car was packed! · She was so shocked that we collected so much money. She was gobsmacked. She kept on saying how happy she was. Her name was Sharon · Hannah – now I wonder how many people need help and how we can help · Mote – it made me proud about caring for people and helping them and donating == =**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Matariki Celebration 2017: **=
 * __2016 Salvation Army Project - Rm 15 and 17__ **
 * · ** Alex – I’d say it was a good experience because it’s like you’re just helping others that you don’t actually know. You’re helping the outside community, not just your own people.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Our school celebrated matariki and all the students got involved. **

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**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Our School Motto WE CARE **

 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">C- co-operation, A- act safely and be responsible, R- Respect, E- Empathy **

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Term 1: **__
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Our Enviro Leaders for 2016 are Georgia Hay and Larissa Appleby **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Enviro representatives from different classes have been selected. The first few weeks have been busy for the senior and middle school representatives. They have been tidying up the gardens and digging them. The school compost bin has a lot of compost ready to use and the students have been busy at lunch times putting compost in all our gardens across the school. They have worked very hard and we are proud of them. **

[|Enviro Reps]
=__Harvesting and Cooking in school:__= The students in Room 10 had grown potatoes end of last year. This year in February, they dug their garden and harvested two buckets of potatoes. With some staff help they cooked and roasted the potatoes. It was a delicious treat! The students used fresh herbs from our gardens.

==<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.28px;"> == __**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">School Umu: **__ =As part of our cultural activities, the school organised an Umu on the field. On the same day parents and students met their teachers in an informal setting. The students learnt about the process and wrote about it too. Parents and Staff helped on the day, there was a wonderful community feeling.=

= = =__Designing New Badges__:= This term the Enviro reps will also be designing new badges for the representatives.

=Working Bee in school on Saturday 12th March:= ====The garden committee in OPS had a working bee to tidy up our school. The families and people from our community worked hard the full day to chop off unwanted branches from trees, remove weeds, repair broken garden boxes, remove toxic weeds etc==== ==

=Students learning about Sustainability with a focus on NZ birds:=

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The students in years 3 &4 are learning about NZ birds. Room 10 walked around the school and identified places and reasons why birds visit our school. They wrote an explanation about the same. Some reasons were because: students drop crumbs when eating, there are Puriri and karaka tress for berries, our native garden is a safe place for birds, our Kowhai trees invite Tuis, and we have high established trees so birds can make nests.===== =Looking at Kowhai trees our native garden with native trees Birds nests in big trees as they provide safety= =__Term2:__=

Cooking and harvesting in school:
Room 10 harvested cauliflowers, broccoli, herbs and with some parent help cooked cauliflower and cheese balls. Some students went home and shared the recipe with their parents.

=Cleaning and sorting the Worm Bin= The students in the middle school worked with Sarah Lightbody (a parent) to learn and understand more about the worm bin in our school.



The students wrote about their learning in the school newsletter.

Water Sensitive Project in our school
40 students in the middle school were selected to work with Roots learning more about the Importance of Water. They also learnt about the water cycle, water filtration and they created vertical gardens in week 4. In week 5 they received special certificates in a special assembly. [|Link to the Project]



The BNZ Closed for Good volunteers helped tidy our school gardens on 31st August. We thank them for their hard work.
Enviro celebration -end of the year =Students shared their experiences with families.= =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Welcome to 2015 = = = =**Our Enviro Leaders are Caleb Edmunds, Sophia**= =**Johnston & Maia D'Souza.**= =__**Term 1:**__= =**Enviro representatives from different classes have been selected. The students have worked hard in weeks 1-3 tidying up their gardens. In week 4 & 5 the parents and children planted seedlings across the school. We also had a working bee on Sunday March 1st at 3.30 p.m. A group of children and parents helped with planting. [|Some Pictures of our students planting]**= =**Students have been working in gardens, weeding and tidying up.**= = = =**__School Hangi (Maori Perspectives):__ OPS had a hangi and the students learned the sequence of a hangi and Maori protocol**= == = = =Room 12's Bug Garden- Paul (Cosmo's dad) helped the students to create a spiral design in the middle of the Bug garden. They used recycled plastic and stones. The children take pride in their garden.= == = = =**Monica & Dave (Caleb's parents) have built a new Compost Bin for our school. This is the project that was completed after last year's Waste Audit. We found as a school that our Compost Bin was too small and we needed a bigger one for our school. The students created the design and are now using it for composting green waste.**= == = = =**Janine and students in Room 19 have built their own planter boxes. They are growing vegetables and are proud of their new garden space. Here are some enviro reps appreciating Room 19's garden! The other gardens also have lots of vegetables growing. Students will harvest the vegetables later in the year and cook some of the vegetables. Some students in the Totara Team have been growing herbs too.**= == =__April 1st__ the Enviro Leaders had their first meeting with students and parents. Lots of good ideas regarding reducing rubbish in our school. [|Minutes of our Meeting]= = = = = =[|Enviro Reps] for 2015= = = == = = = = =__Term 2, 2015:__= =__**Reducing litter in lunch boxes (Project)**__= =After our leaders meeting at the end of Term 1, the Enviro reps decided to do something about reducing the litter in our lunch boxes.= =Where do we start?? They had many ideas and met with the principal to discuss the same. The first step was to do a surprise check of lunch boxes on a Monday.= =The enviro reps across the school used tally marks to count chippy packets, glad wrap and muesli bar wrappers in all the classes.= =The data was collated( lots of Maths learning) and the results were staggering across the school.= =Data: Chippy packets- 321 Glad wrap- 208 Muesli Bar Wrappers-128= =Total litter= 657 in one day!!= =On Monday, 18th May the Enviro leaders shared their data with the full school at an assembly. They also gave one suggestion to the students about buying a big bag of chips and taking a handful each day in a snap lock bag. This can be both economical and the snap lock bag could be reused. This information will also be printed in the next newsletter.= =**Students demonstrating a litter free lunch box in assembly**= = = = = =__Friendship Seat (project):__= =Mrs Arthur is working with a group of students and the second friendship seat will soon be ready.= == = = =__Harvesting and Cooking in school:__= = We are lucky to get all that rain and our vegetable gardens are ready for harvesting!! and cooking! = = The senior classes cooked stir fry vegetables with meat, one class used herbs for pizzas. The students enjoyed eating fresh vegetables from their gardens. A year 3/4 class cooked broccoli and cauliflower with white sauce. The students found it delicious!! = = The learning was integrated with oral language and writing. Parents helped students with the cooking. = = = = = =__Matariki Celebrations- Maori perspectives__= =Students from the Totara and Karaka Team had a shared lunch to celebrate Matariki. Some girls from the Karaka Team sang a waiata before the shared lunch. Parents joined in too. Students made kites and flew them together.= = = =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 21.8400001525879px;"> = = = =Students in Room 11 learning Ti Rakau for Maori Language Week= == = = = = =__Cultural Mufti Day: Celebrating cultural diversity in our school__= =__The students had a Cultural mufti day on the last day of Term 2. The students donate a gold coin for Enviro Education, this helps us to buy tools and other equipment for the school.__= = = == =Students learning to make a lei with our parents.= = = =__Enviro leaders selling lemonade at a stall in the Mini Fair__= == = = =__Term 3, 2015__= = = =__Working to tidy up our worm bins__= = = == =The worm bin was emptied and the layering was done using shredded paper, leaves, and the worm casts.= =The students understood the importance of layering the worm bin to help the worms to breathe. The students also realized there was a lot of landfill litter in the bin which was removed.= =Also, the students understood that more worms had to be bought. The students explaining the process of layering the bin correctly. A sign will be made requesting students not to litter the bin with any rubbish.= =Worm Food collected each day by worm monitors and given to the worms.= == = = = = =BNZ bank volunteers in our School helping to tidy up our school gardens. Thank you to the Closed in the Hood program. Term 3 week 7= == = = = = =__Enviro Art:__= == = = =**//Term 3 Enviro Art://**= =The Puriri Enviro Art team have been working very hard at designing and creating a new sign for our school. We are still in the early stages but have really enjoyed, deciding on a design, looking for possible locations around the school for our beautiful sign and sorting the bottle caps so we know the colours that will be in our sign. Here are some pictures of our design journey.= = = == == = = =Welcome to 2014= =Our new Enviro Leaders are : Tina and Michael please look at our class gardens by clicking on the classrooms over on the right ! Also check out our other projects and below for more of our enviro activities.....= = = = If you have been invited to our meetings Google Doc please click HERE = = = = Onehunga Primary School is working with the Full Circle Recycling Awards Programme.....see how you can support this or find out more here: [|Full Circle Recycling] = = Waste Audit: = =Check out our waste audit results...some exciting improvements like the efficient use of scrap paper systems and worm bin usage. Some new goals for us too like reducing landfill waste even further. Check out the information below to see what you can do to help. We are beginning a focus on making litter less lunches a habit. This is not only better for our earth but better for families pockets and the schools too!!= = = == == = = =How our waste usage has improved below:= = = == = = == =Onehunga Primary entered a competition with Mother Earth. We didn't win but it was a valuable learning experience so we wanted to share our entry!= = = =media type="custom" key="24133772"= = = =media type="custom" key="23326168"= = = = = = = = = = = = = = Sustainable Goals - 2012 = =We are still continuing our Green-Gold standard even though we have achieved it. We are working on keeping sustainable goals to KEEP our school a Green-Gold school. For example some school wide goals we are working on right now are:= = = = = = =  We are a GREEN-GOLD school! = = = Our Green-gold reflection day was on 7 September, 2010 - a fantastic achievement! = = Well done to all! = = = =After getting our award we reflected again on why in relation to the guiding principles - here is our statement.= = = = = **Environmental Education at Onehunga Primary** = = =Welcome to our Envirowiki. If you look at the navigation bar on the right you will see this year and last year's work for each class. Please have a look to see how we are going.= = = =As a school we have been on a journey for a number of years with environmental education. You may wish to read our story so far.= = = =School Sculpture= == =We have a sculpture at the front of our school. This sculpture encompasses everything we are learning. On this page you will find a PowerPoint and further information about how it is important to us as a school.= = = = = =Enviro Reps= =We have been elected by our class to represent them in meetings. Our job is to report back and support our class with our enviro journey.= = = = = =Enviro Art= = Check out our Enviro Art that has been happening in the school.= = = = = = = =Guiding Principles= = = =The Guiding Principles have become a major part of learning. In the school foyer a fale has been built to represent how the principles hold us all together. We also have our Vision Map represented as a tree showing what goals we have completed, working on and still to complete.= == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Here is a link to support classes as they develop their Action Plans.= = = = = =Here are the five Guiding Principles. With each of them we have used a Clip Art picture that we will use around the school and on our wiki so we know what principles we are talking about and how they link to our environmental journey.= = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =We are fully involved in creating 'Sustainable Practices' within the school - we have been recycling and you should see the mulching!= = = =As a result of our recycling we have been given some native trees that we have planted at the front of the school below Room 2 and 3.= = = =June, 2010= =<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Onehunga Primary School has registered for the McCAIN School Veggie Patches programme, and is urging local community, students and families to show their support by collecting barcodes. Every barcode from McCAIN frozen vegetable or McCAIN Purely Potato packs purchased will provide points that Onehunga Primary School can redeem for gardening tools, seeds and equipment such as wheelbarrows, water tanks and compost bins for their school veggie patch. So please bring them into school. = = = = = =Here are some of the events we have been involved in:= =World Enviro Day - 4th June, 2010= =Here is the whole school celebrating.= = = media type="custom" key="6392765" align="center"
 * =Improving the school grounds with murals and enviro art.=
 * =Continue to follow enviro friendly practices and systems to keep our school clean.=
 * =Continuing.to encourage safe and approriate playing in our grounds so that we are always thinking of how we are affecting our environment.=
 * =Continuing to enhance our enviromental projects continuing to plant more and add to our gardens.=

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =**Onehunga Bay Festival- 2010**= =__Saturday, 20th March__= =We had a stall at the festival and we sold plants and worm wee. The enviro reps helped the teachers to sell plants and distributed our Enviro newsletter. This newsletter gave information about our school enviro Wiki and other relevant information. The parents were great helpers, right from setting up to packing up. It was a wonderful day, good weather and lots of fun activities. The choir sang beautifully and some teachers were brave enough to get "dunked". In a nutshell, a great community event.= = = = = == =Enviro Project celebration - 2009= = = =On Monday 14th December 2009 the whole school celebrated our achievements for the year by presenting our projects and items that reflected what we had done so far. We involved the whole community by inviting parents, friends of the school and other interested parties.= = = =This gave the students the opportunity to present what they had learnt. As a school we were very proud of the confidence they showed and the knowledge they had gained.= = = =media type="custom" key="5392977"= = = = = =Waste Audit - started in 2009= = = =As part of our 'Zero Waste' topic we carried out a Waste Audit 24th August, 2009.= =We looked carefully at our Waste Audit and the Enviro Team decided to make **changes in our Waste Management**.= = = =**Changes made in our Waste Management - 2010**= = = =All classes now have 4 bins.= =The 1st bin is only for recycled paper/newspaper.= =The 2nd bin is for all recyclable items.= =The 3rd bin is Worm food and the 4th bin - the smallest one is the landfill one.= = = =We sincerely believe this change will benefit student learning, our school and the Environment. Our school is making a huge effort to educate the students about this sustainable practice.= = = =Room 7 have been looking into this further. Room 15 has developed the 4 bins further.= = = == = = =Map of Visitors= =media type="custom" key="5685209"Let see who has visited us=