Our tamariki have been busy planting natives around the school boundary in the hopes to have a beautiful natural bounary of native trees in the future. This will also encourage more native birds and insects into our environment. Working with the Enviroschools fund provided by Waikato Regional Council, we have been able to plant more natives provided by Native Restore. Along with this fund, we have been able to beautify our environment by adding some tree swings off our exisiting trees and added some wooden bench seating so that our tamariki can sit in nature and enjoy listening to the wildlife. We have also added a beautiful carving completed by Collinswood designs that is based off our school T.I.R.O values. Our next steps is to build a sensory path alongside our tamariki. Thank you again Waikato Regional Council and Enviroschools for making this possible. Without your help and funding, our vision would be unable to come to life

Our chicken coop is in full production, with a dedicated student rep team who look after our chooks daily; feeding them a mix of pellets and food scraps, collecting their eggs and changing their water and bedding. We couldn't have made this possible without the funding from Waikato Regional Council Enviroschools fund who funded the coop, chickens, food and equipment. Thank you to John and Cathy from Wairakei Thermal Walk for our awesome mixed breed of chickens. Our tamariki have loved caring for our chooks and getting to know them more. Our chickens are free range, they get let out of their coop and 9am each day and returned at 2.30pm. Our next steps are to set up a stall to sell eggs to our local community.