NelsonCentralEnviroAgents
Monday, August 14, 2017
Bees Wax Wraps
EnvironAgents Update: Following a waste audit the enviro agents determined that rubbish from our lunches was a huge issue. We investigated alternatives and the children decided that bee wax lunch wraps would be a great substitute for our school. We are fortunate that from donations of beeswax and fabric from our school community we will be able to provide each child and teacher in our school with a free wrap!
In the coming our children will be making a beeswax lunch wrap
These will be used instead of plastic food wrap in their lunch boxes, it’s great for wrapping sandwiches, cheese, veggies, fruit, crackers, etc. They can also use it to cover food in their fridge, or when taking a plate somewhere.
Our enviro-agents hope to reduce the amount of plastic food wrap used by our school community which ultimately ends up in landfill or our waterways and oceans.
Here are some other benefits:
· Reusable food wrap is a more sustainable option, preventing toxic plastics from having to be produced.
· It can be washed and reused many times, creating less waste.
· It’s healthier for you to wrap your food in this beeswax fabric rather than having plastic wrapped around your food.
· You’ll save money if you use reusable food wrap instead of purchasing commercial food wrap.
· Less rubbish around the school grounds.
A huge thank you to all of our volunteers who are helping run this initiative.
We hope to gain a lot for this project.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
TREEMENDOUS MAKE OVER/ ECO BUZZ ARTICLE
The following article was release the the latest edition of the ECO BUZZ environment magazine.
Nelson
Central School wins Treemendous
garden makeover!
Nelson Central School has just heard that
they have won a Treemendous garden
makeover worth $10,000, which they will use to create a native sensory garden
early next year! Treemendous School Makeovers, a joint initiative
between the Mazda Foundation and Project Crimson, teaches children about the
importance of caring for the environment through the development of outdoor
classrooms http://treemendous.org.nz/.
What helped them win the makeover was the
huge efforts made this year by the school’s envirogroup and teacher Lynley
Walters. They have been working hard to
create natural habitats within the school with the desire to bring more
wildlife to the grounds.
The Enviro agents have also been involved
in many other projects throughout the year and being a newly formed
Enviroschool they decided they needed to reduce the waste at the school so the
envirogroup conducted a whole-school waste audit, with the help of the
facilitators from Enviroschools and Nelson Environment Centre’s Waste Education
Services (WES), both programmes funded by the council.
After the waste audit, the students got
really busy making an action plan. They decided to convert the lunchtime food
scraps they generate daily into rich compost, but first they needed to design
and build large compost bins and of course a veggie garden! They called in the
WES facilitator to show them how to build healthy compost, and got going.
A lovely parent Joe Hay built three large wooden compost bins from
materials donated by Placemakers Nelson, and with funding from the council, the
school bought food scrap bins, sack barrows, garden tools, and a 4 layer worm
farm that they will get up and running early next year.
The students are currently planning the movies they are going to be
making to educate the rest of the school about the new composting and the paper
recycling systems. Hopefully these movies will be complete by week 8 and they
will get a couple of weeks composting underway before the end of the year.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Waste!
Last Wednesday Sarah from the Environment Centre came to Central School to help us with an action plan to follow our waste audit.
During her visit we were able to determine where we needed to start on our waste management journey. We have really seen how much work is involved for us to get where we want to be. We have many great ideas and have now put some plans in place and have already actioned some of these.
We have written letters to the appropriate people asking for permission to put in our compost bins and garden boxes and have also made some applications for funding. We have also put notices in the school newsletter asking for donations of man power and wooden pallets for the construction.
We are really excited about the next steps in our project! If you feel like you can help us in anyway we would love to hear from you.
Enviroagents@nelsoncentral. school.nz
During her visit we were able to determine where we needed to start on our waste management journey. We have really seen how much work is involved for us to get where we want to be. We have many great ideas and have now put some plans in place and have already actioned some of these.
We have written letters to the appropriate people asking for permission to put in our compost bins and garden boxes and have also made some applications for funding. We have also put notices in the school newsletter asking for donations of man power and wooden pallets for the construction.
We are really excited about the next steps in our project! If you feel like you can help us in anyway we would love to hear from you.
Enviroagents@nelsoncentral.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Stream Restoration on Alton Street
During the last week of term 2 Nelson
Central School walked down to the stream on Alton Street and Manuku Street to
plant trees on the side of the stream. The trees were donated by Nelmac and Liz
Gavin designed the area map and suggested what type of trees we should plant.
By planting all of the trees we are helping the stream and all the living
things that live in the stream. Thanks for everything you done.
From Jordan,
Arlo, Eli, Lennox, Tessa and the Enviro Agents
Before Picture:
After picture- Wait till these plants get established! They will look great.
Tree Planting for Wildlife Habitats in Schools
As
you know over the past few weeks we have been working towards creating cleaner
better habitats for our native wild life at NCS. We were donated some plants
and have been planting different shrubs and grasses. These are all parts of the
NCS vision for the future. We hope to bring back all sorts of animals such as
birds , geckos , skinks, insects and butterfly’s to our school grounds.
Thank
you for participating in these events
and we hope we will do lots more in the future.
Thanks
again
Chloe,
Lucy, Niamh, Tessa, Astrid and Sylvie
Enviro
agents for NCS.
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