Monday 10 July 2017

Sustainability: Eating our own produce

In the summer the apricots on the fruit trees in our orchard riped. We carefully picked the fruit and made yummy apricot crumble in Room 6. It was absolutely delicious!
We can't wait for next summer to pick some more apricots from our own school trees.
YUM!


Milk for Schools Glamping Farm Experience

Earlier in the year when each class was learning about the processes and practices we have in place currently at Gore Main School, Room 6 learned about the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme and the recycling process the cartons go through.

Room 6 created this video to teach our community about the Milk for Schools recycling process and entered it in a Fonterra video competition to win a over night stay glamping on a dairy farm.

The videos went to a nationwide vote and....Room 6 won the South Island prize!

The prize included:

  • Fully catered overnight stay on a Fonterra dairy farm near Edendale in a flash glamping teepee.
  • Visit to the dairy shed to watch the cows get milked
  • Visit to the Edendale Fonterra Factory and a tour around it
  • Red band gumboots, milking overalls and other Fonterra merchandise 
  • Plus lots of other cool games and experiences on the farm. 

Here is a video Room 6 created about their glamping experience

Room 6 had such a great time on our trip! They will remember the experience for ever. Now our Year 2 class (Room 6) are the milk monitors at Gore Main School. They are in charge of the Milk for Schools Programme and deliver the milk to the classrooms and then collect the empty cartons on Friday for recycling.

'Kikorangi Whetu' Blue Star Hebe

Our school motto is "Reach for the Stars" and this year we have started a tradition which reminds and encourages all of our graduating Year 6 children to reach for the stars.

Each New Entrant child this has propagated their own Kikorangi Whetu Hebe, this native plant will grow alongside them as the grow and learn at Gore Main School. When they graduate as a Year 6 student they will be presented their own Kikorangi Whetu hebe shrub to take and plant in their own garden as a reminder to continue to reach for the stars even after they have left GMS.

Here is the process of propagating our Kikorangi Whetu Hebe plant