Term 2 Week 4

Sadly, on Monday we arrived at school to find some of the plants had been pulled out of our raised beds again over the weekend. We replanted the ones that weren't too badly broken and are hoping that some of them will survive. 

Now that the chicken coop has been repaired we are very happy that our chickens have been able to return to school. We hope there will not be any more vandalism to their coop or else we may not be able to have them at school anymore. This would be very sad for all of our students, and the children at Birchwood kindy too who help to take care of them. 

The Nelson Nature Team at Nelson City Council heard about our problems with vandalism and have kindly donated the following plants to the school...

1 x Carpodetus serratus (Marble leaf)

1 x Lophomyrtus obcordata (NZ Myrtle)

1 x Hoheria angustifolia (Lacebark)

2 x Plagainthus regius (Ribbonwood)

On Wednesday after school Miss Raven and her son went to collect them from Titoki Nursaries in Brightwater.

On Thursday we had our Enviro Kids Lunchtime meeting but only a handful of children came. The children who came thought this was because Remix was on at the same time so we will have our meeting on Monday next week to see if we can get more keen Enviro Kids to attend! The children who did come watered the surviving seedlings in our raised beds, put on some new snail bait, fed food to our bulbs and had a look at the beautiful new trees we have just been given. We will carry on our Biodiversity investigation next week.

On Thursday after school Miss Raven went to the Nelmac Nursary in Atawhai to collect these plants which they have also kindly donated.

40 x Gossamer Grasses 

80 x Carex flagillefera (Glen Muray Tussock)

1 x Titoki tree

4 x Mahoe trees

Both these varieties are great bird trees.

We look forward to seeing them incorporated into the new garden that is currently being planned and watching them grow big and strong. Hopefully we will be able to help plant them too.