Trees For Survival- What is it all about?

Vardon has recently signed up to the Trees for Survival (TFS) programme. Here is a little bit of background on what it is all about.

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What have the Enviro Agents been up to this year?

You may ask what have the Enviro Agents been up to so far this year...well here is a quick snapshot of the key parts of our learning.

Enviro School Development 2013-
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hxq5TwmXiSpDi7DO7NbN8DRypyfb5Nl5OC6_VCN97QA/edit?usp=sharing

Buddy Day

The Middle Enviro Agents have started creating an Enviro buddy today for Buddy Day.
We have created our character and have a few ideas for how to decorate him. Keep checking in to see how he ends up looking.
Below is the description we made up about him.

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Have you ever thought "what more can I do?"

Have you ever thought "what more can I do to help the environment?"  Well here is a link to a very powerful prezi about the rubbish situation we have in Hamilton and what we can do. 
Pollution

Arbor Day 2013

Watch our Arbor Day slideshow to see how fun it is.

It was fun going back to see how big my plants were from last year also for most people
it was fun getting muddy. (Gina)
I liked planting all of those trees. (Oliver)

Arbor Daytastic 2013 on PhotoPeach

Arbor Day Preparation

Today the Middle Enviro Agents watched a video to set us up ready for planting some of those 25,000 natives for Arbor Day next week.

Enviroschools Museum Exhibition Opening

Some of the enviro agents went to the museum to the enviroschools museum exhibition opening. There were lots of schools projects. There was this really cool one made by a 4 year old boy he had made a lizard and a robot. You should go there yourself.
By Poppy

2013 Senior Enviro Agents

Here are the 2013 Senior Enviro Agents.  Next term we will meet and decide on our projects for the year.  We are very excited for the year ahead

Room13 Green Fingers Group

Here are Room13's Green Fingers Group tending to their class garden.

Well Done Room 8 you have made the school newsletter

This weeks school newsletter reminded us again to be wrap free on Wednesdays.
Well done to Room 8 who won it the last two weeks in a row. Can they do it for another two weeks?

Earth Hour 2013

Earth Hour is coming up on March 23 with the aim of getting 10,000 people around the world turning off all their power for one hour from 8.30-9.30pm.

What will you be doing to support this cause of looking after our environment?

Some ideas of what you could do are;

-Turn the TV off and have fun with a game of spotlight.

-Get your glow sticks out and have a disco in your lounge.

-Spend the day making a lantern (if it is a balloon lantern you could let it go and watch it light up the sky)

-Make shadow puppets and have a shadow puppet show using candles.

-Go and lye down outside and watch the stars (can you make any shapes out of the stars)

Here is a video about Earth Hour for 2013. What will you be doing at 8.30 on Saturday???

Well done Room 8 again

Another big well done to Room 8 who had 59% of their class wrap free this week. It was as good as their score last week but they were still the winning class for Week 7.
Keep up the great work Room 8.

Middle Enviro Agents with more of their crop

Despite the dry weather the Middle Enviro Team have been busy watering and weeding their vegetable garden each Monday lunchtime of this term. So far we have each had a tomato and we have had six or seven cucumbers to pick. Today we got to share our yummy cucumbers as a reward for all of our hard work weeding and watering.

Well done to Room 8

With 77% of their class wrap free on Wednesday congratulations go to Room 8.
Well done Room 8 it was a tough week with two other classes having 55% of their class wrap free.
The competition is really taking off.
How will you make your lunch wrap free next Wednesday?

Check out this weeks newsletter

In this weeks newsletter is a whole page on Vardon working towards being a zero waste school. Starting with our very successful Wrap Free Wednesday competition.

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Well Done to Room 6

Room 6 have done it again!
Congratulations Room 6 for once again having 50% of your class wrap free in Week 5.

Well Done Room 7

Congratulations to Room 7 who have won the Wrap Free Challenge for Week 4.
48% of their classes lunchboxes were wrap free and they nearly doubled the number of wrap free lunchboxes in Room 7 from the week before.
Keep it up Room 7! We also love seeing your wrap free lunchboxes on your blog room7vardonschool.blogspot.co.nz

Who has spotted the pattern? I wonder if Room 8 will win the challenge next week?

Well Done Room 6

Congratulations to Room 6 who were the winners of Week 3's Wrap Free Wednesday Challenge.

Despite being a class of new entrants and the first time they had competed in Wrap Free Wednesday half of their class came to school completely wrap free.

Keep it up Room 6 you might have a thing or two to teach the older students!

Welcome back to 2013

Welcome back to another exciting environmental year!
Have you seen the latest Vardon School newsletter. There was a whole page dedicated to us being an Enviro School.
By entering a Paper4Trees competition we won the school six cool new books (with an environmental theme) that will be kept in the library ready for anyone to issue out.
Don't forget to check these out next time you are in our school library!

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