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Budding beekeepers taste sweet success
A student-led initiative to bring bees to the Gladstone School yard has been enabled through a combination of student inquiry, amazing community support and the Earthwise Action Fund. Budding beekeepers are learning how to use the equipment, care for the bees and now the honey production process.
Diving Deeply into Sustainability at Raumati Technology Centre
Raumati Technology Centre has always included sustainability in their teaching and learning, but over the last few years they have started diving deeper through a new, focused, sustainability programme. This work has the potential to provide a model for other technology centres around the country.
A curriculum for transformation - Fergusson Intermediate integrates Pūtātara resource
Fergusson Intermediate students are experiencing regenerative change through using the Ministry of Education’s Pūtātara resource. After trialling the resource they have now fully embracing this learning approach, progressing through the three strands: Tūrangawaewae, Kaitiakitanga and Whakapuāwai.
Growing Together at Pinehaven Playcentre
Playcentres are places where babies, young children and parents come together, grow together and develop a sense of belonging. Recently the whānau at Pinehaven Playcentre shared with the Enviroschools Network how they are engaging with the organic waste cycle and growing a stronger sense of how nature works in cycles.
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Student led restoration helps cloak Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui
In the Wellington Region, the 2022 1BT funding through the partnership between Te Uru Rākau and Toimata Foundation was directed to a wide range of student-led restoration mahi across the...
Strengthening relationships through celebrating whakapapa of whenua
Te Ara a Tāne (the name given to the area between Paparārangi Kindergarten and Paparangi School) has been fundamental in rebuilding and strengthening the relationship between us, something that has...
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