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Welcome to the Pongakawa school enviro page. Our school is one of the many schools in New Zealand that are in the Enviro school programme. So far we have started a very successful worm farm, we are growing a wide group of gords, we have a Green-bin system for recycling paper and a native tree reserve near our back field. All up at our school we have close to 330 students and 13 classrooms. Our year groups are year 0-year 8. As our school is a intermediate and a primary school. So far in the reserve we have a large variety of native New Zealand trees such as Totara, Rimu and various others. Our worm farm system is for food scraps like apple cores, sandwich crusts, and any other un-eaten foods except for citirus including the skins for the worms only get a little bit of citirus. The gords are for art. First we grow gords in a thick line, then once they are grown, we put them in a hot house to dry. Once they a nice and dry we bring them out of the hot house, grab a vivid pen and draw Moari patterns over them. We also have a electricity monitoring system. We have 3 light bulb awards one for the middle-school, one for the junior-school and one for the senior school. We judge the rooms by how many appliances are on during intervals and how many are off. Lastly, we have the Green Bin programme. We have a green bin in every classroom and it's the class's job to put paper that has been used on both sides in the Green bin and the paper that hasn't been used on both sides into the Scrap paper bin. the progamme is set out as a competetion, so that it incourages the class's to recycle more paper more often. The competetion is judged by how many pieces have been used on both, one or no sides and each class is given a score between 1 and 10. We judge for a week and then on the day of the weekly assembly we tally up the amount of points and scores each class had gained in the previous week and whoever has the most points win!

We hope that you embrace on our great Enviro school programme check out our new blog when we next update the site!! Keep Enviro-Friendly!! Pongakawa School! <(^^,)> By Cherokee Walters (Year 6 Pongakawa School)