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Linkwater School
June 22, 2017
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Linkwater School builds predator traps

An enthusiastic group of student carpenters at Linkwater School took action to help their local living landscape this week, by building wooden boxes that will house predator traps.  The students learnt all about how the traps work, and the special design that means that the traps are ideal for catching target predators like rats and stoats, but not pet cats and dogs, or native birds.  The project was part of the amazing Kiwi Can programme, and was all about showing respect to the local community, by making the environment safer for our precious native species.  The next step is for the students to take the traps home and record what they catch.  We look forward...

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Kids' Edible Gardens
June 20, 2017
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Kids’ Edible Gardens: bugs and compost

As we reach the shortest day for 2017, we are remembering summer-fun in the garden at Canvastown and Fairhall schools. In Term 1, as part of their investigation into ecology and diversity in the garden, the children at Canvastown School went on an insect hunt, learning to recognise the insects that live in their garden (top left image).  Insects have an important role to play in an organic garden, we have to care for them as much as we do the plants we grow.  The children wanted to encourage more insects to live and work in their garden so they decided to make a bug hotel out of recycled pallets and building materials as...

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Share your Enviroschool story
May 31, 2017
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Share your story

Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to our blog! Our purpose is to share and to celebrate the wonderful learning and action that is going on in Marlborough’s schools and kindergartens - nearly all of which are ‘Enviroschools’.  We hope to help connect tamariki, students, whānau, teachers, school support staff, the wider Marlborough community and the Enviroschools team with one another, through the common purpose of caring for each other, our schools and centres, our region, our country and our world. We would love to share your stories in whatever way you think is best: writing, artwork, photographs or video clips - it’s up to you!  Please send them to us using the form on this...

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