This week has been Earth Schools first Sustainability Week. We hosted 5 events for adults, primary and secondary aged students and displayed the students work for a school farm and off grid building in the Carterton Events Centre all week.
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Sustainability Week is coming ...
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Today Richard Ashcroft came back to Earth School with 3 different designs he had prepared based on the students research and requests for the back field. Richard came in two weeks ago to work with the students and gather all their research and designs together to come up with some design options from those ideas to show to the students.
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We were excited to have Leanne Taylor come in to teach us all how to screen print. The Earth School Sewing Collective have been working on enterprise ideas for generating funds and making things to sell at the Carterton Farmers Market. We have had a lot of success with our re usable produce bags and our lavender bags. The students discussed the need for branding to let customers know who they were and what they were doing. So we did some work making signs for the market and have had stamps and a screen made with our Earth School Logo.
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On Friday we were lucky enough to visit Epuni School in Lower Hutt and the Common Unity Project that started as a partnership between Epuni school and the local community to grow food on the empty school food, develop outdoor education, fund raise, enhance community connections and feed the students healthy homegrown food 3 days a week. Sounds somewhat familiar ... although our project has a distinctly Science Technology Engineering and Maths learning focus. The Common Unity Project is growing and a real success story they have outgrown the small classroom at Epuni school and have moved into an old factory across the street.
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Te Kura o Papatuanuku Wairarapa Earth School Sustainability Week is coming. We have loads of exciting events planned and will be displaying and presenting the students' work.
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A marvelous sunny day saw the outside team getting stuck into moving the mulch with great gusto. Some were planting in the food forest, some planting the natives donated to us by Akura Nursery Masterton and some mulching the new plants with cardboard and bark chips to suppress the grass and prevent evaporation of the soil around the new plants.
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After much preparation the kids successfully ran a farmers market stall in Carterton on Sunday. The theme of our stall was 'Plastic Free Carterton' students sold a number of items they had made or propagated themselves. They sold Thunder Bags (reusable fruit and veggie bags with draw string ties donated from Thunderpants), Shirty Shoppers made from old shirts, baby oaks, baby natives and lavender bags.
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Today the students chose to
work on the design of a running track,
move mulch and plant natives,
build a wind turbine
prepare for the Farmers Market
Today was our last Earth School of the term. The students had the opportunity to choose from 3 different activities. They could either work with Tom to plant natives, continue with designing the farm or sew lavender bags for sale at the labour weekend farmers market. The planting group enthusiastically dug up and split some of the existing school flaxes, and planted manuka trees. They made good progress in planting out the area behind the new outdoor classroom.
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Last Saturday The Earth School Sewing Collective teamed up with the Carterton Boomerang bags ladies to make re-usable produce bags to prevent one use plastic bags in the supermarket and at the veggie market.
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