Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Our school is involved with looking after the Rangikapiti reserve. 

Some students help with the trapping of pests and planting trees.

Some senior students - Tyrell, Nico and Nikki-Boy learnt how to plant a tree properly then they made a video for us to watch so we could know too. 

We went to Rangikapiti and learnt about the importance of looking after our native bush and how we can help by planting trees.

The senior boys helped us with the planting.

It was really good to feel like we are helping!

When were finished we walked up to the top of Rangikapiti Pa and looked at our Moana ataahua (beautiful Moana).

Matariki Celebrations - Kite Making, Mahi Whai, and Sharing of Kai

Matariki Celebrations with our Whanau.

We had fun celebrating Matariki. Whanau came in and helped us to make decorative kites. They look beautiful. We also made the most of tuakana teina and had some wonderful older tamariki come in and help the kids with no whanau in that day.

           

           

We all bought in some vegetables from home and made a big pot of soup to share with our Whanau.

We did mahi whai - string games. We got pretty good at this!

Taipa Sand Dune trip

We have been learning about the importance of protecting the sand dunes. Annabelle Giorgetti helped us to organise a trip to the sand dunes. We went to Taipa beach where we met up with Laura and Rachael from the Northland Regional Council. We learnt how to identify the native plants that we need in the sand dunes and how to identify and pull out the weeds.

We learnt about the bird and animal life that depend on the sand dunes. 

Jo Shanks from CBEC was there too. We learnt about how important it is to not litter and to pick up all pieces of rubbish that we find at the beach as the tiny bits can be just as dangerous to sea animals as the bigger pieces.