Wow - Look at our Lettuces

Look at how well our lettuces are growing after a weekend of heavy rain, followed by a beautiful 24 degrees day. 

Thyme Festival

One of the Room 6 scarecrows featured in the Otago Daily Time's today. Don't forget to visit Pioneer Park this week and vote for your favourite.

Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Today we went for a walk around Clyde and helped to tidy up the streets. We picked up some rubbish, but generally the streets were pretty clean. Well done everyone - you are such tidy kiwis.

Bokashi Bins

Today Fred Peyton visited school to teach some of the Enviroschool members how to use the bokashi composting system.
Next term each class will begin using bokashi bins, and our fantastic Enviroschool leaders will take responsibility for overseeing the use of the bins. 

Zero Waste Competition

A huge congratulations to all our prize winners in the Zero Waste Challenge. 
Arlia Murphy and Emily Wellstead created a really catchy song 
entitled ‘Go Green’ and Madison Biggs, Emma Rees and Phoebe 
Wellstead, created a short video explaining the importance of 
recycling. Both groups shared the runner-up position in the Year 
4-6 prize category. 
Room 5 and 6 were also prize winners in the Year 1- 3 Category with entries that shared their recycled artwork. 
Today there was a special prize giving at the Council Chambers. The prize giving was during a formal Council meeting and the children shared their entries with the Mayor and the Councillors before receiving their prizes.  Andrew and Emer represented our class and collected the Room 6 prize, which was a kiwi puppet, four picture books and lots of zero waste stickers.  We were very lucky!
We are very proud of all of you - well done!

Wrapper free school

As you will know doubt be aware, Central Otago District Council will be changing to fortnightly rubbish collection from 1 July 2014.  Our school has been part of a ‘Gearing Up for Change’ initiative lead by Central Otago Enviroschools.  As part of this initiative all classes have been looking at ways that we can reduce, reuse and recycle in order to minimise our school waste. 

Food wrappers, yoghurt containers, and lunch scraps account for a large percentage of our school waste, and litter is still an issue in the playground.

Starting this term we have become a ‘Wrapper Free School’, in order to reduce some of our school waste and address the litter problem. 

We are asking that you remove all wrappers from muesli bars etc, before it goes into your child’s lunchbox. Please use either reusable bags or containers for sandwiches, chips, popcorn and snack foods. 

Did you know?

• More than 2.5 million tonnes of waste is being buried in our landfills each year.
• 3/4 of this could have been saved.  This equates to 8kg of landfill per person each week that could have been reused, recycled, or composted.
• The useful lifespan of a plastic bag is only 10 minutes, yet it takes 1000 years to break down!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Harvesting in the Enviroschool Garden

On Friday we harvested the corn and then helped to give it out the members of the Envirogroup to take home and cook for tea.  We collected 34 corn cobs and 14 green peppers.  Click on the photo to see more of what the Envirogroup have been up to.

Envirogroup Feast

Today the Envirogroup prepared a feast from the school garden. They prepared coleslaw from the fresh produce they picked from the garden yesterday. They made tasty coleslaw sandwiches for the whole school. It was delicious!  Click on the picture below to visit the Enviroschool Blog and see what they have been up to.

Clyde School Envirogroup

Click on the photo below to see what the Clyde School Envirogroup has been up to. Make sure you leave them a comment.

Envirogroup Art Work

Some of our class are part of the school envirogroup. Today we began our fence post art, which will be displayed in our new school vegetable garden.  It was lots of fun!

Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Last week was 'Keep New Zealand Beautiful' Week.  
Today we helped to tidy up the streets of Clyde.  We were amazed at the amount of rubbish we collected! 

Remember to be a 'Tidy Kiwi' and put your rubbish in the bin.