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Reading & maths - spelling new words, working out quantities, graphing favourite herbs, oral language

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Kitchen science - harvesting herbs & making lunch!

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Visual arts - creating original pot decorations, blending and mixing colours, fine motor skills.

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Preparing garden beds & planting seedlings

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Preparing garden beds & planting seedlings

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Science - Making healthy soil, learning about biodegradable things, composting, pH levels, soil structure & minerals.

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Learning in, about and for our sustainable outdoor classroom

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Learning in, about and for our sustainable outdoor classroom

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Lots of learning has happened in our sustainable outdoor classroom. We've learnt how to grow our own healthy kai, about plant life cycles, all about germination, how to use tools safely and look after them, how our gardens change with the seasons, how to work together as a team and so much more.  But it doesn't stop there. Back in the classroom the learning has extended into language & literacy, maths and measurement, preparing and eating the produce, planning and working together to share our produce and our learning.

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We will continue to grow as much produce as we can for the students. If there is an abundance of food, we can place it in the Fruit & Vege stand at the front of the school for the community to share. The community are welcome to add there produce to the stand as well.

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There are still some areas of the garden to be developed. Mr and Mrs Beaumont have very kindly donated supplies and their time to build us a berry shelter. Once this is finished, the students can begin planting the berries and maintaining the area. The Junior's will work on fixing up and maintaining the monarch butterfly garden. Some of the seniors are developing a water feature for the garden and the living hut will tidied up ready to use. We will continue to use the garden every week for KEGS, gathering produce to eat at school with any excess produce going into the little veggie stand for the community to use. It will also be a nice place to sit and read, play with friends or quietly complete some school work.

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This is our sustainable outdoor classroom in Term 4 looking lush and green with vegetables growing. Some are almost ready for harvest. Features are: a Junior Herb garden, various garden beds for strawberries, broad beans, corn, cabbages & broccoli and tyres for potatoes. New garden borders have been made from bamboo weaving and tyre edgings.

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A lot of the garden development was done during our weekly KEGS sessions (Kids Edible Gardens). Mrs Beaumont, our garden facilitator worked with the teachers and students on Thursdays to build, tidy, plant, maintain & our gardens. It was hard over lockdown and with bad weather but we have managed to do a good job. The rest of the garden development was done during Inquiry time.

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Some 'before' photos of our outdoor classroom

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Some 'before' photos of our outdoor classroom

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Click on this to read our Junior Inquiry Planning and Record 2021

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Click on this to read our Junior Inquiry Planning and Record 2021

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Examples of planning by teachers and students

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Examples of planning by teachers and students

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We planned as a whole school at the start of the year & then each class completed their own plan and kept both paper and digital records as we went along.

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We started at the beginning of 2021 with the overarching theme of "Our Community & Wellbeing".
Questions we asked were "How do we share what we know about our environment for the benefit of the community?"
Each classroom followed a different inquiry pathway with the Junior's deciding to focus on the maintenance and further development of the school gardens.
Our intention was to have a sustainable outdoor classroom that we could proudly share with our local and wider community.

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Environmental impact and how it has helped our learning

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Environmental impact and how it has helped our learning