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All teachers at the school attend Exploring Enviroschools Workshop

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Staff have reflected on each of the Guiding Principles over time - thinking about how they are integrated into all areas of school life and finding relevant and possible next steps.

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This was done by teachers using comic life. Here it is being used to identify Guiding Principles in their school journey as part of their Silver Reflection.

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All of the events have been put into folders.

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The MPS bell is very old so the Envirogroup painted a mural for it. A few years later it showed signs of rotting. The community pitched in and offered their skills and it has been restored.

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Priceless - meet with facilitator once a term - make sure the sustainable practices are running smoothly delegated out to the classes. Help run the staff meetings to make sure theory links with reality.

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Holistic Reflections to celebrate progress.

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Holistic Reflections to celebrate progress.

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MPS reflected at Silver in 2009.

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Designing and painting the mural for around the bell tower

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The first project undertaken was to paint the swimming pool. This was done by a junior class. They use the atua that they were learning about from In the Beginning to put on the sides of their pool. This mural is on the end of the recycling shed.

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An unused classroom was turned into a kitchen. It is a great asset for cooking with the students.

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This project was done by the new entrant class ina response to making their families more welcome and brightening up their school.

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When the school was redeveloped natives were used to line the entrance. One of the next steps is to name the native plants and use the area more for learning.

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The students designed and painted the school sign with a local artist representing themselves in the designs they chose.

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An art project as part of class learning.

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The gardens are used all year round and are maintained by the Garden group. Their reading recovery teacher leads this group. Vegetables are grown for selling to the community and for cooking. They have made jams, soups and pickles. Each term they have a pop up shop.

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They use a simple system where they just swap the lids depending on which bin they are leaving to compost and which they are filling.

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The worm farm is managed by an older class with a younger class in a Tuakana-teina type relationship. They sell the worm wee at the offic

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Recycling paper and plastics is well embedded into school life. It is collected by the local contractors.

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These pou have been positioned 200 metres away from the school gate in 3 different directions. Students are encouraged to walk from these points if they are being dropped off. This project was part of School Travel planning and was integrated into the curriculum. Each year it needs a rejuvenation. Staff go and walk once a month with the students and there are rewards for those who use the pou.
Students designed and painted them with an artist.

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Feijoas and lemon trees are now well established. Strawberries and grapes are being grown now.