How to - Composting at School - where to start and how to do (Secondary Enviroschools) by Secondary Enviroschools

Get an sense of how much green waste there is after speaking with the caretakers / ag / hort teachers and whether it is available for composting.

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Community Composting Documentary

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The Composting Bible!

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The Compost Coach by Kate Flood

How to Make Good Compost

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Nicola Kawana visits Kelmarna Organic Community Gardens and City Farm to learn how to make good compost on Whānau Living

A Practical Guide for Composting in Schools

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Soil Safe Kids Aotearoa

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https://soilsafe.auckland.ac.nz/soilsafe-kids/

Borrow a Waste Audit Kit

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Contact you local Enviroschools facilitator or Waste education facilitator through the local council.

Waiheke High School and Community Composting

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Leaves

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Enviroschools Guiding Principles to guide your process - working towards being part of a healthy, peaceful, sustainable community.

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Who will be affected or who will you need to be involved or ask some permissions from?

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Identify your people - caretaker, cafeteria staff, ag / hort staff, Principal etc.

Ask them questions about what they think about your project?

Go prepared with what you are thinking about and why.

Details can come later.

Collect their responses and add them to your thinking.

Investigating your soil - experiments to help us understand our soil and how to keep it healthy.

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A Community Garden Near You?

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Check out the following Facebook pages
- Oxford St Community Garden (Masterton)
- Ngahere o Te Ora Haumanu - Carterton Community Garden
- Pai Tū Mōkai -Featherston Community Garden
-Te Kura o Papatuanuku Wairarapa Earth School Charitable Trust (Carterton)

Problem Solving using the Action Learning cycle for a rat roblem in the compost.

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Paper shredding

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Ripped up paper and cardboard

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Taking action around organic matter in our waste. Reefton Area School

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Grass Clippings

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Whenua is the land that nourishes life. Te Ao Māori perspective.

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Learning about matauranga Māori in relation to the land - the whenua - the importance of the whenua.

Mulch

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Contact local arborists and let them know you are keen for a drop off if they ever have a spare load at the end of the day.

Compost Yoghurt and Shiro Wat

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The tamariki at Holy Cross School recently got creative with their yoghurt making by using their thriving compost pile to keep the yoghurt cosy overnight while the bacteria did their magic.

Making yoghurt is a simple process but requires it to be kept at a constant temperature overnight. Instead of using a yoghurt maker the gardeners at Holy Cross School made sure their compost was nice and warm by adding fresh grass clippings and then buried the yoghurt mixture (sealed and wrapped) in it overnight.

The next day they checked the compost temperature (a cosy 50C) and dug out the yoghurt to be chilled and served with the delicious Ethiopian curry the kitchen team had prepared. What an inventive way to prepare yoghurt and learn about composting at the same time!

Wairarapa Earthschool Resources

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Lesson plans include:

Your community

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Rotted hay - peastraw - cardboard from businesses - coffee grounds from a cafe or business

Compost Inquiry Year 2/3

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Click to see the process Rohan from Garden to Table went through with her class of 6-8 year olds.

Te Kauwhata School Community Compost hub

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This is the story of a project undertaken by Para Kore, in collaboration with Te Kauwhata Primary School, the CarbonCycle company, and funded by the Waikato District Council to establish the first community compost hub in the district. Included NZAEE webinar

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Here is a taster of the incredible Garden to Table soil resource. Please note if you are a Garden to Table school you will be able to head to the member website to download the full resource.

Para kore

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Para Kore delivers a te ao Māori based, zero waste education programme called Oranga Taiao. This programme aims to design out waste and strengthen connection to Papatūānuku and Ranginui.

Digital planner

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Look at previous schools magazines or booklets etc for any past activity from Envirogroups.

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Compost Basics for Kids

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An engaging look into the basics of composting. The presenter speaks quite fast so it's a good idea to revisit several times.

Conduct a 1 day waste audit to see what food waste is present.

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Contact you local Enviroschools facilitator or Waste education facilitator through the local council for a process and support to do.

To print and use

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Use the Enviroschools Whole School Approach to make your composts sustainable and think about being part of a sustainable community.

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Some prompting questions when using the whole school approach:

People - who can we learn from - who can be involved - who is going to keep it going - how can we help our community
Programmes - how are we going to learn about this - how can we engage more people to learn with us - how can we learn in, about and take action - what cultural perspectives would add to our learning
Places - where is the best place to site our compost - where are we going to keep out tools - where will we keep our ingredients
Practices - how are we going to make compost and keep it going

Ask the caretaker, principal, ag / hort teacher, the longest serving teacher in the school.

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What has happened in the past re food scraps?

Has there ever been a compost?

Who looked after and what was the purpose?

What is happening at the moment with food scraps and other green waste?

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On a map of the school note any places where there are sources of food waste or other green (grass, tree, bush clippings) or brown waste (as in leaves / paper / cardboard / rooted straw etc.)