Beginnings....

In our first meeting of Term Three our Envirogroup watched a video about an Enviroschool that had taken action, looking at their environment. We also listened to how they saved power and water.

In our second meeting we went around and talked to the junior classes about what was and was not working with the things we do for the environment at the moment (recycling, composting, worm farm). We decided that there are some little things we can do at the moment but we first need to raise some money to replace the lost bins and buy compost cleaning products for each classrooms). Watch this space.

In our third meeting we decided that before we took any 'new' action we first we needed to talk to the rest of the school about how they feel about our school environment. We went around the different classrooms in pairs or threes.



- The first activity we had to do was called Mapping Our Place. We had to divide the kids into groups of five. Then we had to ask them what places were scary, interesting, relaxing, a place for learning, overused or underused. We recorded these on our Vision Maps for each class.




- The second activity was called Special Places. In this activity we asked the kids to get comfortable, to close their eyes and then we asked them to think of a place they liked in the school. They opened their eyes and described the place and why they liked it.




After we were done, we met back at our meeting area and made sure we had all of the ideas we had heard on the paper.

In the fourth meeting of the term we met up and discussed what we were going to put on one Vision Map to hold the information from the maps of all the Junior Classes. First we chose the icons to represent the different feelings (scary, fun, quiet, interest, overused). Then Annabelle jotted down our ideas with the icons.


At the end, Theresa showed us a website that is an energy saving Google. www.blackle.com

By Tao Roi