ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL
ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL
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ENVIROSCHOOL
ENVIROSCHOOL
Teaching our community about creating a healthy, peaceful, sustainable world through learning and taking action together is one of our passions. We have installed vegetable gardens, worm farm, compost bins and water catchment bins to engage learning. We embrace our agricultural routes by holding Pet Days and participating in Young Farmer events.
Teaching our community about creating a healthy, peaceful, sustainable world through learning and taking action together is one of our passions. We have installed vegetable gardens, worm farm, compost bins and water catchment bins to engage learning. We embrace our agricultural routes by holding Pet Days and participating in Young Farmer events.
Our Mustard Seed cooking facilities is a much loved space, where tamariki (children) can take the plants they have grown and cook delicious food to eat. Through this programme, we will continue to develop ways of becoming kaitiaki (stewards/guardians) of our common home.
Our Mustard Seed cooking facilities is a much loved space, where tamariki (children) can take the plants they have grown and cook delicious food to eat. Through this programme, we will continue to develop ways of becoming kaitiaki (stewards/guardians) of our common home.
MAKING CHANGE
MAKING CHANGE
Saint Joseph's School is showing children we can make a change. Through ākonga (student) investigation and a trip to the Recycling Plant in 2025 lead to a campaign of asking Feilding Council to start recycling soft plastics. They saw merit and this will be established later this year.
Saint Joseph's School is showing children we can make a change. Through ākonga (student) investigation and a trip to the Recycling Plant in 2025 lead to a campaign of asking Feilding Council to start recycling soft plastics. They saw merit and this will be established later this year.
FOREST SCHOOL PROGRAMME
FOREST SCHOOL PROGRAMME
Every Friday a class goes out to Almadale Scenic Reserve where we learn the importance of being kaitiaki/guardians of our environment.
Tamariki/children have made pest traps and laid these throughout the forest. We clear these at every visit. It has been exciting to see less pests due to our efforts, as well as bird life returning to the forest. Many people in our community have come together to replant over 500 native trees. We also work hard to remove weeds so that the native plants can start to thrive again.
Exploring the forest is one of our favourite things to do. We have learnt about different insects and plants. If we are lucky we may even find a peripatus (native silk worm). We have also started measuring the river health, creating a longitudinal study over time.
In the summer months, we go swimming in the awa (river) and in the winter we make a fire with flints and cook over the open flame.
Other opportunities at the forest to connect to our land: build bivies or huts, whittling sticks, blackberry picking, hanging hammocks and zip lines, swinging from vines and what ever else we can imagine. All of these help us build resilience, problem solving skills, and team bonding. It is also wonderful to have many parents involved.
"Living in harmony with nature and with God gives us full happiness and purpose."
"Living in harmony with nature and with God gives us full happiness and purpose."
- Fr Julian Tenison-Woods.
- Fr Julian Tenison-Woods.
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