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Trees for Survival (TFS)
On Friday the 14th of May 2010, 50 to 60 students who were in Miss Vakhrousheva and Miss William’s class from 2009 went to Karaka. We travelled by bus and arrived at the farm for planting at 10am.
The reason we were at the farm was because we had been growing plants for the community the previous year at school in the growing unit. We met the owners of the farm and some of the staff from the Rotary Club Of Sommerville and Trees For Survival. They showed us how to plant properly and then we got started.
We planted all the trees before stopping for lunch at around 1:30pm.
The owners of the farm supplied us lunch, Sausage Sizzle and Soft Drinks.
We left Karaka at 2:00pm with sore backs and sore limbs.
We had planted trees such as Flax, Manuka and Cabbage Trees.
Overall, we had a fun but tiring day, planting 500 trees non-stop.
By Yashmeeta Govind
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| Colin from Worms r Us came to Point View school. Room 22 and the BEE group came and listen to him. He demonstrated how to put a worm farm together. |
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Parts of a Worm farm The parts of a worm farm are a lid with ventilation, level 3: second working tray, level 2: first working tray, level 1: collector tray, tap and legs. |
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What worms like to eat Most fruit and vege scraps |
What they don’t like to eat spicy food, chili, onion, garlic |
There are different types of worm bins but most have a number of layers. Note that it is easier to harvest worm casts from which have more shallow layers. Bins generally have two to three layers; some bins have extra layers added to increase captivity. When buying a bin, ask the retailer whether there is any back up it you need advice. By Katherine, Courtney, and Jennifer. |
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Here are some of the things the BEEs team got up to this year:
We have so many wonderful highlights of the things we do to help the environment. Here are just a few:
In Term 3 Colin from WormRus came and talked to us about worm farming. We were given two Worm a Round Worm Farms from a generous parent. Colin brought us 6000 worms. He showed us what we should keep from our lunches to feed the worms. They actually don’t eat much. Courtney and I look after the worms and feed them 3x a week.
Katherine, Year 6
In 2008 the BEE group planted strawberries for our buddy school in the country. It’s Maungatawhiri School. We went to visit them on calf day and gave the strawberries to them then. Before we went we had a competition for the longest strawberry and the most beautiful pot. Maungatawhiri School gave us milk from their own dairy.
Parminder, Year 6
We’ve planted strawberries again this year because we want to have a taste at the end of the year!
Sophie, Year 6
On Sausage Sizzle Days we’re on recycling duty and we get to take the green trolley around the whole school to collect the Just Juice bottles for recycling.
Jen, Year 6
In term 3 we planted herbs and vegies with Mrs Page. They germinated in the Trees for Survival unit. This term we planted them with Mrs Rhodes. A local gardening club has donated an irrigation unit for our vegie gardens so we won’t have to worry about our plants on the weekend.
Little BEES, Year 3
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Room 16 have been busy propagating plants. They used different methods like stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, bulbs, seeds, division and runners.
Here’s some photos of us hard at work!
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