Kamo Primary School, Whangarei

Kamo Primary School's EcoHut team had a fantastic time planning, designing and building their EcoHut!

Winner of:
                 best use of recycled materials
                 best human-comfort design
                 best student-led design

The Hut is constructed on tyres and insulated with bamboo.  Check-out the bamboo spouting-very innovative!  An old skylight makes a very distinctive window and looks to be a favourite with the team!  The Hut also has a rain-water tank and a wonderful garden area.

EcoHut Team members Liam and Orlando from Tangowahine School in Northland really got into the EcoHut Challenge!  The team picked up the prize for winners of best use of natural materials, best culturally expressive design and best habitat for wildlife design. 

Materials used include ponga logs, bamboo, flax, nikau leaves and raupo.  The hut is thatched with pest plant, Manchurian Rice Grass, is held together by bamboo nails and has views to die for!

 "Our EcoHut door is designed to keep teenagers out!"  

 To read more about this awesome EcoHut check out an article in the Dargaville News... click here 

Oromahoe Students Take Adoption Seriously!

 
Oromahoe School has planted a small orchard in their grounds. They now have a good amount of seasonal fruit and have found a way of distributing it so it doesn't get eaten too early or too green!

Each senior student has adopted a tree to look after. Their brief is to observe it closely, write down everything they know about it, list five things they would like to know and begin researching, continue to make observations throughout the year so the tree’s life cycle can be noted, mulch it, make weekly diary entries about what they observe, talk and sing to it and pick the fruit when it is ripe and distribute it to the rest of the school at play and lunchtimes.

The students have loved this responsibility and learned a lot, whether it be about Melissa von Guava, Sour Power Lemon, Freddie Feijoa or Penny Plum!