Verran Primary Education for Sustainability
Verran Primary is a small primary school surrounded by reserves in the middle of Birkenhead. Verran Primary School is an Enviro School - winning the National Green Gold Environmental Award in 2004. Children, Staff, Parents and the local community are working at establishing sustainable systems within the school; children lead this - working in their lunch breaks. Check out our posts below and leave a comment!
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Thank you Room 1 & 2 - Picket Fence
Room 1 & 2 are busy trying to tidy up our gardens. They have decided we need a little picket fence around the gardens outside the hall to tidy it up and keep people off the gardens. They have got the fence posts and drawn their designs on them, and are now painting them ready to put into the ground. I can't wait to see how fabulous it looks. Watch this space . . . .
Week 6 & 7
We have been so busy the last couple of weeks. There are so many activities the children have been running at lunchtimes.
The gardens are really dry so there has been a lot of watering needed. Children have been on the bicycle peddling hard to pump the water out of the tank.
And the lavender has been harvested and little lavender bags made to enjoy the aroma of a little longer.
The girls in the butterfly house have been busy collecting caterpillars and ensuring they have a safe place to transform into butterflies. They have now started tagging them so that they can be tracked and we can understand more about where they go and what happens to them over winter.
Rock Painting |
Making Seedballs |
Bug Hunting |
The gardens are really dry so there has been a lot of watering needed. Children have been on the bicycle peddling hard to pump the water out of the tank.
And the lavender has been harvested and little lavender bags made to enjoy the aroma of a little longer.
The girls in the butterfly house have been busy collecting caterpillars and ensuring they have a safe place to transform into butterflies. They have now started tagging them so that they can be tracked and we can understand more about where they go and what happens to them over winter.
Saturday, 29 February 2020
Stream Clean Up
In week 4 Kaipatiki Project ran a stream clean up. Brett Stansfield from Environmental Impact, Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Nicholson went down to clean up the stream after school. We were very surprised with the rubbish we found. There were orange cones and what looked like tantalised wood from the building of the stream bridge amongst the rubbish found in the stream. The Council has been contacted to come and collect the rubbish. This week we intend to write to the Council to see if they can talk to their contractors as some of this rubbish may have been left by them. :(
Mrs Nicholson cut back all the cutty grass to make it easier for us to access the stream next time we go down to monitor the stream.
Mrs Nicholson cut back all the cutty grass to make it easier for us to access the stream next time we go down to monitor the stream.
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