Our native bush area was first planted in 2004. A gift from Mrs Timoko's class. It was a huge effort and took lots of planning and hard work.
It has been an absolute asset to our school, however with play-based learning children have been allowed over the last few years to use it as a play space. Meaning many of the original plants died and areas were damaged.
We want to breathe life back into our Native bush area, by now creating play spaces, and no play spaces. Clearning out, cleaning up and replanting areas that the children then look after in with their tuakana teina class.
Paul Allen has done a huge amount of work clearning the spaces we want to set up as 'no play' spaces, moving rocks and forming edges. We then want to bark these areas, eventually form usable paths and plant trees that will happily exist under the current canopy.
On Empty classroom day we plan to move the wood chip we currently have (from the tree that was cut down.) We will then need more rocks and start planting areas. This project will allow children to put kaitiakitanga into practice in our own backyard.
It is a work in progress. If you feel there is anything you may be able to help with to contribute to this project, we would gladly assist your assistance.
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