Reduce Reuse Recycle

15 June 2015

Reduce Reuse Recycle at Woodhill School is focused on Kaitiakitanga - caring for our environment. 

We had lots of ideas that involved positive and proactive practices, some of our ideas were:

• establish recycling monitors
• adopt a part of the road or river to keep clean of pollution
• recycle paper into hand-made paper
• arrange a tin can collection fundraiser
• provide bins for different kinds of litter
• collect rain water from down pipes
• install side-shelters in lunch areas
• install shade sails
• set up a scrap bin for chooks
• pest control programme for mice etc
• change to enviro light bulbs
• install sustainable energy systems - wind turbine, solar power

It is great to see our children thinking in environmentally-friendly ways. Many of these ideas will make a difference locally as they already have globally.

In the short term this group’s focus is on ‘reuse’ and how to use non biodegradable car tyres in useful and  purposeful ways - hence our tyre fence to protect our septic tank vents.

Last week our children dug out the trenches for their tyres and painted the tyres. On Friday they had a go at measuring the correct amount of cement powder to water ratio. They discovered the key was to ensure the mixture was mixed well and to get the cement in the tyres before it hardened.