Macandrew Bay School Edible Garden

Our school edible garden has many vegetables in it, such as, cabbage, potatoes, silver beet, zucchini, beans, bok choy, spinach, broccoli, and beetroot.  We have fruit, such as strawberries, berry bushes, apple, pear, and plum trees.  We grow lots of herbs, too.  The Room 1 children collect rain water off the school swimming pool roof and we use this water to water our gardens.  

Caring for our school edible garden

This is Room 5 out in our school edible garden.  We like to care for it. We pull out weeds.  We have planted broccoli, cabbage, spinach, silverbeet and bok choy to grow throughout the winter. We can see how well they have grown, already.  It is fun to see the plants growing well.

Collecting Sunflower Seeds

Here is Room 5 collecting the sunflower seeds.  We pick the seeds out of the flower and then we gather the seeds in a container.  We will dry these seeds and keep them for planting in the spring.

Shared Lunch - Thanks for the Potatoes!

Room 5 had a yummy shared lunch.  We ate potatoes with butter and we collected fresh green spinach, bok choy, and silverbeet.We cooked it all up in the staffroom and then we shared it for lunch.  Yum!

 Mrs M. Wells gifted us the delicious potatoes to say thank you for our paintings about vegetables.  She showed our paintings at a Horticultural Exhibition at the beginning of Term 2.  She liked them very much and she also baked some delicious cheese and herb scones for us.  Thank you, Mrs Wells.

Kaikorai Valley Common Working Bee

Some of our Enviro children helped to plant trees, flaxes, cabbage trees, and toi toi around the stream at Kaikorai Valley Common.  We really enjoyed the gardens that were being created and the mature gardens as well.

Enviro Kids go to Mt Grand Water Treatment Station

Two of our Enviro-group children went on an Enviro Hui to Mt Grand Water Treatment Station and then to the Marae in Kaikorai Valley.  The theme of our Hui was Precious Water.  We followed the journey of cleaning Dunedin's water.  We saw what the water looked like as it arrived to the treatment plant and we saw the different stages of cleaning the water so that it would be clean to be sent through pipes to our taps in our houses.  

Coleslaw Burger Day

We celebrated our garden harvest by making a coleslaw burger. Yum!
Lots of parents helped to cook the burgers and Room 5 children made the coleslaw! We grated carrots and chopped cabbages to make a delicious coleslaw.