Weed Warriors at Work
Last Sunday, the second Sunday Weeders, Urban Ark and a crew from Springs - Waiōrea smashed out a huge weeding bee along the banks of the awa that borders the school. We released our native plants, cut back a ton…
Social Studies/Tikanga ā-Iwi Annual Sustainable Christmas Market
The Social Studies/Tikanga ā-Iwi Department warmly invites you to our Annual Sustainable Christmas Market. It takes place on Thursday, 27th November from 9:00 - 12:30 and is on Level Two of the KHCL. Our students have been working very hard…
Green Jam was AMAZING
The annual environmental sustainability conference hosted by WSCW was organised by Wastewise students with the support of the kaitiaki roopu. We had students from 10 schools who were inspired by all of our awesome presenters and panel members. Thank-you so…
Recycled Runway
Over the weekend of the 9th and 10th of August, two teams of students designed and created amazing outfits. These talented and resourceful rangatahi transformed pre-loved garments, accessories and fabric into haute couture. Every item of fabric has a…
Project Waste Event
It started with a good idea, but not an original one. Thank you, Chip Packet Project, for inspiring our creative project. The next step was to eat, over quite a few months, packets of nachos and chips and carefully set…
We have expanded our solar array
In the July school holidays an additional 9.5kW of solar was added to our existing array. We now have a total of 160, 370watt panels generating solar on the roof of the Ken Havill Centre for Learning. This means our…
Restoring our whenua with original Tāmaki Makaurau plants
On Thursday the 31st of July WasteWise, Kaitiaki and the trappers got their gloves on and their shoes dirty to plant 200 native trees along the northern boundary of our school. We planted 10 different kinds of trees, including mahoe,…
Student fundraiser – native timber spatulas
Year 12 student, Miles Dean has been making wooden spatulas (aka soffritto spatulas) and selling them to raise funds for his school trip - Italy Culinary Experience. These hand crafted, beautiful items are one for $30 or two for $50…
Kai to Compost to Kai – Mana Ora Youth Resilience Grant
Food Tech in conjunction with Wastewise and Kaitiaki are thrilled to be one of the recipients of the Auckland Council Mana Ora Youth Resilience Grant. Our full-cycle project, Kai to Compost to Kai, will allow the students to be involved…
The Rangatahi Environmental Action Leaders (REAL) Programme
Over the school holidays, we had the amazing opportunity to attend the Rangatahi Environmental Action Leaders (REAL) programme, a three day experience held at Ōtara marae, Ambury Regional Park, and Manukau Institute of Technology. We learned so much about climate…