Email Environmental Education at Hawke's Bay Regional Council for help and advice with any of your schools environmental project.
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Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has provided funding which has enabled ‘Trees for Hawke’s Bay’ to employ a part-time facilitator to assist schools with growing native plants for their school grounds and community planting.
The Programme is called 'Shade House in Schools' and it is a Genesis Reforestation Project.
This is the project that the HBRC has funded over the last few years and is different from the national programme 'Trees for Survival'.
Trees for Hawke's Bay Schools, Marae and Communities Fund
The available funding has been doubled for 2010!
The Trees in Schools, Marae and Communities is a small fund which schools, early childhood centres, marae, and community groups can apply to for a small restoration or planting project on their own site.
The fund provides an experienced coordinator and up to 50 trees or plants (native or food) suited to the site.
If your school would like to get involved in the Shade House in Schools programme or would like to apply for The Trees for Hawke's Bay Schools, Marae and Communities Fund please contact Marion at the Environment Centre or visit their website.
On-line learning centre with curriculum-based learning materials to encourage an understanding of the environment and the importance of effective environmental decision-making.
Enviroschools originated in Hamilton in 1993, with the purpose of creating healthier, more peaceful and sustainable schools. Through a whole school approach students plan, design and create sustainable projects that benefit the school and the wider community.
Enviroschools is now available nation-wide with the support of the Enviroschools Foundation and a growing number of national and regional partnerships.
To date more than 340 schools are planning, designing and creating sustainable schools in areas such as recycling, worm farms, riparian and forest restoration projects.
To find out more contact Emily Rockwell, Enviroschools Regional Coordinator at Hawke’s Bay Regional Council email - Environmental Education.
A large number of schools throughout Hawke’s Bay have participated in the National Waterways Project. Several thousand children have enjoyed the experience of hunting for invertebrates in our streams and rivers, measuring things like temperature, pH, water clarity and speed.
The NWP has now been combined with the international 'GLOBE' environmental programme. The new programme is called EMAP - Environmental Monitoring and Action Project.
EMAP is funded by the Ministry of Education LEOTC fund and delivered through the Royal Society of New Zealand. Regional facilitators have been appointed and they will support schools in becoming involved with these environmental education programmes.
Ian Cairns, who is the Hawke's Bay Environmental Monitoring and Action Project Facilitator, is available to any school who wishes to become involved with EMAP. This is an opportunity for teachers to scaffold from using their simple equipment into gathering weather, soil, vegetation and other environmental data into the stricter protocols of GLOBE
At whatever level schools wish to become involved - Ian is ready to support them with monitoring equipment and entry of data into the global database.
You can contact Ian at i.cairns@xtra.co.nz or phone 844 3384 or visit http://emap.rsnz.org/
Kids 4 Drama is a professional drama group based in Auckland who travelled down to Hawke’s Bay to perform “A Quest for A Cleaner World” from 2-13 August 2010.
The production ‘A Quest for A Cleaner World’ focused on the following key messages:
- Litter and illegal dumping
- Hazardous Waste
- Keeping our waterways litter free
- The danger of litter on the environment and wildlife
- Keep Hawke's Bay beautiful – community pride
- Rubbish / recycling is a resource
- Consumers can make a huge difference by the products that we choose to buy!
The 30 schools who received the show were sent a teaching resource booklet to help the students understand the concepts and key messages of this programme. It has been shown that students are more likely to remember the information and discuss at home if it is integrated into their curriculum, instead of a one-off activity.
This is a joint council initiative and proudly sponsored by Napier City Council, Hastings District Council, CHB District Council, Wairoa District Council and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. If your school would like to receive the production in 2011, please contact Emily Rockwell on Emily@hbrc.govt.nz.
Since 1992 the Department of Conservation, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd have celebrated Conservation Week by taking school groups to visit two local sites of great conservation importance - White Pine Bush Scenic Reserve and Tutira Country Park.
During the past 18 years more than 3500 students have taken part in this programme, planting thousands of native trees around Lake Tutira.
This year over 200 students from – Peterhead School, Bledisloe School, Rareka School, Arthur Miller school and a Wairoa school will get a guided tour around a remnant of native forest at White Pine Bush Scenic Reserve, plant native trees and learn about erosion control at Lake Tutira Country Park, and hear lots of interesting facts about the modern forestry industry. If your school would like to take part in this programme in 2011, please contact Emily Rockwell on Emily@hbrc.govt.nz.