Receiving our Bronze Award

NGĀ MIHI KIA WHĀNAU Ō MATAIRANGI!  KIA PAI ŌU KOUTOU MAHI!  KIA PAI ŌU AKO ME TE WHANAUNGATANGA, ME TE MAHITAKI ME TE KAITIAKITANGA!

THE BRONZE REFLECTION TEAM 2016!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL WHANAU!  WELL DONE FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!  WELL DONE FOR ALL YOUR LEARNING AND COMMUNITY MINDEDNESS, YOUR EFFORTS AND YOUR CARETAKING OF OUR SCHOOL!

WE ARE NOW A BRONZE ENVIROSCHOOL AND TODAY WE RECEIVED OUR AWARD!

Today Clyde Quay School was recognised in a formal assembly as being a Bronze Enviroschool.  We were joined and supported by Moira and the Mt Cook School Green Team, Wellington City Councillor Iona Pannet and Arihia Latham our Enviroschools Facilitator.  

Our Performance Kapahaka group were there to welcome our visitors, the Green Team took them on a tour of the school and we celebrated our time with Tea and Tapenade in the staffroom.  Our whole school then joined us for the Bronze assembly to receive the Bronze Award - a medal that recognises our efforts and achievements to be a sustainable school.  

Our Bronze Enviroschool status means that this descriptive paragraph applies to our school:
We have started work on getting to know our environment better and are creating a whole school vision (You can see our vision map outside Whaea's office - we will be update this over the next few weeks)
Students at our school are exploring options and finding ways to take action for the environment.  (Students identified that our inquiries are one of the main ways that this is celebrated throughout the school)
We can already show some changes from what we have done.  (Many students collated evidence from the classes and Enviro projects and this will be on display on our blog)
There are some staff and students actively involved and we are letting everyone else in our school know about what has been going on. (Assemblies featured highly on this list of successes).
The people in our school and community know that we are an Enviroschool.  (And more member of the public will know once our Enviroschools sign goes up, after the "poisonous" tree is removed from out the front of the office!  Keep your eyes peeled!)
We are all thinking about the Guiding Principles of being an Enviroschool and these principles of sustainability are reflected in planning and action, and we can see how they would look across the following four key areas of school life.  We are guided by the principles of Sustainable Communities, Empowered Students, Valuing of Maori Perspectives, Respect for Diversity of people and culture and Learning for Sustainability.

This slide show highlights our top 5 projects, but it was pretty hard to narrow it down to only 5!