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Te Iwi o Matariki
The Māori New Year
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Te Kahui Whetu o Matariki - The Constellation of Matariki
Matariki is a good time for reflection. Legend tells us the star Hiwaiterangi is for wishing and dreaming; A time to reflect on the year that has passed and to think of our aspirations for the year ahead. In years gone by, Matariki was thought to determine your crop for the coming season, so it was important to recognise the part it played in nature’s cycle.
Matariki today is seen as an important time to celebrate the earth and show respect for the land on which we live. How will you be celebrating Matariki?
The NZ Garden Bird starts at the end of this week. You can find a link to all the details in this newsletter.
We hope you enjoy this issue of Step Out.
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The landscape is changing around several of our waterways. Winter planting of native species is well underway. The public response this year has been overwhelming. There are still opportunities to get stuck in - check out HBRC's website.
Join forces with Forest & Bird this Saturday 24 June
Waitangi Regional Park (Napier F&B) starts at 9am with a sausage sizzle to finish
In July -
Sat 1 July 9am - midday | Karamu Stream - Crosses Road Bridge
Sat 8 July 9am - midday | Whakatu, Avison Lane
Sat 15 July 9am - midday | Tutira Regional Park - 3488 SH2, Tutira
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Your Choice Hui @ Eskdale School
FIFTEEN schools came together on Tuesday 13 June to share and experience one another's Enviroschools activities. Each school had an opportunity to present their current focus. We enjoyed skits, waiata, raps, video, slides and posters. Eskdale School has an envirogroup of 52 students! A highlight of the day was an opportunity to tour the grounds of Eskdale School with very capable student hosts.
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Piripi Belcher helps display the reflection evidence at Tamatea Kindergarten.
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Two Kindergartens achieve at Bronze
To acknowledge progress at your Enviroschool, schools and kindergartens are encouraged to reflect on their journey. Recently Carlyle & Tamatea Kindergartens, both part of the Napier Kindergarten Association, did just that. In the kindergarten world Te Whariki and the Enviroschools kaupapa have a harmonious relationship as was evidenced in both kindergartens. We look forward to you achieving your next steps.
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Carlyle Kindergarten created a wheke to assist with their reflection. The five guiding principals are displayed waiting for the evidence to be added.
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Anneke Mayhead is in Year 13 at Napier Girls' High School. She has been a member of the Youth Environment Council since the beginning of this year.
Recently Anneke attended YELF - Youth Environmental Leaders Forum in Auckland. Here she is receiving a record of her attendance from Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland.
We asked Anneke what she thought of this experience
- The best bit of YELF? - Our trip to Rotoroa Island and seeing Takahe up close
- Worst Bit? - The days were quite long, so I felt pretty tired by the end of it
- Most fun thing - Meeting so many cool people from all across NZ and the pacific
- Something new I learnt - The importance of marine reserves and how they help restore the biodiversity of an area, I’d highly recommend YELF to anyone interested in the environment or even if they were just wanting to find out more.
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Kids 4 Drama 2017
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Our region will have had TWENTY-EIGHT performances by the time the tour is over on Friday 23 June. Central Hawke's Bay, Hastings and Napier schools have been visited this year. The group is funded by all our region's councils and has been coming to the Bay for over 10 years.
With a new show this year, called 'The weirdest waste wise walk to school', and some cute-clever puppets, the performances are as fresh, fun and relevant as ever.
In the picture above are Liam, Grace, Emily and Hannah.
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Kaitiaki Kids at Te Mata Primary School
With the Karamu Stream practically on their doorstep learning about and helping out the Karamu has been a focus for year 2 students at Te Mata School in Havelock North. They have a great understanding of what being kaitiaki means and it was a pleasure to meet with them this week. We looked at some macroinvertebrates that can be found in the stream.
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Many hands make light work!
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Helping with planting on Friday 16 June, students from Lindisfarne, Woodford and Iona. Year 13 students taking part in a Community Service Day at the Karamu Stream.
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NZ Garden Bird Survey : 24 June - 2 July
Birds are important indicators of the health of New Zealand’s environment. You and your students can be part of this citizen science project to help Landcare Research monitor distribution and population trends in garden birds!
Spend just one hour watching birds in your garden and record the highest number of each species you see or hear at one time. OR do this as a fun school activity to connect children with the outside environment.
Visit Landcare Research's website to find out how to take part: how to do the survey, submit your observations and identify birds.
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Department of Conservation:
'IN THE ENVIRONMENT'
Education Resources
The next three resources in this series are available online.
Experiencing native trees in your green space http://www.doc.govt.nz/education-nativetrees
The other two resources cover Plant Pests and Animal Pests.
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Regional Council Meetings
Wed 28 June Regional Council
Wed 5 July Regional Planning
Wed 12 July Environment & Services
Wed 26 July Regional Council
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Agendas are on our website www.hbrc.govt.nz
These meetings are open to the public. Some interesting science (and other) reports are presented that may be useful in the classroom.
Sometimes meetings are not held in our Napier Council Chamber.
This information is also on our website.
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ABB Electrical Napier - staff came together for a beach cleanup and BBQ at Westshore, May 2017.
Let's work together to enhance
our local environment.
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