Melville Intermediate - Enviro Schools Competition

Those of you who know that we've been competing in the Melville Intermediate School Enviro-Schools competition will be unaware of a pretty major disaster that occurred earlier this week. Persons unknown appear to have reached into the classroom during a lunch break and sabotaged our growing effort by snapping the bean plant! We decided that some pretty drastic action was required to get back into the competition so Keegan our Enviromental Officer went into the School Gardens and re-potted the bean plant! To remove all allegations of any underhanded cheating we had the idea to film the original bean plant being transplanted into its new container and then decided to post this online so that the other schools could see the evidence that we've put up of this!

Melville Intermediate - Enviro Schools Competition

These photographs are the Y7 entrants into our new Enviro Schools Competition. We've got to grow a Bean Plant in the Classroom, with the competition closing on the last day of School. These are the Y7 entries for the competition. Keegan from Room 8 had the following to say about the competition:
"For the Bean Project (Competition) each class has been given a half grown bean. This competition ends on Thursday on the last week of Term. The class that grown the largest bean, or has the largest plant will win a prize. So get growing!

Melville Intermediate - 'Green Day' Garden Fundraiser

On Friday at Melville Intermediate School we had our 'Green Day' Fund-raiser. As an Enviroschool we were raising money for the school gardens which will be replanted shortly in spring. Every student had the opportunity of coming to school in Mufti (non-uniform) if they made a gold coin donation ($1 or $2). There was also a competition for students dressed in Green. Each class had to nominate two students dressed in green to go forward to the finals judged by Mrs Bleakin and Mrs Wilson. Of course Room Eight was there with Vitolina filming Arahia as she watched the competition! Filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Friday 23rd October 2009.

Melville Intermediate - Recycling at School

Room 8 has two enviroagents at School. Keegan has been working on a proposal for School wide recycling of plastics. To prove his point today he went with Kalem and Jamie to a school rubbish bin after interval. Armed with plastic gloves he was out to prove that there's waste that could be recycled. This video shows his findings. Filmed at Melville Intermediate on Thursday 20th August 2009 by Jamie.

Melville Intermediate - Enviromental Report

Hello, my name is Keegan and I'm a Room 8 enviro agent. Each class at Melville Intermediate class has two Enviromental Agents. Today I'm going to tell you about the Worm Baths. With the worm baths people in this school (not just the students the adults too!). People put their fruit and tea bags in their classrooms yellow bucket - but do not put citrus in! Two people from one class go around the school putting the other classes food in thier yellow bins. Then they go to the gardens and put the food in the worm baths. These are old baths that are in the school garden. The food is put in the baths and the worms eat them and produce manure. Then they get the green buckets under the worm baths and put the manure away for selling. The enviro agents are trying to get the silver award for our school for this year.

Melville Intermdiate - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

This video was created by Arahia and Keegan our R8 environmental agents. They had a task on Friday with the other enviromental agents at Melville Intermediate (there's two in each class) to re pot some plants, using clippings from older plants. Filmed on Thursday 26th March 2009 at Melville Intermediate by Keegan.

Melville Intermediate - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

This is a video created by our two Room Eight Enviro Agents. Each class at Melville Intermediate has two Enviro agents who take charge of recycling and also collecting of material for our worm farm. Arahia and Keegan created this video to talk to you about the process and show you where the food scraps end up. Guest starring a cockroach. Filmed at Melville Intermediate 23/3/09.



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