All Weather Recycling

Station

Creating a Sustainable Future

at Mangakahia Area School

How did we get this:

From this?

It all began with this guy:

The

designer

of the All

Weather

Recycling

Station.

Darone

Diamond

And these people:

The Year 12/13

Education for

Sustainability Class

Our Working Party

Dylan Tohu, Darone Diamond, Ryan

Hall, Keegan Walker, Trei Mackie, Erin

Murphy, Michelle Nielsen.

Absent: Kayla Piri, Te Atawhai Marsh.

In Partnership with:

Individuals

Mr Coram – wood

technology teacher

Ms Semenoff – Education

for Sustainability teacher

Year 12/13 Education for

Sustainability Class

Students within Mangakahia

Area School

Staff

MASEE group

Organisations

Northland Regional Council

– Susan Botting

Whangarei District Council

– Sharon Morgan –

Mangakahia Ward Councillor

In partnership with:

Mrs Stead - Principal

Board of Trustees of

Mangakahia Area

School

So what was

our Vision/Goal

& what was our

Mission?

Vision/Goal:

Dealing with rubbish and refuse at

Mangakahia Area School in a positive

way to uphold the values of

enviroschools and allow us to become

a Minimal Waste Organisation that will

contribute to a sustainable future within

our school.

Mission:We will encourage students within

Mangakahia Area School to accept

ownership and guardianship

(kaitiaki) throughout Mangakahia

Area School, so they will display

positive attitudes that will assist in

creating a minimal waste future for

the school and contribute towards a

sustainable future.

How did it all

begin?

As far as we can

tell we think that

Darone’s thought

process was

something like this:

And so the All

Weather

Recycling Station

was born

We then had to decide:

How does this action

relate to the 4 Aspects

of Sustainability?

Diagram showing 4 Aspects of Sustainability

And the Interdependence between them.

The 4

Aspects of

Sustainability

Environmental

CulturalSocial

Economical

•This whole school will be involved

in this action as will individuals

from outside the school, creating

links between the different year

groups within Mangakahia Area

School and links with

organisations and the community

outside Mangakahia Area School.

Social

•We have done this as a school

project and through that we have

been able to apply for funding

and financial aid to assist in our

project. We are also budgeting

and logging all expenses in a

ledger book.

Economical

•This action will focus the

school towards becoming

more sustainable and will

implement a more sustainable

recycling system within our

school.

Environmental

•Tangata whenua ‘The cleaners

of the land’ and kaitiaki –‘Guardianship of the school and

land’ will also be very important

to us while planning and

implementing this action.

Cultural

Landscaping began

Which also meant that

the paperwork and

hours of collaborative

discussion began

Then the building

began

Profiling and

boxing were the

first steps

Then came the

concreting

Meanwhile I was

concentrating on my

personal action of Promoting

the All Weather Recycling

Station. This involved

organising the Opening Day

Ceremony of the All Weather

Recycling Station.

This involved

creating posters

and flyers and

talking to the

different classes

Time What Person

Responsible

Comments

8.40 – 9.00 Form time

9.00 – 11.00

Set up for day. Involves preparation team only, remainder of

students in normal class time.

Visitors arrive and are taken to staff room. Introductions.

Tour around school by Enviro-team.

Year 12/13

11.00 –

11.30

Interval:

Last minute preparation by Team

Morning Tea – (Staff involvement morn Tea)

Year 12/13

11.30 –

11.45 Students to be seated.

Mr Morgan Mrs

Grieve

Formal

11.45 –

12.15

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

Formal Opening of All Weather Recycling Station:

All school and staff attendance.

Karakia – Dylan/Darone – Sam Tohu/George Tuhiwai

Junior Kapa Haka item.

Speeches and flax cutting by Northland Regional Council

representative and Whangarei District Council representative

Junior Kapa Haka item.

Speeches from the floor– Kayla/Erin – Mrs Stead

Year 12/13

12.15 –

12.30

15 minute intermission for students to get changed for Wearable

Arts competition.

Fine weather: Girls – Community Room

Boys – Health Clinic

Wet weather: Wearable Arts competition held in Gym.

Programme for Opening of All Weather Recycling Station

12.30 –

1.30 1)

2)

3)

Wearable Arts Competition:

Emcee – Dylan Tohu

Years 1 – 6 schools present (Shelly and Te Atawhai responsible)

Years 8 – 10 schools present (Shelly and Te Atawhai responsible)

Years 11 -13 schools present (Ryan and Keegan responsible)

Judged by NRC, Enviroschools, WDC.

Prizes awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Preparation team – organising lunch

Year 12/13

1.30 – 2.00

Lunchtime:

Sausage sizzle for students

Food Technology supply lunch for visitors

Darone, Erin, Kayla, Keegan, Shelly, Te Atawhai, Ryan and

Dylan to be present for any questions with official party.

All guests depart – Farewell.

Each school to be given a Native Tree on departure.

Year 12/13 EfS

class

Mrs Knier: Year

12/13

Hospitality

Class

2.00 – 2.45 All other students return to normal class time/to gym for sports.

Working Party to tidy up areas used during the day.

Mr Susnjar

2.45 – 3.00 All students to form room for end of term tidy up. Whole School

Meanwhile…

The builders were

building and furnishing

the All Weather

Recycling Station

And roofing

Then the planting

and landscaping

took place

Then finally after

weeks of

designing,

concreting,

building, furnishing

and landscaping…

The All Weather Recycling Station was complete!

Then

Opening Day

was upon us

Opening

Day was a

huge

success

All our

hard

work had

paid off

A special thanks to all

the people who helped

us with any and all

aspect of creating the

All Weather Recycling

Station

Thank you

Thank you

A big thank

you to Mrs

Stead and

the Board

of Trustees

Thanks also to

Brian Bennet

Mr Dee

Charlie

Mr Smith

Thanks must also go to:Waimarie Nurseries

Northland Plants

&

For their kind donations of Native Plants

A HUGE

thank you is

also owed

to…

Ms Semenoff

&

Mr Coram

Without whom none of this would have ever

been possible

Creating a Sustainable Future

at Mangakahia Area School

All Weather Recycling

Station