2018 HNHS School Magazine HNHS Magazine 2018 | Page 41

Environmental Committee
Back Row:
Samantha Tait, Kara Billing, Josh O’Halloran, Brodie Shannon, Grant Hanson, Ms Jones (Teacher)
Front Row:
Anna Murfitt, Zane Shadbolt, Nina Blair, James Ford, Alice Lindsay
Environmental Committee
The Environmental Committee of 2018 was involved in
many activities throughout the year. First, we helped with
the NZ Association for Environmental Education Sea-week,
where many of our members spent a Saturday collecting
rubbish found on the Napier shoreline, with a trailer filled
before the end of the day.
Special thanks to all those teachers who have helped make
our duties easier during the year, to our junior members for
getting stuck in and to Ms Jones for being our Teacher in
Charge.
To mark the occasion of ‘World Water Day’ on the 22nd of
March the committee held a water awareness event in the
school quad at lunchtime. Students were able to make water
cycle bracelets, race water drops, catch water balloons and
guess how much water was in a jar. We aimed to get our
students thinking about the preciousness of our fresh water.
This year we took on the challenge of leaving our mark on
the school. We came together as a committee and decided
we would like to create a mural as a way to leave a message
for future students at the school. We then held a competition
so that enthusiastic and creative students could get their say
in what they would like the mural to look like. We decided to
take elements from several of the designs entered. With the
final design finished and a location for the mural selected,
the next step is to paint it before the start of the new school
year.
As always, the Environmental Committee took on the task
of weekly recycling and composting around the school
and in the classrooms. Every Friday form time, committee
members would make sure all the bins were emptied and
ready to be recycled. We have also replanted our school
vegetable garden and hope to reap a bumper crop!
Students taking part in a range of activities for World water day
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