sustainability
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Your stories: Omakere School’s journey to Environmental Manaakitanga
Omakere's normal school year centres around a whole-school inquiry into its environment: "Most of our class work, including literacy and…
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What is the process for installing solar in schools?
Once, not so long ago, switching to solar power was all about cutting costs and embracing clean energy....
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Education
Op-Ed: A deeper look at the new Climate Change Resources
What good teacher would want to ban Thunberg from the classroom materials? If we want to empower children to respond to the…
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Case Study: Geraldine High School to break a school solar record
Geraldine High School (GHS) in rural South Canterbury is set to save power, money and break records with its recent…
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Play-based learning principles bolster our wellbeing
Principal Andrew King explains how school gardens, regular harvests and Colin the community cat are curating stronger wellbeing among his…
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Up to $25,000 funding available for school projects
Special funding is also available to assist Kura Kaupapa Māori, Kohanga Reo and bilingual schools with their environmental projects through…
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Don’t waste learning opportunities
Solving ‘the problem of waste’ could be integrated into the learning environment at your school by focussing on sustainability.
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NZ’s first Green School build is underway
Construction of the world’s second Green School has begun in Oakura, Taranaki, with the campus set to reflect New Zealand’s…
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Education
What’s so hot about STEAM?
One of the challenges facing the STEAM movement is the many different conceptions of what STEAM learning might look like.
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Property
Solar power: sun, STEM & stimulating cost savings
Case studies and insights: Meet the schools ahead of the solar curve and hear from leaders in the solar sector…
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Administration
Exploring sustainable school ideas
If anyone has a vested interest in environmental sustainability, it’s today’s youth. Unfortunately, they are growing up in a society…
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Enviroschool journey: It all started with a worm farm…
In 2015, one very special school embarked on three-year-long journey to become an Enviroschool. School News spoke to Discovery School’s…
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Education
New sustainability programme and funding push from gov’t
A sustainability trust-run programme will get a $157,000 grant from the Government’s Waste Minimisation Fund, Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage…
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Food & Beverage
Year 5&6 students across NZ invited to compete in cooking comp
The challenge is on for pairs of year five and year six school pupils to grate, slice, cook, create and…
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Ways to generate kaitiakitanga in your school
There are many ways in which schools can develop sustainable practices and generate kaitiaki. School News takes a look at…
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Profiles
First zero net energy school reflects on lessons learned
Pegasus Bay School, a full primary 25 km north of Christchurch, is a thoroughly modern institution. The first Canterbury school…
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