2019 - A new journey
Kia ora and welcome to our 2019 St Thomas More gardening club!
My what fantastic kids you have here at St Thomas More! We’ve spent our first few weeks getting to know eachother and our gardens, and getting them back into shape after a long hot summer. There are many beautiful flowers, strawberry plants and swan plants (in the butterfly gardens). There’s also an abundance of basil thriving in the summer sun and potatoes which have just finished doing their thing.
Along with tidying up the gardens, the kids have also been honing their planting skills by planting out a bed of leeks. The class also checked out their school’s epic rainwater harvesting system. We couldn’t help but notice the tanks were starting to get rather low, which highlighted the need we have here in the bay to conserve our water at this time of year!
I am very grateful to be working alongside the super fun and passionate Mrs Eckstein in this exciting new chapter for the school… And I think the kids are too!
Those who didn’t know the school had planted some fruit trees were rather thrilled at the thought of coming to school & being able to pick fruit straight from the trees! We established early on that St Thomas More kids love food! So they’re all pretty excited about growing their favourite foods right outside their classrooms :)
Growing young minds & strengthening community bonds through a connection with our natural environment. What a blessing this is! And we thoroughly look forward to sharing this journey with you all.
Yours in growing,
Matua Jake