Enviro Group Gore Main School: Visit from Pat Hoffman

On Tuesday the 9th of April the Gore Main School Envirogroup had a visit from Pat Hoffman. Pat is our local Envirogroup co-ordinator (Southland). She spent the morning with our Envirogroup and talked more indepthly about Envirogroup 'guiding principles'. She challenged us as a group to talk about projects we had done and how the guiding principles formed our ideas or outcomes. For example how does our worm farm meet the guiding principle "Living for sustainability"? This really made us think and it was very worthwhile. We had many opportunities to talk and discuss our thoughts and ideas. We went over the silver paragraph with Pat because our goal this year is to achieve Silver! We thought that we were achieving a lot of the requirements for Silver already! We thought that an area that we could certainly improve on was including or giving back to our community. We talked about our vision map and the Envirogroup added some more ideas to our 2013 vision. The children enjoyed having morning tea with Pat and finishing the day with a "smell scape" (putting things like flowers or twigs into a paper cone, smelling it, then describing the smell of your environment). Thanks Pat. Check out our photos!