On Wednesday the 25th of June Mrs M took 12 Envirogroup kids to visit St Partick's School in Invercargill. The reason for the trip was to have a look at St Patrick School's prayer garden. This is a special garden that has been made by the St Patrick's kids. It is a space for children to go to to relax and think. The children at St Patrick's designed the garden and had control over what the garden's features were to be. The Gore Main School Envirogroup came away from the visit with lots of new ideas for their 'Tranquility' garden that they want to create at school. The day was funded by Environment Southland. They paid for the bus, the food and Mrs M's salary for the day. Thank you Environment Southland. Amy and Pat, representatives from Environment Southland attended the day as well. We really had a great day and think that school interchanges are extremely worthwhile for Enviroschools. Some of the ideas we got from the trip for our own future 'Tranquility' garden are...
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=The Envirogroup wants to propagate their own plants for their garden. Why buy when you can grow plants from other ones?
=Lots of fragrant plants in the Tranquility garden. The St Pat's garden had fragrant lavender and the plants smelt wonderful.
=The children though that colour would be great in the garden.
=Native plants for the birds to come to.
The media was in attendance on this day and we made the paper!!
Here are photos from the day!
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| St Pat's Prayer Garden entrance - nice bright signs |
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| Fragrant Lavender - They smelt lovely! |
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| The children in the Prayer garden getting to know each other |
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| Relaxing in the Prayer garden |
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| The Prayer garden at St Pat's had lots of lovely decorations |
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| Koru and kids |
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| Beautiful, a corner of the Prayer garden. What a relaxing space |
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| All the St Pat's and Gore Main kids |
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| Pat from Environment Southland and the kids mixing from both schools |
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