October plantfest!!

Today we installed 3 raised gardens made from recycled tyres, ( thank-you to the Tony's crew!!) These gardens are filled with our special compost and worm wees, then topped off with potting mix. We planted zucchini's, butternuts, capsicums and herbs.
We also planted out more wonderful spinach, corn, new potatoes and celery. Sadly it was too windy to plant the beans, tomatoes and capsicums, but we will install a trellis for running these plants up over the next week - weather permitting!
Also we potted out radish seeds, they are really quick growers, in fact it only takes 31 days from planting to eating!!!

Mr Bird - Riding to work

Mr Bird has started biking to work. Check out the flash new helmet.

First Potato!

Staff Meeting 14th October

Students presented their reflections, evaluations, ideas and findings to the staff. Then Karyn Burgess discussed Muritai's Green / Gold Progress. The teachers were very proud of the students and appreciated their efforts. Karen was extremely impressed with the School. Well Done Muritai.

Art inspired by Shaun tan

For our calendars this year we chose to use some recycled materials. Many of the artworks you see here have a message.
For our artwork we used an illustration from The Red Tree by Shaun Tan as our inspiration.
We looked closely at the illustration. We spoke about the main shapes that we could see and the colours that were used. We also looked at how the layering effect was created and what messages were being given.
As a class we wrote a brief procedure on how to complete the work. We had to make sure we started from the background and worked our way up.
We dyed newspaper, cut out old pictures from dictionaries, magazines and junk mail.
This took us a long time but the art we have completed is amazing.
Come up to our class and have a closer look if you like.

Muritai Regional Coordinator Visit – 14th October 2008

On Tuesday the 14th October Karyn Burgess (Enviroschools Regional Coordinator) came to school to work with the students and teachers to reflect on and evaluate the progress made at Muritai as part of the process of working towards a green-gold award.

As well as to finding out what’s happening at Muritai we had to find out how good we are at reflecting and evaluating on our own practice.

We shared all the exciting things the school and community has been doing. Karyn really enjoyed the enthusiasm and commitment from everyone.

At the end of today’s visit Karyn was able to tell us what needs to be done to reach Green Gold and what the process from here is.


It was an exciting, stimulating and rewarding day.