Community Meeting

Tonight we held a community meeting in the school staffroom. The purpose of the meeting was twofold, firstly to see how we can support the Kaka presently residing in our community and secondly to connect with our local community and invite them to join us in planting activities. The meeting was excellent, with a good number of keen people attending. I shared our Enviroschools journey so far and also discussed how our aim is to create a passion for nature in our children. We then had the Department of Conservation guest speaker, Caroline Abbott share facts about the Kaka and give ideas about how we, as a community can help them. Initially planting more bird attracting trees, monitoring the Kaka activity and educating locals about pest control, will be actions we can undertake without fairly easily. Further pest control ideas can be considered as we determine how we want our group to develop. Thanks to our leaflet droppers and also our student reps who also attended the meeting.