What an eventful year we have had at Knights Stream School with all of our exciting Enviro Initiatives! Thank you to everyone who has kindly supported us this year.

Our Amazing Community

This year we have been absolutely blown away with the generous support from our community regarding the Tōtara Garden to Table Program.  

Thank you to each and every whānau member and tamariki that contributed towards our Bake Sale at the end of Term 3 and our Plant Sale at the start of Term 4 - with your support, we managed to raise over $600 to go towards equipment and ingredients for this fantastic program! Also, a big thank you to New World Halswell for their generous donation of a $100 grocery voucher to support our budding young chefs and gardeners, and to Westgold Butter for their kind donation of butter to bake some yummy treats. 

A final thank you must be given to our wonderful Kitchen and Garden Specialists, Whaea Susan and Whaea Jude, and our incredible community volunteers Claire, Anja, Rex, Helen and Alison. Without these special helpers, this program would not have been possible. 

2022 may soon be over, but 2023 will bring even more exciting adventures for our sustainability journey!

Message from the City Council

This week we were lucky to be visited by Justin from Eco Educate and the Christchurch City Council, who conducted a recycling audit on Knights Stream School to see how we were performing. Thankfully, he was very impressed with our efforts to be a Rubbish Free School and said that with a few small efforts, we could all be even better! 

Notes to remember with recycling: 

- All face masks, gloves and tissues MUST NOT be placed in recycling bins. They are rubbish and must be put in the red bin. Used masks are a health hazard and if spotted by an audit team will result in the bin being rejected and not collected.

-  Only plastics with the recycling triangle with numbers 1, 2 and 5 can be recycled. All other plastics MUST be placed in the red rubbish bin. If you cannot read the number do not guess, just place in the red rubbish bin

- With immediate effect ALL lids (even if they are plastic) are to be put into the rubbish bins, not the recycling bin (There have been problems at the recycling centre sorting and as a result these lids have ended up in the paper recycling leading to contamination of the final paper product)

- All plastic, glass and tins in the recycling bin need to be clean, topless and loose (ie not placed in a plastic/paper/biodegradable bag)

- Smaller yoghurt pots are number 6 plastic and are not recyclable

- Small plastic bottles are too small and need to be placed in the rubbish

- ONLY plastic containers from bathroom, laundry and kitchen can be recycled. Chemical or engine oil plastic containers cannot be recycled.

- All soft plastics need to be put in the rubbish bin

- Paper can be recycled BUT it must be clean and larger than the size of an envelope. Any smaller cuttings or shredded paper can be placed in the green compost bin, a home worm farm or into the red rubbish bin.

Overall, thank you to everyone for your support in our Rubbish Free mission. We definitely learnt some interesting new facts from Justin, and hope that we can all help spread the message to help everyone contribute to a cleaner, greener planet earth for our tamariki!