Pirongia Lodge Report

After an exhausting day on Friday, the first week of term 4, Te Pahu School, Pirongia School and parent helpers can now step back and watch all of the plants we planted grow around the outdoor classroom at Pirongia Forest Park Lodge.
We spent a couple of weeks writing to businesses around Hamilton for donations to buy native plants or most prefferably native plants. After we had gathered the plants (Pirongia also was involved) we all went to the Pirongia Lodge to plant them around the outdoor classroom, which is a place where kids can go to learn about the outdoors. So we had to plant plants. Sounds easy right?

But there was still some clearing to do. We left the boys to clear the brambles and we found some spots to plant the native plants such as flax, teatree, rimu and other plants. We all enjoyed getting our hands a bit dirty and having lots of fun.
At the end of the day, some people rolled down the big hill. We even managed to get Mr Marquand to roll down tto. It was a big laugh and an awesome way to finish the day.

I can't wait to go back in about 20 years and say "I planted those plant's." :)