Waitoriki School in Inglewood a Green-Gold Enviroschool 2022

For empowering students to take action to build a sustainable community and take action to protect and restore the environment.

Waitoriki School in Inglewood uses its natural environment as a learning space and being kaitiaki (a guardian) for their taiao (natural world) is part of pupils’ everyday life. Tamariki sustainably use natural products in their learning such as using nuts and seeds as counters. They also recycle and reuse to avoid making any waste. And students take their environmental work outside the school, looking after neighbours’ natural and animal habitats by fixing fences, clearing debris and cleaning waterways. The school has recently been named a Green-Gold Enviroschool for its long-term work on sustainability issues. Tamariki have removed exotic plants and introduced natives and are trapping pest animals while building natural habitats for insects, lizards and geckos. They’re creating bird corridors, redeveloping a wetland, have created gardens and a community orchard, plant native species in Everett Park every year and take part in heritage seed growing.

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