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Making a splash
Pupils from Midhirst School getting up close and personal with sea life in the rock pools at Kawaroa, New Plymouth, as part of a rocky shore study in March 2008 with Taranaki Regional Council Education Officer Kevin Archer. All the school's 95 pupils were involved, split into "vertical" groups of varying ages and each group led by a parent.
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Hanging around for Seaweek
One of the winning entries in a mobile competition held in March 2008 to mark Seaweek in Taranaki. The highly popular annual competiton attracted almost 100 entries and the winners went on display at Centre City, New Plymouth, and the Hawera Public Library. Prizes were books with a sea theme.
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School adopts a stream
Vogeltown School pupils Jessica Rust and Rhianna Roach, with principal Mark Luff, identify macroinvertebrates found as part of a study of the Huatoki Stream, which the school has "adopted". Pupils studied the stream at four sites from the source to the mouth to assess the water quality at each place. The school has registered with the Taranaki Regional Council as a riparian (streamside) planting school and intends to study the stream regularly in future years.
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Teaching the teachers
This focused foursome are examining specimens of rock-pool life on the rocky shore near Kawaroa as part of a teacher workshop run by Taranaki Regional Council Education Officer Kevin Archer in February 2008. Teachers from Norfolk School, Moturoa School, Kaponga School, St Joseph's Waitara and the Eco-School took part in the workshop.
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Tree-spotters at work
Two pupils at Frankley School, New Plymouth, identifying newly purchased trees using a Taranaki Regional Council identification booklet. With help from a Taranaki Tree Trust grant, the schools is beautifying a formerly disused area with amenity planting, for future use in environmental education programmes.
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River Ys
Taranaki Regional Council Education Officer Kevin Archer leads a group from the YMCA in New Plymouth on a River Study at the Scout Den Pool on the Patea River at Stratford. The river study involves taking a sample of invertebrate life forms as well as measuring the clarity and temperature of the river.
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Norfolk pupils really dig it
Years 5-6 pupils from Norfolk School, with parents and teacher lending support, get stuck into riparian planting at the Hitchcock property on Norfolk Road. The school is one of a number combining environmental education with hands-on experience at farms that have a Riparian Management Plan drawn up by Taranaki Regional Council land management staff. Before their on-site visit, the pupils are taken through the whys and wherefores of riparian planting by Council Education Officer Kevin Archer.
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