Pakaraka School's Native Tree Planting Day

On Tuesday the 30th of July 2013, a lady called Pauline came to our school from the Department of Conservation. She demonstrated how to plant a tree properly with the help of Essica and Ngati.

First they dug a hole and levelled the earth so the top of the tree was the same height as the ground, then they poured water in the hole and put the tree in and covered it up with soil and sprinkled wood chips around the tree to keep it moist.

Next, we planted our Griselinia trees with our partners. Dirt was marked with circles and crosses where we had to plant them. Circles were where we had to plant the Griselinia trees and crosses were where we had to plant the Karaka and Pigeonwood trees. If we were finished in time, we got to plant flax as well.

                



Our native garden is to bring in all of the native birds to our school. Christine Sweetapple did an awesome job organising this for our school. When we are older we will be able to drive past the school and remember and feel special that we planted those trees.

By Dana and Kacey