Limehills – Kowhai Green Gold Award and Beyond Green Gold
I was lucky to be present at an inspiring afternoon recognising Limehills School’s “Green Gold Award” held at the school on 11th December 2015. First the “guests” Mark Oster, Amy Kirk, Pat Hoffman, Gay Munro and myself were shown some of the amazing projects the students had been involved with over the last year for example – the nature area, the vegetable growing areas, the kowhai shed, with students explaining what they had achieved. This was followed by an assembly for the whole school where students presented their work and in turn Gay, Mark, myself and Ali Timms spoke about the schools excellent work in achieving their green gold award. The final speaker was Board of Trustees chair Pete Hammond who thanked everyone involved, but singled out Mark Oster’s contribution – we all agree with that sentiment. Pete’s comment that Mark could “make a grain of sand sound interesting” confirms my own view of what an absolute asset to outside the classroom environmental education Mark is, and we are very lucky to have such a person in Southland inspiring our young people. The afternoon was ended with a rousing waiata by the whole school – Mum enjoyed that too! And this was followed by afternoon tea. It’s great to be involved and contribute in a small way to their success.
Chris
Posted: 12 December 2015