Southland Girls – 10 November 2015
Science teacher Lynley King brought her environment class back to the Nursery on 10 November 2015. The girls started in the Education Centre, where Chris explained the concepts behind the Community Nursery. The group then headed to Bushy Point to re-measure a plant exclosure plot. The plants in the plot had been planted as part of the “Living Legends” planting project in 2011. As a lasting legacy of the Rugby World Cup, there is a Living Legends site in every Region of New Zealand where the Tindall Foundation funded 10,000 native plants per site. At Bushy Point, Southland Girls have been involved in measuring plant height and other biological factors for the last two years. They then use the information collected on the site statistics to analyse back at school. The girls also put out tracking tunnels to detect pests using the area. These tunnels would be collected by the next group of students in a week’s time.
Posted: 16 November 2015