Matawai School

Enviroschools Green/Gold Celebration Day

“Today begins the next stage in our vision for sustainable living for the future generations who will pass through Matawai School.”

Matawai School is a living Green/Gold Enviroschool where the key guiding principles seamlessly blend into the natural learning styles and way of life at our school. The values of working together to look after our place through environmentally friendly practices show through in our school’s culture and responsiveness to being future focussed learners.

Throughout our school there is living proof and connections to how we care for, nurture and strive to continually develop our environment in a sustainable manner. Our school curriculum proudly integrates cultural, environmental and sustainable learning opportunities into all classroom activities - it is part of life at Matawai School where we have a community approach to everything that is done.

Applying 21st Century Learning Skills through critical, sustainable and reflective thinking practices empowers our students to be effective learners in a developing global community. Blending technology and practical skills to understand our world engages courageous opportunities for everyone at our school. This all aligns to our own school values of Respect, Community, Perseverance and Excellence which manages our learning focus, attitudes and manners at Matawai School.

Our learning programmes endeavour to embed learning through, in and about our environment and kaitiakitanga responsibilities into blended weekly class based and school-wide actions such as;

Through understanding more about our kaitiakitanga and the role we play in the global environment, sustainable learning goals are helping extend our vision through education and community involvements to connect, explore and be active in the world around us.

Staff, students and our community are proud of our learners attitudes and values towards their environment. They explore the principles and how they have the ability to take appropriate actions towards issues that are meaningful to our school, our community and our place in the world. These skills will support their development to become considerate global citizens and have the ability to make effective change now and in the future to protect all of our environments.

Our Action Plan - the next steps...

Our vision as a school to build upon our sustainable practices include the further development of ongoing initiatives and introduction of new projects to grow our school’s actions. The ability for future generations to join our school and carry the Enviroschools flame is very important to our school community, this is why it is important that it is ‘just the way life is at Matawai School’.

Here is our ‘working’ plan;