Reflecting on Water

Reflecting on Water

Year Three Kahutara School, July 4th 2024 After planting trees in the riparian edge of the river on Ruamāhanga Farm and spending time being quiet beside the water the children sat inside our new field classroom, AKA bell tent. As a group we gathered words that...
Thoughts about Water

Thoughts about Water

Words by Yvonne and Jane Riddiford I never thought at this stage in my life I would be getting a crash course from my mother on the water cycle. When Yvonne heard we were hosting another field trip by the Ruamāhanga river for the year three class from Kahutara school,...
The Making of a Bush Classroom

The Making of a Bush Classroom

The light was just reaching into the edge of the bush. I was laying out small squares of planting mat on the humps in the ground and large pieces of cardboard over a huge fallen trunk. Rod was not far away in a circular opening in the trees, laying down a string...
Waihinga Bush Writing

Waihinga Bush Writing

Southend School – Year 6 Montessori Class, June 2024 Using different senses, year 6 gently made their way to the middle of the bush. There they contemplated the billions of years of evolution involved in creating what is a wonderful example of riparian podocarp...
Finding Shared History

Finding Shared History

Words by Yvonne Riddiford As you can appreciate, now in my hundredth year, I arrived well before the technology did … but I can see that there are advantages to it. One of these arrived the other day when Jane and I received an email from somebody quite unknown. She...