Living Legends Muck In

Last weekend, some of the Eco Kids helped to plant 4,000 native plants in a protected area near Ahuriri Estuary. These plants will grow and provide a natural habitat for many of our birds. Ian McCrae was there to meet us too. He is a former All Black and has also worked in conservation, helping to protect our environment. A big thanks to Selena, Alicia, Becky, Millie and Ben for giving up their Saturday for this very worthy project. It was also great to see Brayden Leicester and his family helping too!

Brayden Leicester's family building a new vege garden

Brayden brought in a pendrive on Friday with photos of his family building their new vege garden. Brayden's little brother Nathan helped too! I bet you enjoyed helping to plant the new plants Brayden! Your scarecrow looks fantastic.

Living Legends

Living Legends is taking the field to the forest during New Zealand’s hosting of Rugby World Cup 2011.

During September and October 2011 we’ll be planting almost 85,000 native trees and honouring our Rugby Legends.


The Ahuriri Estuary is a unique and valuable habitat that resulted from landform changes associated with the 1931 Napier earthquake. This important wetland is a sanctuary for a wide variety of wading birds including grey herons, royal spoonbills and pied stilts and offers a significant opportunity for revegetation and ecosystem enhancement. Its closeness to Napier city provides great potential for community use and involvement in its development. The work already undertaken east of where Living Legends will plant provides a popular walking area and shows the value of native plantings in enhancing this environment.

On 24 September 2011, volunteers will plant 4000 additional native trees at this site as part of Living Legends programme of work.

Some of those volunteers are from our school Eco Kids Club.
Porritt students - if you want to be involved, see Mrs. Anderson at school.
You can also visit the Living Legends website to find out more.

Rugby Legend - Ian MacRae
The man who spent seven years as an All Blacks centre has been chosen as the Hawke’s Bay rugby legend as part of the Living Legends project.

Napier’s Ian MacRae, 64, who played 45 matches for the All Blacks between 1963 and 1970, said the appointment was flattering and close to his heart.

“I am excited to be part of it as I started my working career as a forest ranger. I trained in conservation in the back country, trying to prevent erosion, so it’s quite fitting that now I am involved in this,” says Ian.

Keep NZ Beautiful Week: 20 - 27th August

Did you know...

In one month New Zealand's rubbish would cover one rugby field and pile it 30 storeys high!

What can YOU do to help this huge problem? Visit www.knzb.org.nz for ideas.

McCain's Veggie Patches

It's that time of the year again and we are collecting barcodes off McCain's frozen veges. There will be a collection box in the office to put them in.

Try and persuade Mum to buy McCains frozen veges this month and in September. Our school will earn points for the barcodes we collect. We can get cool stuff for our school garden.

Thanks from Oxfam

Porritt School have been awarded a 'certificate of appreciation' for helping to raise money for Fair Trade with our recent school baking sale. This certificate is on display in the Library. Well done to everyone who was involved.

Raising money for Oxfam

On Friday, the Eco Kids Club brought along delicious homemade baking to sell at our baking sale. The food was amazing and sold very quickly. We raised $167. This money will go to Oxfam who work with farmers who are struggling to develop their farming systems, like irrigation. We can also help them by buying Fairtrade foods.