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Kaipara schools receive $1750 NRC environmental awards

Monday 10 September 2012, 5:12PM

By Northland Regional Council

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Left to right, are students Jessica Mitchell, Cameron Bellamy, Kaitlynn Langton-Scott and Klayton Rowe.
Left to right, are students Jessica Mitchell, Cameron Bellamy, Kaitlynn Langton-Scott and Klayton Rowe. Credit: Northland Regional Council

NORTHLAND

The Northland Regional Council has presented cheques to two Kaipara schools which have shared a $1750 slice of this year’s Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

Ruawai Primary School’s sustainability plans received a boost with the recent presentation of a $350 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Award towards its mobile henhouse.  

The regional council visited Ruawai Primary and Dargaville Intermediate Schools recently to hand over the last in a series of 18 cheques delivered around the region over the past two months as part of the council’s 2012 awards delivery roadshow.

The annual $20,000 awards aim to foster excellence in environmental education, with schools eligible for up to $2000 each for their efforts to educate children ‘in, about and for’ the region’s environment.

This year 18 award winners across Northland received between $350 and $2000 each for their 19 projects.  Two of those were in the Kaipara; Ruawai Primary School, which received $350 for its mobile henhouse to be used in a school orchard and Dargaville Intermediate, which got $1400 for its school nursery and vegetable garden project.

The ECAs recognise and support the environmental education efforts put in by more than 2000 Northland students (aged five to 18) in more than 100 classes and/or school student environmental groups.