Twyford School ‘Kiwi Keepers’ officially hand over project

11th March 2013

Twyford School ‘Kiwi Keepers’ team officially hand over project to ECOED .

On Thursday 7th March at Twyford School, the Twyford community witnessed the official handing over of the “Kiwi Keepers’ project to ECOED (Environment Conservation and Outdoor Education Trust). Wendy Rakete-Stones, ECOED manager was there to accept a $500 cheque from the project and give an update on how the traps had performed. Sharron Buer National Director Primary Enterprise and Financial Education, along with Judy Mathews (Teacher) and Ross McLeod (Principal),were also on hand to celebrate the occasion.

Talented students: Helena Nash, Georgia Boyes, Georgia Wilde, Darnah Chenery, Renier Nel and Mackenzie Gibson, won the Supreme Award for Primary Community Enterprise Team of the Year in 2011 when they submitted an exception business plan to provide a safer and more efficient pest control around the Pan Pac Kiwi Crèche, inland of Tutira. 15 months on, having laid the traps out at Bellbird Bush and returned to help service them it was time to hand the project over.

ECOED Manager, Wendy Rakete-Stones, told the group the trap’s tunnel design had shown some positive results in the trapping of ferrets and serviceability and encouraged the group to continue the think outside the square.

ECOED deliver the two distinctive programmes, “Save Our Kiwi Hawke’s Bay” which has already raised and released over 120 kiwi into the wild, and “Schools Outdoors Hawke’s Bay” which provides wilderness education experiences for up to 2,000 students every year. The Trust has developed basic facilities on the site adjacent to the Pan Pac Kiwi Crèche to support school groups in outdoor and environmental education.

ECOED”s vision is “Hawke’s Bay students learning, conserving and challenging themselves in the natural environment supported by their community.”

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