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Town Belt Kaitiaki
Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) is a student-led education programme for Dunedin schools and ECE centres.
BUDDING ECOLOGISTS![]()
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A small group of students from DNI are doing an interesting Science Fair project at Bracken Lookout in the Dunedin Town Belt, with support from their TBK Link Teacher and Town Belt Kaitiaki. The study is to compare invertebrate abundance and vegetation at sites where the area has been recently weed-eated versus NOT weed-eated recently. The difference in invertebrates the students found at the site today is quite marked, with quite a few more invertebrates found in the areas that aren't weedeated. Three piwakawaka that love to catch flying insects there looked on with interest too!![]()
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Well done to these keen students! Brackens Lookout is a great space for our TBK schools to care for nature and to take their classroom activities outside!
A VERY FINE HUI!![]()
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Over the weekend, the SLT had a wonderful weekend of learning about the Town Belt, discussing, planning, voting for roles, wetland exploring and activities both playful and interesting - at Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau Sinclair Wetlands. We had excellent weather: highlights for the students were the star gazing (a clear dark night with the Milky Way very clear and some shooting stars), the wetland walk to Rams Island and the food.![]()
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This year the TBK Student Leadership Team is bursting with excellent young people with skills and passion who shared great ideas including actions. Congratulations to everyone who put their hand up to try for a Role and had the courage to give a speech. In particular congratulations to Anya and to Ridima for being voted in as our Co-Chairs.![]()
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Thanks to the Volunteers for all your mahi, to parents for bringing and returning students and for being part of carpooling, to the students for you enthusiasm and working so well together, to teachers of our schools for enrolling our new and returning students, to the Board of Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau Sinclair Wetlands for allowing us to come another year to your homely lovely venue. And to the Wetlands for the peace and wonder you bring to us.
AWESOME KORERO - MILA AND TAYLOR!![]()
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Mila (Year 8 from DNI) joined Taylor Davies-Colley (Chair of the Strategic Leadership Group) yesterday to speak to DCC Councillors about TBK's Submission on the Draft 9 Year Long Term Plan. ![]()
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As a younger member of the SLT, Mila is already a fantastic ambassador for TBK. ![]()
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Their presentations were passionate, articulate, and advocated very effectively on the importance of the work that Town Belt Kaitiaki does for both the environment and the community. ![]()
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TBK goes beyond our students and even our participating schools. As Taylor said in his submission, TBK makes connections between the kaitiaki of other groups such as Enviroschools, and with multiple stakeholders in the programme, thus forming one strand of a larger weaving of community groups.![]()
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We are very happy to be up and running again. TBK provides a huge bang for its buck!
TOWN BELT KAITIAKI BACK ON BOARD!![]()
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We are back up and running again. Once we have our Hui, where our students meet, vote and plan the year - you will hear a lot more from us!![]()
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