Tanē Mahuta

Today for CIP me and three other students and Mark went around and looked at all the trees that had seeds.We then made our way to the back of the field so that we could look at the area that we are going to hopefully be planting lots of native trees to try and bring back the native birds.When we got back we wrote letters to someone called Steve Bush Asking him for 100 seedlings so that everyone doing this will have a plant to plant.Here is some photos of what we did and the letter.

Lucy E

Hornby High School

180 Waterloo Road

Hornby

Christchurch

8047

13 March 2019

Mr Bush

Trees for Canterbury

42 Charlesworth st

Christchurch  

Dear Mr Bush

Hi there, My name is Lucy i am currently a year 8 at Hornby High School.

Currently we have been working on a project called Tanē Mahuta. Our mission is to plant native  trees in the back of our field at school to hopefully bring back native birds that once lived here.

Today we went out and looked at all the seeds of the few trees we have here. We learnt about how they form into trees, how they spread and the different types of seeds.

We would like to ask you for one hundred seedlings so everyone involved in the Tanē Mahuta project can take part in planting the plants. We would also like to ask you for one trailor of used potting mix so that we can help grow the plants and use it to create more seeds and work towards our main goal.

Thank you for your consideration we can’t wait to hear back from you.

This is a photo of us at the area we are looking at planting the seedlings.

Sincerely

Lucy