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Playful Construction
(Term2) Fully Booked - Term 3 Tuesday accepting applications
Meet a group of kids in an underfunded kindergarten. Learn how to build play equipment that will enrich their whole-body and creative learning. You will do this using mostly recycled timber from pallets.
(please note that the Playful Construction option is only available for young women and gender minorities)
Regenerative Agriculture Internship
(Term 3 - Tuesday Fully Booked for Taita College - Opening Friday for Porirua and Wellington Schools)
Learn how to farm in a way that cares for the land so that it will be vital and strong seven generations from now. You will learn Permaculture and Syntropic farming techniques that work to enrich the soil and increase the flavour in the food produced. We will be building a permaculture food forest and flower farm to feed the community and help grow future funds to keep the program thriving.
Who is it for?
- Playful Construction is open to women and gender minorities in the Gateway program.
- Granny Whales Regenerative Garden is open to all genders in the Gateway program.
- Students in years 12-13 or NEET students in the Gateway program.
What you will learn and do
Playful Construction:
Learning how to construct play equipment for a local kindy
We start with a session learning about loose parts play materials and watching and getting to know kids at a local underfunded kindy. Our goal is to create materials that will help them learn and grow their strength and creativity.
Cahoots is a makersspace for women and gender minorities. There is a full woodworking and welding workshop. You will be trained in basic woodworking, design, and construction skills.
Your challenge is to create the play equipment using at least 90% repurposed materials.
Granny Whale's Regenerative Garden Project
Planting out a flower farm and a food forest nursery with the vision to feed mokopuna 7 generations out.
Modern agriculture leaves the soil worse than it found it using petrochemicals and artificial fertilizers to force food to grow. We will learn an alternative that leaves the soil stronger after growing so that it can feed 7 generations into the future.
What if every school in the region had a thriving food forest planted in it? What if your time in Gateway helped to create that reality?
What if your work helped grow flowers that local school kids to share with residents in a retirement home that didn't get many visitors?
When / Where / How?
Playful construction
- Tuesdays 9-4 pm
- 28 July - 1 Sept (6 weeks)
- Cahoots Wellington
- Transport available from Upper Hutt Train Station, or you can make your own way to Cahoots on Hopper Street in Wellington.
- 6 spaces available
Granny Whale's Regenerative Garden
- Term 3 -
- Thursdays (Fully Booked - Taita College)
- Monday 6 spaces 27 July - 31 August (6 weeks)
- Mangaroa Farms.
- Transport available to and from the Upper Hutt train station to the farm. Pick up is at 0900 and drop off is at 3:30
Cost per student per term: $360.00
This is a worksite placement with no credits attached.
With support from
To reserve a space for your students, please reach out to:
mandi@naturalleaders.nz
or call 0211412646
