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| Student displays environmental sculpture |
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OUR MISSION Te Mata Valley earth education Centre provides educational experiences that develop peoples understanding of and feeling for the natural world and skills to live more sustainably with the earth and its life |
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| COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Earthkeepers - Camp for 8-11 yr olds * Rangers of the Earth - year long programme for 8-11 year olds * Environmental Art * Problem solving * Overnight Bivouac * Team building * Earthwalks * Night walksRaft building |
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Investigating the cycling of materials |
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| Jaleen builds base of earth oven |
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SUSTAINABLE LIVING COURSES Building an earth oven
Straw bale building
Sustainable living
Ecology |
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| ACCOMMODATION Choose between rustic camping in tents or tipi at Te Mata Valley or cabin accommodation at Kauaeranga Forest Education Camp |
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Cleaning our teeth in front of the lodge tipi |
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Leisure
What is this life if,
full of care
We have no time
to stand and stare
No time to stand
beneath the boughs
And stare as long
as sheep or cows
No time to see,
when woods we pass
Where squirrels hide
their nuts in grass
No time to see
in broad daylight
Streams full of stars,
like skies at night
No time to turn
at beauty's glance
And watch her feet,
how they can dance
No time to wait
'till her mouth can
Enrich that smile
her mouth began
A poor life this if,
full of care
We have no time
to stand and stare
By William Henry Davies
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