Sustainability & Gardening Club- Ms Belinda
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis reminds us that caring for our common home begins with “little daily actions” and that education has the power to “bring about real changes in lifestyle” (LS 211). At Trinity, we help students grow in this understanding by fostering wonder for creation, encouraging responsible choices, and building simple habits that protect the environment. Through hands-on learning, gardening, recycling, and classroom discussions, we guide children to see that “the world we have received also belongs to those who will follow us” (LS 159). By nurturing these values now, we empower our students to become thoughtful, compassionate caretakers of our earth.
Compost Ninjas
8 kg of food scraps each week! That is how much our students collect every week. That is 80 kg per term of food waste we have saved from going to landfill, helping to reduce methane gas, and therefore global warming. It is so good to know we are doing such a good job of saving our food scraps and turning them into great compost for our gardens!
Well done to our Year 5/6 Compost Ninja team who collect our food scraps every day and feed them to the worms. Have a great week everyone! Thanks for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!
Trinity Trash Transformers
The team counted another 400 cans last week. Once we drop these off we will exceed $100 raised! An excellent result for one and a half terms of collecting! The team been doing an amazing job of collecting cans and inspiring students to bring them in from home! Please keep collecting – next week we will share the barcode you can use during the holidays if you would like to direct your donations to us if you are dropping off at one of the machines.
Gardening Club
This week we looked after the worms in our worm bins and talked about why they are so important.
As worms eat our food scraps, the food passes through their digestive tracts where the waste is inoculated with microorganisms present in the worm's digestive tract. When the worm excretes the waste (worm poop, also called castings), the microbes are also released, enlivening the soil ecosystem. Worm castings are a highly valued garden fertilizer. The liquid created drips into a tray, which we collect in big buckets. We can mix two spoons of this “worm wee” into a big watering can, to give our plants a treat that will help them to grow.
We made “worm Tea!” We dug some of the castings out from the bottom of our worm farm, sorted through it for worms (which we gently put back) and then added this to our big watering can full of water. We let the tea brew, before pouring it around our garden to help it grow.
We also dug out lots of castings which Ms Sally will use to fertilise our vegetable garden.
Have a great week, everyone! Thank you for helping us live in a way that is kind to our environment,
The Sustainability Team - Ms Belinda and the Sustainability Leaders, Compost Ninjas and Trash Transformer teams