Environment & Sustainability

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the Rivalland and Harvey families for taking such great care of our school chickens over the last few weekends. We hope you got lots of eggs and baked lots of delicious goodies with them, yum!

*Christmas School Holiday Chicken Duty Roster*

All dates are available from 18 December to the end of January

Every year we need families to help look after our chickens over the Christmas school holidays. If you would like to volunteer to do chicken duty for a few days during the holidays from Wednesday 18th December please let me know. You will only need to pop up to visit the chickens once a day for 3 or 4 days to check their water and food. It’s really easy and the kids love it! Duty families get to keep all the yummy eggs they collect. An information sheet will be provided with all the details prior to your duty. If you would like to put your name on the roster please email Mel at mkerwin@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au with your preferred dates.

First in, first choice of dates!

Egg Lotto

For your chance to win 1 dozen eggs just buy an egg lotto ticket. Tickets are only $1 each.

The next Egg Lotto draw will be Monday 25 November at assembly!

We usually sell tickets in front of the school on Wednesday afternoons from 3:10-3:20pm, selling tickets to students, parents, grandparents and carers. If not, tickets are available to buy at any time, just bring your money into school and the Environment Leaders will help you out.

All the money we make is put back into buying food and other necessities for our chickens. There will be a few dozen eggs available to win so get your winning $1 raffle ticket soon!

Soft Plastic Reduction Initiative

Each day the Future Leaders are keeping a tally of how many wrapper free lunch boxes are in their classrooms. At the end of every 2 weeks we work out which classes have the highest percentages of wrapper free lunch boxes and the winners will be announced at assembly. The two winning classes will receive one of the Environment Mascots to keep in their room for 2 weeks and they will also receive 15 class Dojo points!

The winners for weeks 4-5 are…

Prep and 1/2A

Several classes were again very close and just missed out. Keep up the great work everyone.

Did you Know?…

Chickens are able to see more colours than we can.

While the human retina contains cones that are sensitive to wavelengths of red, blue and green, chickens have an additional cone that can detect violet wavelengths, including some ultraviolet wavelengths!

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team