Kitchen and Garden & Sustainability News

KITCHEN AND GARDEN PROGRAM FOR 2025

Garden

So much fun in the  garden these last couple of weeks after the fair. The students have worked really hard to keep the patch looking fabulous. we are busy pullin gout finished crops and planting tomatoes for our summer picking. We will have some yummy produce to cook in kitchen term 1 2026!

Kitchen

As you can imagine it was a very busy week in the kitchen in the leadup to the Fresh Food Fair.  In class we were busy making the vegetable, chicken and beef currys which were a sell out on the day!  A huge thank you to Surfside parent Bianka who did an amazing job preparing the curry pastes to make this year's batch extra delicious.  

A huge thankyou to all the volunteers who helped out in the kitchen in the leadup to the Fresh Food Fair.  The extra set of hands and eyes during class is very much appreciated and we simply couldn't do it without you!  Thank you thank you thank you!  I hope you also enjoyed your time seeing what we get up to in the kitchen first hand and meeting some other members of our school community too.  

  After the fair we returned to Indonesian week with some delicious recipes.  The fritters were a favourite which was a surprise to most of the students, with comments such as "I didn't think it would be good with just vegetables but there are actually really good!".  Success!

This week the caramelised onion pizza was a surprise with many students learning that the caramelised onion sweeten with slow cooking and make a very easy and delicious pizza topping.   

As always, we would love to see you in the kitchen helping with classes.  You don't need to be an experienced cook but an extra pair of hands and eyes can really help out, and it's great fun to see the kids in action.  There is no need to let us know you're coming, please just sign in at the office and ensure you have completed your volunteer requirements with Vicki. 

Recipes

GARDEN GURUS:

If you have any large logs or rocks we would love to use them in our new habitat gardens.   

If you are interested in helping plant habitat and food for our native animals, we meet each Wednesday 2.15-3.15pm. Bring your gloves and have fun

Volunteering in garden-Volunteering is super easy and so much fun. You don't need to be a garden guru either. We just want you to come along and help our brilliant kids with any garden tasks they do.

You do however need a current working with childrens check and complete a simple orientation through the office (5 mins) and then your ready to go. 

You can either rock up on the day of your childs session or let me know prior. They more helpers we have, the more advanced work the kids to do. You don't even have to have a student in the program to volunteer. Just come along and hang out. You may even just want to help in the garden in general. Again, no experience required! You can come and potter around anytime. Just let me know when  your are coming and Ill set you up with some tasks.

Happy gardening!!

Sustainability Update

Dont forget about our recycle station that is located in the foyer at the back doors of the main building. You can bring along your plastic bread tags, milk carton lids (must be clean and dry), dental products (tooth brush, toothpaste tubes), EMPTY blister packs (all medications removed), stationary (pens, textas, glue sticks, white out tubes), batteries (take to kitchen on tues, wed or thursdays only).

Recycle Highlight

Stationary Recycling through Office works

Office works offer a great Bring It Back Program that offers a recycling option for lots of different office and tech supplies. Located at our Recycle Station in the foyer, we have a school stationary recycling box. Next time you are tidying up your stationary and come across, unwanted, broken or end of life stationary, bring it in and pop it in the box. Each box we deliver to Officeworks for recycling, gives an entry to win a voucher to spend in store.

Here is what you can recycle... 

YES

Art Supplies

Calculators

Crayons & Oil Pastels

Erasers, Liquid Paper & Correction Tape

Exercise & Scrap Books

Glue Sticks

Maths Equipment

Paint Brushes

Paper Clips & Bulldog Clips

Pencil Cases

Pencils, Pens & Markers

Rulers

Sharpeners, Staplers & Hole Punches

A4 & Mini Whiteboards

Not accepted

Beads & Buttons

Coloured Craft Paper

Display Folders

Fabric & Material Scrap

Musical Instruments

Paint

Ribbon & String

Ring Binders

Scissors

What do officeworks do with it?

Thanks

Clancey and Georgie