St John's Environment Team

Environment & Sustainability 

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the wonderful Abeys, Satanto, Wong, Hill, Staszczyk, Ryan, Box, Kerwin, De Frutos and Dominguez-Gallardo families for taking such great care of our school chickens over the Easter and the school holidays. The chickens really miss the students during the holidays and they look forward to the duty families coming to visit them each day. We hope you got lots of eggs and baked lots of delicious goodies with them, yum!

Volunteers needed-all weekends during Term 2 are available starting this weekend 25/4/25

Each weekend and over the school holidays, school families volunteer to go on the chicken duty roster to look after our school chickens. You only need to pop up to visit the chickens once a day 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 over the weekend. 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 -$2 per ticket

For your chance to win 1 dozen eggs just buy an egg lotto ticket. Tickets are only $2 each! The next Egg Lotto draw will be Monday 28th April.

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 $2 

raffle ticket soon!

We also sell our worm juice which is a wonderful fertiliser for your garden. It is collected fresh from our worm farms here at school! Buy a bottle for only $2 this week.

Did you Know?…

Chickens have unique personalities! Chickens have individual personalities and can recognise their human caretakers. Some chickens can be friendly and enjoy human interaction, while others may be more standoffish. Our chickens at St John's all have friendly and playful personalities.

Thanks for your support!

The Environment Team