Environment & Sustainability 

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the McKay and Plant 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! Remember to send in any photos of you with the chickens, we would love to see them!

School Holiday and Easter Holidays Chicken Duty Roster 

Unbelievably the next school holidays are not too far away!

If you are considering doing chicken duty to get some free fresh eggs,  start thinking about what dates you would like to put your name down for and get in quick as holiday chicken duties are very popular, lots of eggs!

Please email Mel at mkerwin@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au with your preferred dates (3-4 days if possible) if you are interested in being added to the roster. Remember, 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 17th March.

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.

St John’s - A Wrapper Free School

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!

Both of these classes have had encouraging starts to the year with more than 50% of lunchboxes being wrapper free. We will continue to promote waste reduction at school, particularly plastic waste and our aim is for all lunchboxes to be 100% wrapper free. This means no soft plastics, no yoghurt, chip or snack packets or any other rubbish that gets thrown into the bin. 

Clean Up Australia Day at St John's Mitcham

On Friday, 28 February we took part in Clean up Australia for Schools to make our school as clean as possible! Students cleaned up their designated area then sorted and categorised the rubbish they found. Each class then created a graph so we could see how much and where the rubbish was found and what types were common in all areas. Some students were so inspired by the activities that they have done some more research and have made presentations and games to help educate others about the dangers of plastic waste.

Environmental Dates coming up

• Fri 21 March Earth Hour Schools Day
• Sat 22 March Earth Hour

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team