Sustainability at St Raphael's
Year 5/6 - Week 6
Seed planters : Bella, Eden and Lorenzo are planting spring onions and beetroot and they are potting them in seedling trays.
Seek and Destroy: Edward, Marcus and Justin are destroying weeds.
Sound garden are cleaning white board by putting coke and water on it.
Reporter and Photographer: Zoe and Connor
Year 3/4 - Week 6
Sweepers are sweeping all around the school especially the prep area, sound garden and adventure playground and bamboo.
Caring for our chickens is where we feed, play and hydrate our chickens. The Chickens names are Mint, Nugget and Scrambled.
Rubbish is a group of students who walk around the school collecting rubbish. We find heaps of rubbish and we are trying to improve that amount.
Watering Squad are currently watering the apple tree. Watering squad always water around the school. Our plants love Fridays.
Cooking is another activity we do in sustainability. We do simple food to make and enjoy. We are making butter and bread. Yum.
Seed savers are saving the day of innocent seedling lives. Sunflowers are sad to not have anymore seeds.
Reporter: Olivia H
Photographer: Veronica L
Year 5/6 - Week 7
Wiring for the peas to grow.
Feeding chickens.
Mini pizza making.
Filling chicken food.
Food looks YUM!
Reporter: Olivia J
Photographer: Ally
Year 3 /4 - Week 7
Seed savers - People are getting sunflower seeds to grow them.
Planting - They are planting broccoli.
Sweepers - They are sweeping around the school to make it clean.
Litter Squad - Cleaning the school and making it clean.
Sound Garden - Cleaning the sound garden
Planting Squads - Planting and watering
Cooking - They are spreading butter on bread and eating it.
Clear out squad - Clearing the plant box to put new plants in.
Reporter and Photographer: Katerini and Monica
Year 3/4 - Week 5
Misarni is cleaning very dirty blackboards. Madeleine is picking up chalk. They are cleaning and playing around.
Swish, swish as the girls sweep the path. Slowly it is coming clean.
Snap, snap went the tongs as the boys pick up the rubbish.
Glug, glug as the children pour water on the plants.
Cluck, cluck say the chickens at their food.
Pat, pat as the kids pat the dirt.
Passata Day - Year 5/6
For many Italian families including my own, March heralds the long held tradition of making Tomato Passata for the year. This year, we decided it was time to share this knowledge and possibly start a new tradition here at St Raphael's. So on Tuesday 13th March 77 students, 4 teachers, 2 volunteer parents and 1 Nonno rolled up their sleeves and washed, cut, squashed, poured and bottled 9 cases of ripe, red tomatoes producing a mammoth 142 bottles of beautiful tomato passata!!
Given we will be entering our delicious passata in the Darebin Homemade food and wine festival, we even sparked the interest of the Preston Leader who have published this article in this week's local paper.
Our precious produce was sampled by the whole school at our Harmony Day pasta lunch and was given the thumbs up by all. So thank you Year 5/6 for all your hard work and in my eyes we are definitely winners already!
Grazie mille e tanti saluti,
Mrs Catherine Talarico