Sustainability @ TPPS
It has been a wonderful Term 1 in Sustainability.
The students are really enjoying having a new Sustainability classroom. Grade 6 have been making the most of the space by attempting to grow their own lettuce from seeds.
We have found that it is not as easy as the internet makes it look!
But we’ll keep trying!
Our Grade 6 students have been continuing to learn about ways that the production of chocolate affect our environment and human rights.
We learned about the difference between wants and needs.
We have started a shared nature journal! Each week several students spend time outside observing closely and recording what they see in the natural environment around them.
Our clever Grade 6s are setting a great standard of work so far.
Last week, some enthusiastic students helped me to plant some warrigal greens in our garden before school. Warrigal greens or native spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides) is a hardy Australian ground cover that is excellent to eat in stirfries, quiches, pestos and salads. Always blanch them in boiling water for 10-15 seconds before eating to remove the oxalates in the leaves.
Grade 5 are excited about making videos to enter the 'Say Cheese For Trees' competition. They will be recording entertaining 1 minute videos about why trees are amazing. We are looking forward to seeing their creativity. We are able to select three videos from our school to enter into the competition.
Preps have had a fantastic time searching for bee habitats. They have been learning about blue-banded bees. The male bees like to have a sleepover party every night, hanging off the same branchlet together by their mouths! This is so they are the first to be warmed up by the sun in the morning and ready to go off to pollinate. The female bees are solitary and make their own burrows in mud or mortar. Blue-banded bees hardly ever sting people. The Preps found lots of possible bee holes in the brick wall and the embankment on the oval. But we learned - look but never touch. You never know who is in that hole!
The Preps are also really proud of the flower garden they have made near their deck. They are hoping that the blue and purple flowers might attract some blue-banded bees.
We are putting the call out again for any lovely volunteers to join our Chicken Care roster over the Autumn holidays.
Please click on this link to add your name to the roster list, and you will be contacted soon!
https://forms.gle/gTiMcd8Wz9EFkaG76
Every little bit helps, and we appreciate you so much!
