It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. And given that we’ll need much more than a thousand words to describe the fantastic buzz we’ve had from Sustainability Week we celebrated earlier this month, here are just some of the many pictures we took, to tell that story:

Ceili, Heath, Clover, Mitch and Ella construct their solar powered cars.

Holly and Keira explore patterns in the universe with spirographs.

Mrs van den Brink helps out with the spirographing.

Darcy, Acasia, Jessie and seniors get in on the spirographing action.

Emma works on her spirograph with Ms Hensgen.

Ms Kelly watches on as Mrs Sargeant, Chloe, Chloe and Teneisha extract strawberry DNA.

Teneisha and Chloe decode the universe by extracting DNA from strawberries.

Darcy enters the CDS Vic raffle by putting his name on a bottle and recycling it.

Holly shows off DNA extracted from a strawberry.

Action shot of Teneisha entering the CDS Vic raffle.

Rory builds a solar car.

Ceili and Heath add finishing touches to their solar cars.

Luke and Emma with a solar car pit stop.

Emma takes on Mrs Sargeant’s solar car.

Tayah lights up a pot with some amazing Zentangle-style art work.

Rhett, Tyler and Tully decorate their pots and planted cauliflowers and broccoli.

Alanna, Charlie, Erica, Jess and Ravyn decorate their pots.

Tom helps Diesel out with his potting.

Sam, Riley and Connor have their turn.

Bella, Nunkim, Grace and Angus watch on as Tom show them how to pot their plants.

The grey skies did nothing to dissuade a crowd keen to pot up some plants

with Tom from Bunnings.

Gabby got first dibs on the blender bike.

Alex and Archer enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Mr Di Fab looking fab as he crushes the blender bike without breaking a sweat.

Alex and Anastasia pedal up a storm in a blender.

We moustache Lewis, Luke, Kai and Seb how they went on the blender bikes.

Cadell, Kaylee, and Angelica confused as to why they’re peddling like crazy

and going nowhere.

Ruby and Ash watch Lucus and Noah smoothly smoothie-ing.

Mrs Sargeant races against Patrick while Annie, Ms Francis and others watch on.

Mitch looking forward to an easy win against James on the blender bike.

Our first customers at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle.

Mitch and Ella take the first shift on the barbie with Mrs Sargeant at Lilydale Bunnings.

Thank you to everyone who celebrated Suscience week with us!

SEPTEMBER
Monday 1st	Year 7 2026 Welcome BBQ, 5.30pm
Friday 5th	Year 11 Gala
Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th	Year 8 Howqua Camp
Thursday 18th	SIRC Sports Day, Note - NOT free dress
Thursday 18th	Learning Conferences 4pm - 8pm
Friday 19th	Learning Conferences 10am - 1pm (No regular classes will be held)

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