Environment & Sustainability 

News from the Chicken Coop 

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the Williams and Bayliss 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! 

Weekend Chicken Duty Roster

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who have offered to do weekend chicken duty during term 4. The roster is now full right up until the Summer school holidays. We’ll put a call out for school holiday volunteers towards the end of term.

Egg Lotto 

For your chance to win 1 dozen eggs just buy an egg lotto ticket. Tickets are only $1 each! The next Egg Lotto draw will be Monday 11th November.

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 $1 raffle ticket soon!

Soft Plastic Reduction Initiative

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!

          The winners for weeks 2 & 3 are…

                    1/2A and Prep

1/2A had the winning percentage of 50% wrapper free lunch boxes over the two week period with the Prep class not far behind on 43%. We would love more classes to get over 50% so keep up the great work everyone. Just do your best and remember that every day is a new day!

Did you Know?…

Chickens will only lay eggs after receiving a light cue, either from a natural or artificial source of light. When light is received by a gland near the chicken’s eye, it triggers the release of an egg cell from the chicken’s ovary. That is why most eggs are laid in the morning hours.

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team