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, 31 March.

We usually sell tickets in front of the school on Wednesday afternoon from 3:10-3:20pm.

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!

worm

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!

1/2B had 66% wrapper free lunchboxes and Prep had 53%, what an amazing effort!

Special mention to 3/4A who were only 1% behind the Preps.

Earth Hour at St John's - Friday, 21 March

On Friday last week, 21 March, we particpated in Earth Hour at St John's. Earth Hour aims to raise global awareness about climate change and the need for environmental action by encouraging individuals, communities, and businesses to switch off non-essential lights for one hour.

At St John’s we always try to be aware of our energy usage by making sure that lights, air conditioners, fans and heaters are turned off when not in use, we always turn taps off so that we don’t waste precious water.

Last Friday each classroom tried to reduce their non-essential power usage even more. Well done everyone!

What did you do as a family while your lights were out? Play games by lamp or candlelight? Tell stories to each other? Go for a night walk?

Chicken Facts - Did you know???

Chickens were domesticated around 5,000 years ago, making them one of the oldest domesticated animals. They were originally domesticated from the red junglefowl in Southeast Asia.

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team