WPS Community Children’s Garden
HUGE THANKS to everyone who helped weed and water the WPS Community Children’s Garden over the school holidays. Thanks to you, our garden survived the scorching heat and dry weather, and is flourishing.
This week ~30 students came to our first garden club for the year. After a bit of weeding the students had a wonderful time raiding the berries as reward for their weeding effort.
Veggie Gardens are Woodend Primary
Woodend Primary School is extremely fortunate to have two large vegetable gardens: a kitchen garden at Carlsruhe and the Community Children’s Garden at Woodend. These gardens are used to teach biology, environmental and plant science, heathy eating, sustainable gardening and much more.
Each Monday lunchtime, all students at the Woodend campus are welcome to Garden Club at the Woodend Community Children’s Garden for a lunch time of outdoor fun, exercise, learning and healthy food. At the end of the session, children and volunteer parents can take home any food that is available as reward for their effort.
Volunteers needed
Our garden programs cannot run without the help of volunteers. There are a myriad of mental and physical benefits to both children and adults who visit veggie gardens and outdoor green spaces. If you would like to help out in either of the veggie gardens, please contact volunteer parent Nicole (details below) or your Grade 4 student’s teacher (Carlsruhe Garden). Garden Club at the Woodend campus cannot run without volunteer parent support.
Volunteers needed: WPS Children’s Garden Club
Contact me to be added to the WPS Children’s Garden Whats app group where you can sign up to volunteer on an ad hoc or more regular basis.
| Volunteers needed: WPS Children’s Garden Club | |
|---|---|
| Where: | Woodend Community Children’s Garden (Buckland St, Woodend) |
| When: | 1.30-2.30pm Mondays - volunteers required to help Nicole run lunchtime Kid’s Garden Club. |
| 2.30-3.20pm Mondays - parent’s gardening session | |
| BYO: | Bring your enthusiasm and desire to pitch in (No gardening know how needed). Please wear sturdy shoes, gardening gloves and weather appropriate clothing. Pre-school age children are welcome too |
| Sign in: | Please sign in at the Office before gardening (Working With Children Check required) |
| Contact: | Nicole Middleton 0418 233 366 |
If you can’t make it to the Monday sessions, but you can help out another day, simply contact me to see what needs to be done.
Volunteer WPS Gardening Group Facilitator
Nicole Middleton - 0418 233 366