St John's Environment Team

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the wonderful Zhoul and Sutanto families for taking such great care of our school chickens over the last few weekends. We hope you got some eggs and baked lots of delicious goodies with them, yum!

Chicken Duty Roster

Thank you to all of our amazing families who have volunteered to do weekend chicken duty this term. We still have two weekends available this term if you would like to have a turn at looking after the chickens. The dates are  22/23 November and 13/14 December.

An information sheet will be provided with all the details prior to your duty, it’s easy and fun for the whole family!  If you would like to put your name on the roster please email Mel at mkerwin@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au with your preferred dates. First in, first choice of dates!

NEW! Fresh Extra Large Free-Range Eggs for sale on Monday

Only 2 more opportunities this year to purchase our school-fresh free range eggs for only $5 for ½ dozen. They will be available to purchase in passive play before and after our school assembly on Monday.

We are also selling our organic 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 students love having the chickens at school. All the money we make is put back into buying food and other necessities for them.

Gardening with Jan!

WOW! Have you checked out what Jan and the gardening club have been up to lately? If you haven’t then it’s well worth popping up to the veggie garden to have a look at the fabulous produce they are growing, it just gets better and better every week. 

Jan and the gardening club meet at lunchtimes on Thursdays. Everyone is welcome!

St John’s- A Wrapper Free School - Help us to  reduce our waste!

The winners for weeks 4 & 5 are 3/4B and Prep

Remember to:

• use small containers for your snacks and fruit
• use beeswax wraps
• reuse containers
• try not to use plastic cling wrap
• take home any wrappers or rubbish

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