Sustainability at St Raphael's
BUSY BUSY BUSY!
It's been a hive of activity in Sustainability this term with the students from Year 1 to Year 6 preparing gifts for our first ever HOMEMADE Mother's Day Stall. Children have participated in activities during their sustainability sessions and during investigations in addition to volunteering their time during lunch to join Garden Club. Our growing number of Garden Club members is a sure sign students have enjoyed getting creative and we have no doubt our Mum's will be proud of the effort the children have put into preparing these special presents.
Here's some of what our Garden Club members had to say of the experience:
"My name is Jessica Collins and I'm in 5/6A. I really enjoy going to Garden Club and making amazing things. It's so calming and you can learn new things. I love experiencing new things in the garden. It's fun communicating with other people." Jessica Collins 5/6A
"I loved making presents for Mother's Day in Garden Club." Ava H 5/6B
"I really enjoyed making the pressies for the mothers. It was FUN! Lilyana 5/6J
"I love Garden Club. It was very fun and exciting!" Sienna C 5/6B
ST RAPHAEL'S PASSATA UPDATE
Last term our Year 5 and 6 students participated in making homemade tomato passata at school. We have entered our precious passata into the Darebin homemade food and wine festival competition and keep our fingers crossed. The festival will be held this year from the 26th May to the 3rd June. A representative from the festival came to visit us on Passata day and created this fantastic video clip of our fun filled day. Click on the following vimeo link to see our students in action!
https://vimeo.com/266224446
Year 3/4
On this occasion our Reporter and Photographer asked their classmates what the enjoyed most about being outdoors during their Sustainability session.
Niamh, "You get fresh air."
Olivia, " I like tomatoes."
Sienna, "All the colours."
Poppy, "Cooking and the chickens."
Aria, "Chickens!"
Fabian, "You can eat fresh food. Alana and Gianni are eating raw onions."
Reporter and Photographer: Poppy and Emily
Year 3/4
Chook chums - Cleaning out chicken poop with shovel and bucket. Getting eggs - found an egg!
Clear it out - Clearing out pumpkin plants.
Watering squad - watering plants with worm tea.
Sound Garden keepers - cleaning chalkboard.
Litter squad - picking up rubbish.
Sweeping - sweeping leaves away.
Weeding - picking out weeds
Mother's Day Gifts - planting flowers and adding dirt to make flowers grow big.
Bug busters - finding bugs and putting them in a bucket.
Worm friends - making worm tea.
Cleaning St Raphael's - Sweeping the school and getting it clean.
Reporter and Photographer: Mia and Kiara
