Kitchen and Garden & Sustainability News
Kitchen
Home-made pizzas last week and home-made pasta this week! Lots of new skills and creations happening in our kitchen this fortnight. It's so wonderful to see the big smiles in the kitchen when freshly made fettuccini is cut and the new pizza dough is rolled and ready for toppings. Lots of requests for these recipes so please check out the recipes below if a family cook up is in the wind.
Garden
The weather has been fabulous for gardening this fortnight. This means the students can really get stuck into some fun garden activities. We have been planting broad beans, shallots and fennel. Composting, mulching, weeding, worm farming, fertilizing, sorting the hothouse, watering, chicken care and heaps more!
Our chookies are well cared for too! The year 4 chicken monitors are going their job wonderfully. Each morning they let them out, feed and water them and make sure they are happy. Out garden helpers cleaned out the coop and popped the poop in the compost bin. Their nesting will be used as mulch for the garden. The eggs are delicious and are being used in the kitchen.
Our feathered friends bring so much joy to all who spend time with them.
Environment Club
Environment Club is starting! Grade 3-6's are welcome. Come to our round table in the kitchen at lunchtime on Tuesdays to throw some ideas around, small or large, all are welcome. We can't wait to start some projects with you.
Food Scrap Friday
NEW DROP OFF LOCATION COMMENCING AUGUST 2023
Pete's Gate at the Garden!!
Food scrap Friday is an amazing initiative that was started up a few years ago by the Guise family. It is going strong and last year we saved a record amount of food scraps from making its way to landfill to pollute our environment.
If you are interested in joining in on our war against food waste, come along to Pete's Gate at 8.30am Friday mornings and meet our fabulous team of food waste warriors. They will give you a bucket and let you know what can and cant go in it.
If you have a full bucket, bring it along!
If you have a spare bucket please return so we can continue to circulate them throughout our school community..
Volunteers
We are still looking for volunteers for the Term 3 program in our Kitchen and Garden classes. Please email Fleur or Clancey if you are able to come along to any of these classes. We are so appreciative of any help. Alternatively if you decide on the day you can make it, the more the merrier, we would love to have you (just make sure you have completed the following below and you can read some documents prior to starting).
Kitchen – Fleur.Kilpatrick@education.vic.gov.au
Garden – Clancey.McKenzie2@education.vic.gov.au
There a few things that need to be ticked off before volunteering:
- Complete a quick induction at the office prior to starting (around 5 mins)
- Have your Working With Children Check https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/individuals/applicants/how-to-apply-1
Read a few documents that we will email you to ensure the upmost safety of our students.
And then you’re ready to go!
If you are unable to make the classes this term due to other commitments and still want to be a part of our program we would absolutely love some help gardening. It’s a big garden! You don’t need to be a gardener to help out, there are many jobs and so much to learn for everyone. Clancey will be in the garden Tuesday from 1pm and all day Wednesday and Thursday. She would really appreciate some gardeners to accompany her on these days. You are also very welcome to pop in any other day to do a spot of gardening to help manage our patch, even if it’s just 15 minutes around school drop off and pick up, every little bit helps.
Lastly, we are looking for some volunteers to go on a watering roster (20 mins) at every school drop off.
Please email Clancey (above) if you are able to help out in the garden in any way, she will be eager to answer you email.
We are so grateful for all the assistance and enthusiasm that is given to this amazing program for our students. Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Fleur and Clancey
