Kitchen and Garden & Sustainability News
KITCHEN AND GARDEN PROGRAM FOR 2025
Kitchen
It has been a busy and productive fortnight in the kitchen as we prepare for the upcoming Fresh Food Fair. In Week 1 S16 and M21, with some Year 6 helpers over lunchtime, we prepared all of the vegetable and kale pasties for selling at the fair! Both groups did an amazing job working together in their teams and focusing on hygiene and consistency across their pasties and flatbreads, with the goal to share these with our school community. Do make sure you pop by the kitchen on Fair day to try one as they were a big hit when we had a little picnic to taste test at the end of class!
This week and next week we are making zucchini slice, brownies and flat breads. These were a hit across the board and are great recipes to explore at home.
As I'm sure you can understand in every class we are preparing food for our school community, so it is very important each student has a kitchen hat as they are required to be worn at every class. They are available to order from the uniform shop for $10.
As always, we would love to see you in the kitchen helping with classes. You don't need to be an experienced cook but an extra pair of hands and eyes can really help out, and it's great fun to see the kids in action. There is no need to let us know you're coming, please just sign in at the office and ensure you have completed your volunteer requirements with Vicki.
Recipes
COMPOST
We have such a fantastic sustainability minded school community! Each week, families bring along their food scrap buckets for our Food Scrap Friday Warriors to turn into wonderful compost for our garden.
The students would like to remind all what is NOT acceptable in the buckets and ask that they please be removed prior to going in the buckets.
NO: food stickers, rubber bands, bread tags, metal lids, yogurt tops, foil, plastic wrap, wipes, anything else that is not plant based.
Today our year 3s sorted through a few buckets of compost and picked out heaps of plastic that does NOT below in the compost.
Thanks for your ongoing support with the program.
Garden
Wow what a wonder rain event we had this week. The welcome rain has really helped the garden. With the FFF in a couple of weeks, we have been busy tidying up and doing heaps of weeding to make The Patch look fabulous.
We have been harvesting broad beans that will be saved for falafels or dip. Our tomato seedlings are growing beautifully and all the students propagation from term 2 is booming! So many plants on offer at the fair.
GARDEN GURUS:
If you have any large logs or rocks we would love to use them in our new habitat gardens.
If you are interested in helping plant habitat and food for our native animals, we meet each Wednesday 2.15-3.15pm. Bring your gloves and have fun
Volunteering in garden-Volunteering is super easy and so much fun. You don't need to be a garden guru either. We just want you to come along and help our brilliant kids with any garden tasks they do.
You do however need a current working with childrens check and complete a simple orientation through the office (5 mins) and then your ready to go.
You can either rock up on the day of your childs session or let me know prior. They more helpers we have, the more advanced work the kids to do. You don't even have to have a student in the program to volunteer. Just come along and hang out. You may even just want to help in the garden in general. Again, no experience required! You can come and potter around anytime. Just let me know when your are coming and Ill set you up with some tasks.
Happy gardening!!
Sustainability Update
Dont forget about our recycle station that is located in the foyer at the back doors of the main building. You can bring along your plastic bread tags, milk carton lids (must be clean and dry), dental products (tooth brush, toothpaste tubes), EMPTY blister packs (all medications removed), stationary (pens, textas, glue sticks, white out tubes), batteries (take to kitchen on tues, wed or thursdays only).
Recycle Highlight
Stationary Recycling through Office works
Office works offer a great Bring It Back Program that offers a recycling option for lots of different office and tech supplies. Located at our Recycle Station in the foyer, we have a school stationary recycling box. Next time you are tidying up your stationary and come across, unwanted, broken or end of life stationary, bring it in and pop it in the box. Each box we deliver to Officeworks for recycling, gives an entry to win a voucher to spend in store.
Here is what you can recycle...
YES
Art Supplies
Calculators
Crayons & Oil Pastels
Erasers, Liquid Paper & Correction Tape
Exercise & Scrap Books
Glue Sticks
Maths Equipment
Paint Brushes
Paper Clips & Bulldog Clips
Pencil Cases
Pencils, Pens & Markers
Rulers
Sharpeners, Staplers & Hole Punches
A4 & Mini Whiteboards
Not accepted
Beads & Buttons
Coloured Craft Paper
Display Folders
Fabric & Material Scrap
Musical Instruments
Paint
Ribbon & String
Ring Binders
Scissors
What do officeworks do with it?
Thanks
Clancey and Georgie