Sustainability & Garden Club

Gardening Fun!

The rain chased us out of the garden today so we watched the video of our presentation on Garden Club for Assembly last week. We were so proud of how we told everyone about all the things we grow, and about how we are learning to save seeds from the flowers so we can plant them next year. We all agree with William - “I love Gardening Club” because you can make new friends!” thinking about 

Juniors also had fun thinking about Mrs Plackett’s Art lesson next week, where they will be picking some of our plants and using them to make prints. We discussed which leaves and vegetables might make interesting prints and are very much looking forward to trying it out next week!

You are always welcome to ask your child to bring home some vegetables to cook - at the moment we can share silverbeet and kale, rosemary, mint, and salvia and calendula flowers. We may not always be able to harvest every week but we will do our best!

We would love to see any photos of our produce taken home being included in your dinner!  If you take a photo, please send to bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au.

Parent Volunteers

We would love more parent volunteers to help us in the garden. If you are available on either an occasional or regular basis Ms Belinda would love to hear from you.  Email bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au. We meet Thursdays 10.45-11.35am. Volunteers need to have a Working With Children Check. 

There are also jobs that can be done at any time, for example if someone knows how to best prune a lemon tree, your experience would be very welcome. 

Volunteers who can gently water our vegetable garden, are very welcome on days other than the Thursday (we water on Thursday when Miss Belinda is here). The vegetable gardens are located just outside the library, near the Prep and 1/2 classrooms. Students are welcome to use their water bottles or just ask Mrs Boffa in the office for the key to the shed to get a watering can. Our plants would really appreciated it! 

Things we need!

Wooden spoons - to make decorative plant labels for our vegetable gardens. Please leave at the office, labelled “Miss Belinda”. Thank you!

5/6 BO’C win Nude Food again this week, with a MASSIVE 22 rubbish free lunches! Well done! 

They are followed by 1/2 RT with 10, 1/2 AO with 5 and 1/2 MB with 4. Let’s see if we can raise these numbers up again for next week! 

Some yummy ideas - a sandwich/wrap/roll, pasta with vegetables, soup, frittata or sushi, a fruit or vegetable snack, such as whole fruit, cut up veggie sticks, fruit or savoury kebab or a small salad. 

There is a great booklet of ideas here 

NFM-RECIPES-BOOKLET-HQ.pdf - Nude Food Day

https://www.nudefoodday.com.au › 2016/08 › NFM...

Thanks everyone for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

Thanks everyone for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

Have a great week everyone!

Ms Belinda with the Sustainability team Amy and Nathan