Sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

Term Three brings lots of exciting Sustainability opportunities, including the chance for our students to work with Waterwatch, as citizen scientists! We will be investigating how human activity impacts water quality and students will use scientific equipment to investigate water quality in Merri Creek for turbidity and salinity and these results will be added to the WaterWatch citizen science database. Stay tuned for further details! 

Our Gardening Club students were so busy in our gardens today! Our new garden beds near the Adveture Playground are flourishing with broccoli, celery, onions, garlic, bok choy and spinach. Snow peas are starting to wind themselves up the garden arches and will soon provide a beautiful (and delicious!) green canopy. The carrot seeds we planted last term have become little carrot plants and we are excited about picking them in our winter harvest. It is looking like some delicious vegetable soup will be able to be cooked up later in Winter for us to enjoy!

Have you noticed all the other garden makeovers around the school? The cuttings planted by Year 5/6 at the front of the school are all growing beautifully and make our school look so friendly and welcoming.

SUPER 20% DISCOUNTS - ORDER YOUR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BOXES

HELP US FUNDRAISE!

Farmers’ Pick have offered us a huge 20% off for all new orders! Trinity is participating in the ‘Feed Our School’ fundraising initiative by Farmers Pick, an organisation that prevents ‘perfectly imperfect’ fruit and veg from ending up in landfill by selling boxes of this produce that supermarkets can't. Families can order fruit and veg boxes online, and have it conveniently delivered to Trinity every Tuesday.  Better yet, their produce is priced up to 30% less than at the supermarket, and Trinity receives $5 for every box ordered! See flyers attached for more information. 

https://farmerspick.com.au/feed-our-school/

CAN YOU HELP?We would love to find a volunteer to repot our lemon tree into a larger pot. It gives us many beautiful lemons but desperately needs repotting in order to survive. If you can help please contact Ms Belinda at bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au.

NUDE FOOD DAY - THURSDAYS 

We ask students to choose foods which create no rubbish to bring for lunch on this day. Some great ideas can be found at https://www.nudefoodday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HOW-TO-PACK-A-NUDE-FOOD-LUNCH.pdf

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

The Sustainability Team - Ms Belinda and the Sustainability Leaders, Charlotte, Olive and Ahn