Sustainability & Gardening Club- Ms Belinda

          SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

Hello everyone! I’m excited to work with our new Sustainability leaders, Abuk, Hoyoung and Troy this year!

Gardening Club

Gardening Club began with an enthusiastic start yesterday!  Gardening Club provides a fun and safe space to learn about growing plants as well as making new friends and is great for anyone feeling a little shy or overwhelmed in the big playground. 

Today we dug over the soil and added some Dynamic Lifter to add nutrients. Our new students learned about using gardening tools and how we make sure things don’t get lost. We planted some plants so that we will have beautiful flowers soon! 

Our worms have been busy making beautiful, nutritious soil for our gardens. Today we gave them a good feed as their food reserves got low over the holidays and a drink to keep cool. We also added another 1000 worms. Some were just tiny babies and some tiny white eggs. The worms will eat our food scraps and make our soil rich and ready to grow delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers. 

A question for our Vietnamese families!

The students would like to grow some Vietnamese vegetables. I would like some advice on what would be good to plant. Where we could find seeds or plants? If you can help, please email Miss Belinda at bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au 

Compost Ninjas

Well done to our new Year 5 Compost Ninja team who will collect our food scraps every day and feed them to the worms. By doing this, we save so much waste from going to landfill, helping to reduce methane gas, and therefore global warming. It is so good to know we are doing such a good job of saving our food scraps and turning them into great compost for our gardens! 

Have a great break 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, Abuk, Hoyoung and Troy.