Sustainability & Garden Club

SUSTAINABILITY NEWS

Hello everyone! 

Gardening Club

What fun in Gardening Club today! We harvested a tiny but delicious carrot and all had a taste! We hope the rest will be ready soon. We harvested some delicious  Asian greens which Ms Belinda wasn’t sure what they were but thanks to Tao, who recognised it from home, we know it can be used in salads. Bok Choy and Silverbeet were also ready to be picked. 

Parent volunteers needed for CERES Sustainability Audit next week

22 of our Year 3-6 students will take part in a workshop incursion next week to help design more sustainable waste practices for Trinity. We need 2 parent volunteers who have Working With Children Checks. Please contact Ms Antonella at school if you may be available 11.35 - 1.35 next Thursday. 

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) - especially while our seedlings are so small. 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! 

Nude Food - Every Thursday

And the winners are … ⅚ BOC with 22 rubbish free lunches. Well done! 

Why do we do Nude Food? 

Did you know that in Australia, the average child makes around 30 kg of rubbish a year through their school lunches? In fact, Australia is the second highest producer of rubbish per person in the western world! We can do our part to reduce this by packing a school lunch without including any extra packaging or juice packs. Make a conscious decision to only include foods that leave no packaging at the end of the day. Put the sandwich or bread roll into a named lunchbox and use small containers for any snack foods and of course, pack a reusable drink bottle. 

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 are some great ideas here:

Healthy Lunchbox Ideas for kids. Rubbish free / nude food ideas

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, Amy and Nathan