Sustainability
Kitchen Garden Update!
In the last fortnight, our amazing Preps have been keeping the garden buzzing with their enthusiasm and dedication. We are very excited to see our first tomatoes! They've been diving headfirst into the world of gardening, eagerly taking on tasks such as laying mulch, weeding, and careful watering.
They've been investigating what conditions plants need to flourish, from the perfect amount of sunshine to the ideal soil conditions.
Thank you to our Preps for their fantastic efforts in tending to our garden. We can't wait to see what the future holds for our garden and these budding green thumbs. Keep up the fantastic work! 🌱
Art Club
Thank you to the Art Club who have created beautifully decorated stones to label our different plants in the Kitchen Garden. They make our garden look fantastic and we can’t wait for our plants to grow even more so they represent your paintings!
Halloween Tips and Tricks!
Fake cobwebs are extra scary for birds!
When birds weave non-biodegradable materials into their nests ‒ like fishing line or polymer rope – it means that their nestlings are more likely to get tangled up, which can cut off their circulation as they grow. More plastic materials also means a higher risk of plastic accumulating in the guts of young birds.
Don’t give your backyard birds a fright. Help them take flight!
This Halloween, why not make your own spooky window decorations to help reduce the risk of window strikes? Bird strikes are one of the biggest causes of bird deaths around the world. Transparent windows are essentially invisible to birds, so anything that blocks reflections will reduce the risk of birds colliding with the glass! Draw or print some ghoulish designs of your own and then stick them close together to the inside of your windows, no greater than 10cm apart across the glass.
National Recycling Week
National Recycling Week, established by Planet Ark in 1996, is held every year during the second week of November, 13th to the 19th November 2023. Unfortunately it has been observed that soft/scrunchable plastic as well as soiled materials are going into recycle bins. There are two main types of food packaging rubbish that have been incorrectly put in the recycling bins. These items contaminate and put at risk the viability of the recycling processes.
These particular items that should not be put in the recycling bins are: 1. Soft plastics, especially things such as snack packets. Any plastic item that is scrunchable, should not be put in a recycle bin; it should go in a general waste bin. 2. Any food packaging item that is contaminated with food or liquid. All liquids should be emptied and all items should be shaken out or rinsed to be as clean as possible. If there is any food still stuck to it, such as inside the top lid of a pizza box, or in a jar, or in a soft spread peel open sachet, then that should not go in the recycling.
"If in doubt, leave it out". Better still, take responsibility and take everything you bring to school home with you!
Reducing our waste not only keeps valuable materials out of landfill it also benefits the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thinking about our waste provides some valuable insight into how the recycling and resource management industry works in conjunction to your efforts.
We will be conducting activities during lunch on Thursday 16th of November to boost knowledge of recycling and celebrate this initiative.
Here are some activities you can try at home to get involved!
