St John's Environment Team

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the wonderful Ryan and Box families for taking such great care of our school chickens the last few weekends. We hope you got lots of eggs and baked lots of delicious goodies with them, yum!

School Holiday Chicken Duty Roster 

Unbelievably the next school holidays are not too far away!

If you are considering doing chicken duty to get some free fresh eggs,  start thinking about what dates you would like to put your name down for and get in quick as holiday chicken duties are very popular!

Please email Mel at mkerwin@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au with your preferred dates (3-4 days if possible) if you are interested in being added to the roster. Remember, first in, first choice of dates!

NEW! Fresh Free Range Eggs For Sale!

We are making a change to the way we sell our fresh eggs.

From today, you can purchase our fresh free range eggs for only $5 for ½ dozen. They will be available to purchase in passive play before and after our school assembly on Mondays. 

You can’t get this quality, freshness or extra, extra large eggs at the supermarket, that’s for sure!

Delicious lemons and limes from our fruit trees are also for sale. 

We are also selling our organic worm juice which is a wonderful fertiliser for your garden. It is collected fresh from our worm farms here at school! Buy a bottle for only $2 this week.

St John’s students love having the chickens at school. All the money we make is put back into buying food and other necessities for them.

St John’s- A Wrapper Free School

Help us to  reduce our waste!

Gardening with Jan!

Last Thursday, an eager group of students with ‘green thumbs’ joined Jan for a spot of gardening. Together they planted some lettuce seedlings and nasturtium, lemongrass, garlic chives, and regular chives in our Herb Garden.

All interested students are able to help Jan with the veggie garden at lunchtimes on Thursdays.

Did you Know?…

Chickens are like children! They love to play. They can often be found playing – running, jumping and jousting with others in the flock.

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team