Environment & Sustainability 

News from the Chicken Coop

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thanks to the wonderful Sun, Harvey, Rivalland, Ballestrin, Mitchell, Njoku, McKay, Box, Kerwin, Bayliss and Deacon families for taking such great care of our school chickens over the summer school holidays. The chickens really miss the students during the holidays and they look forward to the duty families coming to visit them each day. We hope you got lots of eggs and baked lots of delicious goodies with them, yum!

Volunteers needed

We urgently need Volunteers for all weekends during Term 1 starting next weekend

8/9 February, to look after the Chickens.

Each weekend and over the school holidays, school families volunteer to go on the chicken duty roster to look after our school chickens. You only need to pop up to visit the chickens once a day to check their water and food. It’s really easy and the kids love it! Duty families get to keep all the yummy eggs that they collect over the weekend. An information sheet will be provided with all the details prior to your duty.

If you would like to put your name on the roster please email Mel Kerwin at mkerwin@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au with your preferred dates. 

First in, first choice of dates!

Wanted- 2 Litre plastic milk cartons 

If you use 2 Litre plastic milk cartons we would love to reuse them before they are recycled. The plastic cartons with a handle are the perfect size 

to collect the liquid we call worm juice, from the worm farms here at school. We use and sell ‘Worm Juice’ as an organic fertiliser for our veggie gardens. Can you see our snow peas in the photo?

Please send in your rinsed and clean bottles (labels removed if you have time) to the office for the Environment Team. 

Chicken Facts - Did you Know?…

Chickens 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