Kitchen and Garden & Sustainability News

Whats Happening in the Kitchen and Garden for 2026?

Garden

Year 6 have started handing in their formal garden designs and plant order sheets and I'm so excited with how clever they are in fitting so many great edible plants in their garden patches! All of the plants have been selected to grow over autumn and winter. When term 2 commences they will plant them out and then begin ongoing maintenance.

Year 4 created more cuttings for the fair and we now have a fabulous selection of herbs and flowers that will be potted up as they establish. They did an amazing job at learning about how plants grow and their parts. Please encourage them to practice making more cuttings at home. Below is a resource that will help you do this at home.

KITCHEN

We had another fabulous fortnight in the kitchen with our theme of Reconciliation week shining through with the use on indigenous ingredients in many of our dishes.  The gnocchi with creamy saltbush sauce was a firm favourite with many students discovering a love for gnocchi and expressing their wishes to make it again at home!  The broccoli and cauliflower fritters were a perhaps unexpected favourite with no leftovers for the teachers and claims such as "they are just like chicken nuggets" and "I've never like broccoli before but these are great" being music to our ears!  

We have had a fabulous number of parent helpers in the kitchen the past few weeks, and we'd like to thank each and every one of you.  I have also enjoyed the many conversations with carers about how capable the students are not only in class, but in the skills they are then practising at home too!  Also a huge thank you to the school community members who kindly donated some beautiful home grown tomatoes we thoroughly enjoyed on our fresh bruschetta, surprising a number of students with how much they enjoyed the classic tomato and basil combination.

Recipes

Prior round recipes and photos

SNACK SHACK

Our Snack Shackers made yummy musk slice and last week we celebrated with orange cupcakes and slice. The students are getting more confident in the canteen and serving their customers. They are starting to learn money handling skills and doing a brilliant job with food handling  skills. If anyone is interested in helping out with this program, we meet on a Tuesday session 5 (2.15-3.15). Please contact Clancey to see how you can get involved! 

Food Scrap Friday

Our Food Scrap Friday team are looking for new team members! If you have ever wondered how we make our fabulous compost for the garden and how our school is very clever at keeping tonnes of food scraps out of landfill, then the Food Scrap Friday team is for you! Come along this Friday before school as find out how you can get involved.

Recycling at Surfside - SHREDDED PAPER!

We need your shredded paper for our compost bins. If you have access to shredded paper at home or work, we would like you to donate it. You can leave it at the office or drop off to the garden Tues, Wed and Thursdays

VOLUNTEERS

If you have a spare hour or 2 per week and would like to volunteer in the best program on the Bellarine, please reach out and we will send you some info on how to get involved. Please make sure you check into the office to complete your volunteer induction (everyone must complete this each year - even if you have volunteered in the past) and have a valid Working With Children Check.

Thanks

Clancey and Georgie