WPS Community Children’s Garden
Veggie Gardens at Woodend Primary
Woodend Primary School is extremely fortunate to have two large vegetable gardens: a kitchen garden at Carlsruhe and the Woodend Community Children’s Garden. These gardens are used to teach environmental and plant science, heathy eating, sustainable gardening and many other topics.
Each Monday lunchtime, all students at the Woodend campus are welcome to come along to Garden Club at the Woodend Community Children’s Garden for a lunch time of fun, exercise, teamwork and discovery. Please remind and encourage your children to when sending them off to school on Mondays. You’ll know if they have attended as they’ll usually bring home a bag of garden produce to share (unless they eat it all on the way home 😊)
Such programs cannot run without the help of volunteer parents. There are a myriad of mental and physical benefits to both children and adults who spend time in veggie gardens. If you would like to help out in either of the School’s veggie gardens, please contact volunteer parent Nicole for the Woodend garden (details below) or your Grade 4 student’s teacher for the Carlsruhe garden.
| Volunteers needed: WPS Children’s Garden Club | |
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| Where: | Woodend Community Children’s Garden (Buckland St, Woodend) |
| When: | 12.40-2.00pm Mondays parent help required to run lunchtime Kid’s Garden Club |
| 2.00-3.30pm Mondays - parent’s gardening group | |
| BYO: | Bring your enthusiasm and desire to pitch in (No gardening knowhow needed). Please wear sturdy shoes, gardening gloves and weather appropriate clothing. Pre-school age children are welcome too |
| Sign in: | Please sign in at the Office before gardening (Working With Children Check required) |
| Contact: | Nicole Middleton 0418 233 366 |
If you can’t make it to the Monday sessions, but you can help out another garden, simply contact me to see what needs to be done.
Volunteer Gardening Group Facilitator
Nicole Middleton - 0418 233 366