Outdoor Learning - Keen Green Team and the Grade 6 Environment Pillar 

What's been growing?

The Keen Green Team has been hard at work giving our beloved vegetable gardens a good tidy-up. Students and parents have been weeding, clearing away old growth, and preparing the beds so they are fresh and ready for a new season of planting.

While tidying up, the team also got to enjoy the rewards of last year's hard work. Fresh basil and silverbeet was picked straight from the garden to share with the Keen Green Team. There is something truly special about eating food you have grown yourself, and our students felt that joy firsthand.

A few weeks ago, our students planted seeds in egg cartons, which is a wonderfully resourceful way to get a head start on the growing season. The seeds have already sprouted and will be ready to plant in our vegie garden in the next couple of weeks. 

The Nude Food Campaign.

As part of our school's commitment to reducing waste and caring for our environment, the Keen Green Team is thrilled to launch our Nude Food Campaign! 

Starting  on Monday 1st June and running for the rest of the term, we are asking all families to pack wrapper-free lunches on Mondays and Tuesdays.

On these two days, students are encouraged to bring:

• ✓Food in reusable containers or recyclable packaging
• ✓Snacks and sandwiches without plastic wrap or foil wrappers
• ✓Drink bottles instead of juice pouches or cans
• ✗No single-use wrappers, cling wrap, or glad wrap please

What will we be doing? At recess on Mondays and Tuesdays, teachers will be counting wrappers in lunchboxes. Lunch orders will also be tallied at lunchtime. This helps us track how much waste we're reducing as a school community and we can celebrate our progress together!

How you can help for the rest of term

Reducing lunchbox rubbish is something every family can take part in. Even small changes like swapping a packet of chips for food in a container, or a wrapped muesli bar for a homemade treat. These small changes make a real difference when the whole school takes part.

Rubbish in our school affects our learning environment, our grounds, and the wider world around us. Together, we can make our school cleaner, greener, and something to be truly proud of.

Thank you for supporting our Keen Green Team and helping us build a more sustainable school. 

Our upcoming visit to the MCG for the Resource Smart Awards Announcement 

We are very excited about our upcoming visit to the MCG on the 11th of June where the 36 finalists in the 2026 Resource Smart Schools Awards will find out if they are winners. We have been nominated in the category of Student Action Team of the Year.  

 This premier event is by invitation only, with all finalists, event sponsors, delivery partners (CERES, Environment Education Victoria, and Eastern Alliance for Sustainable Learning), and government and industry leaders in sustainability.

Our nomination is thanks to the hard work of the KGT, the Enviro Pillar leaders and our community volunteers. 

Thanks to the families who have been coming to help at KGT on Wednesdays at 2.30pm. 

 Your support is appreciated. 

Please join us at 2.30 on a Wednesday. We welcome all volunteers. 

Please email Claire Ballot at claire.ballot@education.vic.gov.au if you are interested in being a part of this program.