SAKG NEWS

Welcome back to Term 2 of 2024 everyone!  We have eased into our kitchen program with a good old favourite, "Best Ever Vegetable Soup" which is an easily adaptable soup recipe that allows us to use up whatever produce we have. This time we have used pumpkins and a little bit of beetroot. The beetroot gives the soup a beautiful deep orange colour when combined with the pumpkin. The kids have also taken up with a gusto the opportunity to practise and refine their cutting skills.  

To go with our soup our baking team has been making basic scones, learning some simple but necessary skills in following a recipe, rubbing butter into flour and shaping scones. There aren't many steps in this recipe but it is important to follow them in order, so very good for building children's understanding of the role of a recipe in cooking.  

Just because the weather is cooling down doesn't mean we are finishing up with salad.  There are plenty of salad ideas that can be made with cooler weather ingredients and we have been making a Mediterranean style rice salad using capsicums, carrots, zucchinis, lemons and parsley, and it has been absolutely delicious.  Some have described it as the cold version of best even fried rice!   

Here is a link to the one that we have used but there are plenty more of them out there!  

We also have had a team making ANZAC biscuits which is on theme for ANZAC Day. They are always a good old favourite, but again there are a few necessary steps that need to be done in the correct order, so the children are learning the importance of following the recipe.  

In the garden there has been some excitement.  The new names for the Guinea pigs have been announced, after the votes were counted at the end of Term 1! We welcome Milo (smooth fur & tan colour) and Cookie (spiky fur and multi colour) to the Garden at DPS. The Year 4s have completed a Wheelbarrow Test and Garden Fork Walk, and their Wheelbarrow Licences will be given to them next garden session. Nature Mandalas have been created with the abundance of flowers from the garden. These gorgeous artworks will be printed and made into cards for Mother’s Day and Special Person’s Day. Weeding, mulching and planting of autumn/winter crops also continues, and old food and straw has been shovelled out of the chicken run and delivered to the compost, so that the chickens have a clean-living space! Lastly the insect hotel is nearly finished. It has taken a term to make but it looks amazing!

To come our fortnightly news we would like to say a special thankyou to the Sebastian & Celeste and Eli & Lori and their families for looking after the guinea pigs over the holidays and Paul & Lillian and their family for coming into school and feeding, checking on the chickens, and collecting the eggs.  We greatly appreciate the support and hoping that you enjoyed your time with the animals.

Mrs O’Brien, Kate & Jodie