In our Garden

This term our students have been doing a fantastic job of taking care of our chickens, they have cleaned out their house and put nice fresh straw in their nesting boxes. Many of our students help feed the chickens scraps from the classroom and also give them cuddles when they are helping in the garden.  They really are our school pets.

 

 

Very sadly, despite all our care, a very cunning fox snuck into their run and killed 7, including all the brown ones and the very tiny black one.  Roy and I found their bodies on Tuesday morning this week. This follows the recent death of Disco (our silky chicken) and one of the black hens. At first we thought the culprit was an owl because one of the chickens was found in a tree and there was no evidence of digging into the run.  

Some further detective work found some tell tale red fur on the barbed wire over the gate and  I now have a plan to extend the floppy fencing across the top of the gate and partially around their house too.

 

I'm very sad to have to pass on this news as each of our chickens has their own personality and many of our students love to talk about their individual characters.  

 My sympathy to anyone who feels sad to find out this news.  I felt sad too.  I buried them away from school in a safe place where their bodies won't be dug up by dogs or foxes.

We will rebuild our flock in the new year.

 

On a happier note, grade 6 students have had a chance to investigate how the Aboriginal  peoples of Australia and the Torres Strait describe different times of year in their home countries.  

 

Thankyou Bridget for preparing these templates for the students to illustrate!

 

 

Grade 1/2 have been busy caring for the chook garden, planting celery and zucchini as well as trimming back our wildly growing herbs.  They have also been sieving our beautiful compost to help make potting mix for our seeds and seedlings.

I hope your gardens survived the the squally weather! Happy gardening

Sara