WPS Community Children’s Garden
Clean Up Australia
On Monday 6 March WPS Garden Club joined in the Clean Up Australia activities. We started with 20 children, as we headed off around the school grounds, complete with corn-starch rubbish bags and bright yellow gloves. With the excitement of a treasure hunt, many more kids joined our procession as we wound our way around the school.
We ended up with 2 big bags of rubbish. No prize for guessing the most common item – PLASTIC! Particularly single-use, soft plastic confectionary and crisp bags.
Great job WPS Garden Club! 😊
You can help too…
To help reduce single-use soft plastics, you can do your bit at home. A cheaper and less environmentally contaminating alternative to purchasing ‘lunch box size’ packets, is to buy in bulk and decant confectionery/crisps into reusable small plastic containers or a compartment in a bento lunch box. This also enables you to make the portions big or small to suit your child’s size.
| 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 join 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, you can help out in the garden anytime. Simply contact me to see what needs to be done.
Volunteer Gardening Group Facilitator
Nicole Middleton - 0418 233 366