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Recycling in Lower Juniors

Last year most students sat on the decking area to eat their lunch. Despite signage on the bins, sometimes rubbish got mixed up. Lower juniors now regularly having lunch in classrooms, in an effort to reduce rubbish and learn to be more responsible with recycling practices. Students can practice to sort rubbish and recycle paper and cardboard items. Congratulations to Junior Piasecki who have just set different labelled containers for students to actively recycle soft and hard plastics and food scraps in their classroom. 

This week, Lower Juniors visited the Frankston Regional Recycling and Recovery Centre in Skye to learn about the different sorts of waste collected at the centre for recycling to reduce landfill. 

Regrowing from food scraps or vegetables

Have a look at this choco plant that is now ready to be planted. The top part was cut from a celeriac vegetable and placed in water until shoots and leaves appeared. This is ready to plant out and give us celery flavoured stalks. We are growing fantastic sized broccoli in the Upper Junior garden. Students will be able to try this steamed next week in Home Economics.