Environmental Team

News from the Chicken Coop

Some sad news…

As you have probably heard, last Friday we lost all of our chickens to a fox, who managed to get into the chicken coop. We are all very sad at school as our gorgeous feathered friends were well loved and cared for by our students, in particular our Environment Leaders, and the many families who volunteered for weekend and school holiday chook duty. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting our chicken program.

Rest In Peace- Karen, Nibbles, Buttercup, Gertrude and Junior

The students have decided that when the holes are fixed and the run is secure again, they would like to buy new chickens so that everyone can enjoy having chickens at school and then they can once again sell raffle tickets for Egg Lotto.

We’ll let you know when we need volunteers for the chicken duty roster.

Clean Up Australia Day for schools

This year Clean Up Australia Day for schools is on this Friday 3rd of March.

We will all be participating and helping our school to stay clean. Each class will be given a bucket and gloves for students and teachers to use to clean up any rubbish they find in their designated area around the school. This will be done at 2:20pm straight after recess on Friday. We will be doing a waste audit of the rubbish found in the playground as well as an audit of our classroom bins to raise awareness of the amount of landfill one small school produces on a daily basis. Can we reduce this amount and do our part in helping the environment?

We hope everyone can be a part of this great initiative to reduce our waste and to help keep our school clean!

Environmental Dates coming up

• Fri 3 March Clean Up Australia Day for schools
• Sun 5 March Clean Up Australia Day
• Fri 24 March Earth Hour Schools Day
• Sat 25 March Earth Hour

Thanks for your support,

The Environment Team