Sustainability

Hello everyone! 

Gardening Club

A busy day in Gardening Club today! Ahn has been requesting to grow more flowers so we decided to make a new garden bed just for flowers.  We raked over the soil and added some fertiliser. We carefully planted our Nasturtium seeds and are looking forward to their bright flowers. Plus we can eat the leaves and the flowers! 

Our pak choy, silverbeet and chives are slowly growing. Our tomatoes have lovely green tomatoes, so we’re hoping they ripen soon. Our new worms have grown so much in the last few weeks andare eating the fruit and vegetable scraps we are giving them, to turn it into rich new soil for our plants. We also topped up the straw to mulch the garden beds, to help the soil stay cool and moist.

Volunteers who can gently water, are very welcome on days other than the Thursday (we water on Thursday when Miss Belinda is here) - especially while our seedlings are so small. The vegetable gardens are located just outside the library, near the Prep and 1/2 classrooms. Students are welcome to use their water bottles or just ask Mrs Boffa in the office for the key to the shed to get a watering can. Our plants would really appreciated it! 

National Ride (or Walk or Catch Public Transport) Day is coming up on Friday 24th March. 

We encourage you to leave the car at home and ride, walk, or catch public transport to school and help reduce pollution from cars on the road! If you live too far away, you can do this for part of the way! We will join more than 350,000 students across Australia who will ride, walk, scoot and skate to school. More information to come next week!

Parent Volunteers

We would love parent volunteers to help us in the garden. If you are available on either an occasional or regular basis Miss Belinda would love to hear from you. Email bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au. We meet Thursdays 10.45-11.35am. Volunteers need to have a Working With Children Check.

Nude Food - Every Thursday

Thank you to Amy Tran from Yr 5/6BOC who created a lovely “Nude Food Winner” certificate for us to use each week.

And the winners are … 3/4 TR with 18 rubbish free lunches, followed closely by 5/6 BO’C, Prep CM, and 3/4 MG with 17. 5/6 FA had 10 and 1/2 RT had 10. Well done everyone! 

We ask students to choose foods which create no rubbish to bring for lunch on this day. Some great ideas can be found at https://www.nudefoodday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/HOW-TO-PACK-A-NUDE-FOOD-LUNCH.pdf

Some yummy ideas - a sandwich/wrap/roll, pasta with vegetables, soup, frittata or sushi, a fruit or vegetable snack, such as whole fruit, cut up veggie sticks, fruit or savoury kebab or a small salad. 

There are some great ideas here:

Healthy Lunchbox Ideas for kids. Rubbish free / nude food ideas

Have a great week everyone! Thanks for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

The Sustainability Team - Ms Belinda, Amy and Nathan