Sustainability

Kitchen Garden - Year One

This week the year one students made apple pear turnovers. These delicious fruity pastries were very much enjoyed by the students, and they were very hands on in the preparation, cutting the fruit, mixing the ingredients, placing them on a pastry triangle, turning over and waiting for them to bake in the oven. They used forks to bind the edges and make a pattern for presentation and function. 

Our garden activity focused on seeds and how they grow. The students used lawn seeds, sphagnum moss, stockings and containers to make little grass seed heads. Over the next week they will watch them grow hair! They will learn that they need to spray them with water and ensure there is water in the container for the stocking to take up to the seeds.  

Please enjoy these photos.

Year 4SD - Kitchen Garden

Year 4SD used some of the potatoes harvested from the potato cylinders to make chips. This involved lots of slicing, peeling and chopping. A few bandaids were required however we did have success, made lots of chips  and bagged them up to take home.

Broccoli bites were also on the menu, with the students independently making them following the recipe.  It was a very wet day, so we could  not go outside in the garden, so we decided to shift our focus to National Recycling Week coming up soon. The students created music using materials found in the classroom. We aim to use garden and kitchen equipment and natural materials to make instruments for future sessions, and create a song about waste to the tune of the ABC song. We look forward to sharing these soon.

FOTH helpers

The Sustainability team will be contributing to a stall at the Fair On The Hill. As well as plants, we have made dog chew toys using preloved t-shirts. With the many families that have donated lavender and rosemary we have made dried herb sachets. We hope you agree they look great and we cannot wait to sell them at the Sustainability Stall at the FOTH.