Sustainability & Garden Club

Hello everyone! 

Assembly tomorrow!

Our Gardening Club is presening at Assembly tomorrow afternoon - they would love parents to come and hear what they have been learning and enjoying! 

Gardening Club

Our garden was bursting with bright yellow calendula flowers today! We enjoyed picking and eating the flowers! They are tasty and healthy for us.  Flowers are important for providing food for the bees. We left some flowers the garden so that the bees can also enjoy them too. We enjoyed picking bok choy, chives and silverbeet too. Our new netting is working to help protect our plants from possums. We have lots of slugs easting our bok choy though so some students decided to make “Slug Soup!” 

Parent Volunteers

We would love more parent volunteers to help us in the garden. If you are available on either an occasional or regular basis Ms 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. There are also jobs that can be done at any time, for example if someone knows how to best prune a lemon tree, your experience would be very welcome. 

Volunteers who can gently water our vegetable garden, 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! 

Nude Food - Every Thursday

And the winners are … 3/4TR with 19 rubbish free lunches, with 1/2RT close behind with 16 - Well done! 

Why do we do Nude Food? 

Did you know that in Australia, the average child makes around 30 kg of rubbish a year through their school lunches? In fact, Australia is the second highest producer of rubbish per person in the western world! We can do our part to reduce this by packing a school lunch without including any extra packaging or juice packs. Make a conscious decision to only include foods that leave no packaging at the end of the day. Put the sandwich or bread roll into a named lunchbox and use small containers for any snack foods and of course, pack a reusable drink bottle. 

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