Sustainability
For Week Five, the Green Team have put together a plastic free challenge for each day of the week. This is to celebrate Plastic Free July last month. Teachers will be showing their class a new challenge each day.
If your keen to take part in any of the challenges coming up check them out below. One of them is Nude Food on Tuesday, so please support your child in packing their lunch box with no wrappers.
Monday Challenge!
Bake something to pack in your lunchbox this week.
If you bake your own slice instead of bringing in a muesli bar already in a packet or a packet of chips you will be using less plastic!
Here are some different recipes you could make by clicking on the link:
Tuesday Challenge!
Pack a Nude Food lunchbox. Try to have no wrappers in your lunch box.
You can try using containers, beeswax wraps, making something from scratch, fruit and veggies have natural wrappers and reusable cutlery.
The class with the least wrappers win a game run by the Green Team.
Wednesday Challenge!
Pick up 5 pieces of rubbish outside.
Thursday Challenge!
Go grocery shopping this week and bring your reusable shopping bags.
Can you encourage who you are shopping with to try and buy less plastic?
Friday Challenge!
It is so important we keep plastic out of our oceans! Particularly because we live and go to school right next to the beach.
This weekend head down to the beach with your family and pick up some rubbish.
And here is a challenge for the grown ups!
Try to use a reusable cup or mug for coffee and not buy a takeaway cup
All challenges are optional and a fun way to try and use less plastic.
Community Compost Fridays
Every day each class puts their fruit and vegetable scraps into our school compost bins and worm farms. We would like to create more compost for our veggie patch by inviting our school community to join in.
If you don’t compost at home, our Year 4 students would love to take your fruit and vegetable scraps and turn it into compost.
When and Where:
We will trial the composting every Friday 8.45-9.00am for the remainder of Term 3. Compost can be dropped off next to the veggie garden at the Ferguson Street entrance.
Please bring your scraps in a reusable container/bucket that you can take back home.
We accept:
- Fruit and vegetable scraps
- Tea bags and coffee grounds
- Egg shells
We do not accept:
- Meat, seafood and dairy (including bones)
- Fats and oils
- Bread, rice and pasta
- Plastics (including rubber bands, bread tags & fruit stickers)
- Dog and cat poo
Thank you for your support by helping to divert fruit and vegetable scraps from land fill and “closing the loop”.