Newsletter: Term 2, Week 8

BUMPER WORKING BEE COMING UP!

Hi everyone. We are planning our next working bee for Sunday, July 24 from 9am to 2pm. It’s the first weekend after we return to school so we wanted to let you know before the holidays. We have a few large projects to complete including:

Installing taps to distribute rainwater from the tanks;

Using a digger to move soil and add lots of soil improvers;

Preparing our new raised garden beds (delivery soon!) to ready them for planting;

Building our chickens’ permanent home; and

Planting stage one of the fruit forest.

The garden is really taking shape now. Thanks to everyone who has helped us up to this point. We could not have done it without you! It is looking absolutely fantastic.

Next Working Bee July 24. Please mark it on your calendar! We need your help, even if you can only come for an hour or two. 9am until 2pm.

EGGSCITING NEWS

Have you heard? We had an egg a day last week from our beautiful hens. Say hello to the girls when you walk past. They love a chat (and a pat if there is grown up around to help you)!

HOLIDAY FOR CHICKENS

The Morle family are very excited about being the first ones to take the chickens home for the school holidays. Henry (year 4) and Oliver (year 1) promise to take good care of Caramello, Chickpea and Snowdrop!

OLD SHIRTS NEEDED

Our Monday Garden Club is well underway with the year 5s busy making beautiful mosaic mushrooms for the garden. The kids are working with tile adhesive and need some old shirts to wear to protect their clothes.

Do you have some you might not need anymore? If so, please drop them off at the Eco Food Garden Room adjacent to the library.

BUSH TUCKER BONANZA

Years four and five are planting the bush tucker component of the garden today.  Mrs Eastman’s class made the plant labels with Mrs Hall in computer class and they look amazing. Well done kids! Now we will be able to walk around the garden and identify each plant and its uses.

FANTASTIC FRIDAY

We had so much fun in the garden on Friday. Two year one classes planted their garden bed with lots of yummy vegetables and some parsley grown from seed from the year two bed! The kindys, and year twos harvested their beds and got to take home the produce, as well as planting some new seedlings, many of which were grown from seed by Mrs Sharp’s class. Phew! So busy and so much fun.

We also took some beautiful photos of Caramello and our bountiful harvest and have entered a competition to win a Harvest Table for the school. Wish us luck!

RAFFLE DONATIONS PLEASE

We have another Bunnings BBQ coming up on Saturday, August 6 and would like to run a bumper Father’s Day raffle as well. They are a great way to raise money for our school as shown by the wonderful profit on Election Day.

We are looking for donations along the following lines and would appreciate anything that you might be able to give. If any businesses can offer vouchers or similar that would be fantastic too:

* Garden and Handyman

* Gourmet and BBQ

* Fitness and Tech

Please drop any donations off to the front office. If you have any questions, please contact Colleen

Thankyou!