Friday, November 3, 2017

Banana Oat Balls with Year 2

Banana Oat Balls Recipe

2 cups of quick oats
8 really small bananas from own tree (or 1-2 big ones)
squeeze of honey
dash of vanilla
desiccated coconut

  • Pulse the oats in a food processor until about half of them are meal. 
  • Mash the bananas and add them to the oats
  • Mix together with honey and vanilla until all are combined and it is a slightly sticky mixture
  • Make balls out of about a tablespoon of mixture and roll them in the desiccated coconut.
  • Enjoy!


Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Newsletter Term 3, Week 8

Lambs – Help Needed
As we approach the holidays we are seeking families to come and look after the lambs during the holidays. By then they will be off bottles and involvement will be; letting them out of their house in the morning, taking them for a walk, feeding them lucerne and pellets, locking them up at night!
If this is something you are able to do please email – availability, preference of days, contact number and a roster will be emailed to you closer to the date!

Election Cake Stall
To keep financial in feeding our lambs we are hosting a cake stall for the upcoming election, 9th September. Plates for cake donations were sent home last week. If you need a replacement or would like a cake/ slice box please see the school office. If you are available to come and help out on the stall please follow the link below to sign up for an hour or two! www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080E44AFA92CA1F85-election


Support Needed!
As we move through the year we are faced with losing some very important members of the Eco Garden Committee as their youngest children move onto High School. Involvement with the Eco garden requires a team effort, and input can vary dependant on your personal time. The main activities and events are overseen and liaised by school staff. The three main areas where help is required:

Animals – purchasing stock feed or arranging for it to be purchased, assistance with cleaning out their house, water bowl/ trough, restocking their straw/ sawdust to make their homes comfy. All of these jobs can be done outside of school hours or on weekends.
Gardens- watering them as required, purchasing or organising to be purchased new vegies for planting, assisting the classes with planting and harvesting when required. Again these jobs can be done outside of school hours or a quick water just before/after pick up and drop off on a regular basis works too!

Cooking- Using and cooking the harvested produce from the gardens is a key element of their purpose. Cooking is always assisted by parents from the classes cooking and also the class teacher. Involvement with cooking requires liaising with class teachers, organising extra needed ingredients, being available to do cooking as needed. This role is mostly during school hours but can be arranged around your schedule.

Eco Garden has a committee who meet once a month in the school Staffroom to discuss integration of the garden area into school activities, maintenance and upkeep of the area, animals and also fundraising required to support the gardens. Attendance at meetings is not a compulsory requirement and minutes can be emailed to keep you updated. If any of these roles feel like something you are interested in or would like to take on either
contact Briony Scanlan or call the school office to arrange a meeting or complete the form below and return to your child’s class teacher. We would love to see the gardens and animals remain a key part of our school but greater help and support is needed!

Saturday, August 19, 2017

New lambs Valerie (Val) & Dotty (Dot) have arrived






Stir-fry with Year 3H & 3B






GUESS ALL THE VEGETABLES FROM OUR GARDEN IN THE STIR-FRY?

(red cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, broccoli, snow peas and savoy cabbage)

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Newsletter Term 2, Week 2

AGM
The Eco Garden AGM was held on Wednesday 26th April. Office Bearers as below:
President – Rhonda French
Treasurer – Tim Thompson
Secretary – Petra Holland
Fundraising – Colleen Dancer

Chooks
A big thank you to the Matula Family for kindly minding the girls over the holidays. The willingness and support of families to look after the girls makes having them at school possible. The girls are self-sufficient – come with their own house, feed and fencing. If you are interested in minding them for a future holiday period please contact Rhonda French or the school.

Bunnings
The Eco Garden is funded by the fundraising endeavours carried out. A major part of our fundraising year is the Bunnings BBQ. Our next BBQ is on Saturday 20th May. If you are free to offer an hour or two please visit the doodle to sign up http://doodle.com/poll/rpzz58n6evenk8m3

Cooking
Cooking will continue again this term with Kindergarten in the coming weeks. Please watch out for individual notes regarding this. If you are interested in being involved or helping out please contact Rhonda French.

Next Meeting
The Eco Garden will meet on the 17th May at 7pm in the staffroom.

Friday, March 24, 2017

Potato rösti recipe



Potato rösti

4 potato medium
Herbs chopped
1 egg
1/4 cup plain flour
1tbs caramelised onions from jar optional
2 tbs cream cheese/quark optional
1 pinch salt and pepper
2 tbs oil

  • For the rösti, grate the potatoes coarsely into a clean tea towel. Fold the towel around the potato to form a ball and squeeze to remove as much moisture as possible.  
  • Stir in the egg, flour, quark, herbs, onions and seasoning. 
  • Mix to combine to a soft, moist mixture.  
  • Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium to high heat, Drop in large tablespoons of mixture and cook for 5-10 minutes until crispy on the outside and cooked all the way through.

Potato rösti with Year 4

dig

wash

grate 
 
eat
 




Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Pomegranate cous-cous salad with Year 5



Limes, pomegrantes, finger limes & herbs from the garden.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Newsletter: Term 1, Week 2

Welcome Back for 2017!


Thanks
A great big thank you to the families that baby sat our chooks during the holidays! The “chooky” girls are back and loving all of the child attention again.

Rosters
Are you interested in minding the school chooks for a weekend? It simply requires collecting the keys and weekend food on Friday afternoon and dropping by to feed, change their water and say hello on Saturday and Sunday of the weekend. You would be rostered on for approximately one weekend per term. If this sounds like a job for you please contact Briony Scanlon.

Meeting
Eco Garden Meetings are held each month on the third Wednesday of the month at 7pm in the staffroom, during term times. Our next meeting is on the 15th February. New members are always welcome. The first meeting of the year will look at replanting the gardens and plans for the year.

Being involved
The Eco Garden is a large part of the school at Hornsby Heights PS and involves many facets and people. There is gardening, animal minding, cooking, cake stalls and BBQs, building of infrastructure and lesson support. If you feel this is something you may be interested in or would like to find out more please come along to a meeting or let Rhonda French know. Many hands make light work.

Animal Update
At the end of the year Rosie and Daisy were taken to the farm near Dubbo where they joined Lola, Chanel, Coco and their babies. They have settled happily into the little family and are enjoying some big paddock time. In exciting news Chanel had twins on the 30th January and is doing a great job looking after two babies in this hot weather