Potato rösti with Year 4

dig

wash

grate 

 

eat

 

Pomegranate cous-cous salad with Year 5

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

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

Newsletter: Term 4, Week 2

Chooks
A massive big thank you to the Cox family for taking such wonderful care of our 5 girls (chooks) at their house during the holidays. The girls have come back looking fat and happy and are laying lots of fresh eggs.

If you would like to have this opportunity over Christmas holidays please contact Miss Scanlon or Rhonda Frensch

Lambs
An equally big thanks to all of the wonderful families who kindly volunteered a day or two to come and visit and look after the lambs during the holidays. This enabled us to keep them at school. Their holidays were spent walking the school, playing and getting lots of pats. The support and help of these families is crucial to the continuation of the animals staying at Hornsby heights and we are very grateful. Daisy and Rosie too havegrown and are now enjoying time in the portable pen and visits from different classes each day.

Fence

If you have visited the school you may notice that a new fence has been installed around the Eco Garden Bush Tucker Garden. This fence has been a long term project. Students in Years 3-4 over the past 18 months have done drawings during Interest Group time on Friday. These drawings have been transferred onto fence palings and painted. It is a wonderful display of student art work. A big thanks to Greg Robinson and John's Paint and
Hardware (Hornsby) for the donation of the paint. The colour range was amazing and assisted greatly in the transferring of student drawing as similar to their original as possible.

Meeting
The next Eco Garden meeting will be held on Wednesday 16th November in Miss Scanlon's classroom from
7pm.

New Lambs - Daisy & Rosie

Kohlrabi

Harvested some very juicy, crunchy kohlrabi from the garden and tasting this new veggie (with some loving it and others not!)

 

Tabouli in pita pockets with Year 1/2