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

Cake Stall

On Saturday 2nd July we hosted the Cake Stall for the Election. A big thank you, to everybody who baked and helped on the day!

Banana Smoothies with Kindy

Made today banana smoothies/milkshakes with bananas harvested from the school eco garden. They were delicious, with our bananas having a lot more flavour than store bought ones!

Newsletter: Term 2, Week 8

Growing Family
Our very own raised lamb, Chanel, from 2015 has recently become a Mum, giving birth to a cute baby boy lamb last week. It is so exciting to see our lambs go off and live happy lives on the farm.

Chickens
We are once again looking for volunteers who would like to have our girls for the upcoming holidays. If you are available and interested please contact Rhonda French. The girls come completely self-sufficient with fencing, home and food. As good layers, you will get abundant supply of fresh eggs every day!

Cake Stall
Eco Garden will be hosting the Cake Stall at the Election on the 2nd July. We will be sending home plates this Friday and asking for ‘fresh, home baked’ goodies that can be sold at the Cake Stall. Information on donating baked goods will come home with the plates. We will be looking for volunteers to assist with pricing and sorting cakes on Friday afternoon and selling cakes on Saturday morning.

Next Meeting
The Eco Garden committee meets once a month and is an opportunity for parents to hear what is involved, how they can help out and make suggestions for the future. If you would like to attend you are welcome at any time. Our next meeting is this Wednesday, 15th June, in K/1S classroom at 7pm.