Sustainability Club news
Soft Plastics Recycling and feed the worms: daily activity
The dedicated students in Sustainability Club have now modified their daily eating time activity to collect both food scraps and students’ soft plastics. We can now recycle the soft plastics again. The packets get posted directly to the recycling station through Australia Post.
If you wish to recycle your soft plastics simply place everything in a plastic bag and dump the load into our 240L soft plastics bin that is stationed in the alcove near the girls toilets. I will post the load during the school holiday.
Containers for Change: Friday second break
The first load of containers for change have been collected and it is a bumper haul. The two 240L bins were completely full and thanks to a few families donating their empties, two of the smaller bins were full as well.
One thing to work on with our students is how to properly prepare the containers for recycling and actually putting rubbish in the rubbish bin. Thankfully, the weekly sort is saving the containers, however if we can educate the students that little bit more, the work for the Friday gang will be that much easier.
The images attached show the amount of recycling coming from one bin and the disgusting contamination it included.
Gardening: Tuesday first Break
Exciting news. All the students hard work has begun to pay off. The rockmelon are setting and the growing fruit can be seen, at every stage of development. The beans and tomato plants also have flowers forming. Term two will hopefully see an opportunity for the students to taste freshly grown Enoggera produce.
Sustainability Connections
Camp Australia are working closely with the Sustainability Club to provide that authentic connection between the school and after-school. Every week the learning that is provided during Sustainability Club is offered before school to Camp Australia students and it is very popular.
This term Camp Australia students have set up a worm farm and the students are now putting the food scraps into the worm farm. The students also germinated beans and last week they planted their seedlings into the garden.
One of the biggest thrills for the students was when Mr Reynaldo found a huge worm in the leaf litter near the swimming pool. He brought it over and placed into the garden. There was a huge conversation then, about whether the worm should be put in the worm farm. Magical.
