Plastic...Fantastic...?

Hi everyone,

Today we started looking at the amount of plastic packaging used to wrap our foods. We opened a large family sized bag of popcorn that contained 12 miniature packets of popcorn. We emptied out all of the popcorn into a bowl and spread out all of the plastic so we could see how much had been used. There was HEAPS!! We were not impressed with the huge amount of plastic needed to hold such a small amount of popcorn (only 204 grams)! 

The environment and sustainability group decided that we need to make smarter and more environmentally friendly choices when doing our weekly shopping. 

You can help reduce plastic waste by asking your families to buy only one big bag of food, not lots of small bags and by emptying it into small reusable containers you can use again and again while enjoying your yummy snack!

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Worm Tea

Welcome back to term 3!


These past two weeks we have been busy looking after our worm farm and bottling worm tea.
We often get asked lots of questions about this so here is some information to help you.

What is worm tea?
Worm tea is the liquid waste (excrement) taken from a worm farm. It can be used as a natural fertiliser in your garden.

Why should I use worm tea?
"It helps your flowers and veges grow HUGE" - Jessica

"It will give your plants and soil lots of nutrients" - Dani

"Worm tea can help keep nasty insects away" - Gowri

"It's a sustainable way to reduce your food waste" - Miss Barratt

Where can I get it?
Support the PCS environment group and buy some from the school office, it's only $4 a bottle or keep an eye out on the school newsletter because we have worm tea sales once a term with special deals!

How do I use worm tea?
Add one bottle of worm tea to your watering can and fill the rest with water. Simply use this once a week in your garden and in no time at all you'll see a difference!

This term we have been using recycled milk bottle lids to make our worm tea even more environmentally friendly!

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End of term harvest!

Hi everyone,

The environment group has been very busy this week and we have spent the last couple of days getting our garden beds ready for some new planting. We have harvested our last remaining veges and the children were so excited to take home their beetroot and silverbeet.

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Produce from the garden

Here are photos of some of the amazing vegetables we have grown and harvested so far this year. We can't wait to make some yummy soups and salads with these. What veges can you spot?

If you spotted broccoli, cauliflower and celery then kapai, you are correct!

We have also planted some leeks and spring onions.

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Worm Tea!

Hi Everyone,

The environment group have been very busy looking after our vegetable gardens but also making our own worm tea! At school we have a worm farm that we feed special food scraps to and these worms produce worm tea. Worm tea is the worms excrement and is a delicious drink for your soil. It contains many nutrients that help support plant growth and longevity.

Here are some photos of us bottling our worm tea at school.

First we need to collect the worm tea and stir it, then we bottle it and label it. 

You can even buy some to use in your garden! Just ask at the school office.

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Term 2 Update!

Welcome back to term two! 

We have had a busy first few weeks of school weeding and tending to the vegetable gardens. 

They got a wee bit overgrown during the holidays...

Here are some photos of us hard at work.

Don't our veges look great?!

Term 1 planting!

The environment group have been very busy preparing the school vegetable beds and getting them ready for some new produce. We were lucky enough to have the wonderful Mr Deeds share some of his gardening expertise with us and over the past two days we have been planting; celery, pak choi, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach and silverbeet.  Here are some photos of us hard at work.

Keep checking back to watch our plants progress :)