It was a normal Wednesday morning in the garden program. The sky outside was cloudy with the sun peeking though. Our 6 Isa Brown chickens had already been let out of the chicken coop early by Eden. We have one rebel chook called Charlene. She’s […]
15-21 November 2021 – Celebrating Bees and Pollinators Next week is Australian Pollinator Week with some fun activities to get involved with at school and at home. MEET A BEEKEEPER Come and hear in person about the amazingness of honeybees and how they make honey. […]
Wonderful to see the smiling faces of these Brigid’s Garden Project students who each made a video showing us what they love about the program and the skills they have learnt. https://youtu.be/jWo3UusU3VYhttps://youtu.be/fmuEjfNXMRMhttps://youtu.be/LwmWFv2-PI8https://youtu.be/lTJAgvkeOmQhttps://youtu.be/VG-zLBWv-aI
Each week we do garden jobs, like raking the leaves, feeding the chickens, pruning the kiwi fruit vine, pulling out weeds and planting plants. We checked the air temperature, soil temperature, water, and greenhouse temperature. We also check the moon phase each week, the garden conditions and time recorded. We go on fun trips. By Isabelle Birrell This term in garden […]
Brigid’s Garden Program students were busy in the garden this week harvesting an abundance of kiwi fruits. This activity created plenty of practical maths practice. They counted 460 kiwi fruits which all together weighed 42 kgs. The classroom looked like a production line as they […]
On the 14th of May, the Sustainability Team invited all year 7s to participate in a lunchtime origami-related activity. Whilst I can certainly say that my end result didn’t quite end up looking like a pot, the year 7s turned out to be masters of […]
FORREST CAMPUnits 1 and 2 Outdoor Ed students enjoyed a two day camp in Forrest last week, embracing all the elements including getting muddy on the mountain bike trails, visiting the glow worms at night time before an early start on Lake Elizabeth searching for […]
Year 9 and 10 students studying Outdoor Education experienced camp for the first time this week. Some of the activities included Point Addis Koori walk and lookout, snorkeling at Point Road Knight, surfing lessons and hiking Saint George’s rover into camp.
On the 12th of March a group of enthusiastic sustainability students and teachers participated in our annual ‘Clean Up Wadawarrung Country – Clean Up Day’ where we collected around 60kg of rubbish from around Clonard and surrounding areas. Our intent was to clean up our […]
