The Noongar season is Bunuru, the season of adolescence and the second summer and the hottest time of the year. Bunuru is also a time of the white flowers with lots of white flowering gums in full bloom, including Jarrah, Marri and Ghost Gums.

After School Garden Club     

The After School Garden Club is in full swing with many exciting things happening this term.  There are currently no places left.

Recycling Station  

Remember to keep on bringing in your items for recycling.  See the attached for what you can bring in. When dropping it in to the school please put it into the correct bin. Make sure items are not in a plastic bag and are clean. Our students diligently go through the bins in order to pack and send off for recycling and we don’t want nasty surprises for them. Our focus bin this newsletter is Coffee Pods – the need to be clean, not leaking and not in another bag. These are then packaged and sent to a local TerraCycle Material Recovery Facilities located in the same country in which the waste originates. Once sorted by category, the different material types are cleaned and then sent to third-party partners to process the materials into usable forms.

If you would like to know more about what you can do at home for recycling, go to www.terracycle.com.au

Chicken Coop

We are in the process of looking at the viability of a chicken coop here at school to close the organic waste loop. The students are very excited and will be involved in the planning. This a wonderfully exciting way to introduce students to sustainable practices and the science concepts around chickens.  

Containers for Change

Continue to bring in your Containers for Change bottles/cans (clean and LIDS removed). Place in the big blue bin near the library. Leave your ring pulls on but take your plastic lids off. Alternatively use our school ID number at a community drop off point C10339712

Did you know our blue plastic school bench near the front office was made from 15 000 600ml water bottles?

Stay tuned for our school scheme number on a key chain tag. 1 will be given to each family to make donating even easier.

New Orchard

Please enjoy these photos of some new additions to the orchard.

Happy gardening and sustainable thinking,

Sandra Bennett – Environment & Sustainability Teacher (JESC). Sustainability Coordinator (Joondalup Schools)