Friday, April 13, 2018

Recipe: Lime Sorbet / Slushie

  • 12 limes
  • 350g castor sugar
  • around 1kg ice
You will need a Thermomix, Vitamix or another blender that can crush ice.

Cut the skin off the limes and check the limes for pips. Cut into small pieces. Whizz limes and castor sugar together, add enough ice for it to either be slushie consistency to drink or sorbet consistency to eat with a spoon.

Enjoy!






 
Add some fingerlimes for extra bursts of citrus flavour.



Eco Garden Booklet

Last year a booklet was put together displaying all aspects of the Eco Garden (including history, planting, cooking, recipes and animals). View the booklet as pdf on Google Drive.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2z-u6YnvtsYmJGMXBFQ0l3UXM/view?usp=sharing

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Newsletter: Term 1, Week 11

In the last few weeks our Eco Garden has been rejuvenated. Thank you to all the parents and families who came along to help at the Working Bee and to those who assisted some of our classes with cooking and planting. Our garden beds are looking wonderful and it will be exciting to see some new vegetables growing soon.

Come along to the Eco Garden meetings. They are held every 3rd Wednesday of each Month at 7pm in the 4S classroom. The next meeting is on 16th May.

If you are available to look after the chickens on the weekends for Term 2, contact Kirsten Stroak.


Friday, November 3, 2017

Banana Oat Balls with Year 2

Banana Oat Balls Recipe

2 cups of quick oats
8 really small bananas from own tree (or 1-2 big ones)
squeeze of honey
dash of vanilla
desiccated coconut

  • Pulse the oats in a food processor until about half of them are meal. 
  • Mash the bananas and add them to the oats
  • Mix together with honey and vanilla until all are combined and it is a slightly sticky mixture
  • Make balls out of about a tablespoon of mixture and roll them in the desiccated coconut.
  • Enjoy!


Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Newsletter Term 3, Week 8

Lambs – Help Needed
As we approach the holidays we are seeking families to come and look after the lambs during the holidays. By then they will be off bottles and involvement will be; letting them out of their house in the morning, taking them for a walk, feeding them lucerne and pellets, locking them up at night!
If this is something you are able to do please email – availability, preference of days, contact number and a roster will be emailed to you closer to the date!

Election Cake Stall
To keep financial in feeding our lambs we are hosting a cake stall for the upcoming election, 9th September. Plates for cake donations were sent home last week. If you need a replacement or would like a cake/ slice box please see the school office. If you are available to come and help out on the stall please follow the link below to sign up for an hour or two! www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080E44AFA92CA1F85-election


Support Needed!
As we move through the year we are faced with losing some very important members of the Eco Garden Committee as their youngest children move onto High School. Involvement with the Eco garden requires a team effort, and input can vary dependant on your personal time. The main activities and events are overseen and liaised by school staff. The three main areas where help is required:

Animals – purchasing stock feed or arranging for it to be purchased, assistance with cleaning out their house, water bowl/ trough, restocking their straw/ sawdust to make their homes comfy. All of these jobs can be done outside of school hours or on weekends.
Gardens- watering them as required, purchasing or organising to be purchased new vegies for planting, assisting the classes with planting and harvesting when required. Again these jobs can be done outside of school hours or a quick water just before/after pick up and drop off on a regular basis works too!

Cooking- Using and cooking the harvested produce from the gardens is a key element of their purpose. Cooking is always assisted by parents from the classes cooking and also the class teacher. Involvement with cooking requires liaising with class teachers, organising extra needed ingredients, being available to do cooking as needed. This role is mostly during school hours but can be arranged around your schedule.

Eco Garden has a committee who meet once a month in the school Staffroom to discuss integration of the garden area into school activities, maintenance and upkeep of the area, animals and also fundraising required to support the gardens. Attendance at meetings is not a compulsory requirement and minutes can be emailed to keep you updated. If any of these roles feel like something you are interested in or would like to take on either
contact Briony Scanlan or call the school office to arrange a meeting or complete the form below and return to your child’s class teacher. We would love to see the gardens and animals remain a key part of our school but greater help and support is needed!

Saturday, August 19, 2017

New lambs Valerie (Val) & Dotty (Dot) have arrived






Stir-fry with Year 3H & 3B






GUESS ALL THE VEGETABLES FROM OUR GARDEN IN THE STIR-FRY?

(red cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, broccoli, snow peas and savoy cabbage)