We are Learning How to Make Compost

Each Friday the enviro representatives from each class empty the class compost buckets into the school compost bins.

They then scrub the buckets and take them back to the class for the children's food scraps.

Envirogroup World Savers

12th Feb 2014

Present: Ariana , Rory, Jayden, Ella, Ashley, Keira, William, Tristan, ,Noah, Jackson, Charlie, Ellie, George, Claudia

What we did

·      Talked about why we want to be in the enviro group

·      We emptied the food scrap buckets from the class into the compost bins

·      We learnt how to wash the buckets – enviro children need to do this each week!

·      We talked about how the compost works – we need to cover the food scraps with soil, manure  or grass clippings. The compost will break into nice soil to feed the gardens.

·      We weeded the gardens and put the weeds in the compost!

·      We planted lettuces and watered them

·      We named all of the plants in the garden

Our garden has – rhubarb, potatoes, carrots,tomatoes,lettuces, corn, spring onions, beetroot, sunflower, pumpkins, silverbeet and cougettes.

·      We looked at our care code  and will talk about this our next assembly

·      We went over to the stream to see how much work has been done to restore  it and make it beautiful!

To Do

1. Enviro children need to remind their class to put food scraps in buckets then empty and clean them.

2. Remind children not to drop rubbish

3. Make sure lights are turned off when not needed