Mushrooms - ECO Promotions Team

We have five mushroom farms in classes all around the school. The classes are sharing the mushrooms. The mushrooms were given to us by Meadow Mushrooms.

Room 4 and Room 3 cooked the mushrooms in butter and we ate them with toothpicks. Most people loved the mushrooms.

The mushrooms must be in a shady place to grow. Mushrooms need water. They grow in 2-5 days. We are surprised that they can grow very fast and very big.

Aria - ECO Promotions Team

ECO Team Job Descriptions

Check out the ECO Team job descriptions.

These are opportunities for you to take a role of responsibility - even before being in the Senior Learning Team.  Check out the blog post on the ECO Team Blog by clicking on this link.

Are you someone who wants to make a difference to our school and environment?  

Come to the ECO Team Meeting on Monday last break.

Three ECO projects for Term 1

There are three amazing projects to start 2014 for all Springston ECO Warriors.  The ECO Teachers will be helping but we are looking for some Senior Students to lead some of these projects.

1.  Make a scrapbook page about what we achieved last year - to be published in a book! (End Term)

2.  Environmental Earth Hour Movie - for a competition (Due March 7th)

3.  Ellesmere Re-cycled Sculpture Competition (Due 31st March)

Anyone can join an ECO project so roll on up and belong to one of the project teams.   Come to Room 4 at eating lunch to put your name down for the project you want to be part of!

Make weta hotel

ECO Team - Vision Map

Lots of our class are in the ECO Team.  Check out what they achieved today - with lots of help from Maggie's Nana!  Go Nana power!  This is our whole school vision of what we want to achieve to make our school even better.  Our plans will be written on the petals and drop of as we begin them, then float in the river as they are achieved.

Eco vision map

On Tuesday the 11/6/13 at second break the Eco Team started to colour in our vision map.

It was Josephine's idea of what her dream vision map would be. We all helped do our own part. After we finished all of the colouring it actually looked better than we thought it would look.

This was the map that we developed from the whole schools' ideas that Matt helped us sort yesterday.

By Lucy and Chloe

Scraps for Bokashi

Today at lunchtime we found out how to re-cycle our scraps of food to feed the garden.  It is called the BOKASHI.

First we chopped up the scraps.

Next we sprinkled the mix in the BOKASHI bin.

We tipped the scraps in and sprinkled some more mix in.  

The food will turn picked and turn into soil when we bury it in the garden. 

This is a better idea the putting our scraps in the LANDFILL!

Spot sorts the rubbish

Spot has been working on a poster to help the kids put the right rubbish in the right bins.

Remember to put plastic, paper and tins in the recycling bin.  Look for the signs to remind you.

ECO Warriors workshop

Our amazing ECO Warriors taught their first lesson with Team Endeavour today.  They used their scripts to help remember what to say and did brilliantly at collecting all the great ideas from all the children.  Most of the ECO Warriors are from our class so we are very proud of them.

Check out the ideas from our team.

Here are some of the things we love about school and the creative ideas we have about making our school even better.

Making Scarecrows

Zanada plans to make a number of scarecrows in Term Two.  One with the Green Fingers (Secret Garden Team), another with the Juniors in Choice and Challenge and a third as an ECO Challenge with anyone who is interested.

Bring along a hat, long sleeved shirt, some trousers or even a 'bus vest' for your scarecrow.  Remember that you will not get these things back but they are a donation to the Secret Garden.  What creative things might your scarecrow need? (apron, hat, walking cane, gloves, carrot...)

There will be a school challenge to name these scarecrows.  Make sure you get involved, help make a scarecrow,  get to know them and select the best name.