On the last day of term we held our end of term assembly out on the steps by the brand new Environmental Learning Centre. A huge amount of time and planning has gone into the development of the Environmental Learning Centre. Over the last 3 years Mr Luke, our Deputy Principal, the parents on the Environment Committee and the student representatives on the Environmental Committee have all worked towards developing this wonderful and exciting learning area. Miss Grant and Miss Humphrey’s have also done an amazing job to help develop this centre.
The Environmental Learning Centre has many different features like: raised garden beds, a creek, planting areas, seed propagating areas, work benches fruit trees, a recycling centre and the composting area.
Every class in the school created items for the Environmental Learning Centre. Some of the items are:
- scarecrows
- garden pet rocks
- flowers that never die (our activity)
- God’s eyes – weaving with natural items collected from all over the school yard
- a tiled mosaic
- wind chimes
- a bird bath
- a totem pole – which will display the official plaque naming the centre
- light reflectors – reused CD’s to scare birds away
just to name a few!!!
We all were encouraged to wear green on the day or environmental/ natural colours
During the day each class and their older buddies went out for a sensory tour of the new garden centre. Students from Miss Grant’s welcomed each class to the centre and explained the activities that we would be doing – planting, photo hunts to identify different areas of the garden, signing the visitor’s book and many other activities.
Everyone was asked to bring at least one recyclable item – cans and bottles – to contribute towards the fundraising efforts of the centre. It also reminded us just how easy it is to recycle materials.
We had a sausage sizzle lunch – this was hosted by the school canteen. YUM!!!
As a part of our assembly presentations were made to celebrate the incredible successes of:
- our Pedal Prix team – bike 88 came 3rd and bike 111 came 10th in the 24 hour race at Murray Bridge – congrats to Mr Lemmey and his Year 6/7 teams
- our State Champion Netball Knockout netball team – congrats to Mrs Pettman and the team
- our State Champion Basketball team – more congrats to Mr Nash (Will’s Dad in our class) and Mrs Pettman
Here are some photos of our FANTASTIC last day of term!
Environmental Learning Centre Opening on PhotoPeach
What did you think of our Environmental Learning Centre – do you have a favourite part of the Centre?
It is good that we pick up the rubbish that is lying around us because it can kill animals or pollute the air and that is very sad when animals die. It stinks as well.
End of term assembly had the most perfect weather. The Environmental Learning Centre looked fantastic with colourful cd disks, flowers, rocks, pots and the scarecrows. We are just hoping that no one has vandalised it during the school holidays.