Enviro at MBS

The Colgate challenge of recycling all oral care waste packaging is now half way into the competition.  A kilogram of recycled oral care packaging was sent off to Terracycle.

Nicky Elmore our Enviroschools Facilitator came into MBS to discuss our Care Code - The Ripple Effect and discuss the five Guiding Principles.  In term 3 we will be having two Professional Development sessions around establishing the Guiding Principles and how this will look like in our school and the childrens learning.

Wednesday Litterless lunches are a focus for some classrooms in term 3.  Room 9 did some great learning in the area of recycling with Mrs Laker.  All the children bought their lunch boxes to the mat after lunch eating and discussed the amount of empty packaging there was for one lunch x by five lunches x by one month and then one year.  No wonder the grounds of Mt Eden could account for the amount of rubbish accumulated over one year in a recent poster displayed around the school.

If we start small then bigger things will come out of what children are learning!!  Like reusing plastic containers to hold our chippies, fruit etc.

The classroom gardens are looking healthy and a lot of produce has been taken out of the gardens in the past term for our MBS markets run by the Enviro Group.  These are dedicated children who give up their lunch times to get involved in planting, fertilizing, weed pulling and general jobs around the school to make our environment that much more enjoyable to look at!!

Thanks to Julie Keane who donated a lot of her plants to local schools.  We have an amazing mass planting of Dietes (Iris') outside the resource room - they will look blooming great in summer!!