Wednesday, May 20, 2009

KPS ENVIRO-NEWS - Edition 12 - Week Ending 22 May09

Completion of Six Seasons Garden

All Children are invited to bring along a native from the list below to plant in the six seasons garden area – these plants are indigenous to our area and available at our local Greenlink Nursery which is open this Saturday 23rd May 2009 at 41 Wimmera Street, Box Hill North 3129. All parents who have kindly asked what type of plants to bring, the list has arrived from Mary-Lin & Lorraine @ Greenlink.

These will be our final plantings around this area, they are low growing plants flowering in these seasons.

Please bring your plants along to your classroom teacher, a day of planting will be organized soon after. We hope all families can bring a plant along with their child.

Preps – Early Spring
Small Leaf Clematis & Yam Daisy & Running Postman

Grade 1 & Grade 2 – True Spring
Chocolate Lily & Sticky Everlasting & Yellow Buttons

Grade 3 – High Summer
Kangaroo Grass & Bluebells

Grade 4 – Late Summer
Violets & Scaly Buttons

Grade 5 – Early Winter Grade 6 – Deep Winter
Ruby Saltbush Kidney Weed & Smooth Flax Lily


WATER

YVW has provided us with great water slogans ‘SAVING A LITTLE SAVES A LOT’ for our wet areas, ‘HALF FLUSH’ STICKERS – these were placed around the school and in our toilets to remind us all to continually save where we can.
Our water tanks will be installed in June – they are being made at present, we will have x 2 Steel Tanks – in Eucalypt Green color scheme which will collect water & be used to flush all our toilets.

SOLAR ENERGY
David & Donna Vittorio will be organizing the Sustainability Link on our KPS Website, we will be able to log on & see all our Energy savings – more to follow.

RECYCLING
Whitehorse City Council will be dropping off the Environment Garden Waste bins to us this week which will be used for all our clippings/weeds/tree cutting. They will collect these every second fortnight.
Keep Up the Great Recycling everyone & remember those Rubbish Free lunchboxes!

WEDNESDAY GREEN THUMBS - update
Thanks to all those supportive parents that continually show up on Wednesdays to lend a hand. It has certainly made a difference to the Molbray St Gardens! Our next project is the toilet block, we will be painting these walls in the lovely neutral stone colour & Julia Weston has offered her time & creative flair to add some color & interest to these walls – keep a look out everyone! We will then work on the garden edge with the Bluestone we have been given – always great to recycle materials where we can & planting of natives in this garden bed. All parents available to paint, plant or support, please come along.

A new layer of Granetic sand will also be spread across the front garden / seating area of Molbray St also.

***GREAT NEWS****
Our old urinal was sold to a gentleman in Camberwell who will be turning into feeding trophs for his cattle on his farm (RECYCLING) – he will be collecting this weekend! The money made from this will pay for our paint required to complete the Toilet block project.

Call or email with ideas & if you would like to help - Ellen – 0417700045 / msv1@optusnet.com.au

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