KPS Enviro News Edition 13, May28, 2009

KPS ENVIRO-NEWS Edition 13 - 28 May09

SIX SEASONS – PLANTS NEEDED….

Hi All,
Thanks to those who have brought along natives to fill our gardens up, we appreciate it…
All those who haven’t & still want to, please visit your local Nursery, Bunnings or Greenlink (open Tuesday mornings 9-12am) only.
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
1. Ruby Saltbush Kidney Weed & Smooth Flax Lily

WATER
Our BHP Steel Tanks are currently being made by TankMaster – they are approximately 3 weeks away. Bob our Green Plumber will be commencing preparation works near the toilets – for those of you who don’t know, the old bin area will become our Water Tank Location – we then need to wish, hope & pray for lots of rain.

ENERGY
David in IT has kindly organized the Sustainability Link on Kerrimuir’s website - please take a look, I am also loading Enviro News through a Blog onto our website also – would love to hear from everyone.

JEMENA will be installing a Smart Meter today (Thursday 27 May) at Kerrimuir which technically means our solar power is up & running feeding the grid – we will be able to monitor all these energy savings, watch this in real-time on our website & measure it with special gadgets, more to come soon.

RECYCLING
Thanks to all who are recycling in the Paper/Cardboard bins, Garden Organic Bins have been a great help with our Green thumbs gardening & our composting is over-flowing! We hope to introduce worm farms to cater for all these fruit scraps and keep the compost as healthy as possible.

RUBBISH FREE LUNCHBOXES – this helps !

WEDNESDAY GREEN THUMBS – turned painters???
Thanks again to all parents each week who continually support the school, you all know who you are!

A BIG THANKS to Mel Pridmore (Olivia 3V) & Racheal Simpson (Holly & Jamie) who painted effortlessly on Wednesday with me & Friday to prepare the walls for Julia Weston’s masterpiece – keep a look out everyone, this will be a fresh, colourful new look for the school & come along to join us around the grounds, there is plenty to do – would love to see more parents there.

ENVIRONMENT SUB-CONVENER MEETINGS - June 1st, 2009