Monday 25 April 2016

Enviro Garden Produce

We dug up the potatoes we had grown in the raised garden beds and cooked them. The next day we cut them into chip slices and fried them on the BBQ. They were delicious sprinkled with a little bit of chicken seasoning. Everyone in the whole school got to eat some of the enviro group's chips! Yum!





Harvesting our Corn

We harvested, cooked and ate the corn we grew in our raised vegetable garden beds. We loved eating it in the Tranquility Garden. We thought it was the best corn we had ever tasted!













Sunday 24 April 2016

2015

The Gore Main School Envirogroup were extremely busy over 2015.  The Tranquility Garden was the priority for the year and the group (with the help of Mr Sleeman) managed to get the space up and running for student relaxation!  Many things were achieved over the year.  We shifted smelly old compost bins to another, more suitable area.  We made mosaic stepping stones and tyre sculptures.  The School Council donated chairs (which the Envirogroup painted) so that there was a sitting space.  Also there was a sign made by Mr Udy that reads 'Tranquility Garden, this was erected in the garden.  Other classes contributed to the garden by making some garden art to beautify and add colour to the area.  The Tranquility Garden is very popular with the students and it is a great addition to Gore Main.

Here is some photos of some of the things we got up to in the development of the Tranquility Garden...

Gravel for the site where the compost bins used to be

Reach for the Stars sign

Painting tyes


Putting bricks around the fruit trees


Creating mosaic tiles

Potting Strawberry plants

Adding bright painted stones around the fruit trees


Moving the compost bins

Adding more soil around the fruit trees for the bulbs

Children playing with the tyres in the tranquility garden

Digging the mosaic tiles into the grass




Garden art












Potting strawberry plants

Moving gravel 

Reach for the Stars sign

Moving the compost bins

Moving the compost bins 

Staining the sign

Tranquility Garden Sign


Garden Art made by other classes add colour to the space