Baking: Carrot cake

We have grown carrots from seed in our school vegetable garden. This week we harvested, washed and grated the carrots we grew. With these carrots we made a delicious carrot cake!! Yum!!

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!

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

Envirogroup 2015

We have formed the Envirogroup for 2015.  This year we selected children that have shown a commitment to Gore Main School by working hard around the school.  We are looking forward to completing our Tranquility garden this year.  Here we are...

Left back:  Mrs M, Matthew Johnston, Jessica Udy, Maddie Cockburn, Connie Fricker,
Baileigh McDowell, Georgia Cockburn, Miss McKenzie
Middle:  Damian Dowie, Hanna Lawlor
Front:  Saydee McDowell, Summer Botting, Ben DeJong

ABSENT:  Hayley Christie, Luca Patching

Children's Day 2015

On Sunday the 1st of March 2015 Gore Main School celebrated 'Children's Day' by running a stall down at the Gore Multi-Sports Complex, alongside many other generous sponsors.  Children's Day was an absolute hit with the Gore Community.  Gore Main School is proud to support and be a part of the Gore community.  Mrs M, Miss McKenzie and parent helper Robina Johnston were kept busy giving away free juice & spring water and chocolate brownie slice.  This was funded by the Gore Main School Enviro-group. The free juice and spring water was an absolute hit with everybody as temperatures soared into the late 20's.  Patrons were encouraged to 'recycle' their paper drinking cup to show care for the environment. The 2015 Gore Main School Enviro-group intends to reuse these paper drinking cups later in the year to nurture small poppy seedlings for 'Anzac 100 Years' celebrations.  Thank you to all people involved in supporting 'Children's Day.'  
Check out the photos...

Robina Johnston, Miss McKenzie and Mrs M all hard at work giving away juice and cake!
REMEMBER TO RECYCLE!

"Children's Day 2015"