Earth Hour

Earth Hour is this Saturday, 26th March at 8.30pm. It will be celebrated all around the world by turning off lights. You can join in too at home. Why not commit to doing one thing to help our planet? Here are some ideas and there are more on the Earth Hour website.

Buy locally - don't buy food that has travelled hundreds of kilometres when it can be bought from a local producer. It tastes nicer too!

Don't use any plastic that can't be recycled.

Have a shorter shower.

Don't leave lights on if you're not in the room - no point really, is there?

Can you tell us what you will do? Post a comment to this message.

How to grow sprouts using teabags

Thanks Kerry for commenting on our blog. We used 'used' teabags as these have been sterilised with boiling water. Cut a small hole in each one and sprinkle in some alfalfa seeds. Place these in a seed raising container or something similar and keep damp until they sprout. Have fun!

Planting seeds using old teabags

Today we planted some alfalfa seeds inside used teabags. These are a good way of reusing something that just gets thrown out. They are also sterile because they have had boiling water poured over them for a cup of tea!
We had a paper plate for each class and lined it with a paper towel. We cut each teabag and sprinkled some seeds inside. Now we need to keep them damp until the seeds begin to sprout. Yum!

Friday's meeting

This Friday, you will need to bring a plastic tray along. An icecream container, meat tray or plastic takeaways tray are all suitable.

We also need some seeds to plant. These could be broccoli, marigold, lettuce or pansy seed. Please see Mrs. Anderson this week if you can help.

We still need to collect up clean yoghurt containers.

We need your ideas!

Recently, Westshore school were lucky to be granted some money from the Mazda Trust Foundation. They have chosen to build a new garden. Each year, schools have the opportunity to apply for funding. We are going to apply this year...

but before we do anything, we need ideas! What would you like to see at our school? (It needs to improve our school environment). Here are some ideas we have already:

-tables and seats to eat our lunch at
-a glasshouse to grow our seeds and store our gardening gear
-a new garden

Please post your ideas.

Our edible garden

Last week, we tidied up the vegetable garden and planted new plants. We now have new lettuce plants, chives, parsley and we also planted marigold flower plants.

Do you know why we planted marigolds? They have a special job to do. I wonder what it is...

Eco kids 2011

Welcome all our new Eco kids! There is lots to do this year and it's wonderful to see such a lot of interest in looking after our school's environment.