Silver at the Show

Well done to our Garden Club that produced a great garden called " Hansel and Petal". The students involved put in a huge amount of work most of which was in their morning tea and lunch breaks.

We had students at the show over the weekend and they represented Oaklands School incredibly well.  Thanks for all your efforts.

Courgette and Sweet Corn Fritters

It was the turn of 1SN to cook today and they did a great job from the looks on the Year 4 student faces who got to eat these fritters. Look at all the hands up for students who  wanted a second serving.

                                              

Well done to our Year 7/ 8 's for working so hard to keep the Juniors safe. 

Winged Warriors

The Year 4 hubs were learning about seed transmission and why it is important for plants to spread their seeds out. To help them remember all the different ways they created winged warriors. Some looked like ninjas, and others more like fairy princesses.

It was great to hear the students explaining at the end of the session about how seeds travel and why.

Potato and Corn Fritters

Today was the first session of cooking for 2017. Our Year 7 / 8's had a training session last week and they did a great job passing on the skills and keeping the Juniors safe as they cooked.

The fritters tasted a bit like baked potatoes off a camp fire.... Yummy!!

The Junior students enjoyed flipping fritters and talking with the Seniors.

Food Forest mulching...

The Year 4 students sprung into action today to spread peastraw around our food forest. We learnt about what seeds need, and how we can stop weeds... we had some very interesting ideas about how we could block the sun to the weeds and how to stop the peastraw blowing away. There was some great active thinking happening.... and some VERY lateral thinking too.

In the end we decided peastraw would be the best and water would be a good way to stop it from blowing away.

Now we just need to dig over the edge bed to grow some silverbeet for the chickens to snack on. 

Great work Year 4's

Garden Club

The garden is back in full swing sorting out the pumpkin patch. The chickens loved all these weeds, Thanks for all your help team!!

Seed harvesting - Year 4 Hub

Today was the day of the great seed collection by the Year 4 Hub from our  Food Forest. Our students looked carefully at the different plants to make sure that we collected the right seeds. We found lots of poppy, borage, yarrow and red clover to keep our bees happy next year.  We have made envelopes and labelled these to keep our seeds safe till Spring.

The Year 4's spent a lot of time thinking about why we need bees in our garden.

After we had collected enough seeds Mr McAven weed ate all of the plants down ready for the next stage of the process which will happen in a fortnight.